Jane Seymour has found something she says she never expected at this stage of her life: a relationship that feels new every single month. The actress is engaged to fiance John Zambetti, and instead of marking one big anniversary a year, the couple celebrates the day they met all over again, every month, complete with red roses from John.
“We love that, unlike a solitaire, it’s two settings, we are equally together, still connected to our past,” Seymour has said of the ring John gave her, and that idea of two people bringing their own histories into something new runs through everything she’s shared about this relationship.
How They Met
Seymour and Zambetti started dating in 2023, and the connection didn’t come from a dating app or a chance run-in on set. Their kids introduced them. Since then, the couple has built the kind of relationship Seymour describes as full of laughter and genuine support, the sort of partnership she says she’s grateful to have found later in life rather than earlier.
There’s something Seymour keeps coming back to in interviews: finding this at 75 means she and John aren’t rushing anything. No waiting around for some future version of the relationship. They’re just living it, month by month, which is exactly why the monthly celebrations matter more to her than a single anniversary date ever could.
The Ring: A Vintage Toi et Moi Design
Part of what’s gotten people talking is the ring itself. It’s a vintage toi et moi design, French for “you and me,” and instead of a single center stone, it features two diamonds set side by side. The style dates back centuries, most famously worn by Josephine when Napoleon proposed to her, but for Seymour and Zambetti it carries a much more personal meaning: two separate lives, each with their own past, coming together as one.
Zambetti has talked about what drew him to the design. He liked that it wasn’t a solitaire, that the two stones sat with a small pave path leading up to each one, representing both of them and everything that brought them to this point.
The Proposal Didn’t Go as Planned, and That’s the Best Part
John proposed at their home in Malibu, and if you’re picturing a flawless, movie-ready moment, that’s not quite what happened. In the middle of getting down on one knee, the ring slipped out of its box and rolled under the bed. He ended up stuck trying to retrieve it, and the two of them were laughing too hard to worry about keeping the moment picture-perfect. It’s become one of those stories they tell now, not despite the mishap but because of it.
A Fresh Start, Not a Consolation Prize
What comes through most in how Seymour talks about this chapter is that she doesn’t treat it as some kind of late-in-life bonus round. She talks about it as real, full love, arriving at 75 the same way it might at 25, just with more perspective on how rare it is to find someone who fits this well. The small stuff, the roses, the monthly check-ins on how far they’ve come, matters to her precisely because she knows not to take any of it for granted.