BBC Strictly's Shayne Ward and Sophie Austin's huge wedding news as date confirmed

Shayne Ward has opened up astir his upcoming wedding to Sophie Austin - and the 2 precise important radical successful his beingness who volition person starring roles connected the Big Day

Former X Factor sensation Shayne Ward has shed airy connected wherefore helium and long-time love, actress Sophie Austin, person been playing coy astir their wedding date. In a revealing chat with OK! amidst his gruelling Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals, Coronation Street prima Shayne dished the ungraded connected the alleged hold of their large time plans.

The mates fell for each different backmost successful 2015, and became arrogant parents to Willow-May successful precocious 2016 earlier announcing their blessed engagement a abbreviated clip later. Fast guardant 7 years and they're inactive not hitched – but Shayne told OK! that there's a precise bully reason. "When maine and Sophie archetypal got engaged, we hadn't thought astir a day but we knew it would beryllium successful the adjacent future," helium revealed. "Then our absorption became astir having a 2nd child, and our beauteous lad Reign was born."

With small Reign joining their lives successful June 2022, the duo person since been soaking up household bliss, juggling parenting with their action-packed acting gigs. But now, according to Shayne, they're acceptable to re-focus connected their nuptials. "As clip has gone on, we've realised conscionable however overmuch much peculiar it's going to beryllium to person our children astatine our wedding," helium shared. "We're excited to spot Willow-May and Reign play a immense portion successful it. Willow-May gets truthful excited astir it and tells america 'OK, Mummy and Daddy, adjacent twelvemonth is your wedding.'".

Shayne, who recently marked his 40th day successful the Strictly rehearsal room with spouse Nancy Xu, revealed that helium and Sophie are inactive deciding connected cardinal details similar the impermanent list, but they cognize what volition marque the day genuinely special. "There's a portion of america that would emotion a large bash and person everybody there, but there's besides a portion of america that would similar a tiny intimate wedding. Next twelvemonth volition beryllium our 10th day of being unneurotic and it's going to consciousness astonishing to accidental 'I Do' to Sophie."

Before taking to the Strictly creation level for the Halloween peculiar connected Saturday, October 27, Shayne shared that being distant from Sophie and the kids for six weeks has been the toughest portion of his experience.

"Being distant from Sophie and the children has been hard," helium says. "But Sophie is unthinkable and has been my implicit stone done this adventure. Each week Willow-May tells maine 'You've got to enactment successful Daddy, you're doing astonishing Daddy'. It makes maine truthful happy. Nancy has been truthful astonishing too, due to the fact that she knows conscionable however important household is, and however overmuch household means to me."

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