Edinburgh author Irvine Welsh has got engaged to Scottish actress Emma Currie.
The Trainspotting author took to social media to make the exciting announcement, saying it's 'the happiest he's been'.
The couple started dating during the coronavirus lockdown after meeting in 2020, as the Daily Record reports.
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He captioned the happy post on social media: "My god. She said yes. Pissing wet day in Scotland but she said yes. So f**k everything else. Never been so happy in my life."
In September 2020, Irvine told fans on Twitter that he had met Currie during the pandemic and enjoyed a more "old fashioned courtship" as they got to know each other.
He tweeted: “Have been enjoying a Covid romance that blossomed into a relationship. Was great to be able to take things slowly, with distanced walks and talks, before it got more intimate. More like an old fashioned courtship."
The writer added that the pair just happened to bump into each other in the street and hit it off, meeting for socially distances coffees during the tricky lockdown period.
Many of the author's famous friends congratulated him on his engagement to the theatre director.
Martin Compston commented: "Yasss big man on ye go."
"HUGE Congratulations to you both !," penned Still Games' Gavin Mitchell.
Outlander actress Shauna MacDonald wrote: "Huge congratulations to you both"
Trainspotting, his debut novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh, became an international bestseller after it was published in 1993 and led to the film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor.
It's a third marriage for the Crime author, who married his now ex-wife American Beth Quinn in 2005.
During an interview with comedian John Bishop at the Edinburgh Festival, the writer revealed they had broken up in 2017 when asked why he now lived in America.
He said: "I got married to a girl from Chicago and we were originally living in Dublin.
"We moved back to Chicago basically because she had family things going on.
"I lived there for eight years but when we split up in April I moved to Miami.
"I have always had a place there so I have stayed in America."
His first marriage to first wife Anne Antsy ended in divorce in 2003.
