Melissa Gilbert is Engaged to Timothy Busfield

Former child star (Little House on the Prairie) and Dancing with the Stars contestant Melissa Gilbert, 48, is engaged to be married!

Her husband to be in actor Timothy Busfield, 55 (below). The couple have known each other for “decades” but have only been together romantically a short time. You probably know Timothy from Thirtysomething or West Wing. He’s the guys whose face you know, but whose name you can never remember.

Melissa divorced her former husband of 16-years, Bruce Boxleitner, just last year.