Dave Hughes has admitted that he thought Mel B’s fiance was her hairdresser and didn’t know that they were together.
Dave worked with Mel B – and her fiance – on the latest season of The Masked Singer. He revealed that despite spending a lot of time with them, he didn’t actually realise they were a couple.
“His name is Rory – he’s her confidante, her best friend, and a man I got to know when Mel B was filming The Masked Singer this year. He was always in her dressing room. I would come in quite often and hang out with Mel B,” he said on 2Day FM’s Hughesy, Ed & Erin breakfast show.
“No, not that I saw. Maybe I wasn’t looking close enough. I’ve got to be honest – I didn’t realise they were a couple. I thought Rory was her employee; that it was a professional relationship,” he said.
While Dave wasn’t aware that Mel B and Rory were in a relationship, he did vouch for Rory and called him a “great guy” .
“He would always talk sense. He’s very measured; he’s not an ego guy – I know her previous boyfriends have been ego guys. I would occasionally try to give my wisdom to Mel when she was annoyed about things, and I remember Rory at one point going, ‘Listen to him. Listen to him, Mel,’” he said.
While the happy couple hasn’t publicly confirmed their engagement yet, The Sun reported that Rory proposed to Mel with a $177,000 champagne-coloured diamond ring at the UK’s luxury country hotel Cliveden House.
Love Film & TV?
Get your daily dose of everything happening in music, film and TV in Australia and abroad.
“Mel is so happy and this is such a big deal for her because she has been though such a lot,” a source told The Sun.
“It has taken a huge amount for a man to get her to trust him and to believe in love again.
“Rory is from her home town, Leeds. He’s known her for years. He’s the absolute opposite of so many of the guys she’s had relationships with.
“He is a really normal, down-to-earth guy, with good morals who has worked incredibly hard to build his own business and a family business. He’s not flash or interested in the limelight.”
For more on this topic, follow the Film and TV Observer.
