{"id":283710,"date":"2011-02-27T23:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/27\/its-anna-touchy-friely-actress-and-rhys-ifans-get-close-as-they-finally-admit-theyre-an-item\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T23:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:23:38","slug":"its-anna-touchy-friely-actress-and-rhys-ifans-get-close-as-they-finally-admit-theyre-an-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/27\/its-anna-touchy-friely-actress-and-rhys-ifans-get-close-as-they-finally-admit-theyre-an-item\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Anna touchy-Friely: Actress and Rhys Ifans get close as they finally admit they&#8217;re an item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"113.96979405\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Sara+Nathan\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sara Nathan<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 11:23 PM on 27th February 2011<\/p>\n<p>Days after Rhys Ifans was spotted slipping out of her home in his dressing gown, Anna Friel has confirmed one of showbusiness\u2019s worst-kept secrets.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted that she and the legendarily scruffy Welsh actor are an item.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m with Rhys and I\u2019m very happy about it,\u2019 said the 34-year-old actress who split from her long-term partner David Thewlis two months ago.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2f3741e3934_468x496.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"496\" alt=\"Hollywood double act: Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel have finally confirmed that they're an item. The actress said: 'I'm with Rhys and I'm very happy about it'\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hollywood double act: Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel have finally confirmed that they&#8217;re an item. The actress said: &#8216;I&#8217;m with Rhys and I&#8217;m very happy about it&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She and Ifans, 43, made their first public appearance together at the Hollywood hotel Chateau Marmont.<\/p>\n<p>Sipping cocktails, they appeared to have difficulty keeping their<br \/>\nhands off each other and, as they left, they linked arms around their<br \/>\nbacks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Notting Hill star is understood to be staying at\u00a0 Anna&#8217;s house<br \/>\nand has been spotted at the house several times in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh actor, who has previously dated Sienna Miller and Kimberley<br \/>\nStewart, is said to have grown close to Anna since filming Sky TV movie<br \/>\nNeverland &#8211; a Peter Pan spin-off which sees Friel playing sexy pirate<br \/>\nElizabeth Bonny opposite Ifans&#8217; character Jimmy Hook.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/1819c960705_468x484.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"484\" alt=\"The secret's out: Anna Friel and Rhys Ifans link arms behind their backs as they finally come clean after weeks of speculation about their suspected relationship\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The secret&#8217;s out: Anna Friel and Rhys Ifans link arms behind their backs as they finally come clean after weeks of speculation about their suspected relationship<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Miss Friel announced her split from Harry Potter star David Thewlis &#8211;<br \/>\nfather of her five-year-old daughter Gracie &#8211; in December after nine<br \/>\nyears together.<\/p>\n<p>At the time a friend told the Mail: \u2018Things have not been great for a<br \/>\nlong time and they have tried to keep this quiet to protect everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It certainly did not help that Anna and David have been forced to live apart for so long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But there are other issues at hand that have made them realise the relationship was over.\u2019<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>Co-star romance: The pair are understood to be dating after filming Neverland together last year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2af331f3709_468x396.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"396\" alt=\"Sleepover: Rhys was snapped outside Anna's home on Friday morning in his dressing gown\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sleepover: Rhys was snapped outside Anna&#8217;s home on Friday morning in his dressing gown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The pair got together in 2001 after meeting on a flight to Cannes.<\/p>\n<p>They divided their time between a converted ballroom in Clerkenwell,<br \/>\ncentral London, owned by Thewlis, and a house in Windsor owned by Miss<br \/>\nFriel.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Friel admitted their relationship was far from conventional,<br \/>\nsaying: \u2018He\u2019s 13 years older than me. We have our own separate<br \/>\nproperties and we\u2019re not married.\u2019<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/503a8a6d97_468x315.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"315\" alt=\"Chemistry: Friel and Ifans in the Sky TV movie Neverland\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chemistry: Friel and Ifans in the Sky TV movie Neverland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/e7615577480_468x693.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"693\" alt=\"Split: Anna Friel and David Thewlis broke up in December after nine years and a daughter together\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Split: Anna Friel and David Thewlis broke up in December after nine years and a daughter together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Suggestions were made that all was not well when Miss Friel was<br \/>\npictured kissing actor Joseph Cross, 23, her co-star in her West End<br \/>\nplay Breakfast At Tiffanys a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the former Brookside actress stressed that he was merely a friend.<\/p>\n<p>And even when Cross moved into the couple\u2019s Hollywood home in April,<br \/>\nThewlis said: \u2018Joseph is a good friend of mine. I have no problem with<br \/>\nhim staying at my house.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2f3741e3934_468x496-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1361221\/Its-Anna-touchy-Friely-Actress-Rhys-Ifans-close-finally-admit-theyre-item.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"It's Anna touchy-Friely: Actress and Rhys Ifans get close as they finally admit they're an item\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It&#8217;s Anna touchy-Friely: Actress and Rhys Ifans get close as they finally admit they&#8217;re an item<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Sara Nathan Last updated at 11:23 PM on 27th February 2011 Days after Rhys Ifans was spotted slipping out of her home in his dressing gown, Anna Friel has confirmed one of showbusiness\u2019s worst-kept secrets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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