Pixie Lott and long-term boyfriend Oliver Cheshire announce engagement

Cheshire popped the question during a romantic stroll along the Thames
Engaged: Oliver Cheshire popped the question to Pixie Lott
PixieLott/Instagram
Jennifer Ruby14 November 2016
The Weekender

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Pixie Lott and long-term boyfriend Oliver Cheshire have got engaged after six years of dating.

The British pop star and actress, 25, revealed the exciting news via her Instagram account on Sunday, admitting that it was a ‘huge surprise’.

Model Cheshire popped the question outside St Paul’s Cathedral and the couple shared pictures of themselves kissing and sharing a bottle of champagne.

Posting a close-up picture of her huge engagement ring, Lott wrote: “so happy biggest surprise ever.”

She went on to say that she had ‘cried her eyes out’, while Cheshire described himself as being a ‘lucky man’.

“What a beautiful day and the most beautiful woman in the world said yes to me on it. Lucky man,” he wrote on his Instagram account.

He also revealed that he been ‘caught in the act’ by a passing fan who had recognised the couple as he was proposing.

Speaking to Notion magazine last year, Lott said: “Honestly, people are obsessed with it! I don't know, I always get asked "when are you getting married?"

“As soon as I started going out with Oliver I was asked it, and I still get asked in it every interview.

“I don't know why that is, maybe it's just something that people want to hear about, I don't know. I think male celebrities probably don't get asked it as much.”

Lott has been starring in the West End as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s this year, which has been a departure from her pop career.

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