Nikki Gil engaged to non-showbiz boyfriend

MANILA, Philippines - Nikki Gil admitted in a television interview that she is already engaged to her non-showbiz boyfriend BJ Albert.

“I’m confirming it. Yes, I got engaged last year,” she said in a taped interview with Mj Felipe, aired in ABS-CBN’s late night news program “Bandila” aired Friday.

According to the report, Nikki and Albert are set to get married this year.

The 27-year-old actress-singer said Albert proposed to her on December 13, 2014.

“First, he asked my parents, siyempre,” she recalled on how the engagement happened. “Then, may pakulo na may corporate event ako. And then, pagdating doon, he asked. When I said yes at medyo nag-sink in na sa akin, all of my friends came out.”

She has been in a relationship with BJ for a year.

Nikki acknowledged some may think is too soon for them to get married. But the MYX VJ said, “Wala sa number of years yan, e. I would have wanted that kind of story na mahaba yung history ninyo. But, it doesn’t always follow, e.”

Nikki was in a relationship with Kapamilya actor-host Billy Crawford for almost five years before they broke up in 2013.