{"id":360426,"date":"2025-08-20T21:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:44:14","slug":"sam-fender-we-got-engaged-at-our-favourite-artists-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360426\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fender: &#8216;We got engaged at our favourite artist&#8217;s gig&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A couple who bonded over their love for Sam Fender on their first date have spoken about the &#8220;perfect&#8221; moment when they got engaged at one of his gigs. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Hughes, 32, got down on one knee to propose to 24-year-old Sophie de Grey as Fender played Hypersonic Missiles, the final song of his concert in Manchester&#8217;s Wythenshawe Park on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie said the proposal, which she excitedly accepted, felt &#8220;like a blur&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dan turns me around and I remember thinking &#8216;I do actually want to listen to this [song]&#8217;, but then I realised he was down on one knee,&#8221; she told the BBC. &#8220;Fireworks went off so it was literally just perfect timing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple who bonded over their love for Sam Fender on their first date have spoken about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-360426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115063283125803180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}