Olly Murs fell for fiancée when she 'saw him at his worst' after Caroline Flack’s death
09.10.2022 - 09:55
/ ok.co.uk
Stripping down to his boxers in between outfit changes, Olly Murs has the confidence of someone who knows he’s in the best shape of his life. Not just physically, but mentally too.The ever-endearing pop star is keen to give credit where it’s due – he’s quit drinking and is following a diet and training plan designed by his fiancée Amelia Tank. “I was eating f**king everything,” admits Olly at our cover shoot at a barber shop in north London.
“I’d be like, ‘What’s that? Percy Pigs. Bang. Jaffa Cakes, ham sandwich, Chinese.
Bang. Anything in my hand, gone. I got big!” Olly returns this week with his first new music in four years.
It was during this lengthy hiatus, and after four years of being single, that Olly met bodybuilder and fitness model Amelia, 30, at an Essex gym in 2019. Since then, she’s supported him through some of the darkest, most challenging times in his life. She was by his side when, while on holiday in Bali in 2020, Olly heard the devastating news that his dear friend Caroline Flack had died.
And in February this year, she secretly nursed him back to health after emergency knee surgery left him unable to walk for 12 weeks, leading him to fear his performing career was over. It’s no wonder then that Olly, 38, proposed last June. “I knew after six months of being with Amelia, genuinely, this is it,” says the singer.
“I thought at the time, ‘I can’t propose now, it’s too soon, she’ll run a mile!’ Then lockdown came and what happened with Caz came. It was a f**ked-up time. Amelia saw me at my worst, at my lowest, proper bad.” This week marks a new dawn for Olly, who is making his music comeback on label EMI after deciding to part ways with Sony, which launched him to superstardom 12 years ago.