Joe Thomas’ private life with Inbetweeners star girlfriend as he joins Celebrity Bear Hunt

Joe Thomas has faced his fears and risked immense information successful caller Netflix world bid Celebrity Bear Hunt, putting himself acold retired of his comfortableness zone.

The 41-year-old actor, amended known arsenic Simon Cooper successful The Inbetweeners – the amusement wherever helium met his woman Hannah Tointon -, has joined the likes of Lottie Moss, Boris Becker, Mel B and Shirley Ballas in the Holly Willoughby-fronted programme.

It sees 12 celebrities dropped into the Costa Rican jungle, moving done terrifying I’m A Celebrity-style challenges to flight Bear Grylls.

Away from their families and the comforts of their regular lives, the stars unfastened up astir their vulnerabilities, with Lottie breaking down revealing she astir went to rehab alternatively of flying to movie and sporting fable Boris candidly talking astir his clip down bars.

Ahead of the bid streaming, Joe spoke to Metro astir spending clip distant from his spouse successful particular, and however ‘difficult’ it was.

He told us: ‘I decidedly wanted to spot if I could bash thing wherever I was distant from the structures of enactment successful my life, peculiarly my spouse Hannah.

‘I consciousness similar she’s my therapist, basically. I gully a immense magnitude of enactment and spot from her truthful not being capable to talk to her was difficult.

‘I’d consciousness it successful the day. I’d consciousness like, “oh, this is the spot erstwhile I’d usually speech to Hannah, and I can’t bash it, I conscionable person to beryllium here.”‘

He went on: ‘It deed maine initially, and past I managed to find a bandwidth which I could run wrong there. I’d ne'er done a amusement similar this before, truthful it was the archetypal bit.

‘My assemblage was like, “Where the hellhole are we? What’s happening? Where’s each the worldly that that you usually beryllium on?”

‘At the opening the acquisition was rather front-loaded, that acquisition of being connected your ain and having to self-soothe.’

Following his comments, we’ve taken a look wrong their relationship…

Inside Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon’s relationship

Joe and Hannah person been unneurotic for 15 years, aft starring connected The Inbetweeners’ 3rd and last play unneurotic successful 2010.

Hannah played Tara Brown, Simon’s woman successful the show. She’s besides known for playing Katy Fox successful Hollyoaks.

After their Channel 4 characters dated onscreen, the brace got unneurotic successful existent beingness soon afterwards, and moved successful unneurotic 2 years aft the bid ended.

The mates person been engaged since 2017, and though Joe has referred to Hannah arsenic his ‘wife’ successful immoderate interviews, it is unclear erstwhile they married.

The stars person tended to support their backstage lives and narration distant from the spotlight, but Joe did spill the beverage astir moving with Hannah connected their movie The Festival successful 2018.

‘I’ve conscionable got utilized to it, she’s conscionable successful everything due to the fact that my encephalon is truthful simple, I was conscionable similar “Yep, determination she is!”’ helium said portion appearing connected ITV’s Lorraine. 

‘It went precise well, I think. I conjecture I bash effort and power disconnected erstwhile I get home, yeah, doing drama each day, sometimes you conscionable privation to beryllium calm and chilled.’ 

Do Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon person kids?

Joe and Hannah welcomed their girl successful 2022.

Hannah’s older sister is chap histrion Kara Tointon, who won Strictly Come Dancing successful 2010 and has starred successful EastEnders.

She was the 1 to spill the beans astir Joe and Hannah welcoming their archetypal child, connected Ashley James’ Mum’s The Word podcast successful 2022.

‘My sister’s conscionable had her first,’ she announced. 

She continued: ‘What’s comic is that connected Joe’s broadside there’s lone boys, adjacent during the scan they accidentally said “he” astatine 1 point, truthful they’d gone on reasoning it’s a boy. 

‘Everyone playing the signifier crippled etc said she’s having a boy, truthful erstwhile they yet had a boy, it was truly brilliant, but it knocked them for six.’ 

‘So they hadn’t adjacent decided connected a girls’ name, they near it arsenic a surprise,’ Kara added. 

Celebrity Bear Hunt is disposable to ticker connected Netflix.

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