Sophie Monk Is Engaged!

Sophie Monk has announced her engagement to Jimmy Esebag

Sophie Monk announced her engagement to businessman Jimmy Esebag this morning on the Kyle and Jackie O Show, where she is working as Jackie O’s maternity leave cover.

Esebag, 50, proposed to Monk, 31, in their favourite LA restaurant with a “chandelier”-sized diamond that was designed by a jeweller friend.

Monk explained the pair had been friends for some time before getting together, saying, “It’s been going on for a while and I knew him for a while before that, too … I did a meeting with him ages ago.”

Her co-host, Kyle Sandilands, teased her about her French fiancé, saying, “He’s French! So you know he’s a good lover.”

Monk kept the joke going, saying, “He definitely is, which is good, one of us has to be a good lover.”

Sandilands gave him the thumbs up. “I’ve met the gentleman in question, top guy, very nice, very blue eyes.”

Esebag, who Monk describes as a male version of herself, is chairman of America's Licensing Holding Group, which owns the rights to the Playboy brand, and is also involved with Elite Modelling Agency.

Monk, who has been living in LA for five years, was engaged to Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden in 2007, and has also been romantically involved with Entourage’s Kevin Connelly and E! host Ryan Seacrest.

"It's going to be a good year," Monk wrote on Facebook earlier this year. "My best friend of a long, long time just happens to be my soul partner. Funny how life takes you where you are finally meant to be."

The couple had just rung in the New Year with friends on a Mexican Beach. "NYE was so fun, spraying champagne in the ocean, kept trying to catch it in my mouth lol," Monk wrote.

Monk is due to finish up on the Kyle and Jackie O Show at the end of this week, as Jackie O has confirmed her return to the radio show.

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