Photo: Ant Anstead/instagram
Ant Ansteadis showing his partner some love on her birthday!
On Monday, theWheeler Dealersalum shared a tribute to girlfriendRenée Zellwegeron his Instagram Story in honor of her 53rd trip around the sun, penning a short but sweet message to theBridget Jonesactress.
“Happy Birthday to this beautiful Lady!” Anstead, 43, wrote alongside a black and white photo of the pair cuddling up to each other, adding, “Ren you are PURE CLASS! I know how lucky I am.”
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Anstead and Zellweger started dating shortly after meeting on the set of his Discovery+ show in June last year. The pair made theirfirst public appearanceas a couple in August and went Instagram official with their relationship a month later.
“There is so much respect between them,” asource told PEOPLEin September. “They spend as much time as possible together when they aren’t working on other projects. They truly like each other as well as their romantic attraction. The relationship is serious.”
“Renée has found love again, a love where she feels confident and secure about herself,” added the source. “And Ant, too, has had a lot of ups and downs, but seems to have stability in this romance.”
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The couple has also experienced many “firsts” in the past months. Whilevisiting California from the U.K. for Christmas, Anstead’s two older kids — daughter Amelie, 18, and son Archie, 15 — got tomeet Zellweger in personfor the first time.
“It was great,” the car expert said. “I mean, Renée’s so personable, and so great with people, and they’ve met a few times on FaceTime, so everybody was excited to finally get together.”
He continued: “Of course, everybody got on famously. It’s really nice.”
Meanwhile, in an April cover story forHarper’s Bazaar, the Oscar winneropened upabout the beginnings ofher relationship with Ansteadfor the first time.
At the time she met the British-born television personality, she was still mourning the loss of her friend and publicistNanci Ryder, who died of ALSin 2020 at 67.
The outlet reported that Zellweger felt compelled to give back to the two twin brothers and nurses who cared for Ryder during her illness, Jerome and Jerald Cowan.
She met Anstead– the show’s host – on set, and the pair quickly hit it off.
source: people.com
