It appears that Stacy Keibler has become the latest in a long line of Hollywood beauties who have found themselves dumped by George Clooney. Making matters worse is that her reported ousting came just as she thought she was about to receive a proposal from the notoriously commitment-phobic 51-year-old, despite his insistence he would never get married again.

Their alleged break-up, which would be officially “announced any day”, according to the UK’s The Sun newspaper, came just weeks after the impossibly attractive pair spent a month at George’s idyllic Lake Como villa in Italy. In a surprise move, George also invited his parents Nick and Nina to meet his leggy lady – no doubt prompting Stacy, 32, to see a diamond sparkler in the not-too-distant future. What happened next left Stacy humiliated.

“George gave her a jewellery box with a gold ring inside – and when she opened it she could not believe her eyes,” a source close to Stacy tells Woman’s Day. “She was crying and just saying ‘Yes, yes, yes!’ over and over again. But then George said, ‘What do you mean? I’m not proposing. This is a present. I bought it for you because I thought you’d like it.’”

Rubbing salt into the wound, two days later, Stacy received a big offer to return to the US version of Dancing With The Stars, but she knocked it back. Those close to Stacy say a tweet she posted hours later could offer some insight. It read, “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” Our insider explains that it was clear George had put his foot down.

Read more about George and Stacy in this week's Woman’s Day on sale Monday September 17, 2012.