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Lance Bass is engaged

Lance Bass plans to tie the knot.

The *NSYNC member is engaged to artist Michael Turchin. The news comes a week after *NSYNCreunited at the MTV Video Music Awards.

After Bass, 34, proposed, he announced the news on Instagram:

According to Drew Pokorny, co-host of Dirty Pop with Lance Bass on SiriusXM, the couple got engaged over the weekend in New Orleans. Bass and Turchin have been dating since 2011.

Turchin's Twitter page says he's an artist and an aspiring actor, along with an "Occasional model, Pseudo radio personality, Nice Jewish boy."

Bass publicly came out as gay in 2006 and was previously linked to "Amazing Race" winner Reichen Lehmkuhlin and hairdresser Ben Thigpen.

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