Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter reveals she is engaged as she shows off huge sparkler alongside hunky fiance

HOLLYOAKS star Jorgie Porter has revealed that she is engaged to boyfriend Ollie Piotrowski.

The star, 33 – best known for playing feisty Theresa McQueen in the Channel 4 soap – found love with the 31-year-old hunky businessman last year.

The actress announced the exciting news earlier today by sharing a snap of her huge engagement ring.

Jorgie posted a loved-up photo of her alongside her beau Ollie and simply flashed her sparkler.

She captioned the post with a ring emoji, which sent her fans into a meltdown as they raced to congratulate the pair.

Jorgie’s co-star Chelsea Healey posted: “Congratulations .”

Steph Waring wrote: “Congratulations to both of you!!! Wow!!! So happy for you! .”

Jennifer Metcalfe penned: “No words .”

In July, the pair decided to take things to the next step and buy a property together.

The actress shared a snap of the couple showing off their new crib on Instagram.

The property boasts stone walls, bi-folding doors that look out onto their huge garden and a modern awning to protect them when the rain falls.

Jorgie captioned the post: “Happy new home week @olliepiotrowski.”

The blonde beauty went Instagram official with Ollie in October last year.

She shared a sweet photo of the pair on her page for her 688k followers to admire.

Jorgie recently opened up about her devastating miscarriage after she discovered that they were expecting quadruplets.

‘Total shock’

It has been a heartbreaking time and one that would test any relationship. For Jorgie and Ollie, it has brought them even closer.

“If we can get through this, we can get through anything,” she told Fabulous.

When she first got together with Ollie last October, Jorgie still wasn’t convinced she wanted to be a mum. But seven months in, everything changed. 

“Ollie said he could see himself having children with me, and it was a big moment, because I felt like I absolutely wanted children with him, too,” says Jorgie.

“I remember driving to work thinking: ‘I want to come off the Pill.’ I’d been dating him for less than a year, but I knew I wanted him to father my kids.”

In August, at a scan at around 14 weeks, she and Ollie discovered there was no sign of life in any of the embryo sacs.

The quadruplets had died in a missed miscarriage, when the body doesn’t recognise the pregnancy loss or expel pregnancy tissue. In some cases, the placenta continues to release hormones, so pregnancy symptoms continue despite the absence of life.

“It didn’t make sense,” recalls Jorgie. “I’d not had any sign that things weren’t OK. No pain or bleeding, I was getting bigger, my boobs were growing, I had so much hair on my body and I still felt pregnant. When the consultant performed the scan then said: ‘You’ve miscarried,’ I was in total shock.”

Within a few days, Jorgie went under general anaesthetic to have her uterus cleared, and after regaining consciousness, the nurses handed her a care package containing four tiny teddies. “One for each baby lost,” says Jorgie.

She says that she has since coped by focusing on how the experience has brought her and Ollie closer. 

“We’ve come through so much. My auntie Gina died when we found out we were pregnant, Ollie’s grandad died this year, then we lost the quads. As hard as it was losing them, I just have to believe that, for whatever reason, it wasn’t our time. 

“Of course I’ve shed tears,” continues Jorgie. She says that hearing Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock had welcomed twin boys in August was tough, as it reminded her of what she had lost.

“I felt a pang of pain, thinking: ‘We would have had that,’” she says. “It was a grieving process, but only because I’d dared to imagine life with them in it.

“I’ve tried to come to terms with it by thinking: ‘They’ve never lived, I don’t know them,’ but it took Ollie to say to me: ‘You held them in you for three months,’ to appreciate the power of those emotions.”