Words: Steve Brown
Hollyoaks star Jimmy Essex has got engaged to his boyfriend.
Best known for playing Adam Donovan in the Channel 4 soap, the actor took to Instagram to reveal that his long-term partner Charles had got down on one knee to pop the question while they were on holiday in Sri Lanka.
Posting a photo of the diamond ring and kissing his partner, Essex simply wrote: “So ... this happened.”
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His musician fiancé also posted on his Instagram account saying: “6 years and counting... He said yes”