Carol Kirkwood has simply introduced her current engagement to her thriller accomplice.
The BBC Breakfast presenter delighted her colleagues and viewers as she confirmed she is getting married on Monday morning's instalment of the present.
After being probed by colleagues Sally Nugent and Jon Kay, Carol, 60, revealed that her accomplice popped the query throughout a current vacation.
The Scottish presenter has beforehand opened up about her new different half's romantic facet, regardless of the actual fact little is understood about who he's.
Talking with Prima Journal in June 2021, Carol mentioned her new relationship with the thriller man: "I do not need to say an excessive amount of about my boyfriend, however I'll say that he's very sort and really humorous - he is at all times making me snort.
"And very good-looking, as nicely.
"He at all times makes me a cup of tea earlier than I'm going to work within the morning, which could be very romantic - it is 2.45am and he typically leaves me just a little love observe for once I come residence from work. That, to me, is price one million crimson roses."
Carol added: "He's the most effective factor that is ever occurred to me, and not using a shadow of a doubt."
The 2 reportedly met round 2016, and regardless of by no means revealing his id or what he does for a residing, she has described him as ‘very good-looking'.
Carol has lived in Maidenhead since splitting from cricket participant Jimmy Kirkwood, who she was married to for 18 years from 1990 to 2008.
A cause for the break up has by no means been revealed publicly, however Carol has opened up about her heartbreak on previous events.
Talking to the Radio Occasions, she as soon as mentioned: "I discovered myself once I bought divorced.
"I began to do issues and to assume, 'I’m not going to say no, I’m going to say sure!' I’m braver now."
She additionally informed The Solar : "I used to be married for a very long time and I bought married fairly younger so it’s good doing issues I've the liberty to do now."
In her 2021 e book, Below The Greek Moon, Carol admitted the divorce was ‘all so surprising to me’, and she or he recalled how she’d break down in tears behind the scenes on BBC Breakfast earlier than placing on a smile for the digital camera once more.
"In a humorous means although, that helped with the therapeutic course of. I put my grief right into a compartment which I stored separate from my work, in any other case I’d have ended up in a puddle of tears. Work stored me going," she defined.
Her closest companion following the divorce was then her pet cat Donald, who the couple adopted collectively in 2000, however he sadly died in November 2020.
In an interview with the Day by day Specific, Carol beforehand concluded that Donald "dominated the roost" at residence.
"If I am late again from work, I get a proper telling off," she defined.
"He can do no incorrect. He'll sit exterior his treats cabinet, take a look at me along with his huge inexperienced eyes and I merely cannot say no."
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