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Why we kept our engagement secret!

Normally, when you're in love you can't wait to shout it from the rooftops - but not TV's Terasa Livingstone and Manpower hunk Jamie Durie...

The expression on her face says it all - TV's Terasa Livingstone is madly and passionately in love. And who wouldn't be beaming when the man of your dreams is none other than hunky Jamie Durie from Manpower.

The couple have just announced exclusively to New Idea that they plan to marry. In fact, they have been engaged for more than a year but kept their intentions a closely guarded secret.

"We wanted to tell the world, but we were scared it would ruin our careers,' Terasa says.

Their main concern was for Jamie, whose image with Manpower, Australia's highly successful all-male dance act, was built largely on the myth that he was single. At the time Terasa was host of a successful children's TV show.

'We both felt it wasn't the right time to go public,' Terasa, 23, says.

Manpower has strict rules about dancers' personal lives.

'We couldn't be seen to have girlfriends or anything like that,' Jamie says.

But now Jamie has quit Manpower, the loving couple are happy to tell the world about their wedding plans.

'We want everyone to know how happy we are and we don't care who knows we're getting married,' says Terasa, who is a presenter on The Great Outdoors on the Seven network.

Jamie, 27, resigned from Manpower this year, saying that after seven years travelling the world as part of the group, the time was right to settle down.

Although he disliked the constant flying that was part of his job, it was a plane trip that changed his life forever.

Two years ago, Terasa was flying to Los Angeles to discuss future career possibilities with agents. Too excited to sit down, she knelt on her seat to watch the other passengers board the plane.

'And then I saw him!' she gushes. 'This incredibly good-looking man got on and I just thought, "Wow!". Then I realised I recognised who it was - it was Jamie.'

The pair had met five years earlier when a group of friends took a boat trip together. Although Jamie and Terasa were both on the day-long cruise, they were no more than acquaintances.

'When I first saw her on the plane, I thought she had changed so much,' Jamie grins. 'She had turned into a beautiful young woman. She had blossomed.'

Soon after take off, Jamie went to talk to Terasa and the pair chatted for the next 14 hours!

They arranged to meet up in L.A. - but their first date was a disaster.

'The food was so awful we couldn't stop laughing,' Terasa says. 'We clicked instantly and, despite choosing such a bad place, we had a really great time.'

'But I was heading back to Australia soon afterwards and he was touring the world. I liked him very much, and I didn't want to get my hopes up.'

However, Jamie promised he would call her the minute he got back to Australia. Sure enough, two months later, he made the promised telephone call.

Jamie proposed a little more than a year ago - on Terasa's 22nd birthday.

'He kept on staring at me and I thought that was really cute, though I was kind of wondering what his problem was,' she laughs.

'We went to an Italian restaurant we both like and it was there that he asked me to be his wife.'

A nervous Terasa gulped a full glass of champagne after Jamie popped the question, and then she saw the ring he had for her - redesigned from one he used to wear.

'I used to borrow his good luck ring all the time, I love it so much.

'Then I saw that he had remodelled it, adding the diamond. It was so gorgeous!'

As arguably one of Australia's best-looking couples, Terasa knows Jamie will have a lot of disappointed fans when they discover the Manpower hunk is taken - for good!

'I know when he was in Manpower there were a lot of women who thought he was gorgeous,' she says.

'But the best thing is that not only is he fantastic-looking, he has a huge heart as well.

'He is the most loving and generous man I've ever met.

'I knew we were meant to be together when I simply couldn't imagine my future without him in it.'

While busily planning a wedding sometime next year, the couple plan to move into their new four-bedroom house on Sydney's northern suburbs.

'I think we're both incredibly lucky to have each other,' Terasa says.

'I know that one day he is going to get big and fat and I will, too. And that's fine because I can imagine us sitting there together, reading the papers and being very happy just to be with each other.

'And when you're happy and in love, you can't ask anything more than that.'

Story - Donna Walker