Cheeky Girl singer Gabriela Irimia is to marry the Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik, it has been reported.

The Montgomeryshire MP, 43, told Hello! magazine he had proposed last week in Rome and his girlfriend accepted.
Ms Irimia, 25, and her sister make up the novelty pop act the Cheeky Girls. She met Mr Opik on a TV show in 2006.
Mr Opik, who was previously engaged to ITV weather presenter Sian Lloyd, has not set a date for the wedding, the magazine reported.
Mr Opik added: “We were euphoric afterwards, walking around the city and then sipping champagne and chatting away in our hotel suite until the early hours. I couldn’t ask for things to go better than they did.”

Kofi Annan has dramatically cut short his diplomatic mission in the Darfur region of Sudan to announce his engagement to the American singer and actress, Jessica Simpson.

Speaking from his native Ghana, Mr Annan said that both he and Miss Simpson were “absolutely delighted”, and that the wedding would take place “as soon as our respective diaries allowed it”.

The couple met during a UN Goodwill mission in North Korea, where Miss Simpson performed a version of her hit, ‘A Public Affair’, in front of an audience including Kim Jong-il.

Despite an age difference between them of some 42 years, Miss Simpson said that it made “no difference at all” to their relationship. “One of the things I love most about Kofi is his maturity,” the singer said yesterday. In turn, Mr Annan praised his fiancee’s “fantastic tits”.

The news comes hot on the heels of the year’s most unexpected engagement, between quirky Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik and Transylvanian popstress Gabriela Irimia. When asked to comment on the matter at yesterday’s press conference, Mr Annan described the politician and Cheeky Girl’s announcement as “a joke, surely?”

Both Mr Opik and Miss Irimia were unavailable for comment today.

BBC News, 23rd May 2008

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