People is reporting that Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff became engaged on New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Can you believe it? It's reported that he gave her a Harry Winston bauble.

Karina and Maksim have been an item since summer of '08 after her breakup with Mario Lopez in the spring. Did you see that breakup coming like I did? I think Mario's pretty ellusive with his regards to settling down.

I'm hoping Karina and Maksim have a wonderful life together. With their firey temperments I'm sure life will be spicy.