Simone Biles confirms engagement to Jonathan Owens after loved up proposal: ‘I can’t want to spend forever with you’

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens are engaged! (Picture: Getty)

Simone Biles has confirmed her engagement to Jonathan Owens, after nearly two years together.

The Olympic gymnast, 26, announced their happy news on Instagram, with a string of photos showing the Houston Rockets player down on one knee in a gazebo.

‘THE EASIEST YES,’ she wrote beside the upload – in which she could be seen showing off her huge diamond and giving her partner a kiss.

‘I can’t wait to spend forever & ever with you, you’re everything I dreamed of and more! 

‘Let’s get married FIANCÉ @jowens_3.’

Jonathan was the first to reply, penning: ‘Ready for forever with you,’ below the photos.

Others rushed to congratulate the pair on their engagement, with one commenting: ‘Oh my goodness congratulations!!!’

‘Absolutely beautiful! Congrats,’ another agreed.

‘I AM SCREAMING SO HAPPY FOR YOU,’ an Instagram user yelled.

As a follower added: ‘Simoneeeeee!!! I’m so EXCITED!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!’

Sharing the same photos on his own page, Jonathan added: ‘Woke up this morning with a fiancée.

‘Appreciate my dawg @don_julio314 for helping me set everything up, she really had no clue what was coming. 

‘@zofrost you went crazy on this one bro really made the night special.’

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