Brit soap star's dramatic real-life romance leads to engagement announcement

EastEnders soap star Sid Owen sleeps in a separate bed than his longtime girlfriend, 26-year-old Polly Parsons, but that didn't stop the pair from secretly getting engaged six months ago. Nor did it stop them from postponing a planned September ceremony after a two-month split earlier this year.

Owen, 38, who is also a former British pop star, proposed to Parsons while on holiday in Barbados six months ago. Owen and Parsons tell OK! about the romantic proposal.

"There was a raft out at sea which we'd swim out to," says Owen. "I didn't have a ring so I got this guy on the beach to make one out of beads in the reggae colours, as I love my reggae, and I put that in my back pocket and we swam out there and I proposed."

"It was really romantic," says Parsons.

'Romantic' does little to describe how this happy couple spend their nights - apart, in separate bedrooms. Then again, Parsons reasoning for sleeping alone may have a lot to do with why they're so blissfully happy these days.

"He snores like a rhino," she says. "After we went traveling I had to be honest with him about it," says Polly, 'and he said he liked having his own bed anyway so it was perfect. I'll stay in Sid's bed watching TV cuddling. If I fall asleep in his room I soon hear him snoring and get up anyway and go into my room. People think it's weird but it works for us."

The couple were originally planning to wed in September but split when the pressure of pulling together the big day became too much for Parsons. "We had about a thousand people coming! It would have been about everyone else - now we've had time apart, we know what's important. It just started to get out of hand and it scared me."

During their time apart, Owen took off for a detox centre in Thailand, but the couple say they spoke daily in order to get their relationship back on track. As for where and when the couple will finally wed, the couple tells OK! they plan to take their time and will wed "maybe next year."

But they'll have to compromise - Owen wants a wedding at his 600-year-old farmhouse in France, but Polly wants to return to Barbados.

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Dating in the Dark host weds country singer

The premise behind Dating in the Dark is simple - stick fairly shallow,m gorgeous folk in a dark room with a potential unattractive suitor and watch them squirm about the possibility of finding a love match with a 'lesser specimen,' then try to get them to look past appearances and decide whether or not the emotional connection is enough to overlook the physical.

Host Rossi Morreale doesn't say whether the show makes him as cynical about love as the rest of us, but he has revealed that he loves his beautiful blonde - Kacey Coppola of twin sister country duo Kate and Kacey.

The couple were married in a barefoot beach ceremony Saturday, August 7th at the Grande Antigua Resort & Spa in St. John's in front of 60 guests. The wedding was co-officiated by Morreale's childhood pastor and an Antiguan marriage officer, and Kacey's sisters Kara and Kate served as Matron of Honor and Twin of Honor, respectively (Kacey served as Maid of Honor for Kate's Colorado wedding last year.)

This is the first marriage for Morreale and Coppola, who met on the set of Can You Duet in 2008 and were engaged in Playa del Carmen.

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Real Housewives' Vicki Gunvalson renews wedding vows

Having admitted on camera during the last season of The Real Housewives of Orange County that "my love tank is empty," reality TV star Vicki Gunvalson renewed her vows to hubby Donn Gunvalson last July in the Turks & Caicos.

The couple, who first wed in 1994, worked on their marriage with counselling, went back to church together, and took long walks together at night. She explains to Life & Style, "We both wanted to get back on track and start making each other feel important again."

While vacationing at the Grace Bay Resort in Providenciales, the couple decided to reaffirm their union with a vow renewal on the beach. The ceremony was featured in a recent episode of the Bravo reality show.

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