Lucy Spraggan is engaged to her buddy of ten years, Emilia Smith. (Instagram/@LSpraggan)
The X Issue star Lucy Spraggan has introduced her engagement to buddy Emilia Smith, and revealed that music boss Simon Cowell has promised to stroll her down the aisle.
“Tea and Toast” singer Spraggan, 32, first steered getting engaged to her buddy of ten years, photographer Emilia Smith, in January – only one month after the pair made their relationship official.
Talking to The Solar’s Fabulous Journal, Spraggan revealed that the pair agreed to marry whereas on a flight to Barbados, the place they have been set to vacation with former The X Issue decide Simon Cowell and his fiancé, Lauren Silverman.
“On the airplane, I don’t even know who stated what, however I used to be like: ‘Let’s simply get married!’ Each of us have been like: ‘Yeah!’ It simply made a great deal of sense”, she stated.
Spraggan met Smith again in 2013 by way of mutual buddies, however Smith initially thought the singer-songwriter was “loud and obnoxious” – till Spraggan received sober in 2019, and so they grew nearer.
“Emilia and I have been these buddies who stated: ‘If we’re not married by the point we’re 40, we’ll get married to one another,’ and by some means, this deep friendship opened up into attraction,” Spraggan instructed the journal.
In March, the couple made their engagement official throughout a household video games evening.
“All of us put ‘Who Am I?’ stickers on our foreheads and Emilia’s learn: ’Will you marry me?’ When she lastly guessed, I requested her to be my spouse. There have been tears all spherical,” she shared.
The pair are on account of marry this June. It will likely be Spraggan’s second time down the aisle, following her separation from ex-wife Georgina Gordon in 2019, after three years of marriage.
This time, it will likely be Cowell strolling Spraggan to the alter, after the singer requested the document label govt to provide her away whereas they have been swimming within the sea whereas on their latest vacation.
“We’d been staying at Simon and Lauren’s home for just a few days. One morning, Simon was about to get within the sea and I stated: ‘Will you give me away?’ and he replied: ‘Yeah!’ He went off for a swim and when he got here again, he stated: ‘I’d completely like to. It will be an honour,’” Spraggan stated.
Spraggan, whose memoir Course of was launched final yr, disclosed that her friendship with Cowell has gone from energy to energy in recent times.
Final yr, Lucy Spraggan revealed that Cowell had apologised for the way in which his present The X Issue dealt with Spraggan being sexually assaulted whereas she was a contestant on it, again in 2012.
Spraggan was assaulted by a lodge porter following an evening out for fellow contestant Rylan Clark’s twenty fourth birthday, and left the competition two weeks later. She has beforehand defined that she felt let down by the way in which ITV dealt with the aftermath of the assault.
“[Cowell’s] apology healed part of my being that I didn’t know wanted therapeutic,” Lucy has now defined.
“After we first made contact, I didn’t assume for one second that every one this could blossom into friendship… We ended up speaking about life, then he’d name to say: ‘I simply needed to test in on you.’”
In an emotional Instagram put up following the information of her engagement, Spraggan thanked Smith for being along with her on her “darkest days”.
“Each single a part of life has needed to occur as a way to be standing proper beside you now and I actually wouldn’t stay another form of various even when I may,” she wrote.
“You have been the prize. All of the exhausting work and all of the survival received us each to the place we have been purported to be: thriving beside one another.”