The Script’s frontman Danny O’Donoghue is engaged.
Danny O’Donoghue proposed to his girlfriend of four years Anais Niang, 30, during a holiday in Norway.
It comes 17 months after bandmate Mark Sheehan died aged 46 after a brief, undisclosed illness, leaving Danny devastated.
Danny O’Donoghue met Anais during the covid pandemic and took her to his ‘favourite place on earth’, The Seven Sisters waterfall to get down on one knee.
‘We hiked up to the top of a mountain to face the most beautiful waterfall in the world, The Seven Sisters. It’s our favourite place on earth.,’ Danny told The Sun.
‘I nearly passed out from exhaustion carrying up all the champagne, glasses and food for if she said yes. I had to do it all without her knowing.
‘When you know, you know… I knew when it wasn’t right, but now I know whatever that is, that it’s 100 per cent right.’
Anais is French and an events manager. She was living in London when she met Danny O’Donoghue.
He said back in 2021 when he first went public with their romance: ‘We actually live in the same part of London, and up until now we’ve mainly just been hanging out at home. My mum loved her, and they offered her lots of tea.’
The band have just released their first album, Satellites, since the death of bandmate Mark.
Danny formed the successful rock band alongside Mark and drummer Glen Power in 2001.
Mark and Danny had been best friends from the age of 12 and were previously members of a band called Mytown, which was formed in 1996.
Danny explained while he would feel happy if ‘the band stopped today’, Mark’s family will benefit monetarily from everything The Script does going forward and he wants to help Mark’s wife Rina and three children with their future.
Mark left his £9.4million fortune to his family.
The guitarist and father-of-three lived in America with his wife Rina. He died in hospital on April 14, 2023 following a brief, undisclosed illness.
Their band’s statement said: ‘Much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness’.
It continued: ‘The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time.’
Danny says he thinks Mark would have loved their new album and the title track.
“There was one song which he heard, which he really loved, which was the song Satellites that I know he loved. And although we didn’t work on it together, I know he loved that tune and he loved the lyric in it,’ he told the Daily Star.