OK! Magazine UK – 29 July 2019

W

hen OK! arrives at our
exclusive shoot, a smitten
Ryan Thomas can be heard
calling out to his new
fiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh: ‘You look
beautiful, my gorgeous wife-to-be,’
while she flashes her yellow diamond
engagement ring for the camera.
Ryan got down on one knee during
a trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast last month,
just two years after they met on Celebrity
Island With Bear Grylls. And as he proudly
admires the TV star, it’s clear he can’t wait
to make her Mrs Thomas.
‘She kept me waiting for ages before
she said yes,’ the former Coronation
Street actor reveals of the moment he
popped the question during a private
meal at the five-star Villa TreVille
hotel in Positano. He adds: ‘I kept
having to repeat the question as she
wasn’t answering me. She was just sat
there with her hands over her mouth
squealing: “Oh my God. You’re kidding
me? Oh my God.”’

Despite

their families

being

overjoyed

for them, the

couple reveal

that Ryan’s

brothers

• former
  Emmerdale
  star Adam and former Love Island
  contestant Scott – were ‘surprised’ he
  was finally ready to settle down! ‘They
  see me as the Peter Pan of the family,
  I’m the big kid who never wants to grow
  up,’ laughs Ryan, 35.
  As they excitedly show OK! a video
  of the moment Ryan proposed, Lucy, 27,
  reveals: ‘I am very work orientated and
  can be quite rigid but Ryan makes me
  more spontaneous. There’s never a dull
  moment with him!’
  Here, the couple fill us in on their
  plans for a ‘big’ wedding, starting a
  family and why Ryan – who is dad to

Scarlett, ten – is finally ready to

settle down...

Congratulations! Lucy, your

engagement ring is gorgeous...

It’s perfect. I’d given him a few hints

about what I liked! Ryan knew I loved

yellow diamonds and knows I only wear

gold jewellery so would always want a

gold band.

Ryan: Awkwardly, a few hours before I

proposed, she told me she’d changed

her mind about what she wanted and

now wanted a single diamond. A friend

of mine runs a company called Bijoux

Jewellery so he helped me design it.

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Ryan (left) proposed to

Lucy with a gorgeous

yellow diamond (below

right) on Italy’s Amalfi

Coast (below left)

Scarllett te

RYAN WEARS SUIT AND T-SHIRT BY RIVER ISLAND. LUCY WEARS PLAYSUIT BY ALICE MCCALL AT OXYGEN BOUTIQUE; SHOES BY OFFICE; AND EARRI

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