Caroline Flack opens up about how she met fiance Andrew Brady - with an Instagram follow

The pair announced their engagement earlier this year
Engaged: Caroline Flack is set to marry Andrew Brady
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Natasha Sporn2 July 2018
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Caroline Flack has opened up about how she met her fiancé Andrew Brady, saying she followed him on Instagram after spotting him on the TV.

Love Island presenter Flack got engaged to Brady after just three months of dating, saying he left her “feeling like she had known him forever”.

In an open-letter to Brady in this month’s Cosmopolitan, Flack recounted her first moments with the reality TV star, telling the magazine that it all started on social media.

She wrote: “I saw you on TV before we’d even met. ‘WHO is that guy?’ I texted my friend. ‘Oh, some man who was on The Apprentice, I think,’ she replied.

Open letter: Read the full open-letter in the new Cosmopolitan
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“I followed you on Instagram and you followed me back with the simple, emotionless line: ‘Thanks for the support.’ (I now know, of course, it took you hours to come up with that!).

“It made me laugh so I gave you my number. A few days later, we met.”

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Flack, 38, then described their “effortless” first date, saying that there weren’t any nerves on her part, adding that her beau turned up at her house two days later with a Harrods teddy bear.

She continued: “We laugh until we cry. I’ve never had that before – with anyone.

“Every other relationship I’ve had has only been about love, but with you it’s about friendship, too. It’s what I’ve been looking for. “

“My life was complete before you came into it – a man doesn’t complete your life. But I wanted to make room in it for you.

“I look at you and I think, ‘Yes, Andrew, you’re the one I’ve been waiting for’.”

Flack and Brady announced their engagement in May. Flack posted a picture of herself flashing her new ring alongside the caption: “He’s put it on my finger and it won’t come off… so I’ve said yes #chooselove.”

The TV star said she had no idea Brady was planning on popping the question, but said she knew he was ‘the one’ as things “felt different”.

“From the very first date with Andrew I felt as though I’d known him for years,” she told YOU magazine. “I’ve never had that feeling before.”

Read the full letter in the August issue of Cosmopolitan – on sale Wednesday 4th July.

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