Meet Steven Bartlett's yoga-loving fiancée Melanie Lopes as he pops the question after seven years

Steven Bartlett proposed to his long-time, yoga-loving girlfriend Melanie Lopes on Christmas Day during a romantic trip in Morocco.

But the joyful news may have come as a surprise to his fanbase as the Dairy Of A CEO podcaster has never featured his new fiancée on social media.

Unlike Melanie, Steven often appears in her posts on Instagram which document their life together in Los Angeles.

The couple, both 33, who first met on Instagram in 2016 and have been together for seven years, both reside in LA and are heavily focused on their retrospective careers.

French-Portuguese Melanie is a yoga entrepreneur and the founder of Bali Breathwork, which hosts seven-day women's retreats and events focusing on 'self-love, empowerment and sisterhood' around the globe.

Melanie describes herself as a breathwork master and embodiment mentor as well as a successful entrepreneur.

She has guided thousands through the power of conscious breath to 'release, remember, and return home to themselves'.

The bride-to-be is also focused on building her social media page on Instagram, which sits at 137,000 followers, for her yoga community.

Multimillionaire Steven, who is also a star of Dragons' Den and is said to be worth £320million, dated Melanie for a year before the couple briefly split as he focused on building his business empire. 

However, after realising he could not live without her, Steven flew 22 hours to Bali, where Melanie at the time was running a yoga retreat, to win her back, and their relationship has gone from strength to strength ever since. 

Daily Mail revealed the joyful news that the pair got engaged earlier this week. 

Revealing more about the proposal, Steven said he had been planning the ring for years. He said: 'About four years ago, she was talking about engagement rings with a friend, and I was looking over her shoulder and looking at the ones she liked, and I was looking at her Pinterest, and saving the ones she said she really liked.

'So, I've had this folder in my phone for like three or four years of the ones she said she liked. And we were in New York yesterday, and there's a jeweller in New York that some of my friends that I really trust told me to go see, and they made the ring for us.'

Steven said he used to fear while he was successful he would be lonely in a big house.

He said: 'Mel helps me anchor. And then I’ll have kids and a family and responsibilities and dependencies.

'And that’s what I think it takes to be a good man, but also a good human being. I’m very excited about depending on other people and having other people depend on me.'

Speaking about Melanie further on Maggie Sellers Reum's Hot Smart Rich podcast, Steven added: 'She knows me better than anybody, because she gets to see it all. When she says things, I listen very intently. She’s very special.

'In many respects, she’s like everything that I’m not. She’s like an angel that fell from the sky. That’s kind of how I describe it to my friends.

'We’ve been together for almost seven years now, and she’s very much what I’m aspiring to be. She’s what I’m aspiring to be more like.'

Steven is best known as the host of The Diary of a CEO podcast, which regularly tops the UK charts and attracts millions of streams each month thanks to its engaging interviews and A-list guests.

Since launching in 2017, Steven has interviewed a wide range of high-profile figures, from Kamala Harris to Louis Tomlinson, Davina McCall, Lewis Capaldi, and Simon Cowell.

He is also the youngest Dragon on BBC's Dragons' Den, appearing alongside Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden, and is regularly seen investing in new and emerging business ventures.

Steven, who moved to the UK from Botswana at the age of two, dropped out of university at 18 to pursue his ambitions as a businessman.

He fell out with his parents, particularly his mother, who was 'heartbroken' after believing Steven had thrown away the education she never had growing up.

However, Steven found success with his social media marketing agency, The Social Chain, which was valued at £300million when it first entered the stock market.

He is set for a busy year; alongside wedding planning, Steven will return to the upcoming series of Dragons' Den and continue recording his podcast, one of the most successful in the world.

In October last year, his company Steven.com, which houses his media ventures, including the firm Flight Story, was valued at £320million.

Steven has said this will help him 'build the Disney of the creator economy,' referring to the multi-billion-pound industry of influencers who make a living through streaming and posting on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube.