Olympic hero/heroic nude model Amanda Beard got engaged to her boyfriend of three years, photographer Sacha Brown.

“We are thrilled to be starting the next chapter in our lives together,” says Beard. “We are completely in love and to top it off we are best friends. Sacha proposed on Christmas morning in the most perfect way I could imagine. He is truly the man of my dreams and every day I spend with him is a blessing.”

“Basically,” she adds, “it rocks!”

I’ve been sitting here for twenty minutes trying to think of something that might make this remotely interesting, and there’s simply no way that’s happening.  And I’m never getting those twenty minutes back.  Thanks a lot, Amanda Beard.  It’s gonna take another nude photoshoot before you’re forgiven for this one.  Nude photos are the best apology.  That judge and I are just gonna have to disagree on this one.

(more of Amanda and her “Yes, Dear”-looking fiancé HERE)