Busted singer and bassist Matt Willis has said his TV star wife Emma Willis was “devastated” by his “embarrassing” wedding proposal. Speaking on the Newlyweds podcast, Matt, 41, said he had taken Emma to Venice in Italy, for her birthday, to propose. He had planned to ask her out in a restaurant, but after hearing English Busted fans on another table, he ended up asking her to marry him on the Rialto Bridge, which he had “never heard of”.
Matt Willis proposed to Emma on Venice’s Rialto Bridge (John Walton/PA) The Busted star said of his proposal: “When I proposed, she was devastated, deadly embarrassed, so embarrassed. “I took her away to Venice for a birthday, I had organised this restaurant, which is really nice, and I was going to propose at the table in front of everyone. “It’s in Venice, no-one will be English.
(We) sit down and there’s a table full of English people there. “I hear someone singing a Busted song at one point, and I’m like this is going to go terribly wrong. “I was like ‘right this isn’t going to work, so what do I do now?’ “So then we had to walk around Venice trying to find somewhere to propose, and that’s not my vibe.
I don’t know where I’m going.” Emma, who presents Love Is Blind UK alongside her husband, added: “We had dinner and he was really weird, he suddenly turned before we even went to dinner, he didn’t really talk to me, he was a bit twitchy. “And I was like, this is really f***** up, if he’.