Hollyoaks actress Jessica Fox has announced she's engaged to her long-term boyfriend Nicholas Willes - and has showed the first picture of her beautiful ring.
The 36-year-old soap star revealed the happy news on Instagram , telling fans: "Be with someone you can be completely yourself with.
"Someone who makes you want to be better, kinder, eat more fruit and veg. So of course I said 'yes'," she added, alongside a ring emoji.
She flashed her unusually shaped ring in a series of pictures, with the delicate gold band featuring an enormous diamond and two other pretty coloured stones.
Jessica, who plays Nancy Hayton in the Channel 4 soap, was inundated with messages of congratulations from her co-stars.
Stephanie Davis commented underneath: "So happy for you!!! Xxxx."
Chelsee Healey added: "Oh my god congratulations so so happy for you."
And Nathalie Emmanuel wrote: "Aww congratulations."
Jessica and musician Nicolas have been together for years, with Jessica becoming his rock when he lost two close friends in recent months.
Nicolas also made a sweet engagement announcement on his own Instagram, thanking his new fiancee for "repairing the hole".
"Funny thing, life. beautiful, brutal and colourful. and sometimes a little too shiney, especially on the internet," he wrote in the raw post.
"In honesty, i’m still struggling to come to terms with what’s happened in my life over the last year and a bit, and that it’s a real thing. grieving for two best friends has certainly brought a lot of tears, anger, confusion and what i thought was an irreparable hole in my heart. i don’t think it will ever not hurt, but you learn to manage the pain.
"Anyway, my point being, back in april I wrote on here the absolute necessity to live a bit harder and love a bit stronger, at all costs. don’t wait. and i’ve been working on practicing what i preach. for the simple reason that, life is very, very f**king precious.
"This one is repairing the hole so it’s back to it’s fullest, rocking my world whilst downright making me laugh all at the same time so f**k it, here’s me being shiney. on the internet. but mostly in real life, with somebody i love. did a thing," he added.
Congratulations, Jessica and Nicolas!
