{"id":429209,"date":"2026-02-16T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429209\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:35:11","slug":"sheridan-smith-sick-of-being-single-as-she-makes-plea-to-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429209\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheridan Smith \u2018sick of being single\u2019 as she makes plea to co-star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mum-of-one Sheridan Smith has enjoyed fame with TV shows such as The Royle Family and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps but her love life has not had the same success<\/p>\n

14:50, 16 Feb 2026Updated 15:21, 16 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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Sheridan Smith has made a love-life plea to a co-star(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Sheridan Smith joked she is \u201csick of being single\u201d as she issued a plea to a co-star. The 44-year-old rose to fame playing Emma Kavanagh in the Royle Family.<\/a><\/p>\n

Emma was the first girlfriend of Ralf Little\u2019s character Anthony Royle. After the series concluded Sheridan found herself once again starring alongside Ralf, spending eight years playing Janet Keogh in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.<\/p>\n

She has since gone on to star in a host of television shows, including Gavin and Stacey, as well as films such as the Queen\u2019s Corgi. Away from the screen she won Laurence Olivier Awards for her roles in Legally Blonde and Flare Path.<\/a><\/p>\n

She has recently starred in Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s dark comedy Woman in Mind alongside comedian Romesh Ranganathan. And while Sheridan\u2019s career has been a success, her love life hasn\u2019t reached the same heights.<\/p>\n

She dated James Corden from 2007 to 2009 before entering into a relationship with insurance broker Jamie Horn, who she shares son Billy with. Sheridan has now issued a love-life plea to Romesh.<\/p>\n

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Sheridan appeared in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Romesh Ranganathan Show, she quipped: \u201cCan you get me a partner?\u201d<\/p>\n

Before adding: \u201cMaybe you could just get me a partner? No, don\u2019t, it\u2019s going to sound really desperate. She\u2019s sick of being single.”<\/p>\n

Romesh went on to joke that he should \u201cput Sheridan\u2019s number\u201d on the screen for people to call. She replied: \u201cYou\u2019re like the new Cilla Black with Blind Date.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheridan is reported to have been single since 2024 when she enjoyed a romance with former boxer Dave ‘Rocky’ Ryan. Dave is the brother of Sheridan\u2019s close friend Sandy Ryan.<\/p>\n

Their romance however is said to have \u201cfizzled out\u201d before they went their separate ways, reports The Mirror<\/a>. An insider told The Sun: \u201cSheridan decided to end things with Dave a few weeks ago after their romance fizzled out.”<\/p>\n

The source further disclosed that the split was friendly, adding: “Thankfully her stage show has kept her busy and there is no bad blood after they ended on good terms.”<\/p>\n

Before Dave, Sheridan was in a relationship with actor Alex Lawler. The two actors were romantically involved over two decades before, but rekindled their relationship in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Sheridan is ‘sick of being single'(Image: PA Archive\/PA Images)<\/p>\n

Showing off the romance on social media, Sheridan said: \u201cSo pleased this fitty I dated back in the day (20 years ago) is back in my life! Life works in mysterious ways,” she wrote alongside a smiling face emoji and prince emoji. She ended with: “miss you Mr L,” followed by a red heart emoji.<\/p>\n

In 2022 however the couple announced they had split for the second time. Elsewhere in her chat with Romesh, Sheridan revealed the reason she rarely appears in interviews.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI\u2019m nervous today, being myself. Just anything where I have to be me, I get social anxiety. Very rarely do I do a lot of interviews, but it\u2019s you [Romesh] so I feel more relaxed with you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mum-of-one Sheridan Smith has enjoyed fame with TV shows such as The Royle Family and Two Pints of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[157279,157280,6491,34457,96,22830,6934,67509,2413,38809,15127,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-429209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alan-ayckbourn","9":"tag-blind-date","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-cilla-black","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gavin-and-stacey","14":"tag-james-corden","15":"tag-laurence-olivier","16":"tag-love","17":"tag-ralf-little","18":"tag-sheridan-smith","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}