Congratulations are in order for Lindsay Lohan, who announced via Instagram early Sunday morning that she is engaged. The 35-year-old Mean Girls star uploaded four images of herself with her newly betrothed, Bader Shammas, in various states of giggly bliss. The first picture is in black and white, and in the last, she can be seen tugging her hoodie over her face, tears of joy in her eyes. One can spot the rock in all four pics. 

“My love. My life. My family. My future,” Lohan wrote, tagging Shammas’ account, I guess to make sure he’d see it. She wrapped her statement up with “#love” and a diamond ring emoji.

There isn’t too much known about Lohan’s fiancé (his Instagram is private), but according to Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, he is 34 years old and attended the University of Tampa and University of South Florida, studying mechanical engineering and finance. He is an assistant vice president at Credit Suisse and the pair have been dating for two years, according to The Independent. They both live in Dubai, the city with the largest population in the United Arab Emirates.

Lohan was previously engaged to Russian businessman Egor Tarabasov, but that relationship ended in 2016, following some very public discord.

Lohan has continued to captivate the public eye even as she has stayed out of the spotlight in recent years. She has made inroads in reality television: In 2019, MTV aired one season of Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, a series that followed the ups and downs of running a vacation paradise on the Greek island of Mykonos. (The establishment has since closed.) Also in 2019, she was a panelist on the first season of The Masked Singer Australia, but she did not return for the second season. Whether this was due to travel restrictions between the UAE and Australia during the pandemic or she was fired because she lacked an understanding of Australian popular culture is subject to debate.

Lohan has sparked comeback rumors for years, but a return to the family-style pictures of her youth does appear to be imminent. Netflix is cooking up a “holiday rom-com,” in which she stars opposite Chord Overstreet, though the movie does not yet have a name. In the film, Lohan plays a spoiled heiress who gets in a skiing accident and suffers amnesia, of course, according to Variety. She finds herself in the care of a hunky, blue-collar lodge owner (Overstreet) and bonds with his precocious daughter.

Alas, don’t look for it under the tree this year. The picture, directed by Janeen Damian, will be streaming next holiday season.

A costar connection! After working together in 2003, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan have continued to stay in touch — in code.

While filming Freaky Friday, which follows a mother and daughter who get trapped in each other’s bodies through a magical fortune cookie, Curtis, 62, and Lohan, 35, found themselves listening to Justin Timberlake‘s “Like I Love You” quite often.

“Lindsay and I were doing a scene in a car and there was a lot of time in between takes,” the Halloween Kills star detailed to Yahoo Entertainment on October 15. “And there’s a rap in the middle of that song by Clipse. She and I were trying to learn the words.”

The Scream Queens alum recalled them “sitting there with a pad” trying to learn all the words to the song.

“We were writing them down, and then we would do the scene, and then we’d play the song and try to lip-synch the few words that we knew,” Curtis shared. “I’m telling you, we laughed. And that is my secret code with her. ‘What was the song we were lip-synching to in the car?’”

After Curtis realized that she gave away the details to their code, she added that she would now have to find “another” way to verify Lohan’s identity over text.

The Golden Globe winner has previously revealed that she wasn’t initially cast to play Tess in Freaky Friday. After Annette Bening dropped out four days before filming began, Curtis found herself “with absolutely zero prep on any level,” which she didn’t mind.

“Because I had no time, I had the complete freedom to just go, ‘OK, whatever. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen,’” Curtis explained to Vanity Fair in November 2019.

Although the Knives Out star was excited to get started, she revealed that there was an adjustment period. While filming her second scene for the movie, Curtis had a suggestion for the moment when Anna is inside Tess’s body ahead of an interview.

“I just remember asking the grips if they could put some baby powder so that my feet would slide,” Curtis told Vanity Fair. “Then I remember the director [Mark Waters] the next day coming to me and saying, ‘You know, the editor is wondering if we should bring you down. He was thinking it’s a little too big.’

Curtis didn’t back down when it came to her performance.

“I remember saying to him, ‘Look, Mark. This is your movie not mine. I only heard about six days ago. This is what I’m naturally going to do for you,’” she recalled at the time. “‘It’s the only way I’m going to do it. If I’m thinking about this for one day, it’s over, it’ll be horrible. So either find somebody else and just let me go home, or I’m going to do what I do.’”

The California native admitted that she remembers that experience fondly now.

“It turned out to be this amazing, amazing, amazing experience for me creatively. It was the freest I’ve ever been [as an actor],” she added.

Lindsay Lohan will get behind the mic to host her first podcast, in a deal with digital content studio Studio71.

On the yet-untitled interview podcast, the actor-singer-entrepreneur will share “her authentic voice and a never-before-seen side,” Studio71 teased. There’s no release date for the show, which is tentatively set to premiere in late 2021 or early 2022, according to the company.

“I’m excited to partner with Studio71 in the development and production of my podcast,” Lohan said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to connecting with more of my fans and having intimate conversations with friends and thought leaders across all industries.”

Lohan, whose credits include “Mean Girls” and “The Parent Trap,” is set to star in a forthcoming Netflix holiday rom-com movie. Lohan’s podcast will join Studio71’s slate women-hosted shows, which include “Worst Firsts with Brittany Furlan,” “Unsolicited Advice” with comedians Ashley Nichole and Taryne Renee, “Ratchet & Respectable” with Demetria L. Lucas, and “Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai.”

According to Studio71, 75% of listeners to shows in its podcast network are between the ages of 18 and 34 and 55% are female. All Studio71 podcasts are available for free (with ads) on platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

“We are thrilled to welcome Lindsay to Studio71’s podcast network and can’t wait for her to take listeners behind the scenes of her life and work,” said Moorea Smith, senior talent relations manager for podcasts at Studio71. “With her unparalleled experiences as an entertainer and entrepreneur, we are so excited for her to take the mic and share her thoughts and opinions with the world.”

Lohan is represented by APA. Studio71’s Smith and Matt Barker, senior director of talent relations, led the company’s negotiations for Lohan’s podcast.

Studio71 manages over 1,800 partnered creator channels, which it says generates over 13 billion monthly views across YouTube, connected TVs and social media. The company is a division of Red Arrow Studios, which is part of Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Media.

Lindsay Lohan is back.

At the height of her fame in the aughts, there wasn’t a day that the former child star wasn’t making headlines. But after years out of the spotlight, and jetting as far away from Hollywood as she possibly could, Lohan, 34, will make her return to acting next year in a Netflix holiday rom-com — one of the streamer’s most popular tentpoles.

But observers are wondering: Why now? Currently living in Dubai with her long-time banker boyfriend, Lohan has spent the past few years concentrating on her lifestyle business, with her eponymous clubs in Greece and a new passion for “NFTs” — non-fungible tokens — where pieces of art are being sold digitally for millions of dollars. Why would she trade her peaceful, comfortable existence for a highly visible business that was so cruel to her?

It could be that today’s world is kinder to its young stars. Famous women who were treated abysmally by the press 20 years ago — Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Monica Lewinsky among them — are being seen in a new, more sympathetic light as people have begun to grasp the difficulty of their situations. 

“She was always being used by people, treated like meat by the paparazzi,” an old friend of Lohan’s who has known her since her early teens told The Post. “She was followed, and friends sold her out left and right. It was hard to watch — and she had no real guidance.”

“We all contributed to what happened and we didn’t stop it. We provided her with so much access to things that I don’t think a teenager should have, access to clubs, for instance. She was 17 or 18, and these were places she had no business being at that age.” Then, in May, a shocking tweet from Chrissy Teigen, who’s been criticized for her past online bullying behavior, was suddenly unearthed. In a since-deleted Twitter post from January 2011, Teigen, acting like a real-life “Mean Girl,” wrote, “Lindsay adds a few more slits to her wrists when she sees emma stone.” Teigen was making light of the actress’ admission that she’d cut herself in the past. 

Lohan has so far not commented on Teigen’s bullying, but mom Dina told The Post on Friday that the 2011 post upset everyone in the family. “When someone says hurtful words, they’re not just hurting that person, they’re hurting their siblings, their mother, their grandma,” Dina said. “They’re inflicting so much pain.”

Lohan started modeling as a toddler, and at 11 years old she filmed Nancy Meyers’ remake of “The Parent Trap” in 1998, deftly playing twins — one British, one American — opposite Dennis Quaid and the late Natasha Richardson. Her acting prowess was instantly obvious.

Her father, Michael Lohan, reminisced about taking his young daughter to her final audition for the movie. “When Lindsay was growing up, Dina would take her for her modeling, and when she was 8, she got [the soap opera] ‘Another World,’” he told The Post. “When I brought her to her audition for ‘The Parent Trap,’ it was the first time I ever saw her act.

“I was standing behind the camera with Nancy and her [then] husband Charles and it was the part where Lindsay was in bed with Natasha and I just started bawling. I couldn’t believe how talented she was. It was unbelievable.”

From there, Lohan’s acting career took off. In 2003, she starred in “Freaky Friday” with Jamie Lee Curtis, and then snagged her most famous role just a year later, as Cady Heron in Tina Fey’s now-classic teen comedy “Mean Girls.”

But her meteoric rise took its toll on her personal life.

Lohan’s old friend was around as her fame came crashing down on her like a sledgehammer at 17. “Lindsay blew up right after ‘Freaky Friday’ and I watched her rise and fall,” the friend said. “She couldn’t enjoy a good night out without it being on the cover of Us Weekly or in Page Six, she couldn’t go on a date — and that’s a really hard life to live.” 

The situation further unraveled. In 2007, Lohan was twice convicted of drunk driving, once for drug use, made three trips to rehab and served an 84-minute jail stay. She appeared in court more than 20 times amid her substance abuse struggles from 2007 to 2012.

Dina said: “Back then, there were a group of girls who were targeted by the media, when the tabloids became weekly, they couldn’t go anywhere … being watched 24/7 can really destroy someone’s life. And now we’re looking back on everything with fresh eyes to see how badly treated these girls were.”

Michael Lohan pointed out that other stars have been treated far more kindly than his daughter despite making bigger mistakes.

Michael — who had his own publicized legal woes — told The Post: “I’m really proud of Lindsay in all aspects of her personal and professional life. With the launch of her next project(s), I truly hope the industry sees that she’s on top of her game once again and still one of the most talented actresses in the entertainment business.

“They’ve been so supportive and forgiving of so many others who have had tougher falls than her, and I do hope they finally do the same for my amazingly gifted and talented daughter.”

It was after years of being hounded by paparazzi and battling addiction that Lohan practically withdrew from acting in the early 2010s and moved abroad, splitting her time between the UAE and Europe. In Dubai, she also runs her own jewelry line, Lily Baker Jewels.

To those who know Lohan, she really had no choice, they say. “At one time, she was unbondable — she could not get insurance to work,” said one industry expert. “And maybe that had some stigma among Hollywood.”

“I believe things happen for a reason,” Lohan later said of her struggles. “I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don’t regret them at all, because I’ve learned from them.”

Lohan has largely refrained from acting in recent years — although critics said she was the only good thing about Paul Schrader’s widely panned 2013 movie, “The Canyons.” She appeared in a West End production of David Mamet’s play “Speed-the-Plow” in 2014; had a recurring role on the British TV comedy “Sick Note” in 2018; starred in the MTV reality show “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” in 2019; and later that year, appeared as a judge on the Australian version of “The Masked Singer.”

The actress was primed to perform once more. On CNN’s New Year’s Eve special in 2019, just weeks before the pandemic sent the globe into lockdown, Lohan told hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen that she wanted to “come back to America and start filming again,” and “[take] back the life that I worked so hard for, and sharing it with my family and you guys.”

She will film her Netflix project, which is described as being in the same vein as Goldie Hawn’s 1987 comedy “Overboard,” in November. It will be ready for peak 2022 holiday viewing.

Lohan’s been cast as a “newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress” who gets amnesia after a skiing accident in the yet-untitled project, where she “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.”

The actress retains a great sense of humor about her life. Just days ago on Instagram, she posted a photo of herself in a tank top, writing: “On Fridays, we wear white,” in clear reference to the “Mean Girls” line: “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” One month ago, she also paid tribute to her former on-screen mom Richardson, who died at age 45 in 2009 following a tragic skiing accident on her birthday, writing: “Happy Birthday angel.”

“She’s in such a good place in her life, she’s clear and focused,” said a source.

Dina said, “Lindsay’s now 34, she’s grown up, but everyone is looking to the future. She said, ‘Mommy, I’m ready to do movies again, I want to do what I love and what makes me happy.’” She also said Lohan is keen to try her hand at directing.

Lohan’s old friend added: “Yes, she made a s–t ton of mistakes, but she was shoved — not put — into the lion’s den.

“And I am rooting for her comeback. She shouldn’t be judged for who she was when she was a teenager. Would any of us want to be judged on our teenage years and early 20s?”

The release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears, which paid special attention to the capricious media treatment she received throughout her career, has led many to reflect on the sexism some of her contemporaries endured around that time.

In particular, a 2013 interview between David Letterman and Lindsay Lohan has drawn criticism from users on TikTok and Twitter, who are now calling out the talk show host for probing into the actress’s personal life.

“Now, aren’t you supposed to be in rehab?” the former Late Show host asked Lohan, who appeared on the show to promote an upcoming film.

After revealing the date she was set to enter rehab, the host followed up with a rapid slew of questions about her recovery, including how many times she’s been to rehab and how this time will be different.

“What are they rehab-ing? What is on their list? What are they going to work on when you walk through the door?” Letterman continued, to laughter from the audience.

Lohan, visibly uncomfortable, said that the topic of rehab was not broached in the pre-interview, but allowed that rehab would be an “opportunity to focus on what I love in life.”

But Letterman continued to prod, asking if she had “addiction problems” and if she was going to rehab for alcohol use.

“You can’t make a joke of it, that’s so mean,” the actress responded.

“This is vile on so many levels. The misogyny. The blindsiding. The stigma of addiction & rehab,” producer Frank Costa commented. “The hypocrisy of wanting people to recover, but then judging how they choose do so. I hope Lindsay Lohan knows how loved she is. The world has treated her and many others so unfairly.”

At the end of the segment, which another Twitter user highlighted in a clip, Letterman praised Lohan for being able to go on the show and sit through his comments. Letterman’s reps did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

Another commenter said that Letterman’s 2004 interview with Janet Jackson “gives off the same vibes.” In the video, the host repeatedly pressed her on her Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction, despite her apparent discomfort. The resurfaced Letterman interviews come in stark contrast to another late-night host’s monologue that’s been making the social media rounds since the release of Framing Britney Spears. Social media users have revisited a Late Late Show clip from 2007, wherein former host Craig Ferguson explained why he wouldn’t be making light of Spears’ personal life, telling his audience, “We shouldn’t be attacking the vulnerable people.”

Meanwhile, due to public scrutiny surrounding the documentary, the #FreeBritney movement, and his past comments about Spears and Jackson, Justin Timberlake issued an apology to both women on Friday.

“I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn, or did not speak up for what was right. I understand that I fell short in these moments and in many others and benefited from a system of misogyny and racism,” the singer-actor wrote in a statement posted to his Instagram. “I specifically want to apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson both individually, because I care for and respect these women and I know I failed.”

First off, let’s give Lindsay a happy 34th birthday. In honor of her birthday I’ve managed to add all public appearance from 2014-2015. Hopefully I can continue to add more stuff in the coming days as part of the week!

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