Actress Okate Walsh has revealed how she met her now fiancé, WA farmer Andrew Nixon.
The Grey’s Anatomy star confirmed that their ‘meet cute’ did in actual fact happen on a visit to Antarctica in early 2020, as rumoured, throughout an look on The Kelly Clarkson Show .
“We met, as one does, on a Nat Geo expedition to Antarctica,” Walsh stated, earlier than joking to the studio viewers “there’s an app for it guys”.
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Clarkson in disbelief thought the actress was being sarcastic.
“No, I did. We were on a ship to the Antarctic and that’s how I met him,” Walsh clarified.
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“What? This is like a movie,” Clarkson replied.
“Who knew,” Walsh added of the fateful journey.
The Emily in Paris actress informed the singer-turned-talk present host that because of the local weather disaster she needed to see each the Arctic and Antarctica.
Having ticked off the North Pole, she went to discover the South Pole on a visit that modified her life.
“It was incredible. It was an incredible trip and then bonus, you know, found the love of my life,” Walsh stated.
“Saw the penguins, check. Ice, check. Whales, check. Man, check,” she joked.
“It’s a pretty good trip I think,” Clarkson replied.
Following the Antarctica journey in February 2020, Walsh moved to Perth in the course of the COVID-19 lockdowns the next month.
That transfer seems to develop into extra everlasting with the couple set to tie the knot.
The couple secretly received engaged final yr, with the actress unintentionally outing their marriage plans throughout an Instagram Live in October.
Talking about their new life in Perth, the Grey’s Anatomy star informed Clarkson about how she’s already used to shark alarms on the seaside and driving on the opposite facet of the street.
Although she admitted when she will get drained or harassed “it’s like some old operating system clicks in” and she finds herself forgetting to drive on the proper facet.
Walsh additionally informed a narrative about being so afraid of hitting a kangaroo throughout a two hour drive to Nixon’s farm outdoors Perth, she spent the entire automotive journey honking as a warning system for the animals.
The actress and entrepreneur revealed her “new homeland” of Australia has additionally impressed one of many newest candles in her Boyfriend Perfume vary, referred to as Down Under.
While one other is cheekily named Morning W’oud.
“It is all double entendre,” Walsh stated of the vary impressed by an ex-boyfriend.
Walsh and Nixon made their purple carpet debut collectively on the Emily in Paris Season 3 premiere final December.
Nixon, who has been a farmer for greater than 30 years, generally options on Walsh’s Instagram Stories, although Walsh largely retains his presence in her life beneath wraps and does not share pictures of him to her everlasting feed.
Walsh has been married as soon as earlier than, tying the knot with producer Alex Young again in September 2007.
The couple cut up the next yr earlier than finalising their divorce in February 2010.
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