Jane Seymour is ‘the happiest I’ve ever been’ after announcing engagement — exclusive

“I thought no one on TikTok was going to care about someone my age, but they did – in their millions,” Jane tells HELLO!, admitting that the app, where she regularly registers more than two million likes for her videos, makes her feel youthful.

“Now I have a following, and I do some very silly things, but it is fun, and I can put a smile on the faces of women my age, or younger.”

The actress confirmed her engagement to John in mid-June, telling HELLO! that he is “the one”, and that her family and friends remark that she is “the happiest they’ve ever seen me in my life – and his friends say the same about him”.

John proposed early in the morning on Valentine’s Day 2026, when Jane was still enjoying the morning hours, “but when he got down on one knee at the bottom of the bed, I knew this was serious, and I immediately woke up”.

“He didn’t know how to ask,” she adds. “He’d been running all kinds of crazy scenarios in his head and then just got on with it.” 

The couple, who live together in the former Bond girl’s beachside home in Malibu, receive regular visits from their blended family, including Jane’s grandchildren, who call her “Oma”, a Dutch word for grandmother. Most recently, Jane’s son Kristopher and his wife, Miso, welcomed their first child, Kristie Love. 

“She’s so attentive, so funny and fun,” says Jane of the 11-month-old, her fourth grandchild. “There’s nothing like a little baby to make you feel young again. And to see my kids being parents, and really good parents, is exciting too.”

Jane will return to TV screens on 22 June with the fifth season of Acorn TV’s Harry Wild, a cosy mystery series set in Ireland, in which she stars in the title role. 

She will be reunited on screen with her Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman co-star and friend Joe Lando, who moved into Jane and John’s home with his wife, Kirsten Barlow, after the Palisades Fire tore through their property in 2025. 

Joe and Kirsten lived with Jane for seven weeks, which Joe says “pushed us even closer together”. It was that terrible circumstance that led to the Harry Wild producers recognising the social media hype around the two, and asking Joe to join the cast as Pierce Kennedy, a charming state pathologist whose arrival quickly makes waves in Harry’s world.

“The kind of chemistry that is required for these two characters is not something we have to make up. We understand how that works,” Jane says. “They wrote [this role] for Joe, so it was a lot of fun.”

The pair met in 1992, when Jane took on the role of Michaela Quinn in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, which followed a female doctor living in the post-Civil War frontier town of Colorado Springs. Back then, she was “desperate for work” after splitting from her second husband and suffering bankruptcy.

“I’d lost my money. I’d gone through a terrible divorce. I was at about the lowest ebb in my life, and Dr Quinn literally saved my life,” Jane says.

Jane and Joe, who played the rugged frontier guide Byron Sully, enjoyed a brief romance during their first year of filming, until they realised that they “were great friends, but couldn’t be life partners for one another”. 

When Jane married her fourth husband, James Keach, in 1993, and welcomed twin sons John and Kristopher, their families grew close, with Jane giving Joe and Kristen clothes that her sons had outgrown. Joe is a father to sons Jack, 28, Christian, 24, and William, 19, and a daughter, Kate, 23. 

Jane is also mum to Kalen, 48, Jenni, 45, and Katherine, 43, and Sean, 40.

It was after her divorce from James in 2015 that Jane “started to blossom on her own”, Joe says. “She became a very different person, very open and really embracing life. She was just off to the races.”

They have tried over the years to bring Dr Quinn back to the screen, with Jane and Joe both on board. “We’ve done everything we can. I guess they don’t want a hit or to make extra money,” Jane says.

But the cast have remained close, and reunited for Jane’s 75th birthday. “Most of the cast and the directors and the crew – people we haven’t seen in 30 years – came together, and no one had changed. It was amazing.”

In the past decade, Jane has acted in several Netflix and Hallmark series, and appeared alongside Michael Douglas in the sitcom The Kominsky Method. For many, though, she will be remembered as the Bond girl Solitaire, starring alongside Roger Moore in 1973’s Live and Let Die.

“Talk about a terrified fish out of water,” she says, recalling that year on set when she was 22. “I’d barely ever been to hotels or nice places. Now I’m flying to New Orleans and Jamaica. It was ridiculous. Roger Moore was just lovely – I was very much out of my depth, but he was great. He made me feel comfortable, and I had a great time.”

The two-time Golden Globes– and Emmys Award-winner worked throughout the Seventies and Eighties, and became close friends with A-listers including Christopher Reeve and Johnny Cash. In 1985, she appeared at Fashion Aid, a one-off fashion show fundraiser at London’s Royal Albert Hall in which she took part in a mock wedding with Freddie Mercury. 

“Freddie was lovely and I remember the moment so well,” Jane says. “We were backstage; I’m between Freddie and Boy George, and they’re talking like I did not exist. They talked right through me – and it was absolutely magical. The next thing I know, Freddie was kissing me.

“It was an enormous amount of fun and one of those iconic moments you find yourself in when you least expect it.”

A picture recently went viral on TikTok, and Jane laughs, admitting that as far as her family are concerned, she is only successful “because I fake-married Freddie Mercury and Radiohead recorded [the album] OK Computer at my house in England – those are the only things I’ve ever done that are actually of major importance”.