Kate Walsh reveals how she met her Australian fiancé Andrew Nixon

Actress Okayate Walsh has revealed how she met her now fiancé, WA farmer Andrew Nixon.

The Gray’s Anatomy star confirmed that their ‘meet cute’ did actually happen on a visit to Antarctica in early 2020, as rumoured, throughout an look on The Kelly Clarkson Present .

“We met, as one does, on a Nat Geo expedition to Antarctica,” Walsh mentioned, earlier than joking to the studio viewers “there’s an app for it guys”.

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Clarkson in disbelief thought the actress was being sarcastic.

“No, I did. We have been on a ship to the Antarctic and that is how I met him,” Walsh clarified.

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“What? This is sort of a film,” Clarkson replied.

“Who knew,” Walsh added of the fateful journey.

The Emily in Paris actress instructed the singer-turned-talk present host that because of the local weather disaster she wished to see each the Arctic and Antarctica.

Having ticked off the North Pole, she went to discover the South Pole on a visit that modified her life.

“It was unbelievable. It was an unbelievable journey after which bonus, , discovered the love of my life,” Walsh mentioned.

“Noticed the penguins, test. Ice, test. Whales, test. Man, test,” she joked.

“It is a fairly good journey I believe,” Clarkson replied.

Following the Antarctica journey in February 2020, Walsh moved to Perth throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns the next month.

That transfer seems to turn out to be extra everlasting with the couple set to tie the knot.

The couple secretly acquired engaged final yr, with the actress unintentionally outing their marriage plans throughout an Instagram Stay in October.

Speaking about their new life in Perth, the Gray’s Anatomy star instructed Clarkson about how she’s already used to shark alarms on the seashore and driving on the opposite facet of the street.

Though she admitted when she will get drained or careworn “it is like some outdated working system clicks in” and she or he finds herself forgetting to drive on the right facet.

Walsh additionally instructed a narrative about being so afraid of hitting a kangaroo throughout a two hour drive to Nixon’s farm outdoors Perth, she spent the entire automobile journey honking as a warning system for the animals.

The actress and entrepreneur revealed her “new homeland” of Australia has additionally impressed one of many newest candles in her Boyfriend Fragrance vary, known as Down Underneath.

Whereas one other is cheekily named Morning W’oud.

“It’s all double entendre,” Walsh mentioned of the vary impressed by an ex-boyfriend.

Walsh and Nixon made their crimson carpet debut collectively on the Emily in Paris Season 3 premiere final December.

Nixon, who has been a farmer for greater than 30 years, generally options on Walsh’s Instagram Tales, although Walsh largely retains his presence in her life beneath wraps and would not share pictures of him to her everlasting feed.

Walsh has been married as soon as earlier than, tying the knot with producer Alex Younger again in September 2007.

The couple break up the next yr earlier than finalising their divorce in February 2010.

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