BRITNEY SPEARS - COUSIN CONFIRMS SPEARS ENGAGEMENT

LATEST: BRITNEY SPEARS' cousin has confirmed the singer's pregnant sister JAMIE LYNN will wed her longtime boyfriend CASEY ALDRIDGE. Tina Robinson claims Aldridge, the father of the 16-year-old's unborn child, proposed to Jamie Lynn "a few days ago". Reports the Zoey 101 star and Aldridge, 18, are engaged to be married surfaced earlier this week (begs24Mar08) when Jamie Lynn was spotted showing off a diamond ring to friends and family in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, and to relatives in Mississippi. Robinson tells UsMagazine.com, "He proposed a few days ago, and she accepted. "They probably weren't expecting (the proposal) to be, like, right now, but, with her being pregnant, that really pushed it up."