Former Coronation Street star Nicola Thorp has announced she is engaged. The actress revealed that fellow actor Nikesh Patel popped the question in a social media post after a whirlwind romance that began back in 2021.
Nicola, 34, took to Instagram on Sunday (January 29) to reveal the happy news. The former soap star, who played Nicola Rubinstein, the long-lost daughter of serial killer Pat Phelan, in the ITV soap from 2017 to 2019, and her husband-to-be beamed in a series of gorgeous snaps.
The images showed the happy pair standing in a room full of balloons as she flashed her ring finger to the camera to show her dazzling new accessory - a stunning emerald ring.