MICHAEL WOULD BE THRILLED!

Michael’s daughter has finally found happiness

- Karleigh Smith

A touching photograph in which Tiger Lily Hutchence throws her arms around her longtime boyfriend Nick Allbrook and kisses him tenderly has sparked speculation the 23-year-old is engaged.

The candid black-and-white portrait, shared last week by Tiger and Nick’s housemate India Rose, is simply captioned, “Yay for love!”

Sources close to the late Michael Hutchence’s family tell Woman’s Day the INXS star’s daughter is “very serious” about Nick, adding that “marriage is on the cards for Tiger, but not in the traditional sense”.

“Tiger and Nick have spoken of their commitment to each other, and in their own way, they are engaged,” says an insider. “They’re both free-spirited youngsters and I can see them saying vows to each other, but not being husband and wife within the bounds of the normal institution of marriage.”

TRAGIC CHILDHOOD

Tiger lost her dad when she was just 16 months old when he died by suicide, and her mother Paula Yates died in 2000 from a heroin overdose.

She was raised in London by her mum’s ex-husband, Sir Bob Geldof.