Alan Shearer is used to football headlines. Now the focus at home is rugby, with Hollie Shearer engaged to Joe Marchant and Chloe dating Micky Young. Shearer has been plain about it, saying he was “just glad it’s not a footballer”.
Joe Marchant proposed to Hollie beneath the Eiffel Tower last November, turning a public romance into a more settled family story. Hollie and Marchant first made their relationship public in April 2022, and they are now settled in France.
Hollie Shearer and Joe Marchant
Hollie Shearer’s profile already stretches beyond being Alan Shearer’s daughter. She has nearly 335,000 followers on TikTok, 82,000 on Instagram and a track that has reached approximately 1.5 million streams on Spotify. For a family that has lived in football for years, the engagement adds another layer of visibility without changing the basic dynamic: she has made her own audience, and Marchant is part of it.
Last November matters because it fixes the timeline. The proposal came after April 2022, when Hollie and Marchant made their relationship public, and before the move into France, where they are now settled. That sequence tells readers this is not a fresh pairing being sold as news; it is a relationship that has already moved through the public and private stages that usually sit between dating and marriage.
Chloe Shearer and Micky Young
Chloe Shearer is dating Micky Young, another rugby name in the family orbit. She is building a career in talent management, while Young spent two separate spells at Newcastle Falcons and left last year to see out his final season at Gloucester. Newcastle also said in August that he would be recognised with a testimonial, with a football dinner event featuring Alan Shearer.
That contrast is the sharpest part of the story. Alan Shearer built his name as the Premier League’s all-time leading goalscorer, yet neither daughter has chosen a footballer. His reaction was neat, almost amused, and it fits a family that has stayed public without leaning on the football badge for every move. The real takeaway is simple: Hollie is already engaged, Chloe is dating Young, and the family connection now spans two rugby relationships rather than one football lineage.
