"I texted 'hello' to a random phone number as a joke in 1998 and met my wife"

A cheeky DJ texted a message to a random number as a joke in 1998 and ended up meeting his future wife.

Donovan Shears was given his first mobile phone on his 18th birthday so decided to send out text messages saying “hello” to made up numbers.

He was stunned when he received a message back from a woman called Kirsty who simply said “hi” and they started exchanging text messages.

They eventually arranged to meet for a date in Donovan’s home city of Coventry, UK and quickly fell for each other.