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Amazing romance race

Sally Yamamoto and Tyson Smith. Picture: Supplied

Perth's only remaining The Amazing Race Australia team, Tyson Smith and Sally Yamamoto, are relieved they can finally come clean on their plans to tie the knot.

The Bayswater pair became engaged while filming the Seven show but could not reveal the news to family and friends until the emotional episode aired last night.

While he had been planning to propose to his lady love for a while, Smith chose to get down on one knee on a frozen river while the contestants were in Russia.

"It was actually our four-year anniversary," the personal trainer, 38, told Access All Areas.

"We had been working well together, we were still smiling and still in love at that stage of the race."

For Yamamoto, who is a veterinarian, the proposal came as a complete shock as she said she expected "everything else on the race but not that".

While she knew that Smith would be in her life forever, she had never dreamed of what her big day might be like.

"I've never really been that sort of girl who wanted the wedding dress or anything else," Yamamoto explained.

"I never really thought that I would be in love with anyone this much, so I never put myself in the position to think about it."

Even so, laying eyes on the diamond sparkler Smith chose was a moment the 33-year-old will never forget.

"It is the most beautiful ring I have ever seen, he could not have chosen better," she gushed.

The bodybuilders are now celebrating their happy news with their nearest and dearest and have barely had the chance to start planning the wedding.

However, they do know it will be somewhere in WA.

"We haven't even been able to discuss the engagement today so we haven't really started planning the wedding yet," Yamamoto said.

"But Tyson has a big family and his family farm is beautiful so we are either thinking there or maybe at the holiday house in Mandurah."

After WA pageant models Inga Lederhaus and Tiarna McGregor were sent home in The Amazing Race's first episode, Smith and Yamamoto are the only remaining contestants flying the flag for the State in the adventure series.

They have made it to the half-way point in the competition so far.