Casualty star Olly Rix has announced his engagement to co-star Anna Chell.
Olly, who is 40, currently plays Clinical Lead Flynn Byron in the medical drama. Prior to this role, he played Matthew Aylward in BBC One’s Call the Midwife.
Olly announced his new relationship with Anna back in September, by sharing a variety of snaps of them both on his Instagram.
The actor returned to his social media page earlier today to reveal to his followers that he’s now engaged to 29-year-old Anna, who plays Jodie Whyte in Casualty.
He shared a picture of him and Anna together, and simply confirmed the news by sharing a ring and love heart emojis in the caption.
In the comments section, Olly was inundated with kind and loving messages from his Casualty co-stars.
Sammy T Dobson, who portrays Nicole Piper, said: ‘ARGHHHH!!!! THIS IS SO, SO LUSH!!! Congratulations!!!’.
Melanie Hill, who plays Siobhan McKenzie, wrote a sweet comment: ‘So made up for the pair of you lovebirds!!’.
Aron Julius, who arrived in the show as newcomer Matty last week, added: ‘Congratulations! YEAH BUDDY!’.
Elsewhere, Olly is extremely passionate about helping rescue dogs and last year, he visited one of centres ran by charity The Dogs Trust.
The Dogs Trust is an animal welfare charity and humane society that specialises in the well-being of dogs. It’s the largest dog welfare charity in the UK and cares for over 15,000 animals each year.
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The charity’s primary objective is to protect all dogs in the UK and elsewhere from cruelty and suffering. It focuses on the rehoming and rehabilitation of dogs who have been abandoned or given up by their owners.
Opening up about the visit, Olly told me back in July: ‘They do so much work and it’s so variable. It isn’t really a sort of gut-wrenchingly heartbreaking day. There’s such a beautiful energy there. The people involved are just so humbling to be around. They are so selfless and so focused on all the dogs there.
‘It’s such a tonic to the b******t of everyday life, to just go and be around some thoughtful, wonderful souls.’
He smiled: ‘They even named a dog after me! He was about a year old, a chocolate Labrador, and they called him Olly, which was just so lovely. I got to meet him and play with him; it was a really special time.
‘They just don’t give up. I think what becomes so apparent so quickly is that there’s a sort of uplifting nature to the entire organisation. It hits you in the face within seconds of walking in the door, because everything there, every sort of little soul there, is going to be okay.
‘It’s going to be a different process and a different journey for each one of them, and some of them will have a really tough time and they might have come from, you know, really horrendous circumstances, and they might need a lot of sort of medical care and intervention that will make the adoption process quite complicated.
‘But even then, in the most extreme cases, they don’t stop, they just see it through.’
