ONE of the stars of Teen Mom has announced a year-long secret engagement.

However, reality TV fans fear this hidden proposal could potentially be a ‘bad sign’.

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Javi Marroquin proposed to Lauren Comeau last year as they kept their engagement hidden[/caption]

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The pair rekindled in 2022 after he called off his previous relationship with Briana DeJesus[/caption]

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He said he worked hard to rebuild their relationship with her and her family[/caption]

Javi Marroquin rose to fame in 2011 when he starred in the second series of the hit MTV show.

The retired American navy soldier previously got engaged to girlfriend Lauren Comeau.

Together, they reconciled in the fall of 2022 after he called it quits with Teen Mom 2 star Briana DeJesus. 

Recently, the pair took to social media as they revealed their engagement with a series of romantic snaps of his proposal.

Their son Eli, 5, and his son Lincoln, 10, – whom he shares with ex-wife Kailyn Lowry – were both participants.

Alongside a ring and a red love heart emoji, the caption read: “10.16.23,” suggesting that the couple have been engaged for over a year.

In a Q&A on his Instagram stories, one fan asked the reality TV personality why he decided to keep the betrothal hidden for such a long time.

Javi replied: “There’s something special about keeping a intimate moment private…

“I worked so hard to get to that point. I worked so hard to get my family back.

“I worked so hard to rebuild relationships with Lauren’s family … it was important for both of us to tell them privately and not share with the world before we told our loved ones.”

He added: “I knew social media wouldn’t see all that and I wasn’t going to let them ruin such a special moment for my family.

“Just to name a few reasons, but it was a special day for everyone and I can’t wait to marry the love of my life.”

However, many fans think that it was somewhat of a bad omen that the duo decided not to announce their engagement for such a long time.

Taking to Reddit, one fan said: “I fully think it took them a year to announce because she was seeing how it went. They broke up like a month after getting engaged last time”

As another commented: “They got engaged a year ago and are only announcing it now. I can guess why lol.”

But other fans disagreed as the flooded the comments section of a Teen Mom fan account which celebrated the happy news.

“I think they are cute together and Lauren seems real sweet and genuine in all her posts,” claimed a third user.

While a fourth fan stated: “Good for them. I wish them all the best.”

And a fifth added: “Love this for them. They look absolutely amazing together. And look the happiest lately. Congratulations.”

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The pair rose to fame in 2011 in Teen Mom 2[/caption]

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The duo share two kids together and their older son Eli was involved in the ceremony[/caption]

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Fans worried the fact their engagement was hidden was a worrying side[/caption]

PATRICK Mahomes had a short reply to a long social media post from Travis Kelce, who has had enough of the criticisms after his latest date with Taylor Swift.

The Kansas City Chiefs star tight end, 35, attended Game 1 of the ALCS between the Cleveland Guardians and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium this week with his music icon girlfriend Swift.

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce return to the sidelines after a touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 2[/caption]

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Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Kelce appeared at Game 1 of the ALCS between the Cleveland Guardians and the New York Yankees on Monday[/caption]

A native of Cleveland, Kelce got scolded by fans for not wearing anything Guardians-related on Monday night.

The MLB team lost that day and Game 2, but the series went to Cleveland for Game 3 on Thursday.

The Guardians won the game in 10 innings thanks to a David Fry game-ending two-run home run.

After the contest, Kelce opened up on his fandom of the team while calling out those who took issue with his lack of team paraphernalia in his attendance of Game 1.

“I’ve been a cleveland sports fan my entire life…” the nine-time Pro Bowl tight end wrote on X.

“Make it back to countless amount of games over the years both Guards and Cavs just to enjoy these memories with my friends and family, WIN OR LOSE!!… and I don’t wear Cleveland gear one time and all of a sudden I’m not a real fan?!

“Ask anybody that was in or around that suite on game 1 who I was cheering for, they’ll let you know I was there for the @CleGuardians.”

Mahomes responded to his teammate with a simple two-word message.

“Go Royals,” he replied.

The two-time NFL MVP Mahomes attended Game 3 of the ALDS between the Kansas City Royals and Yankees.

And just like Kelce, he saw his favorite team lose to the Yankees.

The Royals were eliminated by the Yankees in four games.

The Yankees are up 2-1 and the series resumes on Friday.

The TBS cameras displayed Kelce and Swift numerous times in the MLB playoff game.

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Kelce, Mahomes, and their significant others appeared at the U.S. Open last month[/caption]

The pair were seated in the Yankees suite.

Their appearance came after they were seen in New York attending the men’s singles final at the U.S. Open alongside a group of friends that included Mahomes and his wife, Brittany.

Swift then attended Kelce’s Chiefs Week 5 Monday Night Football win over the New Orleans Saints.

Kansas City then enjoyed the bye week in Week 6.

The back-to-back Super Bowl champion Chiefs will go on the road to face the San Francisco 49ers as part of a rematch of the latest big game on Sunday.

The 5-0 Chiefs have yet to lose a game this season.

A MASS hunt was sparked after a Nazi treasure map resurfaced showing where a £15 million stash of gold coins and jewels had been buried during World War Two.

Hunters visited an obscure Dutch village named Ommeren after archivists released a document that had been confidential to the public.

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A map revealed the supposed spot a stash of Nazi gold and jewels worth over £15 million had been buried[/caption]

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The map marked the spot where four German soldiers were thought to have buried ammunition cases filled with valuables[/caption]

A mad hunt for the goods started in the village, around 80 kilometres south-east of Amsterdam, after a hand drawn map was unearthed in 2023.

The simple map marked the spot where four German soldiers were thought to have buried ammunition cases filled with valuables, at the end of the war.

A small X on the map, marked off a road just south of the small hamlet, sparked the frenzied search.

It has been believed these cases included gold coins, gemstones, watches, and jewellery worth around two to three million Dutch guilder in 1945.

Experts have converted this and estimate it’s worth a huge sum of over £15 million today.

These riches were apparently taken during the 1944 Nazi bombing of a bank in Arnhem, around 40 kilometres east of Ommeren, according to War History Online.

The frantic hunt started after the National Archives of The Netherlands released over 1,300 documents in January 2023.

Experts believed these apparent treasures were buried in April 1945, as the Allies were about to spare the region from Nazi rule.

An adviser at the national archive said her theory was the soldiers had become worried about this update in the war and decided to bury their wealth, according to The Guardian.

An army of gold-diggers descended upon the small village in the following months.

Local officials in Ommeren had previously banned the use of metal detectors in October 2022 but revealed this hadn’t stopped the rush of searchers and visitors.

“We’ve warned off at least 15 people since the start of January who were using metal detectors,” a spokesperson for the nearby city of Buren, Birgit Van Aken-Quint, told The Guardian.

She added that none of these gold hunters have been able to find the treasures.

Birgit added that they believed the valuables were once in the village but have since been removed.

Despite this message, online sleuths have continued their searches in the area.

She warned: “If people again try to go and find the treasure, we’ll enforce the ban.”

Experts say German soldiers fled when the Allies were close to freeing Arnhem, eastern Netherlands.

The National Archives revealed how a chatty soldier was the key to this map and the treasures.

National Archives advisor Annet Waalkens told The Observer: “They [soldiers] decide to bury the treasure, because it’s just getting a bit too hot under their feet and they’re getting scared.”

Helmut S, whose full name the National Archives are withholding, was born in 1925 and is the only solider who could still be alive but he has yet to be traced.

“Loose-lipped” Helmut S revealed the hoard was discovered when an Arnhem branch of the Rotterdamsche bank was bombed in August 1944.

A smashed safe left behind jewels, coins and the like strewn across the street.

People then pocketed what they could and hid the loot in zinc ammunition boxes afterwards.

Local authorities carried out three searches from 1946 to 1947 but found nothing each time.

They recruited Helmut S to help as he was the one who supplied the map in the first place but still found nothing.

Experts remain unsure who actually created the map but it has been secured safely.

Dutch officials speculate the treasure could have been dug up by a local who saw its burial or by surviving German soldier Helmut.

But Joost Rosendaal, an assistant professor in history at Radboud university in The Netherlands thinks Helmut S’s account could well be bogus.

Joost says it’s not possible that Helmut S’s comrades came across the treasure in the street following a bomb as Arnhem was not bombed that month.

The historian thinks the other soldiers are probably responsible for stealing the jewels back in November 1944 when German forces set Arnhem’s Rotterdamsche bank ablaze, with the fire serving to “hide the robbing of the bank”.

He doubts the treasure will ever be found despite the attempts from the online sleuths who tried their luck with banned metal detectors.

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Nobody knows who created the map that was handed in by a surviving German soldier but it is now possible to see it in person at The Hague[/caption]

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