Wellington: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, is engaged to her long-term partner, television presenter Clarke Gayford, her spokesperson confirmed on Friday.
It emerged the couple had got engaged over the Easter weekend in Hawke’s Bay after Ardern was spotted wearing a diamond ring at an event on Friday, reports the Guardian. Ardern and Gayford became a couple after he approached her about a constituency issue in her Auckland electorate of Mount Albert about five years ago.
In June 2018, they became parents to daughter Neve Te Aroha, making Ardern the second PM in history to give birth while in office. The first was the late Benazir Bhutto, Pak’s two-time PM. Gayford, referred to as the “first bloke” in NZ, took time off job as host of a fishing TV show to care for the kid.
