According to a source, the pair are considering knot-tying the knot with One Direction star Louis Tomlinson, and their relationship may be seriously stepping up.
Zara McDermott and Louis Tomlinson could be walking down the aisle, after the former Love Island star helped soothe the singer following a prolonged period of personal grief.
The couple, who started dating just 10 months ago before finally going Instagram official last summer, are said to be more loved-up than ever, with Zara celebrating her 29th birthday in December by posting a snap of herself and Louis cosying up together.
“The best birthday ever with you & the final year of my 20s,” she captioned the pic. Now, the equally smitten former One Direction star is said to be on the verge of proposing.
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A source tells New that “you’ve never seen a couple that adores one another.” They are “so blissfully in love,” according to the couple, “and I think we could soon hear wedding bells.”
Last October, Louis revealed how Zara had even inspired his new album, telling Steven Bartlett’s Diary Of A CEO podcast, “I’m a deeply, deeply romantic person. For me, I have to have been living it – it has to be literal, it has to be real to me.
The record probably would have a slightly different feel if I wasn’t feeling so good, like right now, I wasn’t feeling so in love.
In early December, Louis’ twin sisters Daisy and Phoebe, 21, revealed on their Tea With The Twins podcast that Zara would be spending Christmas with them, saying, “And we’ve got another new [family] member as our brother’s got a new girlfriend, so that will be nice. I think there will be 16 of us in total.”
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Zara came into Louis’ life at just the right moment, with our source revealing how the reality TV regular-turned-documentary maker provided much-needed support for the singer amid a period of personal turmoil.
Doncaster-born Louis was left “beyond devastated” after his former bandmate, Liam Payne, died at the age of 31 the previous October, after falling from a hotel balcony.
The father-of-one, 34, wrote “I feel beyond lucky to have had you in my life, but I’m really struggling with the idea of saying goodbye. I’m reeling with shock. I would like to say goodbye and express my love to you one more time.
Losing Liam was just the latest in a line of tragedies to happen to Louis, who shares a nine-year-old son, Freddie Reign Tomlinson, with his ex-girlfriend, stylist Briana Jungwirth.
In 2016, his mother, Johannah Deakin, passed away from leukaemia aged 43, while three years later his sister, Félicité, 18, died of an accidental drug overdose.
I’ve been to rock bottom and I feel like, whatever my career’s going to throw in front of me, it’s going to be nothing as big or emotionally heavy as that, said Louis, the oldest of seven. I’ve then, strangely, transformed something that’s really dark into something that empowers me and makes me stronger.
After such testing times, our source says Zara – who was previously in a five-year relationship with former Made In Chelsea star Sam Thompson – was a breath of fresh air.
She is a great comfort because Louis has gone through so much, especially since losing his sister and Liam. She truly respects him, claims our source, and she has seen what he has been through, despite all the suffering.
He has a crush on her, she says. This isn’t a showbiz romance; it’s true love. [Zara] is The One, and I believe he has realized that if you want to be happy, you must take action to make sense of it.
Zara has come a long way since her rocky relationship with Sam, which saw her embroiled in a cheating storm that caused them to briefly split.
According to our source, “You’re witnessing a different Zara.” She simply shows him how understanding and kind she is, and he can see why.
“She’s been wonderful, and it’s been a tough time for him because of all his grieving and getting through.” She loves him even more because she has seen his vulnerability.
Our source even goes so far as to say that in the near future, “we could even see a little Louis running around,” adding, “He’s so down to earth, he’s so sweet, and he definitely brings the best out in Zara.”
We’re told that Louis and Zara live surprisingly simple lives away from the celebrity spotlight, despite the fact that Louis may be a global household name as a result of his time with the chart-topping boyband.
“It’s not the showbiz stuff she used to do with Sam,” says our source. “They just like cuddling up, watching Netflix, going for walks. As you’ll see in many of their pictures on Instagram, they’re just out with their bobble hats on, enjoying the small, everyday things in life rather than the big, glitzy showbiz stuff.
“One Direction was one of the biggest boybands ever, but Zara just loves the person inside.”
Source: Mirror
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