By Desire Emmanuel, with Agency Reports
Bukayo Saka, Arsenal Football Club forward, has got engaged to his long-term girlfriend, Tolami Benson.
Saka was said to have asked the ‘love of his life’ to marry him on a romantic date in a fancy London hotel.
Saka and Benson, a senior planning executive, are believed to have started dating back in 2020 and largely keep their relationship under wraps.
A source told The Sun of UK: “Bukayo went all out for the proposal – and the ring he chose is absolutely enormous. He organised a special night at a top London hotel and proposed there. It was incredibly special and Tolami was totally blown away.”
Saka and Benson, both 24, have generally kept their involvement together off-grid. They still don’t share photos of each other on Instagram; nor do they follow each other.
The pair finally went public at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar when they were pictured embracing in the stands in Doha.
Since then, there were a few snippets of them together. Benson was again cheering Saka on from the stands at Euro 2024 – there was even a kiss after England’s 0-0 draw with Slovenia in June last year.
At England’s 1-0 win over Serbia at the tournament, she wore a custom-made leather biker jacket emblazoned with ’87’ – the same number that Saka wore on his jersey as he broke into the Arsenal senior side in 2018-19.
Across Benson’s social media accounts, while there were plenty of references to Arsenal, including friendships with fellow Premier League WAGS including Ben White’s wife Milly and Leandro Trossard’s wife Laura, there’s little sign of the winger.
Benson lives in Hatfield, Hertfordshire and studied public relations and media at Birmingham City University.
She has previously worked on the shop floor at Harrods but has been in PR for a number of years.
In May, she started a new gig as a senior planning executive for Zenith.
