Reggie Bird is said to be considering another trip down the aisle with her longtime partner Phillip Jade after returning from the South African jungle.
The two-time Big Brother winner and Matty ‘J’ Johnson competed in the grand finale of I’m A Celebrity! Get Me Out Of Here! on Sunday night, but lost the $100,00 win to NRL star Sam Thaiday.
Reggie returned to Big Brother in 2022 after first winning the series and becoming a household Australian name back in 2003.
The much-loved Aussie battler pocketed the $250,000 prize in Sydney, before exclusively revealing to Woman’s Day that her partner – single dad Philip Jade – was in the live audience.
‘We met four years ago at the local bowls club, up the road from where I live on the Gold Coast. He loves my kids and is an amazing dad,’ she shared.
On Monday, the magazine reported that Reggie would marry the 44-year-old FIFO worker if he popped the question.
Reggie Bird has hinted she is considering another trip down the aisle with her longtime partner Phillip Jade. Pictured together at the Big Brother finale in 2023
The much-loved Aussie battler pocketed the $250,000 prize in Sydney, before exclusively revealing to Woman’s Day that her partner – single dad Philip Jade – was in the live audience
‘Reggie has had really bad luck with relationships until her Prince Charming, the bloke she calls her “knight in shining armour” FIFO worker Phil swept her off her feet,’ a ‘friend’ of the reality star allegedly told the magazine.
‘She would desperately love for Phil to ask her to marry him but he had a messy marriage split the first time around and is that once-bitten, twice-shy type, even though he adores Reggie.’
Reggie divorced her second husband Dale Sorensen, who is also the father of her two children Mia, 18, and Lucas, 15, in 2012.
She wed her first husband Adrian when she was just 21, but the couple divorced shortly after she took the Big Brother crown.
When asked if she would like to marry Phil in 2022, Reggie said, ‘Gosh, I hope so!’
‘It took long enough, but I’ve finally got my Prince Charming.’
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia the same year, Reggie said Phillip was her biggest fan and her sex life ‘has never been better’.
‘He goes away for work, gosh we didn’t see each other for so long during Covid with him working in Western Australia. They couldn’t fly in and fly back so he was stuck, but it’s been great,’ she said at the time.
‘I am very happy in the bedroom, I’ve never been happier with that side of things.’
The couple have now been dating for seven years and share a happy blended family of three children, but do not live together.
Phillip took Reggie to Bali for her 50th birthday in 2024, which is where the reality star has reportedly told friends that she would like to wed.
Opening up about the relationship further on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Reggie recounted how their relationship began to her celebrity campmates.
‘We went back to someone’s house one night to play eight-ball [pool] and we hit it off from there. We didn’t shag or anything, just had a kiss,’ she explained.
‘That’s how we met. We texted now and then and saw each other down the bowls for a drink and sort of just went from there.
Reggie divorced her second husband Dale Sorensen, who is also the father of her two children Mia, 18, and Lucas, 15, in 2012. Pictured: Reggie and her children
‘It took him a while, actually it took about a year.’
She said her partner would ‘never’ consider competing on a reality TV game show because of his shy nature.
‘It’ll be seven years this year. We’re very opposite. He’s introverted and kinda shy. He would never do anything like this,’ she said.
And in a moment that brought Bachelor star Matty J to tears, Reggie explained that one day her rare degenerative eye disease will cause her to go completely blind.
‘I never know when I’ll have my last day when I can see again,’ she told him.
‘That day is going to come, and that is why I am so blessed to be here, to enjoy and see all of this stuff and chuck it in the memory bank, to make the most of it.’
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