Newly-engaged Emily Atack shared stunning snaps from her romantic French Pyrenees getaway with fiancé Alistair Garner on Sunday.
The Rivals star, 35, who announced the hunk had popped the question on Friday, looked gorgeous in a plunging black bikini top and colourful bottoms while soaking up the sunshine.
Emily and a shirtless Alistair enjoyed lollypops as they relaxed on the lawn before enjoying a glass of wine and a cooling soak in the pool.
Loving every moment of her trip the actress branded her rustic rental home’s views ‘heaven on earth’ and gushed: ‘Could stay forever’.
Emily revealed the happy news of her engagement alongside a loved up snap with her shirtless fiancé on Friday.
The couple, who welcomed son Barney in June 2024, looked happier than ever as they beamed for the camera while also showing off the stunner’s dazzling diamond ring, which appeared to be a square cut rock on an elegant gold band.
Newly-engaged Emily Atack, 35, shared stunning snaps from her romantic French getaway with fiancé Alistair Garner on Sunday
The Rivals actress, who announced the hunk had popped the question on Friday, looked gorgeous in a plunging black bikini top and colourful bottoms while soaking up the sunshine
Emily gushed in the caption: ‘It’s Friday, I’m in love’ while fans and famous friends rushed to the comments to offer their congratulations.
Laura Whitmore wrote: ‘Yassssss! Delighted for you both you cuties xxx’, while Fleur East said: ‘Woooo! Let’s gooo!!! Congrats’ and Sophie Ellis Bextor shared applause emojis.
Tilly Kepper typed: ‘Congratulations!!’ followed by Emily’s Rivals co-star Bella Maclean who gushed: ‘AHHHHHHHHHHH’.
The actress has known her boyfriend Alistair for almost three decades as her mother is the sister of Alistair’s stepmother Jane Garner.
They were introduced after Emily’s aunt started dating Alistair’s father Stephen Garner in the early nighties before they got married in 1994.
Writing in her 2019 autobiography Are We There Yet?, Emily gave clues as to why she’s ended up in a relationship with Alistair, 38, because her cousins ‘understand each other on a deep level.’
She says: ‘Cousins are the best invention since the Game Boy. They are basically 50 per cent sibling, 50 per cent mate. You look the same but different…
‘You understand each other on a deep, deep, level and you have a smidgen more social etiquette towards them than your brother or sister…
The couple loved happier than ever on the family trip alongside baby son Barney
Emily and a shirtless Alistair enjoyed lollypops as they relaxed on the lawn before enjoying a glass of wine and a cooling soak in the pool
Loving every moment of her getaway the actress branded her rustic rental home’s views ‘heaven on earth’ and gushed: ‘Could stay forever’
Emily revealed the happy news of her engagement alongside a loved up snap with her shirtless fiancé on Friday
‘It makes me sad for my friends who don’t have that relationship with their cousins, because mine were the best friends I ever had. They are still my best friends to this day.’
Emily rarely comments on her private life but has now admitted that she feels as if she has ‘won the lottery’ with the little one, and added that she couldn’t have gone through the ‘difficult labour’ with anyone but her partner.
She told HELLO! magazine last year: ‘I couldn’t ask for a better partner and Al is the only person on this earth that I could have done this with.
‘It was a very difficult birth and after 12 hours of labour I ended up having an emergency caesarean, but he was so calm.’
Emily also described Alistair as her ‘literal rock’ and can not picture her life with anyone else.
She added: ‘All the cliches of life become true when you fall in love and have a baby. He’s my rock, but he really, literally, is my rock; I couldn’t do life with anyone else but him.’
She explained that they had hoped to have a family of their own after a year of dating and discovered her pregnancy in November 2023 when she realised she had missed a period.
The couple welcomed son Barney together last June (pictured as a family)
Emily had known Alistair for more than 30 years by the time they struck up a relationship, and it was later revealed that he is her auntie’s stepson
Emily gushed in the caption: ‘It’s Friday, I’m in love’ while fans and famous friends rushed to the comments to offer their congratulations
She told The Times: ‘[Alistair] joked, “Let’s buy a pregnancy test then” We did and I was pregnant.
‘It was the happiest, most perfect day of my life. Not long afterwards, he packed all his stuff in a van in Manchester where he lived and arrived at my house.’
The actress explained that shortly after this, they bought a house together and Barney conveniently arrived the day after they finished unpacking.
Emily has a large number of cousins courtesy of the sprawling families of both her parents, actress Kate and singer father Keith Atack, who split in 2007.
Alistair hails from her mother’s side, being the stepson of Kate’s sister Jane who married his father Stephen Garner, who passed away in the summer of 2023, leaving Emily devastated.