Ant Anstead marked five years with Renée Zellweger on Wednesday with a short Instagram tribute that left little doubt about where the relationship stands. “Happy FIVE YEAR anniversary my beautiful lady!” he wrote on April 23, adding, “The best human I know! Luckiest boy! I love you my Ren.”
The post paired those words with a simple image reference: “How it started…..” Anstead, 47, and Zellweger, 56, first met in 2021 on the set of Celebrity IOU: Joyride, and the relationship has stayed mostly out of public view even as he has continued to praise her online.
That matters because the post lands after a year in which Anstead has repeatedly used public moments to underline the partnership. In January 2025, he attended the London premiere of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy with his two older children, Amelie and Archie, and later wrote that the movie was “absolutely utterly brilliant” and that the lead actress was “mesmerising and smoking HOT.” He also posted, “I’ve let the missus know she’s my hall pass….. X.”
Zellweger has offered a quieter version of the same story. In February 2025, she said of that premiere night, “It was a fun night,” and added, “We all had a really good time.” She has also said she lives in Southern California near San Diego because that is where her partner and his young son live, a detail that has made the couple’s low-profile arrangement easier to follow even when they are not making a point of it.
The tension in this story is not whether the relationship is real. It is how carefully the two have protected it while still letting it surface in public at chosen moments. Anstead has three children from past relationships — Amelie, Archie and Hudson — and his posts now read less like celebrity chatter than a long-running declaration of loyalty. On April 23, he answered the question his own anniversary post raised: yes, the relationship is still there, and by his account it has lasted five years.
