A surprising leap year proposal live on television left viewers squirming...after the man in question hesitated a little too long before saying yes.
Brave Helen Hartley from Kendal, Cumbria, decided to take advantage of the rare February 29th date to ask her man, Mark Shepherd, who owns a butcher's shop in Ambleside, if he'd marry her live on This Morning.
Accompanied by television presenter Alison Hammond, Helen told Mark that he 'was the best thing that’s ever happened to me', she finally popped the question, only for him to tell her: 'I need to think about it.'
