EastEnders’ star Toby-Alexander Smith announces engagement to Emmerdale actress Amy Walsh

EastEnders star Toby-Alexander Smith has announced he is engaged to Emmerdale actress Amy Walsh.

The actor, who played villain Gray Atkins in the BBC soap, popped the question to his Bradford-born girlfriend and announced the news on social media.

He posted a snap of the pair with Amy flashing her engagement ring, captioned: “So this happened…💍🙏❤️”

Amy plays Tracy Metcalfe in ITV soap and will be returning later this year to the show after her maternity leave.

She shared her own set of snaps from the evening Toby popped the question, captioned: “Before. During. After. 💞💎”

The series of images showed the couple enjoying dinner in Ibiza in front of the sunset, while the last image saw Amy with the rock on her finger.

Various celebrities rushed to congratulate the pair, not least Amy’s sister, Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh.

“Too exciting!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️” she wrote on Toby’s post.

Kimberley then added on her sister’s announcement: “The best news 💫♥️🙌🏼”

Tony Clay, who plays Callum in EastEnders, commented: “Love this! Congrats mate!! ❤️ x”

Michelle Hardwick, aka Vanessa in Emmerdale, added: “Gorgeous couple ♥️♥️”

Danielle Harold, who stars as Albert Square’s Lola, also wrote: “congratulations you guys xx

The news comes after the couple welcomed a daughter, Bonnie Mae, into the world in January.

Amy, 34, said of the name when she announced it: “Whenever we hypothetically talked about our family, we always said ‘our little Bonnie’. When she came, she couldn’t have been more of a Bonnie.”

Toby joked his daughter wasn’t the first Bonnie in the family, adding: “My parents had two King Charles spaniels and one was called Bonnie – but that had no part in it!”

Amy continued: “Her middle name is Mae.

“We wanted something with one syllable that went with her first name and surname, Smith.”