LOVE & LAUGHS IN PARA DISE TOM'S ROMANTIC GET AWAY

After a tropical trip to Samoa, the Kiwi comedy king opens up about his other half

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Often when a long-term couple escapes for a romantic getaway to a tropical island, there are whispers among friends that an intimate proposal beneath coconut palms could be on the cards.

But when Tom Sainsbury and his partner of seven years Jacob went to Samoa recently, the prospect of an engagement was more of a running gag.

Still buzzing from the trip and with a very tanned nose, Tom laughs as he tells Woman's Day, “We were in a beautiful fale overlooking the glistening Pacific Ocean and we kept making tongue-in-cheek jokes like, ‘Well, this is the perfect time and the place to pop the question!’ But nah, we didn’t get engaged. We're happy as we are. I don’t think we'll ever get married.”

After a “mammoth year” writing and filming the upcoming Sky murder-mystery series Small Town Scandal, the 43-year-old needed a brief holiday to recharge with Jacob, 34, before embarking on his nationwide stand-up show Lessons Not Learnt.

For the fun-loving couple, it's the small things that are the big things.

“I love he always thinks of everything,” enthuses Tom. “Jacob’s skills are in researching and scheduling trips, whereas I just turn up!