ANT Anstead has given a unique insight into his life with Hollywood star Renee Zellweger.
In an interview with The Sun’s TV Mag, the star told how Renee is complete ‘car nut’ and even has her own welding helmet.
He said: “True story'” when asked about her love of cars and added: “Everybody knows, I met Renee on the car show. Pretty cool, right?.”
American actress Renee Zellweger, 55, is famed for her starring role in the Bridget Jones films and Ant Anstead, 45 has presented various motoring programmes and his latest Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic streams on discovery + on Thursday 24 October.
The pair met when Renee appeared on the British TV star’s show Celebrity IOU Joyride in April 2021 and the pair announced their romance publicly on Instagram that September. The couple have been loved up ever since and now live together in Orange County.
He said: “I live full time in America. I’ve been in America for eight years. America is my home. It just so happened that my summer was spent here because of this project. And obviously, you know, I have family here and commitments here and but, you know, America is my home. If I travel and I go on holiday, I come on holiday in England.”
Renee’s new film is out in 2025, but Ant has revealed that he hasn’t read the script,
He shared: “Oh gosh, I’ve been so busy.
“I haven’t been able to get across the plot but I do believe it’s closely related to the book.”
However, Ant admitted: “But I’ve not read the book.”
Ant has proudly been using his Instagram feed to write sweet posts about his girlfriend.
In one, back in the summer he gushed on a poster of her upcoming film Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
“Oh man… she’s so beautiful…!”
He added: “That’s my Ren (lucky boy).”
Under another picture of the pair almost a year ago, cuddling up on a deckchair on the beach, he posted: “This lady 
Pure. Class. Ren x”
To which fans started excitedly posting in approval.
One said: “She’d better marry you and have some beautiful kids congratulating you both.”
More recently the pair were also pictured with some of their kids from different partners before attending Goodwood and at the event.
Ant proudly describes on his Instagram profile he has ‘a beautiful blended family.’
Then there’s a photo sees them all glammed up for an awards ceremony, in one and in another, they are in the crowd celebrating with other A Listers.
While Renee doesn’t have a social media presence, Ant is very active on Instagram.
He is proud of is romance with the star, and documenting his love, reminds us of how Bridget used to chronicle her romance with Mr Darcy back in the nineties, but now its in the ‘insta’ age.
Ant’s new TV show is out on Thursday (24 October). “I am incredibly proud of this show! And its the first time in 11 shows and 26 TV shows later that I’ve opened the doors to my family and my private world.”
He told The Sun Online: “It came about because I bought a house, you know, the house was the nucleus of the show, you know, for my parents as they enter the final season their retirement as a chance to say thank you for everything that they’ve done for me and my brothers and my sister.
“The house is probably a five year renovation project, and it’s a huge amount of work. The rear end is condemned. It’s literally falling down. So the dream was crushed, this dream of, you know, changing the lives of my parents and saying thank you.
He explained that growing up, they never owned a home. His parents both worked as school cooks and they grew up in school accommodation. My mom collected Lilliput Lane houses and when I started to look around homes to get my parents at home and walked into this one straight away, I was like, Oh, my God, it’s like a life size Lilliput Lane. This is the house. We’re getting this house, and obviously, now I pay the price of that foolish, heart led endeavour.
“And ultimately, one thing I could do really well is build cars. So there was, luckily, a barn on the site, so it made sense that I started to flip some cars and make some profit and put into the house.
“And, you know, discovery, like, great. We’re gonna send a crew. And, I mean, it’s the most authentic TV show I think I’ve ever done, but they just come, tiny crew. Some of it’s recorded on my phone. They just come and press record and pretty chaotic.”
Ant is very much a family man and in other snaps he shows his family life, work projects and friends.
Ant’s brand new show Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic streams on discovery + on Thursday 24 October.
PATIENTS could be fined for missing NHS appointments in the future, Wes Streeting has hinted.
The Health Secretary appeared to soften his previous blanket opposition to financial penalties as a means of raising cash.
Around eight million hospital appointments are missed every year and costs taxpayers £1billion in wasted time.
Grilled on the possibility of imposing fines, Mr Streeting told Times Radio: “At this stage it’s not something I’m looking at doing, but once we’ve got the system working effectively, if we still have this problem of missed appointments then I might be more open-minded.”
He added that he wants to improve the bookings system as a priority – so it is easier to cancel – before getting tough on patients.
Fining people has been considered for a while, with Rishi Sunak famously pledging a £10 penalty for missed appointments before dropping the pledge.
Mr Streeting has been dead against the idea in the past, warning it would be a “slippery slope” to wider NHS charges.
Yesterday he also denied his plan to offer weight-loss jabs to obese unemployed people was a “dystopian future”.
He said the drugs could be “game-changing” in getting people fit enough to go back to work.
The Cabinet Minister said: “They’re not the only solution, and I don’t want to create a dependency culture.
“I’m not interested in some dystopian future where I wander round involuntarily jabbing unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the agenda.
“If we can throw the trends we’re seeing on obesity into reverse, that’s better for the health of the nation, and the nation’s finances, because we’ve got to shift from treating sickness to actively preventing it.
“But that’s not a substitute for good diet and nutrition and exercise.”
WES Streeting has told of his inner conflict at deciding whether or not to vote in favour of assisted dying.
The Health Secretary said he worries that a right to die could feel like “a duty to die” if the law is changed.
He said: “I have in my mind’s eye one of my grandmothers who died a very slow painful death, an inevitable death, from lung cancer.
“There are moments thinking back to that time through my 10-year-old eyes even then I would have wished for the pain to end sooner.
“The challenge is, I do not think palliative care, end of life care, in this country is good enough to give people a real choice.
“I worry about coercion and the risk that the right to die feels like a duty to die on the part of particularly older people.
“I am also worried about the slippery slope, and the Canadian experience is not a happy experience as far as I am concerned.
“I am having to weigh those considerations up very carefully.”
Proposals to change the law to legalise assisted dying will be debated and voted on next month.
If politicians back the plan, the law could change as early as next year.
MANCHESTER CITY climbed up to the top of the Premier League table thanks to another dramatic late strike by John Stones.
Stones saved City’s blushes last month against 10-man Arsenal at the Etihad with an equaliser at the death to make it 2-2 and maintain their lead in the Premier League title race.
Man City looked set to drop points just a day after the Gunners sustained their first loss of the season at Bournemouth.
Wolves drew first blood after just seven minutes with Jorgen Strand Larsen.
The visitors hit back on 33 minutes with a stunning finish by Josko Gvardiol.
And just as it looked Pep Guardiola’s men were running out of ideas, Stones turned the game on its head in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
More to follow