Little Britain star David Walliams confirms engagement

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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David Walliams' new fiancée Lara Stone has revealed she fell for the Little Britain star because he is "super funny".

The couple announced their engagement today after a four-month romance.

Walliams, 38, proposed to the 26-year-old Dutch model with a vintage engagement ring while on holiday in Los Angeles.

Getting hitched: David Walliams and Lara Stone

A friend of the couple said he phoned her parents in Holland to ask for their blessing before popping the question.

He announced today: "It's true, we're engaged and we're blissfully happy."

They have kept their relationship low-key, and are said to have preferred nights in together watching TV and going out for quiet dinners to frequenting the London celebrity haunts Walliams usually prefers.

Stone said: "He's hilarious. It's so great to go out with him. I can be in such a cranky mood and then he makes me laugh. He's super funny."

She has worked for all of the major fashion labels in her ten-year catwalk career and has graced the cover of countless magazines, including Vogue.

She spent four weeks in rehab last year for alcohol abuse. She said: "I am a complete alcoholic. It used to be so easy for me to say to someone, Get me a bottle of vodka', and they'd run and get it. Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made. The last six months have been the best of my life."

Stone is the face of Louis Vuitton, having replaced Madonna in a £6.5 million deal, and has been dubbed the "anti-model" because of her curves.

The couple today returned from Brazil where Stone was treading the catwalks for Sao Paulo Fashion Week.

Walliams recently expressed his desire to settle down having dated a string of models, including Lisa Snowdon, Lauren Budd, Emily Scott Abi Titmuss and Keeley Hazell, as well as actress Patsy Kensit.

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