{"id":264539,"date":"2019-01-02T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1000779"},"modified":"2019-01-02T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:08:52","slug":"all-the-signs-toni-braxton-and-birdman-were-headed-for-a-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/all-the-signs-toni-braxton-and-birdman-were-headed-for-a-split\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Signs Toni Braxton and Birdman Were Headed for a Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.071056062581\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2017917\/rs_634x1024-171017140159-634.Birdman-Toni-Braxton.ms.101717.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Birdman, Toni Braxton, BET Awards\" alt=\"Birdman, Toni Braxton, BET Awards\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Paras Griffin\/BET\/Getty Images for BET<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.799450549451\">\n<p>Say it ain&#8217;t so, pop culture fans!<\/p>\n<p>As 2019 kicks into high gear, it appears <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/toni_braxton\">Toni Braxton<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Bryan &#8220;Birdman&#8221; Williams<\/strong> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000635\/toni-braxton-and-birdman-break-up-it-s-over\" target=\"_blank\">called off their engagement<\/a> and gone their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s over\u2026.&#8221; the rapper shared\u2014then deleted\u2014on Instagram Story on Tuesday. Toni would also cleanse her Instagram profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsGpqWHjtZR\/\" target=\"_blank\">writing<\/a>, &#8220;Starting a new chapter isn&#8217;t always an easy choice\u2026but ALWAYS choose to be chosen. Cheers to a new year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news came as a huge bummer for fans who have watched the couple&#8217;s love story unfold.<\/p>\n<p>While the pair first met in 2002 while working on &#8220;Baby You Can Do It&#8221; together, things didn&#8217;t turn romantic until May 2016. They would later make their first public appearance as a couple at the 2016 BET Awards.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.175695461201\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.377745241581\">\n<p>But upon further investigation, perhaps there were plenty of signs that these two weren&#8217;t heading to the altar after all.<\/p>\n<p>Some were concerned in November when Toni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/989615\/toni-braxton-s-engagement-ring-is-missing-after-losing-her-luggage\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally left a piece<\/a> of her Louis Vuitton luggage containing her engagement ring on an airplane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey everyone, @delta located my LV Train Case! Yay!&#8221; she later wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Unfortunately most of my jewelry items are missing&#8230;including MY ENGAGEMENT RING! Whoever BORROWED it&#8230;PLEEEASE return it!!!! I promise, no questions asked!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another major speed bump was determining a wedding date. When appearing on E! News&#8217; <em>Daily Pop<\/em>, Toni revealed that Birdman &#8220;said I have to pick a date by the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.59477124183\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.323529411765\">\n<p>&#8220;We have to get married before the year is out,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Before next year.&#8217; He said that we can go through a drive-through. I&#8217;m like, what are we gonna order, fries? So no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when sitting down with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/wendy_williams\">Wendy Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Toni admitted that there was a 70 percent chance they&#8217;d be married by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We almost had a date,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vh_eM9d3flM\" target=\"_blank\">confessed<\/a> on <em>The Wendy Williams Show<\/em>. &#8220;Well, we had two dates. But we were doing <em>Braxton Family Values<\/em> and we were going through a little drama. And I was like, &#8216;The wedding is a good thing to get all the sisters together.&#8217; [But] I couldn&#8217;t get us all together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.567699836868\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.750407830343\">\n<p>In recent episodes of WE tv&#8217;s <em>Braxton Family Values<\/em>, Toni also assured fans that she was setting up meetings with celebrity wedding planner <strong>Mindy Weiss<\/strong> to plan a <em>Great Gatsby<\/em> themed celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, her services may no longer be needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t set a date because of my schedule,&#8221; Toni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kgwLGez1o1E\" target=\"_blank\">confessed<\/a>. &#8220;I hate that. That&#8217;s not a good thing. You&#8217;re supposed to set a date and stick to it but unfortunately our business can be challenging sometimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the pair no longer follows each other on Instagram. And while the family is staying quiet for now, we have a feeling more details shall be coming soon.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000779\/all-the-signs-toni-braxton-and-birdman-were-headed-for-a-split?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paras Griffin\/BET\/Getty Images for BET Say it ain&#8217;t so, pop culture fans! As 2019 kicks into high gear, it appears Toni Braxton and Bryan &#8220;Birdman&#8221; Williams have called off their engagement and gone their separate ways. &#8220;It&#8217;s over\u2026.&#8221; the rapper shared\u2014then deleted\u2014on Instagram Story on Tuesday. Toni would also cleanse her Instagram profile writing, &#8220;Starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 10:05:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}