Neighbours' Kym Valentine: 'I'm all loved up'

Neighbours' Kym Valentine: 'I'm all loved up'
Neighbours' Kym Valentine: 'I'm all loved up' (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Neighbours' Kym Valentine has revealed she's 'loved up' in her relationship with a former co-star. The actress, who stars as Libby Kennedy-Fitzgerald in the Australian soap, is dating Jonathon Dutton, who played Wayne 'Tad' Reeves until 2002. Although she said she's not ready to talk about the romance, Kym admitted to the Herald Sun: "To say I was loved up would be appropriate." The 32-year-old said she is the 'happiest and healthiest' she's ever been, following a tough two years in which she divorced husband Fabio Tolli, and was plagued by rumours of romance with co-star Jane Hall's (Rebecca Napier) former love Vince Colosimo. She said she dealt with the gossip by saying nothing and waiting for it to subside. "It was really frustrating because people jumped to a lot of conclusions that were not true," she added. The actress also endured a period of ill health last year when she was forced to take time off work because of a collapsed lung. Speaking of her new-found happiness, Kym said: "I am so grateful not to have high drama and illness in my life any more. "The past two years have made me appreciate what I've got. Honestly, I don't know how I got through it. "I just kept thinking 'one day it will pass' and eventually it did." Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.