{"id":288284,"date":"2020-02-14T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1123440"},"modified":"2020-02-14T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T02:11:00","slug":"amanda-bynes-announces-shes-engaged-to-mystery-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/amanda-bynes-announces-shes-engaged-to-mystery-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Bynes Announces She&#8217;s Engaged to Mystery Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.738839285714\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016629\/rs_634x1024-160729093401-634.Amanda-Bynes-WHollywood-JR-072916.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Amanda Bynes\" alt=\"Amanda Bynes\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Xposure \/ AKM-GSI<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.662870159453\">\n<p>Bring in the dancing lobsters!&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/amanda_bynes\">Amanda Bynes<\/a><\/strong> just announced her engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old actress and former Nickelodeon star took fans by surprise when she revealed on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/valentines_day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a>&nbsp;that she accepted a proposal from her mystery man.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Engaged to&nbsp;[the] love of my life,&#8221; Bynes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B8kcGayhHt9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">captioned<\/a> an Instagram photo of a large diamond ring on her hand, which she placed over what&#8217;s assumed to be her fianc\u00e9&#8217;s hand. In the photo, he&#8217;s wearing a gold band.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the&nbsp;infrequent social media post, very little is known publicly about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/990706\/8-biggest-bombshells-from-amanda-bynes-tell-all-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bynes&#8217; personal life<\/a> these days. Last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034323\/inside-amanda-bynes-recovery-she-s-working-on-herself-after-graduating-fidm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she graduated<\/a> from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise [FIDM] and moved into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1077511\/amanda-bynes-is-looking-forward-to-a-career-in-fashion-after-move-to-sober-living-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sober living&nbsp;facility<\/a>&nbsp;to continue focusing on her health. But this past December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1102437\/amanda-bynes-leaves-sober-living-facility-but-is-open-to-getting-help-after-family-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E! News confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;that Bynes left the facility and had&nbsp;dropped out of a FIDM bachelor&#8217;s degree program she enrolled in.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s not doing drugs and mentally and physically she&#8217;s okay,&#8221; a source told us at the time,&nbsp;explaining that Amanda was &#8220;open to getting help&#8221; if needed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.563218390805\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.2068965517241\">\n<p>Around that time, Amanda also revealed that she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1106692\/amanda-bynes-possible-new-face-tattoo-has-the-internet-talking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got a tattoo of a heart<\/a> on her cheek.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.329545454545\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"9.5227272727273\">\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>She&#8217;s the Man<\/em> star detailed her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/990555\/amanda-bynes-unfiltered-the-actress-breaks-her-silence-on-her-history-of-drug-abuse-those-wild-tweets-and-her-dark-sad-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">history of drug abuse<\/a> in a 2018 interview with&nbsp;<em>Paper<\/em> magazine. In what marked one of the only times she&#8217;s openly discussed her private turmoil, Amanda recalled feeling like she had &#8220;no purpose in life&#8221; after retiring from acting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From there, Amanda said she began &#8220;hanging out with a seedier crowd and I isolated a lot&#8230; I got really into my drug usage and it became a really dark, sad world for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"31\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>E! News has reached out to Amanda&#8217;s camp for comment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123440\/amanda-bynes-announces-she-s-engaged-to-mystery-man?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xposure \/ AKM-GSI Bring in the dancing lobsters!&nbsp;Amanda Bynes just announced her engagement. The 33-year-old actress and former Nickelodeon star took fans by surprise when she revealed on&nbsp;Valentine&#8217;s Day&nbsp;that she accepted a proposal from her mystery man.&nbsp; &#8220;Engaged to&nbsp;[the] love of my life,&#8221; Bynes captioned an Instagram photo of a large diamond ring on her [&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-288284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 12:07:51","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\/288284","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=288284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}