AN Australian reptile handler has proposed to his girlfriend while feeding an enormous 4.5-meter crocodile.

    Billy Collett got down on one knee after inviting his partner Siobhan Oxley into the enclosure.

    He had used a piece of meat to coax the crocodile named Elvis out of his pond before asking his girlfriend to “have a crack” at feeding the reptile.

    But he left her shocked by suddenly announcing: “Three years ago, next week, I actually met the girl of my dreams. The girl I love more than anything.”

    Billy then tells the crocodile to “stay there” and “behave yourself” before turning to his partner to propose.

    He continued, “Siobhan, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, will you marry me?”

    The reptile handler then joked that proposing was “worse than feeding a crocodile.”

    The engagement ring Billy presented was an emerald with two diamonds — which is his partner’s birth stone.

    In tears of happiness, Siobhan accepted his proposal but said she felt robbed of missing out on the crocodile feed she thought she was doing.(SD-Agencies)