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Dawn French - My new boyfriend has never watched me on TV!

Dawn French tells Saga that her new boyfriend had never seen her on TV before they met.

If you have a Saga magazine subscription you’ll have seen their recent interview with Dawn French in which she talks about her new boyfriend for the first time.

French split from Lenny Henry, her husband of 24 years, three years ago and has since started dating 49-year-old Mark Bignell, who she met through her mother Roma – it seems you’re never too old for your mum to set you up.

The surprising thing about her new man, though, is that he’d actually never seen Dawn French on TV – despite her years of Vicar of Dibley, French & Saunders, Murder Most Horrid, we could go on...

“I'm not boasting, but you'd actually have to have not watched television for the past 20 years to have avoided me, and he'd managed to do just that,” she said.

“He's encouraging and supportive, but my job doesn't mean any more to him than anyone else's,” she added.

Bignell works as a therapist who founded Homoaze House, a support charity. “His work is quiet and understated - and it's best it remains like that,” she said. "He didn’t ask to get caught up in my world – and what it involves in terms of media scrutiny.”

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Posted by Annah Lansdown.

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