‘Popcorn the hamster performed cupid to assist me to find love’

When Chris Hughes purchased his eight-year-old daughter Lily a puppy hamster, he by no means expected the rodent would assist his psychological well being and set him up together with his long run spouse.

But for the NHS nurse, who struggles with nervousness and was once grappling with a break-up, Popcorn the hamster become a supply of calm and connection as he adopted him across the room.

Eventually Chris determined to proportion the hamster’s behaviour on-line, temporarily racking up greater than 140,000 TikTok lovers.

Out of the ones fans was once his now-fiancée, and he now thank you Popcorn for touchdown him each a broadcast ebook and his luckily ever after.

“It’s just like a fairytale ending. Without sounding too cheesy, through Popcorn, without him it wouldn’t have happened, he was cupid in a way,” he mentioned.

Video edited via Erin Lister