Greg Davies is kind of reserved on the subject of his private life.
The 57-year-old comic, who will host the 2026 Bafta TV Awards, was a highschool drama trainer earlier than turning to stand-up.
He then began his tv profession within the early 2000s and secured his large break on The Inbetweeners, enjoying school principal Mr Gilbert from 2008 to 2014.
Greg reprized the function a number of occasions and within the years since has grow to be one of the vital beloved personalities in British comedy. He created and starred in sitcoms Man Down and The Cleaner and introduced By no means Thoughts the Buzzcocks.
He’s in fact additionally a presenter on Taskmaster and has been for eleven years, with the twenty first collection airing in April along with assistant and creator Alex Horne.
So whereas it might appear to be we all know him, given his fixed presence on our screens, Greg has solely given us tidbits about his previous love life – let’s revisit them, from his crush on a pop star’s mom to his long-term relationship with a Labor MP.
Who did Greg Davies date?
Romanticism of Labor MPs
From 2007 to 2015, Greg dated Labor politician Liz Kendall. They shared a flat in south London.
The 54-year-old has been Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Know-how since 2025 and MP for Leicester West since 2010.
After their romance ended, she informed The Mirror: ‘I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all these issues about their personal lives as a result of it’s extremely treasured to me and essential to me that I’ve that house that’s private and only for me.
“We’re not collectively anymore, however we stay superb mates.”
She and Greg separated a couple of months earlier than the 2015 common election.
Though Greg has remained tight-lipped about their long-term relationship, he did embody an anecdote in one in every of his stay exhibits about an embarrassing, informal telephone name he made to her years after their breakup — as a result of he dropped his telephone down his pants.
“And it was such a clumsy dialog, as a result of we hadn’t spoken in so lengthy, and it simply made me giggle like a narrative,” he mentioned in an interview with The Instances final yr.
“She thought it was hilarious,” he added, revealing that she accredited when he requested permission to inform the story on stage. “So it wasn’t for any significant motive that I spoke of her for the primary time.
‘We have now now moved on. She is now not a part of my life and vice versa.’
Blue Peter presenter in love
Okay, he hasn’t dated this particular person, however Greg most likely needs in any other case.
Throughout a 2023 interview with OK! Greg admitted he had a ‘horrible’ crush on kids’s TV presenter Janet Ellis, who hosted Blue Peter and Jigsaw. She can also be the mom of Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Recalling a time they met, he mentioned: ‘I met Janet Ellis as soon as in a fish and chip store. I had an enormous crush on her all my childhood.
“Then I lastly met her and mentioned one thing demeaning, I feel chip-based, that assured I might by no means get into the connection I needed.”
Greg met her Homicide on the Dancefloor hitmaker daughter later down the road and confessed he ‘favored her mum’.
“She rolled her eyes and mentioned, ‘Everybody does that.’
The ex who pushed him to pursue comedy
Though they’re now not collectively, Greg has credited an ex-girlfriend with inspiring his profession change from instructing to comedy.
In 2020, he recalled how he had all the time had the urge to enterprise into comedy however feared he couldn’t deal with criticism.
Fortunately, his then-girlfriend inspired him to offer it a attempt, and the remaining is historical past!
‘I have been doing comedy for about fifteen years now. I all the time needed to do it, however I simply by no means had a thick sufficient pores and skin,” he informed The Instances. ‘A pal I had whereas instructing was a pragmatist and all the time mentioned to me: if you wish to do one thing, go for it.
‘So I lastly made the change. I am undoubtedly happiest in comedy.”
Is Greg Davies married?
Though Greg shouldn’t be married and is believed to be single, he has publicly poked enjoyable at his relationship standing.
Final Could, co-star Alex appeared on the purple carpet on the TV Baftas, the place Taskmaster was nominated within the leisure class, and thanked his spouse, Rachel Horne, a former BBC enterprise journalist, telling comic Tom Allen: ‘I might wish to thank my spouse for bringing us right here tonight.’
In response, Greg joked, “I haven’t got a spouse, so perhaps I can thank Alex’s spouse.”
Alex recommended that Greg may run into his future spouse on the star-studded occasion, to which he mentioned: ‘Possibly I’ll. I am open to it. It could be so stunning; It has been too lengthy and I am prepared now.’
Alex responded that his co-host was “lonely,” prompting Greg to say, “Oh god, the horrible, scorching, lonely tears.”
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