Actor Sam Neill finds love on Twitter
Kiwi actor Sam Neill has found love in a very unconventional way – particularly for a Hollywood star!
The Jurassic Park actor has gone public with his relationship with Aussie political reporter Laura Tingle after the pair met through friends late last year. But that wasn’t their first interaction.
The couple had been flirting via Twitter since last March, when Neill tweeted Tingle claiming he wasn’t allowed into Malcolm Turnbull’s election victory party.
The night they wouldn't let us into @TurnbullMalcolm's victory party.
Perhaps the Libs have a thing about beards. @latingle pic.twitter.com/dbAPTP1Yjs— Sam Neill (@TwoPaddocks) March 29, 2017
The cheeky exchange kicked off months of flirtation. In April, RocKwizhost Julia Zemiro joked about setting the pair up in a remake of Thunderbirds, where Tingle would play Lady Penelope while Neill would play the chauffeur, Parker (the two characters appear together in every episode of the classic TV series but one).
“Works for me,” Tingle replied, adding, “As do chauffeurs uniforms”.
And two months earlier, Tingle, 56, told Zemiro she “loved” the episode in which she interviewed 70-year-old Neill.
Tingle even replied to one of her follower’s tweets after they confessed they were “desperately in love” with Neill, responding, “You’re only human.”
A friend of the couple told The Australian the relationship was already getting “serious”.
How sweet! Good luck to these two lovebirds.