Jane Seymour, 75, confirmed her engagement to musician John Zambetti in an exclusive interview with Hello! magazine published on Friday, June 12, 2026, four months after Zambetti proposed on Valentine's Day at the foot of the couple's bed at their Malibu beachside home. Hello! published the news at 9:31 p.m. London time, after Seymour had publicly worn the ring earlier in the week at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York on Thursday, June 11.
Seymour described the engagement as a chapter she had stopped expecting to write:
I honestly never thought I would find a really committed, healthy, lovely, loving relationship at this time of my life, but I'm incredibly blessed that I have.
The ring itself is a vintage Toi et Moi style in yellow gold, set with two floral-shaped diamond clusters, and Seymour told the magazine that it "really represents our love and commitment and joy of finding love at this time in our lives." The proposal almost ran aground on slapstick — Zambetti, in her telling, "almost got stuck under the bed" attempting the kneel, which she described as "the sweetest, funniest moment."
The relationship is three years old this summer. Seymour and Zambetti were introduced through their children and through mutual friend Shwayze at one of the rapper's concerts; they bonded over a shared Malibu social circle and Zambetti's songwriting practice. He marked each monthly anniversary in the lead-up to the engagement with red roses, a detail Seymour relayed in the Hello! interview alongside the explanation that the relationship had remained largely off-record because she had been waiting to be sure.
Seymour's romantic history is the data the announcement sits against. She has been married four times — to Michael Attenborough, Geoffrey Planer, David Flynn, and James Keach — and has spoken across multiple interviews in the 2010s and early 2020s about her stance that she did not expect another marriage. Friday's announcement is a public revision of that stance, and Seymour acknowledged it directly: "It wouldn't have ever worked earlier," she told the magazine, framing the timing as essential rather than incidental.
Zambetti is a working singer-songwriter, not a public figure of independent profile. He grew up in Southern California, has played the Malibu and Los Angeles songwriter-circuit venues for decades, and was a member of the band The Beach Boys' touring orbit in the 1990s. His career sits at the scale that lets him meet the Seymour social register without inheriting tabloid attention, which is the kind of asymmetric pairing that has historically worked best for actresses in Seymour's tier.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame appearance Thursday is what drove the timing. Seymour wore the ring publicly for the first time on the carpet, an Us Weekly reporter asked about it, and the answer she gave — "someone decided they wanted to be with me for the rest of their lives. My singer-songwriter." — was the first on-record confirmation of the engagement. The Hello! exclusive on Friday is the formal version of that confirmation, in the venue where Seymour has placed major personal news for nearly a decade.
Wedding plans are unannounced. Seymour told Hello! that the couple is "very different" but "together we are living our best lives by supporting one another," and declined to name a date or venue. Given the Malibu base and the three-year private relationship, the most plausible read is a small ceremony tied to the family rather than a celebrity event — though Seymour's prior weddings have varied widely in scale, and the next twelve months will be the first window in which a date would land if one is being planned.
