Kimberley Cooper is giddy with happiness – and it’s all thanks to the unmissable sparkler now sitting on her ring finger.
The former Home and Away star has announced her engagement to American businessman, Bryan Croker.
In an exclusive interview with New Idea, Kimberley, 43, tells us that she’s still on cloud nine – and doesn’t think she’ll be floating back to earth anytime soon!
Kimberley shares that she and Bryan, 42, picked her gorgeous ring together. It features a 3-carat cushion cut ruby, surrounded by 0.4 carats of diamonds.
“I wanted something unique and very me,” Kimberley tells New Idea from the Los Angeles home she shares with Bryan, the COO and CFO of a film and television distribution company.
“Bryan and I actually picked it together with our friend and jewellery designer, Jonny Ritz. I love that it’s dramatic and kinda rock ’n’ roll.”
Bryan, a resident of Westford, Massachusetts, proposed to Kimberley during a candlelit supper at his house. He included every detail from their first date, including their dinner, in his proposal!
Kimberley wrote on Instagram, “Our first date was in his kitchen with drunken noodles, bacon-wrapped shrimp, and dumplings from his favorite Thai place.”
“He asked me to marry him with our favorite Thai dish from our first date, which was in our kitchen—which is actually my kitchen right now.”After that, she praised her new partner by saying to Bryan, “You are the epitome of ‘worth the wait,’ my love.”
Kimberley came to fame starring as Gypsy Nash in Home and Away.
Fans couldn’t get enough of Gypsy’s roller-coaster romance with Will (Zac Drayson) – with their characters memorably welcoming their daughter, Lily, on the side of the road!
She quit the soap in 2002 and moved to the US. She briefly returned to Summer Bay in 2011 but in recent years has focused her attention on writing plays, television, and movie scripts. She was previously married to Nick Sacco from 2010 to 2013.
