EastEnders star Louisa Lytton has revealed that her American boyfriend Ben Bhanvra popped the question on their recent holiday to the Maldives.
Lytton, who plays Ruby Allen in the BBC soap, told OK! magazine she burst into tears when Bhanvra proposed.
"My life has done a complete 180," she said. "If you told me five years ago I'd have a stable job working on a show I love and engaged, I would never have believed you.
"When I saw him on one knee I started crying like a baby. I was so excited but my brain went into overdrive and I started freaking out. I had no idea he was going to propose."
The groom-to-be told the magazine his elaborate proposal did not go to plan.
"I took Louisa to a quiet part of the island where I knew no one else would be around," he recounted.
"I told her I wanted to fly my drone to get some aerial pictures of the island, although really I wanted it to capture a video of the moment I proposed.
"As soon as I got it up in the air and reached to get the ring from the bag a cleaner walked past and was so mesmerised by the drone he was just stood next to us staring at it for ages.
"I had to wait for him to leave. The cleaner finally disappeared so I got a speaker out of my bag that I was going to use to play a song for when I proposed but the Wi-Fi signal was bad so I couldn't get it to play."
Bhanvra then decided to ditch the technology and get down on bended knee.
The couple plan to marry in the US next year.
EastEnders airs on RTÉ One and BBC One on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
