Inside lives of Gogglebox duo Jenny and Lee off-screen from partners to homes

The brace person kept america entertained with their champion relationship since 2014, with their speedy quips, fantabulous side-eye reactions and brutal digs astatine each other.

Gogglebox conscionable wouldn't beryllium the aforesaid without champion friends Jenny and Lee.

The pair, who unrecorded successful Hull, person kept america entertained with their champion relationship since 2014, with their speedy quips, fantabulous side-eye reactions and brutal digs astatine each other.

Since their debut connected the Channel 4 show, we person seen Jenny amusement disconnected her detective skills with her 'H' notebook during the last bid of Line of Duty, Lee accidentally eating Jenny's look pick aft reasoning it was delicious dip, and Jenny staining each of Lee's achromatic washing orangish aft mistakenly chucking successful a coloured towel.

But what bash we cognize astir their lives extracurricular of the Channel 4 series?

Who are Jenny and Lee and however did they meet?

Jenny Newby and Lee Riley are 2 bully friends. They archetypal met much than 25 years aft gathering successful a pub wherever Jenny was landlady successful 1994.

Jenny told Ireland’s Big Issue magazine: "Lee was a lawsuit astatine my pub, The Crown Inn successful Paull. He became a regular successful 1994 and utilized to travel successful beauteous overmuch each nighttime with his spouse and we were friends from the off. We’ve been champion friends ever since."

Lee added: "I privation I’ve ne'er gone successful the pub – it outgo maine a fortune. When I archetypal met her she had a perm and I tin retrieve thinking, 'She needs a haircut'. We were steadfast friends immediately.

"I don’t deliberation we’ve ever had an argument. We’re excessively placid to argue. She makes maine laughter excessively overmuch for maine to ever autumn retired with her."

Jenny said the brace loved to ticker TV unneurotic adjacent earlier the amusement happened.

The brace adjacent moved successful unneurotic during Covid-19 pandemic to let them to proceed filming for Gogglebox.

Jenny is 69 years aged and Lee turned 57 successful September 2024.

How did Jenny and Lee articulation Gogglebox?

Recruiters from the Channel 4 amusement approached Jenny astatine Beverley Races Ladies' Day if she would look connected the amusement with her husband.

Instead she begged Lee to articulation her - and helium took rather a spot of convincing.

"I wasn't [at Beverley Races] but she asked maine if I wanted to beryllium and bash a trial filming with her," Lee told the Hull Daily Mail "I'd ne'er seen Gogglebox, it had lone conscionable started, truthful I walked into filming swearing my caput disconnected due to the fact that she'd got maine retired of furniture connected my time off."

Jenny said the magic of Gogglebox is it features mean radical doing what everyone astir the state is doing - watching TV and having a bully aged chat astir it.

“It’s conscionable mean radical reacting arsenic anyone would," she said. "I deliberation radical ticker and spot themselves, ‘Oh, I bash that, or, I said that’."

“It’s each wholly natural,” said Lee.

“You hide the cameras are determination and you conscionable enactment normally.”

Are Jenny and Lee successful a narration and who are their partners?

Jenny is happily joined to hubby Ray, who has ne'er erstwhile appeared connected the show. He declined to instrumentality portion connected Gogglebox but Lee was encouraged successful his place.

Lee is presently successful a narration with Steve Mail and they person been unneurotic for 30 years. Steve lives successful Cyprus and Lee often travels to the Mediterranean land to walk immoderate prime clip with his semipermanent boyfriend.

He took to Instagram successful October 2024 to privation his fellow a blessed birthday. Lee told Steve to person the "happiest" time but not to person "too overmuch fun" arsenic helium couldn't beryllium successful Cyprus to observe his peculiar time with him.

Lee accompanied the station with a selfie of himself and Steve arsenic helium wrote: "Wishing this gorgeous idiosyncratic that’s the 1 connected the near a precise happiest of birthdays.

"Have fun, not excessively overmuch arsenic I can't beryllium determination successful Cyprus to observe with you. Love ya to the satellite Steve xx"

Do Jenny and Lee unrecorded unneurotic and who owns the caravan?

Gogglebox is filmed successful Lee's caravan and is stationed successful Patrington Haven caravan parkland successful Hull, wherever Lee lives erstwhile he's not overseas. Jenny usually lives with her hubby Ray elsewhere.

They did unrecorded unneurotic temporarily during the archetypal lockdown successful outpouring 2020, conscionable to guarantee they could proceed filming portion Lee's spouse Steve was successful Cyprus. They tweeted their quality from their shared account, Lee writing: "Well what tin we accidental it's Friday and it's inactive connected #Gogglebox.

"Jenny and maine watching unneurotic arsenic we are some connected lockdown TOGETHER friends with nary benefits I whitethorn adhd an hr of laughs enactment harmless enactment good #StayHomeSavesLives."

After 9 agelong weeks of surviving successful the caravan, Jenny near Lee to instrumentality location to Ray. "I'll miss you erstwhile I spell home. Have you bought maine a leaving present?" she asked Lee connected camera. "Yeah. A f**king suitcase," Lee changeable back.