Former X Factor star turned Dancing On Ice Saara Aalto is openly gay, but who is her partner?
She’s come a long way from her shaky start in the first few weeks of this year’s series of the X Factor (where she eventually placed second) to become one of the contestants on 2019’s Dancing On Ice, alongside, Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean and Ashley Banjo, but Saara Aalto might just become the UK’s favourite ice skater.
Thirty-one-year-old Saara, revealed her engagement to her partner, Meri Sopanen through an interview with OK Magazine and apparently her girlfriend waited for a quiet moment when they were together at home.
Last August, on their three-year anniversary, her girlfriend popped the question, whilst the singer was in her PJs after a long and happy day.
Saara joked,
“She just said: ‘Oh, we had a lovely day…’ Then: ‘Will you marry me?'”
Meri was quick to point out,
‘We did have candles! I wanted to do it when she wasn’t wearing make-up – I love her soul.’
They moved to London together in 2017, but they have not yet got married.