An English basketball player stunned his girlfriend by proposing on-court at the Commonwealth Games -- but happily, she accepted.
Jamell Anderson lured Georgia Jones, who plays for Englands women's team, to the centre of the court on Australia's Gold Coast with the help of team-mates.
He then surprised her by getting down on one knee, producing an engagement ring and popping the question.
"I had absolutely no idea," Jones, 28, said. "He told me I was just getting a picture taken."
"Im just in shock," a tearful Jones added, struggling to articulate her emotions.
"Im pretty speechless myself and I knew it was happening," said husband-to-be Anderson, 27.
"Its been on my mind for a while. So now I can just play basketball."
Anderson said his team-mates made for perfect foils to help get Jones onto the court, ostensibly for a celebratory picture after the English men reached the quarter-finals in front of the watching womens team.
"They initiated the plan really well, so that went perfectly," he said.
Englands men beat Cameroon 81-54 to go into the last eight.
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