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Could a romantic novel be next in store for Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who has revealed he has become engaged to Taggart actress Emma Currie?
Twice-divorced Welsh, 63, announced the news — with a picture of his Scottish fiancée showing off the emerald sparkler with which he proposed.
'My god. She said yes. P***ing wet day in Scotland but she said yes. So f**k everything else. Never been so happy in my life,' the overjoyed Scot wrote.
Happy news: Could a romantic novel be next in store for Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who has revealed he has become engaged to Taggart actress Emma Currie?
Edinburgh-born Welsh says the couple enjoyed an 'old-fashioned courtship' after meeting up for socially-distanced coffees during lockdown.
Welsh split from American wife Beth Quinn in 2017 after almost 15 years together.
The Trainspotting author recently made a