Georgia Toffolo announces engagement to millionaire boyfriend in ‘best moment of her life’

Date: 2024-10-27
Georgia Toffolo engagement to James Watt
Georgia Toffolo has announced she is engaged to James Watt (Picture: Instagram/ Georgia Toffolo)

Georgia Toffolo has announced that she’s engaged to Brewdog founder James Watt.

The former Made in Chelsea star, 30, took to social media to reveal that she is engaged to her boyfriend, Brewdog founder, James Watt, 41.

‘James asked me to marry him,’ she wrote in a post on Instagram that revealed her huge diamond engagement ring.

‘It really was the best moment of my life so far. I never knew I could feel happiness like this. The easiest, quickest yes to being your wife. @brewdogjames

‘Our love story is my favourite. How we managed to find each other out of billions of people out there will always be my greatest blessing. I love you forever and the magical life we’re building.’

The pair were first linked in the summer of 2023 after being set up on a date by a mutual friend.

Georgia Toffolo engagement to James Watt
The former Made in Chelsea star sported a huge ring (Picture: Instagram/ Georgia Toffolo)
Georgia Toffolo engagement to James Watt
The couple met last summer (Picture: Instagram/ Georgia Toffolo)

Georgia is known for her appearances on several reality TV shows and competitions, after appearing on Made in Chelsea from 2014 to 2018.

In 2017, the star was crowned Queen of the Jungle when she won ITV’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! In the same year, she appeared on Celebs Go Dating.

Georgia, also known as Toff, was previously engaged to George Cottrell, a senior advisor to Nigel Farage. The pair began dating in 2019 and had an on-again-off-again relationship.

George was once jailed for fraud before meeting the reality TV star. He spent eight months in jail in the US in 2016 in relation to a money laundering conspiracy.

Reality star Georgia Toffolo announces engagement to BrewDog founder James Watt
The pair got engaged in Greece (Picture: Instagram/ Georgia Toffolo)

James also posted on social media about their engagement, the caption of the post read: ‘She said yes! 💍

‘With an abundance of smiles, happiness, love & family @georgiatoffolo & I got engaged on Friday in Greece ❤️

‘Georgia – I am so grateful that we find managed to find each other and even more grateful to be building our lives together.’

Reality star Georgia Toffolo announces engagement to BrewDog founder James Watt
Georgia previously said she wanted James to be ‘the one’ (Picture: Instagram/ Georgia Toffolo)

Speaking to MailOnline in December 2023, Georgia said she hoped that James was ‘the one’.

‘I would love him to be the one but hey, so far so good. I don’t know. It is still very early days. But we’re really happy,’ she said.

She also revealed their first date wasn’t entirely plain sailing: ‘James actually walked into a wall on our first date, which was really funny. But, I think I knew [how strong their connection was] from the second date.   

‘I mean it was just classic James and I. The first date was, like, stereotypical, really lovely time, knew I really liked him, great.’

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