{"id":320068,"date":"2025-12-01T06:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320068\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:52:13","slug":"sharks-star-nicho-hynes-confirms-engagement-to-piper-wallis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320068\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks star Nicho Hynes confirms engagement to Piper Wallis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star NRL player Nicho Hynes proposed to his girlfriend, Piper Wallis over the weekend while cruising around Sydney Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to social media to share their news, they posted footage of the special moment.<\/p>\n<p>Hynes popped the question on-board a superyacht, which passed by the Opera House and Harbour Bridge as he got down on one knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUs, forever\u201d they captioned the shared Instagram video alongside the date \u2013 29.11.25.<\/p>\n<p>It had Days Like These by Luke Combs playing over the top.<\/p>\n<p>Both wore white, and embraced as Wallis accepted her ring.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were thrilled for the couple, sharing their love in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo beautiful! Congratulations,\u201d wrote former Bachelorette star Brooke Blurton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongrats guys!\u201d shared Jayden Brailey, a fellow NRL player for the Newcastle Knights.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/entertainment\/nicho-hynes-proposes-to-girlfriend-piper-wallis-on-a-boat-on-sydney-harbour\/news-story\/16fc9341f6996ec66c44f087ac3b81aa\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"16fc9341f6996ec66c44f087ac3b81aa\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, the couple went public with their relationship at last year\u2019s Dally M Awards, where they walked the carpet together.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours were already swirling though, with Wallis having been spotted with Hynes\u2019 mother, Julie, at a few Sharks games.<\/p>\n<p>The social media manager is five years younger than Hynes, who has previously dated both Marlee Silva and Morgan Belier.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their low-key romance, Wallis did take to social media to celebrate their one-year anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Her following post featured pictures of the pair holding a baby together, leading a few fans to comment their confusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did you hide a whole pregnancy?\u201d one inquired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, a baby suits you guys\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Nicho Hynes currently plays for the Cronulla Sharks as a halfback.<\/p>\n<p>He was initially signed to the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles NRL Under-20s team in 2015, and spent two seasons with the Mackay Cutters.<\/p>\n<p>He signed with the Melbourne Storm in 2019, and would go on to be named on the bench in the 2020 NRL Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p>This made him the first player in the NRL to be chosen in a grand final but go on to not play a single minute.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the Sharks ahead of 2022, going on to win the Dally M Medal for Player of the Year the same year. <\/p>\n<p>As for this year, Hynes and the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/not-good-enough-brutal-nicho-hynes-admission-as-sharks-rue-crucial-errors\/news-story\/ebf0cd648a737d80d87a8beb7f17c1d8\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"ebf0cd648a737d80d87a8beb7f17c1d8\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharks made the preliminary finals<\/a> but were defeated by the Melbourne Storm 22-14. <\/p>\n<p>Hynes is committed to the Sharks until 2029, and has currently played 91 games with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/sharks-superstar-nicho-hynes-stunning-superyacht-move\/news-story\/bb69bac57ec67874e4c1ab20a9b60b97\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharks superstar Nicho Hynes stunning superyacht move<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star NRL player Nicho Hynes proposed to his girlfriend, Piper Wallis over the weekend while cruising around Sydney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-320068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}