Ant Anstead and Renée Zellweger prefer to keep their relationship out of the spotlight, but he made a rare move on Friday to celebrate their fifth anniversary.
The 47-year-old posted a sweet photo of himself and his “beautiful lady” on the set of his discovery+ show, Celebrity IOU: Joyride, which is where they first met in 2021.
Adding a heartfelt tribute, the Born Mechanic host wrote: “How it started….. Happy FIVE YEAR anniversary my beautiful lady! Hands down The best human I know! Luckiest boy! I love you my Ren.”
Last May, Ant slammed “disrespectful” reports that claimed he and Renée were living apart.
The TV star and the Bridget Jones actress weren’t pictured together publicly since early March 2025, but Ant confirmed they were still in a “cherished relationship.”
Reports claimed that Ant had been spending time with a woman named Julia French at her Laguna Beach home while Renée had been filming in New York City, but he insisted their relationship was strictly platonic.
“Sadly, the recent reports in the press are disrespectful and misleading,” Ant’s rep told People at the time.
They added that Ant “stayed just a handful of days in Julia French’s separate, and detached, guest house. They have been long-time friends with similar aged children within a circle of local Laguna Beach friends.”
Ant and Renée’s time apart was down to him “spending the majority of his time working in the UK”, while she filmed Only Murders in the Building in NYC.
His rep added that the two “remain in a cherished relationship that they ask to keep private.”
© InstagramAnt and Renée first met while filming Celebrity IOU: Joyride, just after Ant had finalized his divorce from Christina Haack.
They quickly fell for each other, and while the pair has kept their romance largely under wraps, they have shared some insight into their relationship over the years.
Ant opened up about his first meeting with Renée in an interview with People, sharing that their love was meant to be.
© Instagram“I’m really grateful to the show,” he said, “because these amazing things happen in your world and sometimes when things collide, they collide at the most obscure times when you least expect them. And that’s what happened in this case.”
Renée revealed in British Vogue that she has opted to live in California to be close to Ant and his six-year-old son Hudson, whom he shares with Christina.
“I live in Southern California, near San Diego,” she shared. “Because that’s where my fellow lives, and his little boy.”
© InstagramRenée is also a doting stepmother to the children Ant shares with his ex-wife, Louise Storey. “Midweek movie night with the kiddos,” he shared on Instagram alongside a picture of his kids, Amelie, 22, and Archie, 19, at the Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy London premiere.
“The Movie was absolutely utterly brilliant, and the lead actress was mesmerising and smoking HOT (I have a mega crush on her!) I’ve let the missus know she’s my hall pass…X,” he joked.
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