The Body Coach star Joe Wicks has revealed how he had a crush on his wife Rosie for eight years before they got together.
The social media superstar, 38, thought the former glamour model, 33, was ‘so hot’ and ‘literally my dream girl’ after he admired her Page 3 shoots during his time working on building sites.
The online PE teacher admitted he even orchestrated his ‘accidental’ first meeting with the bombshell.
He told The Sun: ‘Obviously, I bought newspapers and used to work on a building site. So I’d observed her for seven or eight years in The Sun, Nuts and Zoo.
‘I always thought she was so hot. Literally my dream girl. So, when my friend was DJing at this rave and I knew she was going to be there, I really wanted to meet her… I was just hoping she was a nice person as well.’
The Body Coach star Joe Wicks has revealed how he had a crush on his wife Rosie for eight years before they got together
The social media superstar, 38, thought the former glamour model, 33, was ‘so hot’ and ‘literally my dream girl’ after he admired her Page 3 shoots (pictured in 2008)
Describing Rosie as ‘just as beautiful in person’, Joe explained how the couple’s relationship went into fast-forward mode after meeting at a party the night before his first book came out in 2015.
He added: ‘We became boyfriend and girlfriend, and from there, we just went crazy fast. I was madly in love and couldn’t be apart from her.
‘I was 30, she wanted someone who was committed and I knew early on that I wanted to spend my life with her.’
The couple married in a in fairytale woodland ceremony in June 2019, seven months after confirming their engagement.
Joe and Rosie now have three children together; daughter Indie, five, son Marley, four, and baby daughter Leni, 15 months.
The couple previously revealed they ‘first met and fell in love’ at Coachella festival in California eight years ago.
Beaming from ear-to-ear while posing at the festival in April 2023, Joe labelled it ‘a special place for us’.
He wrote on his Instagram page: ‘Our last day at Coachella. We came here 7 years ago when we first met and fell in love. It’s been a special place for us ever since. Shout out to my mum for having our kids so we could party together again.’
Joe and Rosie now have three children together; daughter Indie, five, son Marley, four, and baby daughter Leni, 15 months
Joe previously revealed meeting Rosie eradicated his fear of marriage – and that he wants to grow old with her and set an example for their little girl.
‘When I was younger I always thought that asking a girl to marry you was such a hard decision, I never understood how anyone could make that choice,’ he told The Sun.
‘But when I grew up and met Rosie, the fear of it going wrong disappeared.
‘I should have done it sooner maybe, but I’m so happy, I want to be like those old couples you see walking down the street holding hands. It is possible, I want to be in that category.’
He added: ‘When Indie is older she’ll go, “Oh look, my mum and dad have been married for 30 years and are still happy”.
‘I want her to believe in love, I wanted to show her that I was going to be there through thick and thin — that I’m never going to bail on them.’
Joe’s first book, Lean in 15: The Shift Plan, sold 77,000 copies in its opening week and he went on to release a further two books in the series the following year.
He became even more successful as the internet’s leading home fitness instructor, with his PE With Joe live workouts, over lockdown following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The former teaching assistant earned a Guinness World Record in 2020 for the most viewers for a YouTube workout livestream with almost a million people tuning in.
The online PE teacher admitted he even orchestrated his ‘accidental’ first meeting with the bombshell (pictured together in August 2021)
