“I just chucked the ring at her and walked out” – Justin Hood’s naked proposal goes completely off-script

Justin Hood did not wait for the right moment to propose. The ring had just been delivered, he had just stepped out of the shower, and within seconds, he was down on one knee. It was a spontaneous decision that led to a deeply awkward exchange.

The current world number 51 revealed that the moment came completely out of nowhere, sparked by the arrival of the engagement ring at his home. Timing, as it turned out, was everything. “The ring got delivered, and I just got out of the shower. I went in there naked and went and done it,” he explained in conversation with TalkSport.

Hood's partner had unknowingly set the whole thing in motion by answering the door herself. “The ring arrived, Jess answered the door and had it. Obviously, she didn’t know what it was. She gave the package to me, and I had just got out of the shower completely starkers.”

With no hesitation and no time to overthink it, Hood committed fully to the moment. “I went in there, got down on one knee, everything.”

But the reaction he received was not quite the emotional scene he had imagined. “She was like ‘oh yeah’. I was like if you are going to be like that, marry yourself.”

That unexpected response triggered a spiral of emotions. “She didn’t cry, and then I started crying because she didn’t cry. It made me mad, so then I just chucked the ring at her and walked out.”

The impulsive nature of it all, he suggests, is simply part of who he is. “No towel, completely naked. You can’t have towels. That’s boring; it’s hiding stuff. Everything I do in life is just going with the flow.”

That approach stands in clear contrast to his partner’s personality. “Jess likes to plan everything, I just go with whatever happens.”

Despite the chaos of the proposal itself, the outcome was far more straightforward. Jess did eventually say yes, and the pair are now happily married, able to look back on the moment with humour rather than frustration.

Away from his personal life, Hood has also been making a strong impression on the oche. On his PDC World Darts Championship debut, he reached the quarter-finals before being eliminated by Gary Anderson, a run that earned him £100,000 and marked him out as one of the sport’s emerging names.

His ambitions, however, are not limited to darts. Hood has previously outlined plans beyond the sport, with a long-term goal of opening a Chinese restaurant. It is another reflection of a personality that leans heavily into instinct rather than structure.

With his results on the rise and stories like this only adding to his profile, Hood is quickly becoming one of the more memorable characters in the game. And if this proposal is anything to go by, predictability is not going to be part of that journey.