Double Olympic gold medal winner gets engaged – three years after coming out as gay

DOUBLE gold Olympic medal winner Dame Kelly Holmes is engaged – three years after coming out as gay.

The former athlete popped the question to her girlfriend, massage therapist Louise Cullen, earlier this year.

An insider revealed: “It’s a lovely happy ending after she spent years thinking she was going to be arrested for having gay relationships while she was in the Army.

“It was at a time when homosexuality was still illegal for serving troops.”

The pair have been dating since 2021 after meeting on an online fitness community set up during the pandemic.

Opening up about the relationship two years ago, Kelly said: “She loves me for me. I’m just happy.”

Kelly’s spokeswoman declined to comment.

Last year we revealed how Dame Kelly’s struggle with coming out as gay led to her feeling at a total loss – wondering how she could ever go on.

The champion runner said she thinks she would have won even more gold medals if the decision hadn’t taken its toll on her mental and physical health.

She told Virgin Radio host Steve Denyer: “I had a night where I decided to live or not.

“Over the years I’d been a self-harmer and that night I nearly just thought I’m going to give up.

“I struggled very, very hard that night to keep myself in bed because I knew what would have gone down.”

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