Ellie Goulding announces engagement to boyfriend Caspar Jopling after 18 months of dating

The British pop star revealed the news with an announcement in The Times 
Set to wed: Ellie Goulding will marry boyfriend Caspar Jopling
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Jennifer Ruby7 August 2018
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Singer Ellie Goulding has announced her engagement to art dealer boyfriend Caspar Jopling after dating for 18 months.

The British pop star, 31, revealed the news in a formal announcement in Tuesday’s edition of The Times.

It read: “Mr C.W.F. Jopling and Miss E.J. Goulding.

“The engagement is announce between Caspar, son of The Hon Nicholas Jopling of Yorkshire and Mrs Jayne Warde-Aldam of Yorkshire, and Elena, daughter of Mr Arthur Goulding of Hertfordshire and Mrs Tracey Sumner of West Midlands.”

The couple recently moved in together after their relationship became serious and split their time between London and New York.

Goulding recently told the Standard that she was “really, really happy” with the former Youth Olympics rower but was amused by reports that he is a professional athlete.

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“We’re really, really happy together. I’m loving my life at the moment. But people keep saying Caspar is a Team GB rower — it’s kind of got out of hand now but we find it really funny. He is most definitely an art dealer now,” she said.

Jopling represented Team GB at the Youth Olympics in 2010, but he is no longer a sportsman. He even teases this on his Twitter page, writing in his biography: “Not an athlete.”

Goulding is currently in the process of writing her fourth studio album and is doing a lot of solo writing.

“I have sort of gone back to basics and am doing a lot of the writing on my own,” she said.

"I mostly collaborated with songwriters on the first three albums, so this is a step in a new direction.”

She added: “I am very happy but I do realise you need some darkness to draw on to create the best music.”

Goulding previously dated McFly’s Dougie Poynter and Radio One DJ Greg James, who also recently announced his engagement.

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