Spy: A very Choo birthday for Matilda Rice

Green and Rice have been an item for more than six months and have never looked more comfortable. Photo / Norrie Montgomery

On Thursday night Art Green took his girlfriend 24-year-old Bachelorette Matilda Rice to a cocktail event with Jimmy Choo for her birthday.

The SkyCity event was the prettiest party of the year and attracted some of Auckland's hottest A-listers.

The birthday girl was beaming and found herself surrounded by Choo, fellow shoe designer Kathryn Wilson and Newstalk ZB's Rachel Smalley.

During the evening Choo had one of his famous shoe sketches auctioned by Paul Henry for a winning bid of $10,000.

Green and Rice have been an item for more than six months and have never looked more comfortable.

Rice outshone Green, looking gorgeous in a light rose Trish Peng, dropped-shoulder shift.

But Rice's arm is still in a sling, after the famous horse-riding fall on the show when she broke her thumb. It was reset five weeks ago.

Rice, who is working for TVNZ as a sales exec, didn't get a pair of Jimmy Choos for her birthday.

Instead, she told Spy it was "something even more romantic. He had three photos framed and I just love them".

The pair will spend Christmas at Green's family lake house at Lake Rotoiti in Bay of Plenty.

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