Strictly's Camilla and Hollyoaks' Kevin to wed

Strictly's Camilla and Hollyoaks' Kevin to wed
Strictly's Camilla and Hollyoaks' Kevin to wed (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Strictly Come Dancing champion Camilla Dallerup is to tie the knot with her ex-Hollyoaks star boyfriend Kevin Sacre. The pair got engaged two weeks ago on a short break in Capri, Italy, according to reports in The Sun. Danish-born Camilla, 35, is now looking forward to her dream wedding - even if the proposal was a bit of a nightmare. Kevin, 31, who played Jake Dean in the Channel 4 soap, admitted: "I fumbled around for the ring. "I tried to say something profound about there being beautiful rocks and here's another - luckily she didn't hear that." Camilla, who won Strictly last year with Holby City's Tom Chambers, laughed: "It was quite possibly one of the worst proposals - but for us it was perfect." The pair will marry in July 2010. Camilla told Hello! magazine: "I'd like a beach wedding. We go to so many elegant parties so I want to be more relaxed." Camilla split from fiance and fellow Strictly professional Brendan Cole in 2004.

Patrick McLennan

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.