HELLO! magazine 1746

As two professional dancers, Amy Dowden and Ben Jones’s love story has played out on the dancefloor – their paths first crossed as each other’s dance partners and they got engaged mid-rumba on New Year’s Eve. But their most special dance yet took place when Strictly Come Dancing star Amy and her new husband shared their first as a married couple. And HELLO! was delighted to be there to join them – and a host of Strictly stars – as the happy couple said “I do” in a romantic celebration in the serene surroundings of Amy’s native Wales. “It was a day I’d dreamt of since I was a little girl and, well, it was even more than that,” Amy, 31, tells us in our exclusive interview. “Everything was perfect – from…

A picture-perfect riverside location, romance in the air and a spectacular diamond ring. It’s much like the setting for one of Carol Kirkwood’s novels when we meet the newly engaged BBC Breakfast weather presenter, who appears to have arranged glorious sunshine for our exclusive photoshoot to celebrate the publication of her latest book, The Hotel on the Riviera. “It is surreal,” she tells us of adding “author” to her already impressive CV. “To go into a shop and see your book with your name on it, thinking: ‘Wow, that’s me.’ But, of course, I don’t want to be caught staring at my own book, with people thinking: ‘Check her out!’” she says, laughing. A beautiful heiress, a neglected hotel in Cannes and a rare pink diamond ring are central to her latest tale…

With a beaming smile, Princess Iman of Jordan, the elder daughter of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, announces her engagement to New York financier Jameel Alexander Thermiotis. And as the royal palace shared these exclusive photos of Iman and Jameel with hello!, it was the Princess’s delighted mum who led the congratulations. “Congratulations my dearest Iman,” Rania wrote on Instagram, sharing an image of Iman and Jameel. “Your smile has always been a gift of love that I’ve cherished since the day you were born. “I wish you and Jameel a life filled with love and laughter! “ Indeed the joy on Iman’s face in our exclusive pictures show her already looking the part of a Princess bride, dressed in a flowing white outfit with an embellished collar, her diamond solitaire engagement ring…

In the fairytale setting of a French chateau, The Great British Bake Off star Manon Lagrève said “I do” to Luke Bennett in a romantic ceremony watched by family and friends. “I kept thinking it was a dream, and needed to remind myself that this was our wedding,” she tells HELLO!, still on a high after the nuptials in her home town of Louvigné-du-Désert in Brittany. “We celebrated our union in the church where my parents got married and where I was baptised. It was very special.” The reception was at nearby Château de la Vieuville, a 19th-century mansion brimming with antique sofas and tapestries, with every ingredient to make it a recipe for success. Manon, who found fame when she reached the quarter-finals of Channel 4’s GBBO in 2018, was driven by…

Shayne Ward and Sophie Austin’s journey to parenthood second time around has been full of surprises. The couple were shocked to discover they had fallen pregnant naturally after undergoing IVF. They were also unaware that their new baby would weigh more than 10lb at birth. But surely the biggest surprise of them all was that the little girl the former The X Factor winner and his fiancée thought they were expecting turned out to be… a little boy. However, as the couple tell HELLO! in this exclusive interview and photoshoot, they are just going with the flow – and are blissfully happy that their new son, who we can exclusively reveal is called Reign, has slotted in so beautifully with their five-year-old daughter Willow. “I can’t believe we have got one of…

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