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X Factor's Ella Henderson and Team GB’s Jack Burnell engaged after romantic holiday

Ella Henderson and Jack Burnell are engaged!

The former X Factor contestant, 26, announced her happy news with fans this evening alongside a glimpse of her stunning diamond ring from her future husband.

"So this happened," the singer captioned a snap of her ring to her Instagram followers.

"Here’s to life with you & all it’s adventures @jackrexburnell."

Jack, who has retired from competitive swimming, popped the question to the Ghost singer during the couple's idyllic holiday to Mauritius.

Ella Henderson met her future husband thanks to a dating app (Instagram)
The singer revealed Jack Burnell had popped the question with her fans this evening (Instagram)

"CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Xxxx" Giovanna Fletcher wrote to Ella as the star shared her engagement news on Instagram this evening.

"Congrats mate," fellow X Factor alum Jake Quickenden added, as Joel Corry commented: "Woooo massive congrats to you both !!!"

The newly-engaged couple first met during lockdown, thanks to Ella joining a dating app during a period of feeling lonely while the world was shut down.

Ella and Jack didn't meet in real life at the start of their relationship (Instagram)
The pair had to get to know each other via FaceTime thanks to lockdown (Instagram)

"The reason for going on the dating app was because it was a long period of time before we could go out and socialise. I missed my friends and wanted to go to the bar, have a cocktail, chat somebody up and let them chat you up but you couldn’t have that time to do that," Ella explained to the Metro in March 2022.

The singer had just come out of a long-term relationship when she swiped right on Jack and begun their love story.

"It couldn’t have happened at a better time, him and I, because I was already winding up the album and once the initial lockdown hit in the UK, I was at a place of finalising the album," Ella admitted when discussing her relationship last year.

Ella rose to fame as a teenager when she auditioned for The X Factor in 2012 (PA)
Host Dermot O'Leary described it as 'the best ever first audition' at the time (Ken McKay/Thames/REX/Shutterstock)

The Crazy What Love Can Do singer went on to gush about her "fellow northerner" Jack and recall everything just "falling into place" when she met the retired athlete.

Ella, who was just 16-years-old when she appeared on The X Factor in 2012, has described their romance as a "lockdown success story" elsewhere and explained how she and Jack didn't "physically meet each other" for nine weeks.

"The funniest thing about our relationship is that for the first eight to nine weeks, we didn’t physically meet," Ella told OK! magazine last year. "It was all done through a phone or FaceTime. We built up a great friendship and fell in love."

The former member of the GB Olympic team gushed about Ella as he confirmed their romance in 2020 (Getty)

Jack confirmed his and Ella's romance in June 2020, when the swimmer took to Instagram to share a snap of the singer with his followers.

He captioned the picture of Ella: "Finding this one was the ultimate plot twist . . . you make me forget about yesterday and dream about tomorrow."

Ella was equally as gushing - writing: "You walked into my life like you already belonged there . . . I guess the unexpected is usually what brings the unbelievable."

The singer previously dated Matt Harvey, an engineer from her home town of Grimsby, for 18 months before they split up in 2015.

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