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<\/p>\nTelevision personality Sophie Sandiford has revealed her engagement to partner Ben Mckeown through a social media announcement on Friday evening. <\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Channel 4 star shared the news with her 577,000 Instagram followers, posting photographs from what appears to have been the proposal setting.<\/p>\n
The couple, who have been together for three years, celebrated at the Galgorm Resort in Northern Ireland. <\/p>\n
The luxury spa location holds significance as Mckeown’s home region, suggesting this may have been where he chose to propose.<\/p>\n
Sophie Sandiford announced her engagement<\/p>\n
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Sandiford posted “WE’RE ENGAGED” alongside heart and ring emojis, accompanying images that showed the pair in coordinating dressing gowns at the upscale venue. <\/p>\n
The announcement quickly garnered attention from followers and fellow television personalities alike.<\/p>\n
The newly engaged television personality displayed her engagement ring in the photographs, featuring a sapphire stone set in silver and encircled by diamonds. <\/p>\n
Images from the celebration showed engagement balloons decorating the space where the couple toasted with champagne.<\/p>\n
The Instagram post captured moments from their stay at the Northern Irish resort, with both Sandiford and Mckeown appearing in the shared photographs. <\/p>\n
The couple marked the occasion with glasses of champagne, as shown in the social media images.<\/p>\n
Sandiford’s ring choice features a central sapphire gemstone, complemented by a diamond surround on what appears to be a silver band. The celebration photographs included decorative balloons specifically marking the engagement milestone.<\/p>\n
Well-known figures from television quickly responded to the engagement announcement with congratulatory messages. <\/p>\n
Paul Chuckle, the 78-year-old children’s television presenter who is Sandiford’s great uncle, was among the first to react with enthusiastic emojis on the post.<\/p>\n
Sandiford’s Gogglebox colleagues Jenny and Lee wrote: “Congratulations to you both much love to ya Jenny and Lee x”. <\/p>\n
Her brother Peter’s wife Paige expressed her joy, commenting: “The best news!!! So happy for you both”.<\/p>\n
The announcement attracted responses from personalities beyond the Channel 4 programme. <\/p>\n
Amy Childs from TOWIE commented: “So happy for you”, whilst Emmerdale actress Michelle Hardwick added: “Yessssssss! Congratulations to you both”.<\/p>\n
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Sohpie and her brother Pete have starred in Gogglebox since 2017<\/p>\n
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Former Emmerdale performer Natalie Ann Jamieson also shared her excitement, writing: “Ahhhh congrats gorgeous girl!”<\/p>\n
Sandiford has appeared on the Channel 4 programme alongside her brother Pete since joining the cast in 2017. <\/p>\n
The siblings have become regular fixtures on the reality series, which features families and friends commenting on television programmes from their homes.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old has built a substantial social media presence during her time on the show, amassing 577,000 followers on Instagram. <\/p>\n
Her engagement announcement represents a significant personal milestone for the television personality, who has spent nearly eight years as part of the programme’s ensemble cast.<\/p>\n
The Sandiford siblings have established themselves as fan favourites on the long-running series, which continues to be a staple of Channel 4’s programming schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Television personality Sophie Sandiford has revealed her engagement to partner Ben Mckeown through a social media announcement on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,921,1795,93,61,60,40822],"class_list":["post-102968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-channel-4","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sgg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}