Made In Chelsea star Sam Vanderpump has revealed he’s engaged to his model girlfriend Alice Yaxley after just six months of dating.
Sam, 27, whose auntie Lisa Vanderpump, 64, starred in US series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and spin-off Vanderpump Rules, took to Instagram to share the news with his followers.
Posing for a bridal-inspired shoot, Alice proudly showed off her sparkling engagement ring while posing in a white frilled mini dress.
Sharing that he originally popped the question on February 23rd, Sam simply captioned his post: ‘She said yes.’
Sam and Alice also shared their engagement news with OK! Magazine admitting their relationship has been nothing short of a whirlwind.
However despite their short time together, he said that he was ready to pop the question when she supported him during her life-threatening battle with sepsis.
Made In Chelsea star Sam Vanderpump has revealed he’s engaged to his model girlfriend Alice Yaxley after just six months of dating
He said: Alice and I have only been dating for about six months, but we’ve gone through such a lot in such a short period of time. From day dot, Alice has been with me pretty much 24/7. And over Christmas we went through a bit of an episode together where I got really, really ill.
‘I got an infection due to a genetic disease I’ve got, which led to sepsis and it ended up quite bad. I was in hospital and it was a close call, I could have died.
‘That experience brought us very, very close. I think I walked out of that looking at Alice and thinking, ”This is the girl I want to marry.” So, my thinking was, ”If I’m saying that now, why on earth am I waiting?”
Sam added that he planned the entire proposal, including seeking permission from Alice’s father, and he popped the question during a private boutique viewing room of a jewellery shop.
He confessed that he ‘completely choked on his words,’ due to the nerves, and said they were both ’emotional wrecks’ when Alice said yes.
Back in January, Sam first shared that he nearly died after contracting sepsis, and it was quick-thinking Alice who phoned an ambulance after the reality star became ‘delirious’ having spent days in bed suffering from dehydration and severe back pain.
Sam, who was told by doctors if he was admitted to hospital 24 hours later it would have been too late, learned his liver and kidneys had stopped working and he needed urgent medical attention.
And as Sam’s body fought off the infection, he contracted sepsis, leaving his mother Simone and model girlfriend Alice fearing for his life.
Sam said: ‘I thought I was going to die. I didn’t think my body could cope and that was the scariest thing. It was terrifying.
‘I remember the doctor saying to me that I was going into liver and kidney failure. I burst into tears. My mum didn’t react badly, you would expect her to be in complete meltdown, but she didn’t want to scare me.
‘The words they used for the function of my liver were ‘deranged’ and ‘demonic.’ You don’t feel your organs normally but when they stop working and because my liver and kidneys weren’t working my heart was in overdrive, my pancreas was struggling, my spleen wasn’t well…
‘And you can feel all this pain and uncomfortableness, I was really, really fighting to keep myself alive. I didn’t think I was going to survive or see the outside of the hospital again.
‘You never think the flu will lead to you being in a hospital bed and nearly dying. They told my mum that if I had got to hospital 24-48 hours later, I wouldn’t have made it. By calling the ambulance, my girlfriend literally saved my life.’
Sam, who was rushed to the Resuscitation Department, explained how doctors were shocked by his initial test results, which highlighted the severity of his condition.
He said: ‘There is a liver function test, when your liver is performing normally there is a protein called CRP (C-reactive protein), which releases protein into your blood to fight against infection.
‘When there’s no infection in your body you produce 0-5 milligrams because you don’t need it so when you have a mild infection, it will be around the 50 milligram mark and when it’s a bad infection and you need to seek urgent medical care it’s about 100 milligrams… but mine was up in the 400s.
‘My white cells, which are meant to be between 8-12 were double that. My liver enzymes, which are meant to be at 40, were at 140. They told me I was the sickest patient on the ward.’
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