Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 25, 2017)

While murmurs of Ileana D’cruz having secretly tied the knot with longtime boyfriend, Australian photographer Andrew Kneebone, have been doing the rounds for a while, she seems to have set out to make it public now. On Saturday, the 30-year-old actress who is known to spend most of her off-duty time with her beau Down Under, shared an out-of-focus picture of her in a red gown decorating a Christmas tree. “My favourite time of the year,” she gushed while appending the caption with the hashtages, ‘Christmas time’, ‘happy holidays’, and giving the picture credit to “hubby” Andrew Kneebone.

The duo that first caught the public eye as a couple while exiting a Mumbai restaurant in 2014, has been making joint appearances at Bollywood bashes and taking off on long vacations periodically. After an unusually long Oz sojourn last year, Ileana made one of her most prominent filmi appearances in October this year as she turned up at Ekta Kapoor’s Diwali bash with Kneebone by her side. Earlier in the year, they had taken off for a vacation in Fiji.

When quizzed about marriage plans in July this year, Ileana had told Mirror, “I am happy, in a great space and doing great films. I have no regrets with respect to my personal life and I enjoy using social media to reveal a fair bit about my personal life and hold back on the rest of it. I don’t want to lead a life where I have to explain to people who I am all the time.”

Texts to Ileana and her manager remained unanswered.