Comic Rosie Jones has melted hearts by confirming her new romance forward of the Christmas season.

The much-loved TV star revealed her relationship with a candy snap, exhibiting her hugging her girlfriend whereas on set.

In her earnest caption, Rosie, who has ataxic cerebral palsy, admitted she beforehand by no means felt ‘worthy of affection’, desirous to mirror the shortage of incapacity illustration in her tour exhibits.

‘The DAY I advised my great director Joe my thought, I met any individual and effectively, lengthy story quick, our Doc Martens touched and now I’m in a relationship with probably the most great girl who’s sort, intelligent, FUNNY and delightful,’ Rosie shared sweetly.

‘I’m extremely pleased.’

In true comedic fashion, after making repeated gags about her single life to followers at her exhibits, the panel present favorite added: ‘Please forgive me for pretending to be single for almost all of the yr, just because I used to be too cussed to alter the tour present.’

Rosie went on to recommend that her 165k followers may not see a lot of her girlfriend in the interim, having additionally hid her face within the snap she shared.

‘Social media is a tough beast at the perfect of occasions so for now I’m merely sharing the facet of her (I can reveal that she DOES have a face…and it’s good)’, she penned.

‘I simply needed to share one thing that I desperately wanted to see once I was youthful: a constructive instance of a disabled girl in a contented, wholesome, romantic, splendidly queer relationship ❤️’

The feedback part shortly lit up with congratulatory messages for Rosie, with Charlie Craggs writing: ‘SHES SO LOVELY (such as you) I’m so so so pleased for you.’

‘Love this and love you Rosie xxx’, mentioned Annie Mac, with Misplaced Voice Man echoing: ‘Love this ❤️’

@juliecanavanprice additional praised: ‘Precisely the sort of publish I need to see on my feed. Delighted for you each. Love is nice. You might be nice. You deserve it ❤️’

‘Congratulations Rosie xx I’m so glad you now know the way deserving of affection you’re xx’, added @msdaniwalker.

Rosie has spoken brazenly for years about being a lesbian, however she didn’t really come out till she was 27.

Writing for The i Paper in September this yr, she mentioned, rising up, she ‘by no means noticed an correct illustration of a disabled individual in a loving, pleased, wholesome relationship’.

‘If you happen to by no means see it, how may you ever presumably imagine it may ever occur to you?’, Rosie contemplated.

She went on to model relationship apps ‘judgmental and superficial at the perfect of occasions’, however mentioned these experiences are solely intensified ‘in case you are a disabled individual making an attempt to this point on there’.

‘As quickly as I put my incapacity in my bio, I might obtain ZERO matches – however then if I eliminated it, I felt like I used to be mendacity or catfishing them; by some means ashamed of telling them that I used to be disabled. I couldn’t win,’ she admitted.

Rosie has additionally been public about the bullying she has skilled as a disabled girl. In 2023, she shared that she was mugged 5 occasions in two years whereas out strolling alone.

What’s extra, she has been rejected by taxi drivers repeatedly once they wrongly assume she is drunk and receives some type of on-line trolling every time she’s on TV.

Rosie has credited remedy for serving to her settle for and embrace her sexuality, in addition to perceive that the abuse she faces will not be her accountability.

‘When you have the cash and alternative to entry remedy, please do it. It’s the perfect factor I’ve ever accomplished,’ she wrote this yr.

‘It lastly received me to a spot the place that ableist thought quietened – and I ended believing it to be true.’

Rosie additionally hopes that being within the focus will assist her to encourage different disabled folks, having felt notably throughout the pandemic that they had been considered as ‘second-class residents’.

‘I might love within the subsequent few years to see extra disabled comedians, administrators, producers, [and] commissioners,’ she advised The Guardian. ‘I hope disabled individuals can see me on TV and suppose, “If she will do it, I can do it”.’

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