It seems that famed “I Kissed a Girl,” singer Katy Perry can’t stay out of the celebrity engagement gossip. First, in 2008 Perry denied rumors of engagement to on again-off again boyfriend and Gym Class Heroes front man Travis McCoy, after it was reported he proposed to her during a trip to France. Then, back in early September of 2009, Perry was spotted flashing a diamond engagement ring in L.A. forcing her to deny, for the second time, rumors that she was in fact engaged to McCoy. Shortly thereafter, the couple split and Perry began dating British comedian and star of Saving Sarah Marshall, Russell Brand that month. Then, coming just four months after she denied her engagement to McCoy, Perry got engaged to her new boyfriend after a New Years Eve proposal in India.
Brand, 35, and Perry, 25, met during the MTV Music Awards this past year and since the well known playboy has reportedly only had eyes for her. Couple insiders report that while the two new lovebirds were having an intimate Indian dinner in London, Katy professed to Russell that she loved the eastern culture. As a Christmas gift, he whisked her away on a trip to Bollywood, where he proposed marriage just before midnight on New Years Eve. The New York Daily News reports that the engagement ring is “a large, square-cut diamond set in a platinum band,” but this is all the news we have regarding the status of the rock.
After the proposal, the couple donned traditional Indian outfits and had their engagement and relationship blessed by an Indian love guru. According to The Sun, the ceremony took place at the base of a mountain in Jaipur, in a tent. Shortly after the traditional love ceremony, Russell further surprised his new fiancé with a trip to Thailand to celebrate their engagement.
The rumors of their engagement actually began when Brand was spotted shopping at a West London Cartier store, allegedly looking at engagement rings. This is where he is said to have purchased the square-cut diamond and platinum setting.
Katy and Russell have only been dating for a few monthsmonths, so the news of their engagement has not been taken very seriously among the celebrity media. Perhaps this is another story of a hot and heavy Hollywood romance that will fizzle out before it gets started, so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised if we never hear the wedding bells ring for the famous couple. It is reported that she and McCoy, Perry’s previous alleged fiancé, had trouble in their relationship due to her hectic tour schedule. With Brand’s history of drugs and sex addiction, her fame, and the lack of privacy that accompanies celebrity relationships, the couple will have to fight hard to make it to the alter.

Katy and Russell in front of Taj Mahal which she shared on Twitter. “He built this for me,” she wrote in the Tweet.






