Jonathan always managed to make his job sound very mundane. “I’m setting fire to myself in a straitjacket tomorrow.” I loved that he was a daredevil. Even before we met I’d seen him on the Britain’s Got Talent final [in 2019], where he was encased in gravel. He was one of the best in the world and being in a relationship with him felt incredibly romantic and magical. An actress and a daredevil … as if we were running off to join the circus.
We first said hello on Twitter in 2012 because my son, Joe, followed his exploits on YouTube and thought he was brilliant. We were both married, so there was nothing more than laughing at each other’s jokes. It was only in
