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Peter Overton's shock revelation about Jessica Rowe

The news readers 'light-bulb' moment. - by Nikki Black
  • 16 Jul 2018

Peter Overton has opened up about the 'light-bulb' moment he had about wife Jessica Rowe back when they were dating.

Speaking to 9Honey, the newsreader said: 'I thought, ‘I can't ask for more in a person. She loves me, she cares for me, she makes me happy – we get on so well'.'

'We really did. We really do.' 

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In that moment, the 9News Sydney reporter called a mutual friend - a jeweller - and asked him to design a ring. The morning he went to pick it up, Rowe asked him to help her mother move furniture. 

Overton recalls: 'I knocked on the door at 7:30 in the morning and said 'I’ve got better things to be doing with my time than [be] here helping you move furniture.’'

Obviously, Rowe's mother was taken aback. 

'And I said, ‘because I’ve got to pick up your daughter's engagement ring.’ Bang, she gave me this bear hug,' Overton said. 

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Overton then rang Jess' father, telling him he planned to propose the following week. 

'Unfortunately, John Rowe cannot keep a secret,' Overton says. 'He said, ‘No, you’ve got to do it today because I won’t be able to contain the news.’'

Continuing, 'So I went back to Jessica’s apartment, and as she got out of the shower – she walked out of the bathroom with a towel around her, sopping wet ­– I said, ‘Will you marry me?’ and gave her this beautiful ring.

'I absolutely knocked her socks off. She didn’t see that coming at a million miles an hour. She said, ‘Of course,’ and screamed, as old Jessica can, hugged me. It was lovely.' 

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Overton and Rowe have been happily married for 14 years and share two daughters - Allegra, 11, and Giselle, 9. 

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Nikki is obsessed with all things celebrity and dreams she is a long-lost Kardashian. You'll find her binging Netflix's latest 'must-watch' show with a jar of Nutella by her side.

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