Holly Valance engaged to billionaire Nick Candy
Australian singer/actress Holly Valance is ecstatic after her billionaire boyfriend Nick Candy asked her to marry him.
The property tycoon, 38, got down on one knee on a beach within the Maldives with the words ‘Will you marry me’ written in fire.
He had whisked her away to the Indian ocean island on Wednesday for a Christmas break, following the finale of Strictly Come Dancing last weekend.
Loved up: Holly Valance and Nick Candy, pictured on the Strictly Come Dancing party last Friday, are engaged
Uploading a photograph of the intimate moment
on her Twitter page, an excited Valance, 28, wrote: ‘And I said YES!!! ♥
Happiest day of my life!!!!! Xxxx.’
A close friend revealed: ‘They’re a really lovely couple and are so happy together. We couldn’t be happier for them.’
Among those to congratulate the couple was Valance’s presenter friend Lisa Snowdon, who tweeted: ‘Congratulations!’
Rather tellingly, in an interview published just days ago, Candy was rather coy when it came to marriage.
Romantic: The billionaire got down on one knee at the beach at the couple’s Christmas holiday
When asked about marrying Valance, he told Today Online: ‘I always get asked that. No comment.’
The couple started dating in late 2009 after meeting at a mutual friend’s banquet.
Recalling their meeting in an interview last year, she said: ‘I didn’t know anything about him. I just
thought “Cor, if I didn’t fancy you rather a lot, we’d be the handiest of
friends. Instead, I just intend to make out with you on a regular basis.”‘
They soon moved in together last year and became regulars at the London society scene.
During Valance’s recent appearance on
Strictly Come Dancing, supportive Candy was often seen on screen
cheering her on from the audience.
Big announcement: Valance revealed her engagement on her Twitter page
Last year, Valance admitted being in love with a billionaire sometimes irked her friends.
She said: ‘I’ve got this type of disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face at all times that my friends just desire to slap me. I’ve never been so happy…
‘I am a spoilt brat. My friends and my sister say: “I hate you!” after I show them what he’s bought me.’
The couple’s Christmas holiday comes once they spent last weekend in Blackpool for the Strictly Come Dancing final.
However, while the vast majority of the forged and crew went as much as Blackpool in a coach, Candy took Valance and her fellow competitor Nancy Dell’Olio up north in his private jet.
Dancing queen: Valance and Artem Chigvintsev ended up in fourth place on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing
Melbourne-raised Valance leaped to fame in 1999 when she was cast as Felicity ‘Flick’ Scully in Australian soap Neighbours.
In 2002, she quit the Aussie soap to maneuver to London, where she signed a record take care of London Records.
She released four singles over a 12
month period and scored a leading hit along with her debut Kiss Kiss, a
cover of a Turkish pop song.
After poor sales of her second album
Mind set, Holly parted ways with London Records and returned to
acting, taking roles in DOA: Dead or Alive, National Lampoon’s Pledge
This! and Miss Marple.
Prior to dating Candy, she also romanced Hawaii 5-0 actor Alex O’Loughlin and Peter Veveris.
Family ties: Holly and Nick together with his brother Christian and his wife Emily on the opening of 1 Hyde Park earlier this year
Meanwhile, Mr Candy together with his
brother Christian and their firm Candy & Candy has become one in every of
Britain’s most successful luxury property developers.
Astonishingly, he and Christian turned a £6,000 loan from their grandmother in 1995 right into a £9billion global property portfolio.
Their most famed development is the
One Hyde Park: The Residences which link to the Mandarin Oriental hotel
in Knightsbridge, South West London. This development boasts the
country’s most costly apartment, the penthouse which sold for
£136million earlier this year.
In September, Mr Candy who has
opulent homes in London and Monaco in addition to a non-public plane and a
£50million super-yacht – was named entrepreneur of the year by GQ
magazine.
Double life: a tender Valance in her soap star days with Neighbours co-star Carla Bonner (left) and performing her debut single Kiss Kiss in London in 2002 (right)
