Doctor Who actress Mandip Gill took to Instagram to reveal her surprise engagement while on holiday with her long-term boyfriend this week.
The former Hollyoaks star, who rose to fame as Phoebe McQueen when she first appeared on ITV screens in 2012, posted a photo of her with a jelly sweet ring as she confirmed the happy news with fans.
Mandip, 38, who has also featured in the likes of Cuckoo, Doctors, The Good Karma Hospital and Casualty, had been enjoying time abroad when her boyfriend popped the question.
Sharing a photo of her wearing a Haribo ring and covering her fiancé’s face, she penned on Instagram: ‘Well ain’t that sweet’ alongside the hashtag ‘engagement’.
Mandip has kept the identity of her soon to be other half private, with his face not shown in any of her social media snaps.
Nonetheless, friends and fans alike flooded the comments section to congratulate Mandip, with Bancroft’s Sarah Parish writing: ‘CONGRATULATIONS’.
Doctor Who actress Mandip Gill took to Instagram to reveal her surprise engagement while on holiday with her long-term boyfriend this week (pictured with Jodie Whittaker)
Sharing a photo of her wearing a Haribo ring and covering her fiancé’s face, she penned on Instagram: ‘Well ain’t that sweet’ alongside the hashtag ‘engagement’
Laura Whitmore chimed in: ‘Congrats!’ as fellow Hollyoaks star Nadine Mulkerrin writing: ‘She deserves the world. Right this hen do, where we going?’
She joined Channel 4 star Anna Passey, who wrote: ‘Oh, it’s lovely,’ while Jen Metcalfe, best known for her role as Mercedes McQueen, added: ‘Yes, yes, yes!’
Mandip is best known for appearing as Yaz on the BBC’s Doctor Who as a companion to the Thirteenth Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker.
Before that, she played Phoebe McQueen on Hollyoaks from 2012 until 2015, the adopted daughter of barmaid Jacqui McQueen, played by Claire Cooper.
During her time on the show, Mandip was at the centre of some of the Channel 4 series’s major storylines, including an on-off romance with Charlie Wernham’s Robbie Roscoe – and a murder charge.
She also previously appeared in cameo roles in Casualty and Doctors.
Reflecting on her time in soapland, Mandip previously told the Two Shot Podcast: ‘I made amazing friends, I lived in Liverpool in my own flat.
‘It was a really good job, having a laugh, because it was like being at university but we were getting paid for it, just having a really good time and they offered me a new contract and I was like, “I have to be brave now”.
Mandip played Phoebe McQueen on Hollyoaks from 2012 until 2015, the adopted daughter of barmaid Jacqui McQueen, played by Claire Cooper
‘You’re working five or six days a week, an absolute machine, you go in there for 10 or 11 hours and it’s just constant. Even if it’s not your storyline you’re supporting someone else’s storyline and I was fortunate to be in it all the time.’
Back in 2018, Mandip revealed she ‘never thought she’d get a job on the hit sci-fi show’ Doctor Who alongside Jodie Whittaker.
She told This Morning at the time: ‘I did Casualty the same year I got Doctor Who, and I was walking down a corridor and the girl politely said “We don’t go through that entrance, that’s Doctor Who.”
‘In my head I was like, yeah, I would never go through that door, I’m never going to do that job.’
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