The 1975’s Matty Healy is now engaged to his model girlfriend Gabriette Bechtel, it has been confirmed.
The frontman of the Manchester-based indie pop group is believed to have been in a relationship with Californian-born model since last September, when the pair were first spotted packing on the PDA and looking very loved-up on the streets of New York City, before they were snapped together at an event in Brooklyn just a couple of days later.
It wasn’t long after these initial public sightings of the new couple that the 35-year-old rocker confirmed he was seeing the 26-year-old model.
“He came to LA, and we’ve been in love ever since,” she told the magazine.
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Gabbriette was first spotted wearing a ring on her finger late last month, but the model officially announced the engagement with a collection of photos to her 828,000 Instagram followers yesterday (12 June), after Healy‘s mum, actress and reality TV star Denise Welch, confirmed it on ITV‘s Loose Women a few hours earlier.
“I obviously have known for a few weeks that Matty got engaged,” Denise Welch said on Loose Women yesterday.
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“They went over to see their friends, Charli and George, in New York [last night] and I woke up this morning to the fact they’ve put it on Instagram,” she continued, before adding that the ring is a “black diamond” that Healy “had made” especially for his now-fiancée.
Welch said she “couldn’t be happier” for the pair, and gushed that Gabbriette is “everything I would want in a daughter-in-law”.
Prior to their relationship, Bechtel was known to have previously dated model Levi Dylan, who is the son of Jakob Dylan and the grandson of Bob Dylan, while Healy was linked to model Meredith Mickelson after his highly-publicised relationship with pop superstar, Taylor Swift, ended last June.
Healy is also known to have been in a handful of other long-term and high-profile relationships during his time in the spotlight, after The 1975 first burst into the mainstream back in 2012.
Three tiny ‘chaos potatoes’ have been born at Chester Zoo and they’re so cute
Emily Sergeant
Three tiny ‘chaos potatoes’ have been born at Chester Zoo… and they’re really flipping cute.
Born to parents Maris and Albert in late summer, the three rock hyrax pups – only affectionately known as ‘chaos potatoes’ – have just passed their first vet check with a clean bill of health, and now weigh roughly 350g.
Hyraxes are found across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, where they live among rocky landscapes and are most active in daylight.
The litter includes two boys and one girl, and keepers at Chester Zoo have decided to give them potato-themed names – Russ, Spud, and Jackie.
Three tiny ‘chaos potatoes’ have been born at Chester Zoo / Credit: Chester Zoo
Currently, the three pups are a fraction of the size of the adults, which can weigh up to 4kg, but despite their small stature, they have an unlikely relative.
Believe it or not, rock hyraxes are actually a part of the same evolutionary group as elephants, as well as sirenians, which are the family of aquatic mammals that includes dugongs and manatees.
“Hyraxes are one of those species that you have to look for, but once you’ve seen them, they are fascinating to watch,” explained Megan Carpenter, who is a Keeper at Chester Zoo.
“The pups are little chaos potatoes. They are much more energetic than their parents and sometimes get the zoomies, darting about and testing their climbing and parkour skills.
“In contrast, the adults often wedge themselves into corners and grip on to steep rock faces for hours at a time. They’re incredibly well adapted to living among rocks and are much better climbers than you might expect.”
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A TV channel playing Christmas films 24/7 is now back on air in the UK
Emily Sergeant
Do you think it’s too early for the ‘C word’? Never mind, you’ve already clicked on this article.
Sure, we may only be into our second full week of September, but given the fact the weather these past couple of days hasn’t exactly screamed summer, it already feels like the festive season is around the corner – but whether or not you think it’s too early to be talking about Christmas, it’ll soon be too tricky to escape from.
Especially not when the famous TV channel showing festive film favourites non-stop is now back on air in the UK.
Yes, you heard that right – Christmas films, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
If you’re ready to wave goodbye to summer, and in welcome autumn and winter with open arms, then there’s arguably no better way of getting into the festive spirit than with the long-awaited and highly-anticipated return of the TV channel that’s charmed audiences for over half a decade now.
GREAT! Christmas the UK’s biggest seasonal channel, and it’s now live on Sky, Freesat, Freeview and Virgin Media.
You can expect almost four months of back-to-back seasonal movies.
The 24-hour feel-good and free-to-air channel will be bursting with non-stop Christmas spirit, and will be showing a heartwarming lineup of festive films – including some absolute fan-favourite classics that make it to screens every year without fail, alongside some cheesy Hallmark classics, new channel premieres, and so much more.
Emily Sergeant -
13th June 2024 
