Lauren Phillips has been engaged two years but keeps her romance very private.
The Nova radio host and her fiancé Paul O’Brien made a rare public appearance together on Sunday however as they arrived at Sydney Airport.
The 41-year-old dressed down as she made her way across the terminal with her aviation businessman partner.
Lauren opted for a black suede jacket over white shirt and added a pair of cream trousers, as well as matching sneakers.
She appeared to have on minimal makeup with her brunette locks down and straightened.
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Lauren Phillips (pictured) has been engaged two years but keeps her romance very private
The Nova radio host and her fiancé Paul O’Brien (pictured) made a rare public appearance together on Sunday however as they arrived at Sydney Airport
Paul meanwhile kept things comfortable in a pair of blue jeans and a white hoodie, as well as a brown boots.
He wheeled along a white suitcase and black sports bag as he left the airport to grab a ride.
The couple, who are based in Melbourne, largely avoided being photographed together but headed off in the same vehicle.
Last year, Lauren has revealed she has ‘gone off’ Paul after he decided to do some home decorating while she was away.
Lauren said on her Nova 100 Jase & Lauren Show that while she was on a recent work trip to Fiji her entrepreneur partner took his chance to remove a couch he ‘hated’ and replace it with another model.
‘He has this hatred for this beautiful sofa I bought for our new home, Lauren explained to co-stars Jase Hawkins and Clint Stanaway.
‘Upstairs, beautiful sofa, white linen, stunning, in the living room. I love it,’ she gushed.
‘It’s linen so you near melt into it.’
The couple, who are based in Melbourne, largely avoided being photographed together but headed off in the same vehicle
Lauren said Paul did not like the couch and thought that it belonged in a teenager’s bedroom.
So when Lauren jetted off, Paul seized his chance.
‘He’s gone all Darren Palmer on you,’ Jase exclaimed as Lauren replied: “He’s gone all Shayna Blaze on me. It (the new couch) looks like it belongs in a dentist’s reception area.’
After pulling up a photo of what he assumed was a similar couch, Jase said it reminded him of the iconic couch on which contestants faced elimination on the Channel 10 reality series Big Brother.
‘Is it a big corner one like that? You know what it looks like, the Big Brother couch! You know when Gretel calls them all!’ he exclaimed.
Lauren added that their other co-host Clint had the exact same opinion when he visited her house the night before.
‘Stop, stop, stop,’ Lauren exclaimed. ‘Because last night Clint came over, And what was the first thing that came out of your mouth?’
‘This is the Big Brother couch,’ Clint replied. I said the same thing!’
The 41-year-old dressed down as she made her way across the terminal with her aviation businessman partner
Lauren opted for a black suede jacket over white shirt and added a pair of cream trousers, as well as matching sneakers
She appeared to have on minimal makeup with her brunette locks down and straightened
Phillips announced her engagement to multi-millionaire partner live on-air in 2023
Jase punctuated the story by uttering an iconic line from the reality series.
‘It’s time to go, Paul,’ he said.
Phillips announced her engagement to multi-millionaire partner live on-air in 2023.
She shared the exciting news with her co-host, and spoke about the surprise proposal in Mykonos.
O’Brien runs high-end aviation charter group AVMIN and has several celebrity clients, including Matt Damon, his wife Luciana Barroso, Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky.
‘We went to Europe for the holidays. We had a few days in Rome just the two of us and I thought if he was going to propose, it would’ve been the two of us,’ she began.
‘Then we went to Mykonos and met up with all of our friends and turns out I was the only person who didn’t know about it. He proposed in front of all our friends. I had no idea and then next minute he was down on one knee.’
The brunette beauty said the public proposal was such a surreal experience that at first she thought Paul was teasing her.
O’Brien runs high-end aviation charter group AVMIN and has several celebrity clients, including Matt Damon, his wife Luciana Barroso, Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky
The notoriously private couple have been dating since early 2020
‘I think I thought he was joking. It was an out of body experience. I don’t think I even looked at the ring. I just hugged him and cried and then we stood up and we all celebrated.’
She could not contain her joy when discussing the ultra-romantic proposal.
‘Everyone said, “you didn’t say yes,” and I’m like “of course it is a yes!” We then called my family who were at home at the time. He asked my dad. He is a gentleman,’ she added.
The notoriously private couple have been dating since early 2020 and lived together in Byron Bay.
Paul previously dated former Sunrise host Samantha Armytage from 2018 – 2019.
Lauren started dating Paul while she was living in Melbourne at the start of the Covid pandemic in early 2020.
