They come amid questions around him filing for bankruptcy.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Charley Ross<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-1238845208.jpg” alt=”Renee Zellweger” title_text=”The Thing About Pam – Season 1″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Bridget Jones star Ren\u00e9e Zellweger and her partner of four years Ant Anstead are fielding rumours and reports that they are living separately, with their relationship in trouble.<\/p>\n The Daily Mail has reported that Anstead has been staying overnight at a Laguna Beach property that belongs to Julia French, who is described as a \u2018California divorc\u00e9e\u2019. Ren\u00e9e is reportedly filming in New York for TV series Only Murders in the Building.<\/p>\n Due to the fact that Zellweger and Anstead haven\u2019t been pictured in public since March \u2013 at Anstead\u2019s son\u2019s football match \u2013 reports have swelled that their relationship is on the rocks. The Daily Mail also reported that Anstead is facing bankruptcy and has been selling off his assets.<\/p>\n His supercar company Radford Motors recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in court. The company is facing three lawsuits from customers who have accused him or his company of breaking contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n A representative for Radford told PEOPLE magazine that they had received court approval for financing to fund operations, which ‘will allow the [the company to] work towards completing vehicles in process’ as they restructure. The spokesperson added that ‘any and all claims will be addressed as part of the bankruptcy case.’\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-1736542014.jpg” alt=”Renee Zellweger and Ant Anstead” title_text=”Launch Of Libby June Weintraub’s Book %22She Was Born: Words on Loss and Liberation%22″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Concerning the speculation around his relationship with Zellweger, Anstead\u2019s representative released the following statement to Page Six:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Mr. Anstead is working mostly in the UK, and he has spent some of his limited time back in [Orange County] at his friend\u2019s home,\u2019 it read. \u2018His friend Jules has a separate, detached guest house, and the suggestion that their relationship is anything other than platonic is unacceptable and untrue.<\/p>\n \u2018The suggestion that Mr Anstead is flirtatious is not true and is disrespectful to his four-year relationship.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Mr. Anstead and Ms. Zellweger are still together,\u2019 the statement reads, adding that they \u2018remain in a cherished relationship that they ask to keep private\u2019.<\/p>\n Zellweger\u2019s representative has declined to comment about the rumours and speculation.<\/p>\n The pair met on an episode of Anstead\u2019s show Celebrity IOU: Joyride, which sees celebrities create \u2018automobile masterpieces\u2019 for the important people in their lives.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] \u2018I\u2019m really grateful to the show 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,\u2019 he told People. \u2018And that\u2019s what happened in this case.\u2019<\/p>\n In a previous British Vogue interview with Hugh Grant, Zellweger divulged that she lived in Southern California, near San Diego. When Grant asked why, she responded: \u2018Because that\u2019s where my fellow lives, and his little boy.\u2019<\/p>\n Anstead attended the premiere for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy earlier this year with his children Amelie and Archie, and posted a gushing and jokey post about Zellweger.<\/p>\n He wrote: \u2018Midweek movie night with the kiddos\u2026. The Movie was absolutely utterly brilliant and the lead actress was mesmerising and smoking HOT (I have a mega crush on her!) I\u2019ve let the missus know she\u2019s my hall pass\u2026.. X\u2019.<\/p>\n Zellweger has also spoken out about a different relationship in her life \u2013 her character Bridget Jones\u2019 onscreen one with Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth. The latest film in the franchise, Mad About The Boy, sees Bridget as a widow navigating life without Darcy.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-51734728.jpg” alt=”Renee Zellweger Hugh Grant Colin Firth” title_text=”%22Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason%22 – Photocall” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Speaking at a recent screening of the film as it becomes available to stream, the actress opened up about her own emotional reaction to filming scenes with Firth. While we meet Bridget in this film four years after Darcy\u2019s death, where she has come to terms with his death to a certain degree, Zellweger admitted that her feelings felt very immediate and strong, as she considered the idea of Firth wrapping on his character and how it signified the end of an era. While her character wasn\u2019t meant to cry, she definitely did.<\/p>\n \u2018Seeing him there on the sidewalk in his Mark Darcy finery with his briefcase and coat, it just got to me,\u2019 she said. \u2018I didn\u2019t expect to be so emotional about the end of this shared journey with my friend, recognising, \u2018Oh, wait, he\u2019s gonna wrap today, and that\u2019s it.\u2019 And the finality of it just really was a gut punch.<\/p>\n \u2018Isn\u2019t that crazy? Because when you get lucky, beyond getting to work with your friends, once you know, it sounds so silly, but it felt very profound in the moment.\u2019\u00a0 Zellweger said before laughing, \u2018Maybe I\u2019m crazy because maybe I love a fictional character!\u2019<\/p>\n When asked about her secret to good chemistry, having had on-screen love interests such as Hugh Grant, Leo Woodall, Chewitel Ejiofor and Firth himself, Zellweger said:\u00a0 \u2018I\u2019ve been really lucky, and I love the people that I\u2019ve gotten to work with. There\u2019s always something that I admire so much [about them], and we always seem to have a great time.\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] She also described having \u2018a hard time\u2019 first meeting her Bridget Jones co-star Hugh Grant because she was \u2018such a fan\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018I was so nervous, I just didn\u2019t want to make a jerk out of myself,\u2019 she said. \u2018I didn\u2019t succeed.<\/p>\n \u2018I just thought, \u2018Gosh he\u2019s so handsome!\u2019 And now I\u2019m going to do a movie with him?\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photos: <\/b>\u00a0<\/b>Getty<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No one saw this coming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘THEY REMAIN IN A CHERISHED RELATIONSHIP.’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]