Simon Cooper may have been unlucky in the love on The Inbetweeners, but actor Joe Thomas? Not so much.
In fact Joe Thomas went so far as to call his fiancée Hannah Tointon his ‘best friend’ whilst opening up about how much he missed the actress on Celebrity Bear Hunt, also confirming that he and Hannah, 37, are engaged.
But let’s go back to the beginning of Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon’s relationship.
When did Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon meet?
Joining The Inbetweeners for series three in 2010, fiction became reality for Joe and Hannah. On the show Hannah played Tara Brown - Simon’s girlfriend - however, in their case things didn’t end well with Tara breaking up with Simon when he became infuriated with himself for not being able to keep it up (literally and metaphorically) in the bedroom.
The pair moved in with each other two years later in 2012 and are still going strong 15 years later.
When did Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon go public with their relationship?
Joe and Hannah actually went public with their relationship at the afterparty for The Inbetweeners world premiere in August 2011 when they were photographed holding hands.
When did Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon get engaged?
Joe and Hannah were reported to have got engaged in 2017, but it wasn’t until Joe’s appearance on Celebrity Bear Hunt that the news was officially confirmed.
Speaking about whether or not he would invite his The Inbetweeners co-stars James Buckley (Jay Cartwright), Simon Bird (Will McKenzie) and Blake Harrison (Neil Sutherland) to his stag do, Joe admitted, ‘I would be happy to have them there - they are my genuine friends. They are like friends from school, that’s really how I see them. Although we were a bit older than, the characters we played, it was a bit like going to school.
‘We saw each other every day and it was kind of a very, very formative experience for all of us. It is a little bit like the relationship between the characters as we went through these formative years together - getting things wrong, sort of comforting each other by being as confused as everyone else. I really would have them there. They would go, definitely.’
Do Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon have any kids?
It was actually Hannah’s famous sister Kara Tointon who admitted that Joe and Hanah had welcomed their first child together – a baby girl whose name has not been publicly revealed.
Whilst appearing on Ashley James’ podcast Mum’s The Word in October 2022, EastEnders actress Hannah shared, ‘My sister's just had her first. What's funny is that on Joe's side there's only boys, even during the scan they accidentally said “he” at one point, so they'd gone along thinking, “Well, it's a boy”.
‘Everyone playing the shape game etc said she's having a boy, so when they eventually had a girl... it was really brilliant, but it knocked them for six.’
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