RYAN THOMAS AND THOMAS AND RYAN THE VERSION OF THIS EDITION WAS CURRENT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS – OTHER LUCY MECKLENBURGH VERSIONS OF THIS ISSUE MAY BE DISTRIBUTED, THE CONTENTS OF WHICH MAY VARY FIRST FORCELEBRITY NEWS FROM THE CONTENTS OF THIS MAGAZINE ISSUE 1196 1196 ISSUE Export £2.60/€4.90 t Esp/Por €3.80 t Italy €4.80 t Auz $7.99 inc GSTt CDN $7.99 ‘Lucy kept me waiting mewaiting kept ‘Lucy t ROI €3.19 t NL €4.75 before she said yes... FR €3.80 Aus €6.10 t t up!’ shethrew then t Malta €4.25 t Ger €5.30 VERNON KAY & KAY VERNON TESS DALY TESS RAISING THEIR RAISING THEIR ● MARRIAGE TO JULY 30 2019 30 JULY STRICTLY’S DAUGHTERS ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT ON HER EXCLUSIVE ● £2.20 WEEKLY EXCLUSIVE GEORGE GEORGE PRINCE TURNS TURNS BEAUTIFUL PICTURES INSIDE SIX! ISSUE CONTENTS JULY NEWSANDINTERVIEWS Former Coronation Street star RYAN THOMAS and his fiancée LUCY MECKLENBURGH tell OK! all about his romantic proposal in our exclusive photoshoot THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX rub shoulders with BEYONCE and JAY Z at The Lion King premiere KYM MARSH’s OK! column ROBBIE WILLIAMS and AYDA FIELD lead the way at the ITV summer party ALESHA DIXON celebrates her growing bump with two beautiful photographs MIA TINDALL larks about on the golf course! MEL B and GERI HORNER enjoy the British Grand Prix as LEWIS HAMILTON roars to victory TESS DALY opens up to OK! about marriage, children and Strictly LOVE MATTERS Plus GORKA MARQUEZ and GEMMA ATKINSON introduce baby Mia Newlyweds SOPHIE TURNER and JOE JONAS honeymoon in the Maldives and Italy THE DUCHESSES OF CAMBRIDGE AND SUSSEX enjoy the tennis THISWEEK’SCOVERSTARSOVERST at Wimbledon Adorable PRINCE GEORGE turns six NAOMIWATTStalks about her new series We get the lowdown on Love Island’s AMBER GILL from her friend CURTIS PRITCHARD’s pal tells us what she really thinks of Amy and Maura BRIT CROWD All the UK showbiz news Coronation Street star MIKEY NORTH and his wife Rachael reveal they’re having a baby girl KATIE PIPER on juggling work and motherhood EMILY ANDRE’s OK! column OK! joins newlyweds CARA DE LA HOYDE- MASSEY and NATHAN MASSEY on honeymoon HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL OK! PARTIES The week’s big events OK! ICONS Margot Robbie ew couples can Northh andd hishi wifeif RRachael.h l TTwo years afterf FASHIONISTA say they met in welcoming their son Archie, the couple more unusual exclusively reveal they’re expecting a FASHION Bright looks for summer days surroundings than baby girl. We spent the day being schooled STEAL THE STARS’ STYLE FRyan Thomas and Lucy in different types of dinosaurs by energetic FASHION SPY Rosie’s stylish week Mecklenburgh. And two Archie, and hearing all about their lovely BEAUTY EDIT Fake it till you make it years after falling in love pregnancy news and Mikey’s killer BEAUTY BUZZ Combat pollution on a desert island while Corrie storylines. filming Celebrity Island And as we prepare for Love Island to With Bear Grylls, the couple are preparing reach its dramatic conclusion next week LIFESTYLEANDCHAT to tie the knot! (sob!), we join former winners Cara De La Following their gorgeous Italian Hoyde-Massey and Nathan OK! HEALTH Personal trainer Mandy Platt engagement last month, the ecstatic pair Massey on their Greek OK! TRAVEL Majorca exclusively lift the lid on their wedding honeymoon. Elsewhere, we HOTSPOT Carbis Bay Estate plans and Ryan reveals why falling in love celebrate Prince George’s STARS What lies ahead this week OK! RECIPES with Lucy made him want to shake off his sixth birthday – join us ROWAN ERLAM Nadiya Hussain Peter Pan reputation and settle down. as we look back at the OK! ACTING EDITOR JAKEGYLLENHAALtalks Spider-Man Another couple with plenty of reason prince over the years ROWANERLAM OK! REVIEWS The hottest new releases to celebrate is Coronation Street’s Mikey on page 42. rowanerlam VINTAGE OK! Emma and Matt Willis tie the knot VISITOURWEBSITEWWWOKCOUK /OKMAGAZINEUK @OK_MAGAZINE @OK_MAG AFP PHOTO/DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE/MATT PORTEOUS, CRAIG FLEMMING, ITV, SHUTTERSTOCK, VANTAGE, WIRE IMAGE SHUTTERSTOCK, VANTAGE, PORTEOUS, CRAIG FLEMMING, ITV, AFP PHOTO/DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE/MATT WWW.OK.CO.UK 3 SHARINGTHEIRSPECIALMOMENTWITHOK! ‘ISAIDYES ANDTHENWE BOTHSTARTED CRYING!’ RYANTHOMASRYAN THOMASANDAND LUCYMECKLENBURGHLUCY MECKLENBURGHTELLTELL OK!’SLAURAHILLSABOUTHISROMANTICITALIAN PROPOSALTHEIRDREAMOFABIGWEDDING ANDTHEIRPLANSFORCHILDREN 4 HIRT BY NEW LOOK; AND SHOES REMUS UOMO Ryan says he’s finally ready to settle down with Lucy LUCY WEARS DRESS BY ZEYNEP KARTAL; SHOES BY PRETTY LITTLE THING; AND EARRINGS BY LARA HEEMS. RYAN WEARS SUIT BY RIVER ISLAND; S SHOES BY PRETTY LITTLE THING; AND EARRINGS LARA HEEMS. RYAN LUCY WEARS DRESS BY ZEYNEP KARTAL; WWW.OK.CO.UK 5 6 Ryan (left) proposed to Lucy with a gorgeous yellow diamond (below right) on Italy’s Amalfi Coast (below left) NGS BY NEW LOOK hen OK! arrives at our Despite exclusive shoot, a smitten their families Ryan Thomas can be heard being calling out to his new overjoyed Wfiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh: ‘You look for them, the beautiful, my gorgeous wife-to-be,’ couple reveal while she flashes her yellow diamond that Ryan’s engagement ring for the camera. brothers Ryan got down on one knee during – former a trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast last month, Emmerdale Scarlett,Scarllett ten te – is finally ready to just two years after they met on Celebrity star Adam and former Love Island settle down… Island With Bear Grylls. And as he proudly contestant Scott – were ‘surprised’ he admires the TV star, it’s clear he can’t wait was finally ready to settle down! ‘They Congratulations! Lucy, your to make her Mrs Thomas. see me as the Peter Pan of the family, engagement ring is gorgeous… ‘She kept me waiting for ages before I’m the big kid who never wants to grow It’s perfect. I’d given him a few hints she said yes,’ the former Coronation up,’ laughs Ryan, 35. about what I liked! Ryan knew I loved Street actor reveals of the moment he As they excitedly show OK! a video yellow diamonds and knows I only wear popped the question during a private of the moment Ryan proposed, Lucy, 27, gold jewellery so would always want a meal at the five-star Villa TreVille reveals: ‘I am very work orientated and gold band. hotel in Positano. He adds: ‘I kept can be quite rigid but Ryan makes me Ryan: Awkwardly, a few hours before I having to repeat the question as she more spontaneous. There’s never a dull proposed, she told me she’d changed wasn’t answering me. She was just sat moment with him!’ her mind about what she wanted and there with her hands over her mouth Here, the couple fill us in on their now wanted a single diamond. A friend squealing: “Oh my God. You’re kidding plans for a ‘big’ wedding, starting a of mine runs a company called Bijoux me? Oh my God.”’ family and why Ryan – who is dad to Jewellery so he helped me design it. RYAN WEARS SUIT AND T-SHIRT BY RIVER ISLAND. LUCY WEARS PLAYSUIT BY ALICE MCCALL AT OXYGEN BOUTIQUE; SHOES BY OFFICE; AND EARRI BY ALICE MCCALL AT BY RIVER ISLAND. LUCY WEARS PLAYSUIT WEARS SUIT AND T-SHIRT RYAN WWW.OK.CO.UK 7 ‘ALLMY FRIENDS ANDFAMILY KNOWHOW GOODLUCY ISFORME’ Above and right: ‘We want to enjoy the engagement; we’re not in a massive rush,’ Ryan says of tying the knot The main stone is a yellow diamond and I got our propose. We got talking to the owner and when birthstones put on the inside of the band. Lucy wasn’t around I told him I’d like to propose there that night and he agreed to help. How long had you been planning to propose? Ryan: I only decided a few months ago when I It sounds very last minute! booked our trip to Italy. Lucy’s like my personal It was! He set up a gorgeous private table in assistant most of the time, she plans everything, the hotel’s garden that overlooked the sea and but she left this trip up to me. I got a travel organised a chef for us and scattered petals company to help with the itinerary and when everywhere. I still got the Italian singers to I realised how many romantic places we were serenade us before we went out, though. visiting I realised there would be no better time to propose. Did you have any clue that he was going to propose, Lucy? Did you have the whole proposal planned out I had an inkling as he told me to wear my best before you arrived, Ryan? dress and get a blow dry, which is out of character I originally planned to do it at the hotel we were for him. He managed to throw me off the scent. staying at in Positano. I had booked two Italian While we were listening to the singers, he said: singers who were going to perform on our balcony ‘This is so romantic, I should have proposed here.’ while I proposed, but at the last minute I changed He also got down on one knee and pretended to my mind. propose earlier in the day as a joke. Ryan: Over the last few years I’ve lost count of the What happened? amount of times we’ve been in a romantic setting Earlier in the day we stopped for lunch at a five- and I’ve got down on one knee.