Britney Spears Continues To Wear an Engagement Ring–And Attempts To Make My Head Explode by Refusing To Acknowledge Her Engagement. (Britney, I KNOW You’re Messing With Me!)

I adore Britney Spears. I really do. But I feel like she’s been taunting me for most of 2011.

Back in April, Britney attended a Nicki Minaj concert and flashed this ring-andorned finger:

Sure, she has nine other perfectly good fingers, but maybe that was the finger that particular ring fit best on. Crazier things have happened.

Then over the following month, she made several appearances where she conspicuously and consistently posed with her hands behind her back. So of course I started to wonder, “What are you hiding, Ms. Spears?”

But then we finally got a close-up of her hand—an an very un-engagement-y looking ring:

Fine, fine.

But over the past month, a much flashier, way more engagement-ier looking ring has been in heavy rotation on THAT FINGER. In fact, unless she’s performing or filming a music video, she hasn’t been photographed without the ring since August! (I mean, I don’t have access to every photo in the world. But I’ve been looking specifically for photos where she’s not wearing this particular ring—and I have yet to see one.)

Here she is clutching a Moon Man at the VMAs on August 28, wearing what appears to be a large diamond in a halo setting:

On September 15, she stopped by the KISS FM studios in London, and Pop Sugar shared a series of photos where she appears to be wearing the same ring on the same finger.

The next day she was spotted out and about in London. Her hands were discreetly by her sides, but the ring is in plain sight.

And there it was again when she and Jason Trawick went for a romantic night out in Paris last Thursday.

I know that people can wear rings and they can wear them on any damn finger or toe they choose, but this is getting to be a little ridiculous!

At a certain point it starts to feel like she’s begging the world to take notice!

I’m pretty sure that Brit-Brit can’t marry again until she’s released from her father’s conservatorship—but I do think she’s legally allowed to be engaged. Which I really, really think she is!

Do you guys think Britney Spears is secretly engaged? Do you think she’s just messing with me? Do you think she’s just wearing pretty rings and is completely oblivious to the fact that she’s driving me nutso?!

p.s. Yes, I know Britney Spears isn’t just a celebrity—she’s a regular girl, too. And I would never speculate about a mystery ring on a regular girl’s ring finger. (That’s just rude.) But by consistently wearing a big, flashy ring on her engagement ring finger, I feel like Britney’s inviting (and probably enjoying) the speculation. Plus, as a wise Save the Date reader once said, “Your right to privacy greatly diminishes once you hire a publicist for yourself.” So I don’t feel all that bad for speculating.

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