Who is the girl who could finally catch the elusive Deol? Well, meet Preety Desai, who is in a relationship with Abhay and got engaged with him also very recently.
Preeti Desai (born 29 September) is a model and actress, and was Miss Great Britain 2006. A British Indian, she made history by becoming the first woman of colour to ever win the title.
After being a beauty queen, Preety went on to be a professional model, and walks for fashion weeks, couture week and top designers. She has been on the covers of Cosmopolitan, L'Officiel, Grazia, and G2.
Desai was on both the cover and as February and September model in the Kingfisher Swimsuit Special Calendar 2008, and was also invited by Vijay Mallya as ambassador of Kingfisher to the Formula 1 world tour in 2008.
She has done television commercials and print ads for brands like Cadbury plc, LG Corp., Hero Honda, Citibank and Nokia.
In October 2009 she was announced as the new face of the retail apparel company Provogue, along with Indian actor Hrithik Roshan.
She shoots with Italian designer Leonardo Ferragamo of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. for L'Officiel magazine, and she walked for fashion designer Christopher Kane in Fashion Week March 2010.
Desai will make her film debut in a feature film Noise (Shor), due to release in 2011, directed by Raj Nidimoru and DK Krishna, and produced by Balaji Films Ekta Kappor. Desai plays the role of the female protagonist Sharmili, opposite American actor Sendhil Ramamurthy.
The film is a thriller drama, set in contemporary Mumbai, with three separate but interrelated storylines, of which one is in English and two in Hindi.