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Eight period aft his last Olympics run, Shaun White exclusively spoke to E! News astir his post-retirement plans with woman Nina Dobrev. Find retired if that could see an engagement.
Shaun White & Nina Dobrev's Love Story TIMELINE
Shaun White is carving retired immoderate prime clip with girlfriend Nina Dobrev.
On Oct. 27, the five-time Olympian enjoyed a day nighttime with the Vampire Diaries alum astatine the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Gala, wherever helium was presented with a beingness accomplishment award. While the grant comes conscionable 8 months aft his retirement from competitory snowboarding, Shaun exclusively told E! News there's inactive "so overmuch to execute successful my life," including seeing the satellite with Nina.
Recalling however the histrion had antecedently encouraged him to make a database of his post-retirement plans, the jock continued, "After the Olympics, I told her, 'Let's spell for it. Just laic it retired there. I conscionable privation to go. I privation to travel.'"
However, Shaun noted that a travel down the aisle isn't successful the contiguous future. "Time volition tell," helium teased. "Things are large with Nina and I, and I americium truthful excited to absorption connected our narration and my narration with different friends and family."
Still, Shaun and Nina—who person been dating for much than 2 years—are hard astatine enactment "checking disconnected that list" together. "We've done a lot," helium shared. "After the Olympics, there's ever similar this affectional comedown, adjacent if you win, and I was capable to capable that clip doing things with her, traveling astir the world, seeing friends and family."
Their astir memorable adventure? A trip to France to sojourn Nina's mother. "It was conscionable the best," Shaun remembered. "These are those moments. You tin person the glitz and glam of it all, but real household prime time with radical is what I privation for the most—and present I americium doing that."
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So alternatively of a achromatic wedding, Shaun has his sights acceptable connected Whitespace, the progressive manner institution that helium founded conscionable earlier his retirement.
"After years and years and years of moving with brands, I yet decided astatine this constituent successful my career...that I truly wanted to bash this and present is the time," helium explained. "I tin instrumentality each the expertise from moving with these brands, the cognition of snowboards themselves and merchandise improvement and enactment that each into my ain thing."
Looking to the future, Shaun hopes that helium tin proceed to marque an interaction connected the athletics of snowboarding—even if he's not actively grinding connected the halfpipe. "We are talking to immoderate truly talented young riders successful this abstraction and I americium hoping to get them connected the programme and truly assistance their careers," helium shared. "That would truly conscionable beryllium the afloat ellipse for me."
E! News returns Monday, Nov. 14, astatine 11:30 p.m., lone connected E!.
