Congratulations are in order for Lauren Phillips!
The radio star announced that she got engaged to her millionaire boyfriend, Paul O’Brien, while on a romantic getaway to Europe.
Phillips told her KISS FM co-host, Jase Hawkins, that the proposal came as a total shock to her, adding “I thought he was joking!”
She went on to explain that she thought that if O’Brien was going to ask for her hand in marriage, he’d do it at the beginning of their trip, when they were alone in Rome.
“Then we went to Mykonos and met up with all of our friends and turns out I was the only person who didn’t know about it,” she gleefully explained.
“He proposed in front of all our friends. I had no idea and then next minute he was down on one knee.”
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At first, Phillips fully thought he was playing a prank, she told Hawkins live on air.
“It was an out of body experience. I don’t think I even looked at the ring. I just hugged him and cried and then we stood up and we all celebrated,” Philips recounted.
“Everyone said, ‘you didn’t say yes’, and I’m like ‘of course it is a yes!’. We then called my family who were at home at the time. He asked my dad. He is a gentleman,” she added.
The couple have been together since 2020, and have kept their relationship relatively private. O’Brien is a multi-millionaire, as the owner of a high-end jet charter business, whose clients include Matt Damon, Chris Hemsworth, and Elsa Pataky.
They live together in Byron Bay – Phillips moved there to be near him in July 2020 when her home city of Melbourne was in lockdown. At the time, she was the weather presenter for Weekend Today, though now she’s focused solely on her radio career.
Before meeting O’Brien, the radio host was married to TV producer Lachlan Spark for one year. They split in December 2018. Meanwhile, he was linked to former Sunrise host Samantha Armytage from 2018 to 2019.