Andy Lee announces engagement to long-term girlfriend Rebecca Harding after 10 years of dating

Andy Lee has announced his engagement to girlfriend Rebecca Harding after 10 years together.

The comedian, 42, revealed the exciting news on the latest episode of his Hamish and Andy podcast on May 1.

Speaking with his podcast co-host Hamish Blake, Andy shared intimate details of his proposal, before inviting his fiancée on the show.

‘I asked Bec to marry me on Sunday,’ Andy announced.

‘Is it a bit quick? That’s all I wanna ask,’ Hamish joked.

Andy and Rebecca, who are currently undertaking a $5m renovation project after buying a historic mansion in Melbourne’s east, went to their ‘new old house’ under the guise they needed to film videos for social media ahead of starting the build.

Pretending to get something out of the marble fireplace, Andy was on one knee when he produced a napkin – which symbolised how they met.

Andy and Rebecca met in 2014 at a Melbourne café where she was working as a waitress. The TV personality ended up leaving his email address on a napkin for her, and the rest is history. 

‘When I was down there, I stayed on one knee and I gave her another napkin – because when I first met her at the café, I wrote on a napkin my details – and I gave her another napkin,’ Lee said of the proposal. 

Rebecca and Andy went public with their relationship at the 2015 Australian Open. 

In 2022, the couple confirmed they had briefly split for six months in 2016 after Rebecca felt ‘immense pressure’ dating someone in the public eye.

However, they soon realised they were meant to be during their time apart.

For years, the rumour mill has been spinning with speculation about the pair getting engaged.

In February, Andy was forced to assure The Hundred viewers hadn’t secretly married his longtime sweetheart.

Andy made the announcement as he was responding to a joke from co-star Tom Gleeson, who brought up his well-publicised love life.

‘Andy has got something to announce, he’s just eloped!’ Tom said.

‘Stick around till the end of the show, if that’s the case… It’s not the case,’ Andy hit back. 

 

In 2019, radio host Fifi Box questioned their marital status after the station received an email from a publicist referring to the couple as ‘Andy and his fiancée Bec’.

A month earlier, former Today show host Georgie Gardner had also tried to get a definitive answer on where the couple were in their personal life.

‘Gosh, Andy. She is wife material. Just saying, she is wife material,’ she told Andy, who was a guest on the program.

The funnyman replied: ‘Has my mum been texting you? What the hell is going on?’

Engagement rumours were sparked again in 2020 when Andy posted a photo of Rebecca hiding her left hand while celebrating her 30th birthday.

‘Is there a ring she’s hiding with her left sleeve?’ one eagle-eyed follower wrote, keen to see if the pair were about to share exciting news.