Jewellery News

Two years ago, Joan Spiers lost a gold antique ring with diamonds at the Charlwood Hotel in Surrey. She was devastated as can be expected and sought the help of the local waste management firm to try and retrieve it. Colin and Julie French, the owners of the firm in Dorking said they did everything they could but there was no trace of the ring.

So what exactly did they do to try and find it? They emptied the sewage tank and went through 12,000 gallons of sewage, putting it all through a filter to see if they could find the ring. They sent someone down with a metal detector. They even put a camera in the sewage tank to see if they could locate the ring in case it had got stuck somewhere but they couldn’t find it. Two years later, an employee of their firm right there in their sewage works and took it to Colin. The moment he saw it, he knew who the ring belonged to because he had seen a picture of the ring.

The antique gold ring had a certified centre diamond with smaller diamonds around it. It had been given to Joan Spiers, a Conservative leader by her late husband. So, besides being an expensive ring, it was emotionally very dear to her as well. She was so grateful and sent the ring off to be cleaned professionally. Two of the smaller diamonds had gone missing but Joan Spiers was thrilled to just get the ring back.

It is official – Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are engaged to be married. They have been together for four years now, beginning their relationship almost soon after Nick and Jessica Simpson broke up five years ago. It’s been a rather rocky relationship with people not quite knowing when it was on and when it was off. However, they seem to have got past that and they are now officially engaged.

They have got engaged just before their birthdays – they both share a birthday on the 9th of November but she turns 30 while he turns 37. So that’s why she was holding a balloon that said ‘Celebrate 30’ after they got engaged. Nick seems very happy and he has been busy on Twitter, telling everyone how happy and excited he is and also thanking them for all their support and love.

Nick Lachey is a television personality and though he became well known when he and Jessica were a part of their reality show, he is also a talented singer and songwriter. He says that they are both looking forward to a wonderful future together.

Not many people would do that and having an athlete who has broken records wanting to sell her jewellery so her foundation can carry on with its charity work is commendable. But that’s exactly what Catherine Freeman has done. She won the gold in the 400m race way back at the Sydney Olympics ten years ago but she isn’t resting on her laurels – she’s busy looking after a charity foundation.

The jewellery was auctioned last month and included an expensive diamond ring, Cartier, Bulgari and Georg Jensen watches and some other pieces. The auction was held in Australia at the Leonard Joel auction rooms in South Yarra. The jewellery and the gold items realised money that will go to the foundation.

Catherine Freeman’s foundation supports children of the indigenous community and it is located on Palm Island. Freeman feels that her days of being an athlete are long gone but her work with the foundation is what is relevant and what she needs to focus on.

There are fans and there are fans. Some go to extremes when they love the game and that’s what this couple was all about. They decided to get married and exchanged wedding rings and took their vows just outside a football stadium. No, it did not happen in the UK or in Europe – it happened in Kansas, USA.

Their wedding was something to remember for sure. The bride did not wear a white wedding gown as brides traditionally do. They got married on Halloween’s Day and so they dressed accordingly. She wore a witch’s costume while the bridesmaids were dressed in gold and black. Does any woman dream of her wedding day in black and not in white as we are brought up to do? Some do, apparently and they go all out and have it on a spooky day as well.

They are both fans of a football team called Chiefs so the best men wore the team’s costumes and the bridesmaids’ colours are the team’s colours. So it was a great mix of spookiness and a black wedding with a football flavour. There was a huge game on last Sunday and the wedding took place just before the game began so the couple did not miss it.

Is it just a ruse to create a stir before she releases her first album or is Nicki Minaj engaged? She’s been spotted wearing an enormous diamond ring and people would like to know if it is an engagement ring. Singers and actors have been known to provide grist to the mills so they can be in the news before a major release but maybe in this case, that isn’t true.

Nicki and Drake have been together as a couple for a while now and they created a stir a few months ago when they kept tweeting their intentions of getting married. In fact Drake even wrote her into a verse. Of course, then it was just hints – now, there’s a diamond ring on her finger which could be an engagement ring.

Nicki has been known for her outrageous dressing style and she loves dressing up in a rather Barbie way. Her hair, her clothes, her make-up are all straight out of Barbie. She was spotted recently in a pink Barbie-like outfit and that was when people noticed the huge rock on her finger and the speculation began.

Everyone’s wondering if she is married. The couple made quite a stir with the engagement ring and now we hear that they may be married. Janet Jackson has been with Wissam Al Mana for over a year now. It looks like the Iranian billionaire and the singer have finally decided to settle down.

The engagement ring is a real big rock and it is all of 15 carats. Needless to say, it is stunning and must be weighing down her finger so much! Now with a ring like that, will anyone not say No to the man? If she has got married sooner than expected, maybe that gorgeous diamond ring did it.

Janet Jackson, sister of the late Michael Jackson has been married twice before so we are hoping it is third time lucky for her. She was married to James DeBarge, the singer and then to René Elizondo, Jr., the songwriter and dancer. There’s been a lot of attention on the Jacksons after MJ’s death even though he overshadowed them while he was alive. Now it looks like Janet has come into her own.

Anyone who has watched the US serial Glee can never imagine Jane Lynch with a smile. She’s the coach who is harsh, hard and a toughie but what a difference in real life! She got married to her long time partner in May and now she’s glowing and so happy as she talks about how wonderful it is to be married.

Jane Lynch and Lara Embry got married in Massachusetts and the ceremony was a beautiful one, Lara has a daughter who is 8 and Jane is having a wonderful time bonding with her and playing stepmother. It looks like they are well on their way to becoming a really close, wonderful family. Jane loves to take her to school, pick her up and take her out to lunch.

Jane is an Emmy Award winner and she couldn’t contain her happiness at a recent interview with More magazine. For her, this marriage is like a dream come true and she suddenly feels the warm rush of family and not being alone anymore. She confesses that before Lara, she has never been with anyone that she wanted to marry. Will the smile escape into her tough character’s role in Glee, we wonder?