Snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan is engaged after popping the question to beautiful actress Laila Rouass. Ronnie, nicknamed The Rocket, went down on one knee to the former Holby City star with a £55,000 diamond rock from Harrods.

The couple, who celebrated last week with a romantic dinner at a restaurant in London’s West End, are now busy ­making plans for the future. They have already bought their ­lovenest... a £2million, six-bedroom mansion in Ronnie’s ­native Essex.

Snooker ace Ronnie O’Sullivan is dating Strictly Come Dancing telly babe Laila Rouass. Rocket Ronnie, 36, has been seeing the 41-year-old star for some months, according to pals.

They were spotted together in public for the first time this week enjoying a coffee in a cafe in Wanstead, not far from Ronnie’s £1million home in Chigwell, Essex.

Celebrity Masterchef is back on BBC Two next month, returning to an evening slot at 6.30pm and with garden designer Diarmuid Gavin and singer Gareth Gates among the contestants.

Also taking part in the John Torode and Gregg Wallace-hosted series will be former Holby City star Laila Rouass, former Neighbours star Anne Charleston and TV presenters Michael Underwood, Zoe Salmon and Richard McCourt,

Holby City star Laila Rouass has explained the reason behind her departure from the show, revealing that she is bowing out to spend more time with her daughter.

Last month, it was announced that Rouass is quitting her role as Sahira Shah on the BBC medical drama after less than a year on screen in the part.
 

Laila Rouass has quit Holby City after just 18 months as top surgeon Sahira Shah because of the show’s “punishing” schedule.

The mother-of-one, 40, will bow out in April or May next year after telling friends she fancied a fresh challenge. An insider said: “She has proved popular so it was a surprise when we heard she’d be leaving. But we still have time to devise an exit.”

Actress Laila Rouass has revealed that she is hoping for a 'low-key' birthday when she turns 40 later this year.

The former Footballers Wives' star, who has joined the cast of Holby City as surgeon Sahira Shah, reaches the milestone age on June 22 but said she is planning to "hide" on that day.

Laila Rouass has made a decision. She’s given up on mourning each birthday that passes, fretting over wrinkles and she’s certainly never having Botox again.

Because she’s had a tough year and coming through it all in one piece has helped her to realise that life really is too short to spend worrying about things that don’t matter.

Laila Rouass is to join the cast of Holby City as new regular character, brilliant surgeon Sahira Shah.

Laila has already started filming with the Holby City team and will be seen on screen in February 2011.

Former Footballers' Wives and Primeval actress Laila Rouass is to join the cast of BBC One’s medical drama Holby City.

The actress will take on the role of new regular character Sahira Shah who will quickly find herself competing with the likes of Jac Naylor (Rosie Marcel).

The cast is an improvement on last year’s C-list selection, and the new professional dancers should shake things up intriguingly.

Well, that will teach Anton Du Beke.

Anton du Beke's wacky Hole in the Wall gameshow has been axed after just two series.

The BBC1 show features celebs in silver body stockings trying to squeeze through shapes in a moving wall as it pushes them towards a pool.

Strictly dancer is star of fashion event

The hearts of Luton ladies were all a-flutter on Monday night when Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke put in an appearance at a fashion show.

Strictly Come Dancing star Laila Rouass has spoken of her heartache after her cousin’s body was pulled out of the Thames.

Ibrahim Gharib, 20, was found dead in “suspicious” circumstances.

Sophia Myles and Laila Rouass are joining the cast of ninth series of Spooks, which has just started filming in London.

The new series of Spooks will introduce a host of new characters who shake things up and give cause for concern as Section D, once again, are left wondering exactly who can really be trusted

The Strictly Come Dancing regular, 43, on being good at the horizontal rumba (saucy), ‘handsome’ Julian Clary giving him the eye, and how he wants Celebs On Sunday to make his dream come true…

Laila Rouass is accustomed to controversy after Anton Du Beke told her Oh my God, you look like a P*** during rehearsals for Strictly Come Dancing.

Now, the star of Footballers’ Wives is to make a film about the life of Leila Khaled, the “poster girl” of Palestinian terrorism.

Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke was rushed to hospital today after losing consciousness.

Du Beke had been due to perform at a "tea dance" hosted by She magazine this afternoon.

Strictly Come Dancing star Erin Boag stepped in and saved the show in Kingston this afternoon, after dance partner Anton du Beke was rushed to hospital after collapsing and losing conciousness at his home this morning.

The pair were due to perform at a £65-a-head tea dance for readers of She magazine at Warren House, Kingston, this afternoon, but Ms Boag received a call from her agent late in the morning saying her fellow TV star has been taken to A&E by ambulance.

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Laila Rouass has criticised TV judges for getting 'too personal', claiming that they sometimes 'overstep the mark'.

The actress, speaking at the Tesco Magazine Mum of the Year awards in London, revealed that she sometimes had to stop herself from answering back on live TV.