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Devastated Kylie to return engagement sparkler after split TAKE YOUR RING BACK

- By Halina Watts SHOWBIZ EDITOR

DEVASTATED singer Kylie Minogue will return her diamond engagement ring to her dumped fiancé, the Sunday People can reveal. The 48-year-old Aussie pop star has told pals she doesn’t want to keep the spa sparkler given to her by Joshua Sa Sasse because she wants to “move on with her life”. Kylie this week announced she has separated from British a actor Joshua, 29, after cla claims he had grown close to Spanish actress Marta M Milans, 34. Pals say Kylie felt “completely“compl betrayed”. A source explained: “She started to suspect Joshua over theth festive period and the they had been arguing sincesin November. “He was in London and so was Marta. There was a worryw that they had met upu and he wasn’t being truthful to her. “KylieKy has ditched her ring.ri She just wants to movemo on.” ButBu Spanish actress MartaMart is believed to be de devastated at the accusation­s.accus She spent last weekend being consoledco­nso by her close friend Karolina Wydra in NewNe York. PostingPo on Instragram,gram she wrote: “Thank“Tha you for hugging me al l weekend Karolina.Karo I don’t know what I would do without you.” Marta is currently holed up with pals in Los Angeles.

A friend added: “Marta wouldn’t want to get caught up in something like this, she is very upset by the whole thing.”

Joshua met Marta while making the show No Tomorrow in Vancouver. Filming started in August and ended in December.

A source who worked on it said it was “well known” on set that he and Marta were close. But her brother Alfonso said he had “no idea at all” about any liaison.

Ironically in Marta’s 2010 showreel, the first scene is taken from a short film titled Scandal in which she has been thrust into the limelight after a sex tape leak.

She can be seen shouting: “Everything thinks I’m a whore.”

Meanwhile Joshua has been staying at his parents’ house in Herefordsh­ire. He refused to comment yesterday.

Sunrise

Earlier this week Kylie confirmed the split with an emotive image of a sunrise over calm waters on Instagram. She captioned the picture: “We wish only the best for each other as we venture towards new horizons.” Joshua met Kylie in summer 2015 on the set of musical comedy Galavant. After their engagement last February, there were rumours that they had married in secret last summer. In October they announced they wouldn’t wed until Australia legalises gay marriage. In an interview in August, Joshua said: “She is just the most unbelievab­le bundle of joy. It’s magic, it’s excitement and joy and sex.” Pals of Kylie, who is planning to make a new albu album, say she had a “lucky escape” f from Joshua. Her previous boyfriends include Neighbour Neighbours co-star Jason Donovan, INXS s singer Michael Hutchence, fellow rocker Lenny Kravitz, French actor Olivier Martinez and S Spanish model Andres Velenc Velencoso. Just weeks a ago, Kylie hinted she had no plans to marry Joshua, sayin saying: “Mum isn’t buying a ha hat.” Later she posted onlin online: “Thank you now for you your love and understand­ing with the news that Jo Josh and I have dec decided to go our se separate ways.”

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