Renée Zellweger Reveals The Sad Story Behind How She Came To Meet Boyfriend Ant Anstead

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There is more to the story of Renée Zellweger and Ant Anstead’s meet-cute than we realized — and there’s a surprising amount of sadness in their love story!

When reports broke that the couple became an item over the summer of 2021, everyone was extremely surprised by the random romance between the Oscar winner and the reality star, who met on an episode of his show Celebrity IOU: Joyride.

But for the Bridget Jones’s Diary star, the encounter felt almost like fate. As she recalled in an interview for the April issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Zellweger was watching an episode of Celebrity IOU, in which celebrities work with the Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott to honor someone in their life by renovating the person’s home.

She explained: It was the honoring of another person that drew her in. This is the really sad part… Related: Renée Zellweger Pulled A Kim Kardashian & Studied Law During Break From Acting! At the time, the 52-year-old was still grieving the loss of her longtime friend and publicist Nanci Ryder, who passed away in June 2020 after battling ALS for nearly six years.