Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Are Engaged!

Everyone is all breathlessly atwitter with the following news, via Us Magazine:

Nicole Richie and her Good Charlotte rocker boyfriend, Joel Madden, are getting married.

Richie, 28, made the announcement Monday on The Late Show with David Letterman.

"Yep. i'm engaged. Very happy," wrote Madden, 30, on Twitter Monday.

A source tells UsMagazine.com, "Nicole and Joel are in the process of planning the wedding. She's very involved in every detail. She’s thrilled."

The couple is expected to tie the knot in the summer.

And in other news, who really gives a rat's ass? Because:

Richie and Madden started dating in December 2006 and have two children together: Harlow, 2, and Sparrow, 5 months.

Ass backwards. That's fine that they've finally decided to get married, but do we have to pretend like she's some virginal bride, awaiting her Big Day and her Dream Wedding because it's What She's Always Wanted and Dreamed About Since She Was a Little Girl? (pause for music swell). This is like getting excited and throwing all kinds of showers for a third marriage. Or in the very apt words of Larry the Cable Guy, "it's like wiping before you poop. It just don't make no sense."

And what was she doing onLetterman? What the hell has she ever done besides be Lionel Ritchie's no-talent daughter and hang around with a skanky heiress?

Hollywood really pisses me off sometimes. And so do the stupid girl magazines who love to get all excited about absolutely frigging nothing.

Get a life, people. Really.