Acid attack survivor Katie Piper announces her engagement to boyfriend

TV Presenter and acid attack survivor Katie Piper has got engaged to her long-time partner.
The 31-year-old announced the news on Twitter this morning, telling fans that boyfriend James, a carpenter, had asked her to tie the knot.

She wrote: ‘So excited to tell you all………….. I became someone’s fiancé last night! I’m engaged to be married’.


It is believed her boyfriend proposed at the end of a romantic evening, after Piper posted a picture on Instagram of the meal of baked cod capers cooked by James, who is also the father of her daughter, Belle Elizabeth, born in March this year.

The couple first met after being introduced by a mutual friend, and she has previously praised her fiancée for bringing normality to their relationship.

She said: ‘He’s a normal guy with a normal job, quite private and that’s what I liked about him. He hasn’t read the new book. I made him read the first one and he got angry. I suppose he feels protective over me but he can’t change the past.’

She continued: ‘You’d never normally talk about medical problems after dating for six weeks. But I’d had a nose operation which left a hole with pus and snot dripping out.’

‘On top of that, they’d taken cartilage out of my rib so I had a tube draining out body fluid. And because I couldn’t put weight on that side I bought this pink, flowery, flick-out waking stick from Robert Dyas’.

‘But honestly, he did not care. So after it all healed, I was like, ‘Wow, this guy is definitely not shallow’.

Piper was only 24 when ex-boyfriend Danny Lynch, who had previously stabbed the star, organised for sulphuric acid to be thrown in her face as she left her London flat.

He was jailed for a minimum of 12 years.

She has since undergone 100 re-constructive operations, as well as establishing the Katie Piper foundation.