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Rhianna Benson

Dancing On Ice's Bez shares emotional moment he proposed to girlfriend on a Welsh mountain

Much-loved Dancing On Ice contestant and Happy Mondays' legendary drummer Bez (Mark Berry) has revealed that he proposed to his fiancee whilst on a family picnic on The Skirrid Mountain, near Abergavenny.

Joining ITV's Lorraine Kelly on Thursday, January 27 for a catch-up, the Manchester percussionist, who is currently taking part on the 14th series of the ITV show, also let viewers in on his upcoming wedding plans.

He announced that he's set to wed long-term girlfriend, personal trainer Firouzeh Razavi, 34, whom he is believed to have been in a relationship with 2014, on September 3.

Read more: Dancing on Ice 2022: Bez dubbed the new Todd Carty as he freaky dances to Happy Mondays' hit and Shaun Ryder cheers him on

Bandmate and best friend Shaun Ryder, who has been regularly appearing alongside the drummer on the latest series of Celebrity Gogglebox, is also set to take on the role of his best man.

"If he wouldn't be my best man, I would have been so upset," Bez, 56, joked on the show. "Because we always say we have a sexless marriage anyway, we've known each other that long!"

Bez also features on Celebrity Gogglebox with Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder (Channel 4)

He also told Lorraine the heart-warming story of how he proposed to his wife-to-be during a family picnic in October last year.

"I went up to a local mountain near us called Skirrid," explained Bez, who lives on the Welsh border and has three sons from previous relationships - Arlo, 30, Jack, 27 and Leo, 11..

"I had all my family there, all my sons and grandsons, and all her family was there all waiting at the top of the hill with a picnic set up.

"I had the old-fashioned picnic basket as well, because I really like them, and on the way up the mountain she said, 'I'm sure that's my dad' - she had no idea that everybody was waiting for her at the top of the mountain!

"I was overcome by emotion myself when I got up there, and she was that taken aback that she forgot to say whether she was going to marry me, I was like, 'Well, are you or not?!'".

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