HGTV Alison Victoria has fueled engagement rumors after snapping a selfie with a sparkling rock on that finger—months after she teased a TV comeback.
The 44-year-old sparked speculation that her boyfriend, Brandt Andersen, had popped the question after sharing a photo of herself donning a shimmering ring.
She took to Instagram to share a carousel of snaps from her camera roll, which she captioned, “Weekend rewind.”
The post included flicks of her and Andersen as well as photos of their dog.
In the final picture, Victoria could been sitting at the salon getting her hair done. In the photo, she sported two diamond bands on her left finger.
Fans flocked to the comments section and questioned if she had gotten engaged.
“Engagement and wedding rings??? What have I missed?!” one user commented.
“Is that a wedding ring??!!” another follower said.
Realtor.com® has reached out to Victoria for comment.
Victoria and Andersen went public with their romance in June 2024, at the time she gushed about her boyfriend to People.
“Brandt is a brilliant filmmaker and with his directorial debut, we’ve been traveling this summer to all these festivals. And when we first became friends, he was doing all the post for his film — like, sound and VFX stuff — and I was there for that journey, helping him along the way being like a true partner like he is to me,” she told the outlet.
Victoria previously teased a potential TV comeback after fans of the home-improvement network lamented the fact that she no longer appears on their screens.
“Battle on the Beach” host Victoria was one of multiple HGTV favorites whose shows were suddenly axed by the network over the summer in a shock programming purge, which also brought series like “Married to Real Estate,” “Christina on the Coast,” and “The Flipping El Moussas” to a quick end.
Although Victoria—who recently relocated from Chicago to Las Vegas—did have another project airing on HGTV in the form of “Sin City Rehab,” which debuted in September and ran for eight episodes, the network has yet to reveal whether it plans to renew it for a second season.
In the meantime, the “Windy City Rehab” alum has been noticeably absent from the network … until now.
Victoria has hinted that she may be returning to the small screen much sooner than audiences expected, responding to fans in a comment on Instagram that she’s “coming back.”
Victoria teased her big return after an Instagram user commented: “We miss you on HGTV,” alongside a fire emoji, prompting the home renovations expert to respond: “Don’t you worry, I’m coming back some!”
The comments were shared on a photo of the TV star flaunting her washboard abs in a blue bikini, and other photos of her during what appeared to be a tropical vacation.
Her tease comes amid a time of significant transformation for Victoria, who relocated from the Windy City to Sin City in a bid to reawaken her creativity—taking her HGTV series with her.
She opened up about the move in a wide-ranging interview with House Beautiful in September, explaining how she’d always had a special spot for Vegas, even after living in Chicago for so many years, having initially spent time living in the Nevada hot spot when she was 19.
“Some of my most important years were out in Las Vegas, and most people didn’t know that and don’t know that. I always had a house out here and I always kept a life out here, but I would just mainly kind of pop in and visit,” she told the outlet.
However, she admitted that her move to Las Vegas was also prompted by another factor, namely the lawsuits that she faced in which clients accused her of “shoddy construction,” a scandal that she was very eager to leave behind.
Victoria and her former costar, Donovan Eckhardt, were both sued by several clients—and Victoria then sued Eckhardt for mishandling finances and shady behavior.
“After what I went through with the multiple lawsuits and the building department in Chicago, it just … I don’t know how to explain it. It’s like you’re in a relationship, right? I was in a relationship with the city that I loved and lived in, and then it didn’t treat me well,” she explained.
“It just didn’t, and I needed a break. I just needed to get out of there. I wasn’t my happiest self; I wasn’t living my best life.”
The HGTV star added, “When I’m happy, I’m my most creative self. My creativity was dying in Chicago, and I felt that in my work.
“I literally up and left. I left the most beautiful dream home, which is just perfect. It’s just stuck the way that I left it—fully furnished, all my clothes are there. I just was like, ‘I’m out.’”
The designer now lives in a Spanish-style pad in Henderson, NV, which she has branded her “sanctuary.”
Now that she has settled in her Nevada home, Victoria revealed that she hopes to change the city “one house at a time, to show people that it doesn’t have to all look the same.”
She later told Realtor.com that she feels as though Vegas is her be-all and end-all home, explaining: “I’ll tell you this much: I’m home. I am finally, for the first time in my life, I am home. I mean, I design houses all over the country. So my business will constantly be growing and doing jobs all over the country.
“So that will never change, and I will be spending a lot of time in California. My boyfriend lives in Malibu, so we’ll be going between Malibu and Las Vegas. But I finally feel like I’m living my best life, and it feels really, really safe, and it feels really good.”