New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Ryan’s engagement joy ‘WHEN YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW’

Sometimes you’ve just got to be cruel to be kind. At least, this was the strategy TV presenter Ryan Bridge adopted when he proposed to his beau of four years.

In a desperate bid to keep his romantic plans a surprise, the popular broadcaster admits that whenever his partner “skirted around the edges” of any wedding talk, Ryan would feign no interest, quickly changing the conversation.

“Which isn’t a nice thing to do is it?” laughs the AM host, sharing his exciting news exclusively with the Weekly. “[It meant] we didn’t really talk about getting married at all, and perhaps sounds weird. I just always knew I wanted to propose to him and for him to have that experience as a surprise.”

And as much as Ryan would like to introduce this ‘handsome mystery fiancé’ to the world, his 36-year-old partner – a former professional athlete who now works in

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