A Formula 1 driver for 15 seasons, his career was built on speed. And it seems David Coulthard has applied the same talent to his love life.
The retired Scottish racing star, 51, has sparked engagement rumors after his girlfriend Sigrid Silversand was spotted with a giant sparkler on his ring finger just months after this newspaper revealed he had split from wife Karen Minier.
Swedish model Silversand, in her mid-20s, wore the skirt as the couple went shopping in London. The pair were first pictured together in January as they walked hand in hand and shared several kisses in the capital.
In the same month, Amanda Holden also shared a picture of herself and husband Chris Hughes with the couple enjoying a drink in celebration of their older daughter’s birthday.
The retired Scottish racing star, 51, has sparked engagement rumors after his girlfriend Sigrid Silversand was spotted with a giant sparkler on his ring finger
“Celebrating Lexi’s 16th birthday with her godfather David Coulthard and his girlfriend Sigrid and my lub,” she wrote on Instagram. Coulthard was best man at Hughes’ wedding to the Britain’s Got Talent judge.
The former athlete-turned-commentator has not been pictured with his wedding ring since January last year.
He married Belgian TV presenter Minier, 49, in Monaco in 2013. They met in 2005 when she was covering the Grand Prix for French TV channel TF1 and in 2008 they had a son, Dayton.
At the time, Coulthard described the birth as “the start of a fantastic time” in his life and said “winning 13 races seems utterly insignificant in comparison”.
He also once hailed his wife as an “amazing kisser,” and joked, “I did some research to confirm she’s the best.”
Silversand doesn’t often post online about her personal life, but she has spoken openly about being single before.
In 2017, she shared a snap of her model’s wedding dresses and wrote, “Just because you’re single [as f***] doesn’t mean you can’t have a ton of fake weddings.
Coulthard was previously engaged to American model Heidi Wichlinski and was in a relationship with Brazilian model Simone Abdelnour.
A spokesman for Coulthard wanted to downplay talk of an engagement.
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