Home And Away's Dan Ewing gets engaged

Home And Away star Dan Ewing has announced his engagement to girlfriend Marni Little. The soap hunk - who plays River Boy Heath Braxton - proposed during a basketball match at the Sydney Entertainment Centre with the help of NBA superstar Patrick Mills. Dan told the Home And Away official website: "Basketball first brought us together, and it's huge in both our lives, so it seemed a great way to surprise Marni and make the proposal really special." Australia's New Idea magazine reports Patrick jumped over the fence into the crowd at the match and asked Marni: "Will you help this guy get married?" Dan tweeted: "It's official @marnilittle and I are engaged! Thanks to our man @Patty_Mills for the big 'assist' with the proposal. Lucky me huh!" The 26-year-old actor added: "I'm marrying a hottie who loves drinking beer and sport. Honeymoon is NBA trip!" Dan's Summer Bay character Heath has had a fling with Bianca Scott, played by Lisa Gormley, in the soap. Dan teased: "Heath and Bianca could be next..."

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.