Patsy Kensit set to marry for the fifth time as she gets engaged to boyfriend after just five weeks

PATSY Kensit is to marry for the fifth time – after secretly getting engaged to her boyfriend of just five weeks.

The former Emmerdale actress, 54, said ‘yes’ after her property tycoon lover, Patrick Cassidy, got down on one knee during a fish supper on Tuesday night.

It comes three months after she hinted she’d never marry again, and after claiming she had only had “two significant marriages” – to Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher.

Last night a friend said: “This has been a complete whirlwind romance.

“Both Patsy and Patrick are smitten, and it just feels very right. He popped the question at Scott’s in London on Tuesday, and after she celebrated they took over the bar at the nearby Connaught hotel and bought the whole room Cristal champagne.

“They’ve only officially been together a matter of weeks but Patsy is going with her heart.”

Patsy was introduced to her latest beau, a multi-millionaire property developer, through mutual pals.

Speaking in a podcast in June, Patsy revealed that she only counts the fathers of her children as her ‘significant’ marriages, after joking she had tied the knot with everyone she dated.

She said: “Well, I married all my boyfriends, so … that was something that I’ve learned I needn’t do.

“I can’t change the rules of the law… [but] I was with Jim, and Lennon’s dad for years, so I kind of count them as my two marriages.

“I know that’s not allowed, I know there was a ceremony. But I feel that those were the really significant relationships and very, very deep and wonderful in so many ways.”

Her second marriage was to Jim Kerr, from 1992 to 1996, with whom she shares her son James, whilst her third was to the Oasis rocker. The couple, who have a son, Lennon, 21, split in 2000 after three years together.

Her first marriage to musician Dan Donovan ended in 1991 whilst her fourth was to DJ, Jeremy Healy, 60, from whom she split after just one year in 2010.

Patsy, who appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2015, also said that she would never walk down the aisle again during her time on the show.

She insisted: “I basically married all of my boyfriends. ‘I’m a hopeless romantic and wanted them all to work.

“[But] I don’t think I will ever get married again – I think I’ve ruined the sanctity of it.”