The Chase star Paul Sinha proposed to husband with £20 ring from Topshop during holiday in Rome-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Paul Sinha has revealed he actually proposed to his now-husband with a £20 ring from Topshop.

The Chase star married his long-term partner Oliver Levy in December 2019, after proposing to him 11 months earlier in Rome.

Sharing the romantic story on Thursday’s Loose Women alongside the Loose Men panel Tommy Fury, Martin Kemp and Vernon Kay, Paul revealed the moment he knew he wanted to marry Oiver.

Following a discussion in which Tommy hinted his plans to marry girlfriend Molly-Mae Hague and her dreams to get married abroad, Paul, 52, explained: ‘Everyone deserves their moment in the sun and their moment of happiness.

‘You look at someone and you go, “You’re never going to be happier than you are with that one person” and you think, “Why not make it official?”‘

Recalling the moment he felt that with Olly, Paul shared: ‘I never wanted to get married and I don’t think Oliver ever wanted to get married.

Paul Sinha married his husband Oliver Levy in 2019 (Picture: @paulsinha)

‘And then one Christmas, in 2018, family Christmas dinner, I just got drunk and started looking around at my family and realised that Oliver, who gets on so well with my nephew and niece and who love him back and call him Uncle Olly, was very much part of the family.

‘And I thought to myself, I don’t think our relationship will change that much if we get married, but I think it would be a really good stability thing, and something for the nephew and niece to look up to, a real Uncle Olly.’

He joked: ‘I was drunk!’

Paul went on: ‘It had never occurred to me before that Christmas that it was exactly the right thing to do, but you look at someone and go, you’re never going to be happier than you are with that one person.

Paul knew he wanted to propose to Olly after a family Christmas (Picture: @paulsinha)

‘You think, why not make it official?’

Paul then admitted that he proposed ‘seven days later in Rome’, before confessing his ring – which he ‘thoroughly recommended’ to viewers and Love Island’s Tommy – was from ‘Topshop’.

‘£20 from Topshop! Because the one thing I knew was that he wouldn’t value an expensive ring, that’s not what drives the relationship,’ Paul said.

‘It’s companionship and love and having fun, it’s not the value of jewellery.

Paul was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease six months before his wedding (Picture: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)

‘So I didn’t want to spend any money on the ring because that’s more money I could spend on the wedding.’

Six months before his wedding, the quizzer and stand-up comedian was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, which he said he will ‘fight with every breath I have’.

Sharing a health update ahead of the special edition of Loose Women to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Paul said: ‘It will get tougher for me.’

He added to The Mirror: ‘In the years that I have ahead of me, I want to do my best to show that it doesn’t have to ruin your quality of life, and that you can fight against the stereotypes others have of you.

‘For that reason, when I’m out and about, I try even harder to look my best. I want people to know that I am not vanishing, I’m still fighting as hard as ever.’

Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV1.

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