British diver and TV personality Tom Daley has become engaged to long-term boyfriend Dustin Lance Black.
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Dustin Lance Black is an Academy award victor for Best Original Screenplay for Milk, and is an LGBT activist, whilst Tom is qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics Games and a bronze medal holder from the 2012 Olympics.
News of their relationship came to light following Tom’s decision to come out in a YouTube video which went viral in 2013 stating he was “seeing a guy”. He said: “It gave me the hope that one day I could live my life openly as who I am and maybe even I could fall in love and one day get married”.
“It really was love at first sight”, Daley later told ITV’s Jonathan Ross.
Recalling the first time he met his beau, he revealed: “I’d never felt like anything like it before”.
Tom was uncharacteristically bold, popping his number in Dustin’s phone – and the rest is romantic history.
Until now Tom has made all the big announcements in his life over social media, using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to break news to his fans. “I was terrified. I did not know what the reaction was going to be”, he said.
They celebrated their second anniversary together earlier this year with a series of moving messages, gushing with love for each other.
There is a 20 year age gap between the couple, Dustin is 41 and Tom is 21, but they haven’t let that deter them.
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Despite the age difference, the couple has been deeply committed to each other these past two years.
