Matty Healy’s mum Denise Welch addresses son’s engagement to Gabbriette Bechte

Denise Welch, the mom of The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, has commented publicly for the primary time on her son’s engagement to mannequin Gabbriette Bechtel.

Followers began speculating that the pair have been engaged after Bechtel, who has been romantically linked to the “About You” singer since September 2023, posted an image of her sporting a black diamond ring on her marriage ceremony finger on Instagram on Tuesday night time (11 June).

Welch, a panellist on ITV’s Free Ladies, then confirmed the rumours whereas showing on the present, telling her co-hosts that she had recognized in regards to the engagement for just a few weeks.

“I wakened this morning to the actual fact they’ve put it on Instagram. Instagram official, he has bought engaged to  Gabbriette Bechtel, Gabbriette, she’s referred to as. She’s from Los Angeles, she is completely beautiful,” mentioned Welch, earlier than bizarrely including: “She does have a rat.”

An image then flashed up on the display screen of Welch and Bechtel embracing, whereas the Free Ladies star holds the rat, named Splinter, in her arms.

“We couldn’t be happier. She is all the pieces I’d need in a daughter-in-law,” mentioned Welch.

She revealed that Healy had a black diamond ring custom-made for Bechtel.

“I’ve recognized for just a few weeks that Matty bought engaged,” she advised her co-stars. “They went over to see their pals Charli and George in New York.”

Welch’s TV look got here simply hours after Healy and Bechtel attended Charli XCX’s present in New York, once they determined to make their engagement “Instagram official”.

The singer and mannequin captioned the Instagram story: “Marrying The 1975 could be very Brat,” in reference to XCX’s new album.

The 1975 frontman seemingly confirmed the proposal information when he reshared his girlfriend’s Instagram publish of the black diamond ring. The mannequin later additionally shared a mirror selfie that seems to point out the ring on her left hand.

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Since Healy began courting Bechtel, Welch has chimed in on the connection and shared messages to the couple on social media.

In October 2023, the mannequin shared a photograph of herself in a leather-based apron and an identical thong, to which Welch commented: “That’s precisely how I hope to look in mine when it arrives!!”

Bechtel, referred to as Gabbriette on social media, is from Orange County, California, and fell right into a modelling profession when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her goals of changing into an expert dancer. She has gone on to work with manufacturers like Diesel, Bottega Veneta and Marc Jacobs.

The mannequin was additionally the lead singer of Nasty Cherry – a woman group fashioned by Charli XCX – in addition to changing into a social media sensation sharing viral cooking movies on-line.

Earlier than the couple started courting, Healy was briefly linked to pop star Taylor Swift after she break up from her boyfriend of six years, British actor Joe Awlyn.

Quite a few the songs on her new album, The Tortured Poets Division, are extensively believed to deal with their relationship.