Broadchurch star Andrew Buchan has reportedly broken up with his Downton Abbey actress wife Amy Nuttall and has now fallen for a co-star.
The actor, 44, is believed to now be living with his co-star Leila Farzad, 39, after the pair met while starring in new BBC thriller Better.
The duo take on the lead roles in the new crime drama series, which sees Leila play Lou Slack, a corrupt police detective who allows the crimes of gangster Col McHugh, played by Andrew, slide in exchange for tip offs to advance her career.
Andrew and Amy, who has also starred in Emmerdale, have been married since 2012.
A source said: “It was a huge shock. Amy is heartbroken.”
A second source added to The Sun: “For Andrew to walk away from his family was a huge shock to us all – and Amy is heartbroken. Everyone who knows them thought they were going to be together forever. But he’s packed his bags and left. Whatever has gone on, it seems to have been enough for him to re-evaluate his whole life and rip up their marriage.
OK! has approached representatives for Andrew Buchan, Amy Nutall and Leila Farzad for comment.
Andrew is known for playing the father of murdered Danny Latimer in Broadchurch on ITV and has also made appearances in Netflix’s The Crown as Andrew Parker Bowles and Sky Atlantic’s This Is England as politician Matt Hancock.
Amy found fame as the youngest understudy to ever play the lead of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera at just 17, before getting her break a year later in Emmerdale as Chloe Atkinson.
She is also a professional singer, having performed at the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall and became the winner of the celebrity edition of Stars In Their Eyes in 2004.
Andrew previously spoke about his marriage to Amy, saying that both of them being actors helps them understand each other's schedules.
“It definitely helps that Amy’s an actor," he told The Express. "Who else would be OK with the absences or with you doing theatre on Christmas Eve? It helps so much if someone gets it.”
Meanwhile, Leila got her major TV break in 2020, when she starred alongside Billie Piper in Sky drama I Hate Suzie, but has been more recently on screens in the lead role of Lou Slack in the five-part series Better.
She stars alongside Andrew Buchan in the series, which sees her character try and turn her life around after the near-death of her son and her corrupt dealings with a local criminal, played by Andrew.
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