Body Coach star Joe Wicks has revealed he had a crush on his wife Rosie for eight years before they got together.
The social media superstar, 38, found the former glamor model, 33, “so hot” and “literally my dream woman” after admiring her shoots during his time on construction sites.
The online PE teacher admitted he even staged his “accidental” first meeting with the bombshell.
He told The Sun: “Obviously I bought newspapers and worked on a building site. “So I watched her for seven or eight years in The Sun, Nuts and Zoo.
“I always thought she was so hot.” My dream woman in the truest sense of the word. “When my friend was DJing at this rave and I knew she was going to be there, I really wanted to meet her… I was just hoping she would be a nice person too.”
Body Coach star Joe Wicks has revealed he had a crush on his wife Rosie for eight years before they got together
The social media superstar, 38, found the former glamor model, 33, “so hot” and “literally my dream woman” after admiring her photo shoots (pictured in 2008)
Joe described Rosie as “equally beautiful in person” and explained how the couple's relationship went into overdrive after they met at a party the night before the release of his first book in 2015.
He added: “We became boyfriend and girlfriend and from then on we quickly went crazy. “I was madly in love and couldn't be away from her.
“I was 30, she wanted someone committed, and I knew early on that I wanted to spend my life with her.”
The couple married in a fairytale forest ceremony in June 2019, seven months after confirming their engagement.
Joe and Rosie now have three children together; Daughter Indie, five, son Marley, four, and little daughter Leni, 15 months.
The couple previously revealed that they first met and fell in love eight years ago at the Coachella festival in California.
Joe was beaming from ear to ear as he posed at the festival in April 2023, calling it “a special place for us.”
He wrote on his Instagram page: “Our last day at Coachella.” We came here 7 years ago when we first met and fell in love. It has been a special place for us ever since. “Shout out to my mom for having our kids so we can celebrate together again.”
Joe and Rosie now have three children together; Daughter Indie, five, son Marley, four, and little daughter Leni, 15 months
Joe previously revealed that meeting Rosie eliminated his fears of marriage – and that he wants to grow old with her and be a role model for their little girl.
“When I was younger, I always thought that marrying a girl would be such a difficult decision. “I never understood how anyone could make that decision,” he told The Sun.
“But as I grew up and met Rosie, the fear of something going wrong disappeared.
“I probably should have done it sooner, but I'm so happy, I want to be like those old couples you see walking down the street holding hands. 'It's possible, I want to be in that category.'
He added: “When Indie is older, she'll say, 'Oh look, my mom and dad have been married for 30 years and they're still happy.'
“I want her to believe in love. I wanted to show her that I will be there through thick and thin – that I will never avoid them.”
Joe's first book, Lean in 15: The Shift Plan, sold 77,000 copies in its opening week and he published two more books in the series the following year.
As the internet's leading home fitness trainer, his PE With Joe live workouts have seen even greater success over lockdown following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The former teaching assistant set a Guinness World Record for most viewers of a YouTube workout livestream in 2020, with nearly a million people watching.
The online PE teacher admitted he even staged his “accidental” first meeting with the bombshell (pictured together in August 2021).