Thousands of hearts broke when Benedict Cumberbatch announced his engagement and now the actor has spoken about his relationship with Sophie Hunter.
The actor was honoured at the British Independent Film Awards last night and attended the ceremony with his new fianceé.
While the couple have been notoriously private about their relationship, he told attendees that getting engaged had overtaken his professional success as "the most important thing" to happen to him during the past year.
"I've had the most important news of my life. That's also sort of private, I don't want to talk about that too much. But my engagement to the woman I love is obviously the most important thing of 2014 for me," he said.
Cumberbatch recently spoke of the reasons why he had fallen for his 36-year-old partner, saying she's "just so cool".
"She's proud of my work, she's proud of me, and she loves me. That's the bottom line, isn't it? That's one of the reasons it's a good fit. It could be a really difficult thing, but she's just so in command of it."
