- By Riyah Collins
- BBC Newsbeat
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Two Love Island winners have announced that they’ve got engaged.
Sanam Harrinanan and Kai Fagan, both 25, were voted best couple on the ITV reality dating show in March 2023.
They first coupled up at Casa Amor – the notorious section of the show where boys and girls are split between two villas and tempted away from their current partner.
But they won’t be recoupling now and, in true Love Islander fashion, the pair announced the news on Instagram.
Kai posted photos of the couple on a riverboat in Cambridge, taken on Saturday, that showed the happy moment.
“Introducing the next Mrs Fagan,” he wrote.
“Beautiful, caring, loving and smart are just some of the words that describe you.
“I love loving you, I love you and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you.”
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Fellow islanders including Tasha Ghouri, Indiyah Polak and Toby Aromolaran were quick to offer their congratulations.
They beat fellow couples Lana Jenkins and Ron Hall, and Samie Elishi and Tom Clare.
They were among the first Love Islanders to appear on the show after a new social media ban introduced by ITV as part of its duty of care policy.
Sanam posted on TikTok after the announcement saying she “honestly had no idea” Kai was planning to propose on Saturday.
“I am so chuffed and happy,” she said.
“I feel like the luckiest girl alive.”
Marking their one-year anniversary as a couple last month, Kai said it had been the best year of his life.
“Can’t wait to see what the next 12 months is going to be like,” he wrote on Instagram.
“Hopefully Sanam proposes and we have 6 kids… but time will tell…”
Sanam and Kai aren’t the first Love Islanders to go the distance.
In 2018, series two runners up Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen tied the knot and series five favourites Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury announced their engagement last summer.
Both couples also have children together, as do Jamie Jewitt and Camilla Thurlow, who met on the show in 2017 and married four years later.
Series three’s Dom Lever and Jessica Shears also have two children together.
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