Meryl Davis and Charlie White

The gold medal-winning figure skater took to his Instagram account while vacationing in Hawaii on Tuesday to announce his engagement to fellow ice dancer Tanith Belbin. On Tuesday, Charlie, 26, posted an Instagram photo of himself with Tanith with the big news. “Couldn't ask for a more beautiful setting for the best time in our life! Hashtag she said yes!!!” he wrote.



It’s been a big year for Charlie. He and his professional partner, Meryl Davis, won the gold medal in ice dancing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Then they competed against each other with different partners on “Dancing With the Stars.”



Meryl and Maksim Chmerkovskiy won “DWTS,” in case you missed it. Tanith, 29, who won an Olympic silver medal in 2006, has dated Charlie for more than five years. Meryl took to Twitter to congratulate them on their big news. “Congrats to these two! Beautiful girl, beautiful (ring). Good work @charlieawhite," she tweeted.



Apparently the news that Charlie and Meryl are not a couple in real life broke a lot of hearts on Twitter, where one fan wrote: “possibly the most devastating news this morning is charlie white is engaged to not meryl davis.”

Rookie NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Austin Dillon can handle himself on any race track, wet or dry. But on ice — well, for a beginner, he's not too bad at all. Dillon, who drives for Richard Childress Racing, looked pretty stout Thursday during his first outing on ice, warming up and taking it easy at first and gaining some speed and confidence toward the end of the session.



Of course, he had two veterans helping him sort out the conditions — 2014 Olympic ice dancing gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who dropped by the G-M Arctic Edge Ice Arena in Canton, Mich., where they train, to offer Dillon some advice.



The trio met up to promote the Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway on Aug. 17, where Davis and White will serve as grand marshals and give the order to "start your engines" before the Cup race. They also will watch Dillon, who drives for his grandfather Richard Childress. Dillon is battling for a spot in NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup playoffs. He is currently 13th in points.



"Charlie and I are from the Great Lakes area and are proud to represent Michigan all over the world, and the link for us acting as grand marshals for the Pure Michigan 400 race is great," said Davis, who, like her longtime skating partner, is a student at Michigan. "Speed is a huge part of what we do (on the ice). But, obviously, we've never experienced anything like Austin goes through. We are super excited to be going to MIS."



Since the Olympics, Davis and White have been performing in ice skating shows around the globe, having just returned a few days ago from dancing in Japan. They also competed in the popular TV series Dancing with the Stars but have chosen to take the current season off from international competition to recharge their batteries.



"There were other things we wanted to do," said Davis, who is from West Bloomfield. "We've been excited to do some shows and skate in a different capacity. But I think at the end of this competitive season, we will really take a look at whether we want to return to competition and go for another Olympics." White is enjoying the break from the cutthroat world of international ice dance, he said.



"Four years (until the next Olympics) is such a long time — a lot could happen," said White, who was raised in Royal Oak. "We've just expected so much out of ourselves for the last four, eight — well, our entire career — to just have a year stress-free and then kind of re-evaluate ourselves, we are looking forward to that."