The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue has announced his engagement to his girlfriend Anais Naing after several years of dating.

Danny, who rose to fame in Irish rock band The Script, and events manager Anais have been dating since 2020, after bumping into each other in their neighbourhood during the COVID lockdown in London.

With the former Voice UK judge no stranger to talking about his love life in his songs, including "Man Who Can’t Be Moved" and "Breakeven," Danny will be writing about married life in the near future.

He told the Sun: "We hiked up to the top of a mountain to face the most beautiful waterfall in the world, The Seven Sisters. It’s our favourite place on earth.

"I nearly passed out from exhaustion carrying up all the champagne, glasses, and food for if she said yes. I had to do it all without her knowing."

Currently in the midst of promoting his band’s seventh studio album Satellites, Danny recently opened up about his relationship with Anais and how he knows she’s the one.

Danny explained to the Sunday World: "When you know, you know… I knew when it wasn’t right, but now I know whatever that is, that it’s one hundred per cent right.

"She’s great. I met her during Covid and if you’ve been with anybody through Covid it’s like you compress ten years into those years…

"You learn everything, all the good bits, mostly the bad bits, and if you get through those moments… I don’t know if it’s a rite of passage, if you’ve made it through those few years then you know."

The past year has been a turbulent one for Danny, with his bandmate Mark Sheehan passing away through an undisclosed illness at the age of 46.

"There was a big call for us not to do anything, we chatted to his family and between ourselves. You’re in the moment questioning 'do I just sit at home and do nothing.' I think that would have been the worst thing I could have possibly done.

"I thought even if we do this and stop at the end of the year, getting out in front of our audience and giving them the opportunity to grieve was very important to us. Our first two shows were for the fans to grieve because Mark’s funeral was private. There’s a lot of people who want to mourn him," he told Extra.ie last month.

*This article was originally published on Extra.ie.

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