Home and Away star Tai Hara has announced his engagement to girlfriend Fely Irvine.

The actor, who plays Andy Barrett in the Australian soap, proposed to Irvine during a holiday in Scotland, which marked the couple's second anniversary.

He told New Idea: "Obviously, I'd been planning it for quite a long time. I'd been carrying that ring around Europe for two weeks wrapped in three different bags and a sock, because it wasn't as if I could hide it in the hotel safe.

"I was terrified that someone was going to steal my luggage!"

Irvine was previously a member of Australian children's music group Hi-5. The couple first met when Barrett also attended an audition for a place.

Hara has been playing Summer Bay's Andy since 2013.