GOSSIP: Tony Romo Engaged! Plus: THE RING!

Jessica Simpson is not the only one celebrating her engagement during the year-end holidays, two of her exes will also be walking the down aisle in 2011.

After news broke few weeks ago that Nick Lachey had popped the question to on and off girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo, late last night we learned that her ex-boyfriend Tony Romo had also decided to ask the hand of his girlfriend Candice Crawford in marriage.

And here’s the ring!

It seems that Tony Romo and Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson are in a race to be the first to make it down the the aisle.

Tony Romo who plays for the Dallas Cowboys

and who dumped Jess on the eve of her 29th birthday, has announced that he, too, is engaged to be married.

The footballer apparently proposed to Candice Crawford (a former Miss Missouri, and local sports reporter who also happens to be the sister of Gossip Girl’s Chase Crawford) the day she was celebrating her 24th birthday on December 16th in Dallas,Texas.