Ant McPartlin’s ex Lisa Armstrong is reported to be relationship somebody new, after being launched to a person 15 years youthful than her by buddies Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton
Following her high-profile cut up from I am A Celeb host Ant McPartlin, Lisa Armstrong is alleged to have discovered love once more with an actor that’s 15 years her junior.
It has been reported that Lisa, a 49 yr previous make-up artist who has labored on Strictly Come Dancing, has been quietly relationship actor Grant Kilburn, 34, for the previous few weeks. The 2 had been thought to have met after being launched by Lisa’s Strictly buddies Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton.
Stacey and Kevin, who’re additionally in a relationship following their time collectively on the dance present, are each presently in 2:22 A Ghost Story alongside Grant. The play is touring the UK and, in early October, stopped on the Theatre Royal in Brighton, the place Lisa is alleged to have met her new beau.
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In line with the Every day Mail, the Strictly couple launched Lisa to their co-star and sparks began to fly. A supply advised the paper: “Lisa and Grant have actually hit it off – and it is put the smile again on her face.”
They added that the connection is in its “early phases” and the couple are “protecting it low-key” as a consequence of Lisa’s previous historical past with public relationships. “Lisa went via a painful and really public cut up with Ant and he or she does not wish to get damage once more,” the supply mentioned.
The supply continued to say that although Grant has been touring his play and Lisa has been engaged on Strictly, they see one another after they can and take their relationship “in the future at a time”.
Again in 2024, Lisa gave the impression to be readying herself to maneuver on after a sequence of romantic and private setbacks. The make-up artist posted to social media on the finish of the yr: “You spent 2024 in survival mode. 2025 is your time to rise, rebuild, and thrive.” On the time, Lisa was single, while her ex husband Ant was celebrating his first Christmas as a father, with new spouse Ann-Marie and their son Wilder.
Lisa and Ant cut up in 2018 after 12 years of marriage. Their relationship had begun years earlier, as they met as youngsters, when she was in a band known as Deuce, which carried out alongside Ant throughout his 1994 Smash Hits tour. On the time, Ant was performing as one half of PJ & Duncan, alongside his long run collaborator, Dec Donnelly. Ant and Lisa had been collectively for greater than 10 years earlier than tying the knot in 2006.
In 2017, rumours began to flow into that Ant and Lisa had cut up. This was confirmed by Ant’s consultant in 2018. Shortly after, he was linked to the couple’s private assistant, Anne-Marie Corbett. Hypothesis began to swirl, and Lisa added gasoline to the flames by responding to a fan who had written concerning the rumours on X with: “Yeah, my buddy and our PA who I let into our house.”
Ant is now married to Anne-Marie, having gotten hitched in 2021. The pair welcomed their son final yr. Lisa later began relationship electrician James Inexperienced and the 2 moved in collectively, however in 2023, they broke up and he moved out. That very same yr, her £5 million Chiswick house, which she purchased following her divorce from Ant, was broken in a fireplace.
Likewise, Grant has suffered a number of setbacks in his life. The actor was simply 23 years previous when he collapsed while out together with his brother, after having a stroke attributable to two blood clots on the base of his mind. Following his expertise, Grant has helped increase consciousness for the Stroke Affiliation.
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