Former JC columnist and This Morning contributor Vanessa Feltz celebrated her 60th birthday with a surprise on-air performance from her pop star partner.Â
ITV This Morning viewers were treated to a performance by Ben Ofoedu who posed as Feltz's biggest fan before serenading her in front of presenters Holly And Phill.Â
Is anyone else crying? This is the CUTEST thing ever đ happy birthday to our beautiful @VanessaOnAir đ pic.twitter.com/UplIVWcfZD
â This Morning (@thismorning) February 21, 2022
A surprised Feltz accepted a bunch of flowers and wiped away tears brought on by the emotional performance by the singer, best-known for being part of 1990s dance duo Phats and Small.Â
Feltz met Ofoedu through a mutual celebrity friend - Boyzone band member Keith Duffy and the pair have been together for 16 years.
In a 2016 interview with the JC Ofoedu recalled how the pair met.Â
He said: "Vanessa had just done Celebrity Big Brother. He [Keith Duffy] knew we had the same sort of personality and I like my girls round. But we were both seeing people.
"Then OK magazine threw a Christmas party in 2005, and from there we started chatting. It got a lot flirtier."
Ofoedu popped the question a year later. More recently Feltz 59, has admitted her divorce from her doctor ex-husband Michael Kurer 21 years ago made her "wary of getting married again."
Speaking to OK! magazine, about her long engagement she said she would "never say never" to tying the knot again, but hasn't made any plans for a wedding to her new fiancé.
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