Alexandra Burke is "enjoying" being engaged to Josh Ginnelly

Asked if wedding planning is going well, she confessed: "Not right now. The Pinterest mood board has formed. We only recently had our engagement party a couple of months ago and that was amazing to have our loved ones around; it was incredible.

"But I think planning a wedding right now - he's on tour for a year - I think, well when do we get a chance to sit down and have a coffee. So I think the best thing to do is to enjoy being engaged, enjoy calling him my fiancé because once it's husband and wife, it's done. I want to travel with him more and then we can focus on the wedding some point hopefully."

The 29-year-old singer recalled how she was fast asleep just moments before the stage manager got down on one knee.

She explained: "I was sleeping and he woke me up in the car when he was about to propose. He was like, 'are you alright?' and I was like, 'I'm so knackered'. I thought we were just driving around Paris and it was beautiful. I was sleeping and he woke me up and all of a sudden the ring popped out of nowhere. He did so well. He's such a sweetheart and he has a heart of gold and my family adore him. It's just magical."

And Alexandra can't wait to have a family of her own one day.

Speaking on ITV's This Morning, she shared: "The only person that put any pressure on me [to have a family] was my mum because she always wanted me to have a kid but I wouldn't call it pressure. I wanted to be a young mum, it just never quite worked out ...

"I do want a family at some point. I'm not ready for it right now but hopefully in a couple of years or three, four years. It was definitely my mum's dream so I hope I can start my own family. If I can be five per cent of what my mum was as a mother, I'll be [doing well]."