‘We’d talked about getting married but I hadn’t the slightest idea he was planning this. I said: “Yes, yes and yes!”’
They fell in love a year after being paired up on Strictly Come Dancing and now HELLO! can exclusively reveal that Ben Cohen and Kristina Rihanoff are to wed after the former rugby union star asked the dancer to marry him in one of world’s most romantic locations, the Maldives.
Ben’s sunset proposal came on bended knee at the centre of a heart, surrounded by lanterns, etched in the soft white sand on a deserted island, the crystal-clear Indian Ocean lapping the shore behind them.
“It was the biggest surprise of my life,” Kristina, 45, tells us. “Although we’d talked before about getting married one day, I hadn’t the slightest idea that Ben was planning this.
“I was overcome with emotion and said: ‘Yes, yes
