Hannah Waterman is married! Actress ties the knot with The Bill star

2022-10-12

Hannah Waterman is married! Actress ties the knot with The Bill star Huw Higginson in Australia – five months after her famous father Dennis died

Huw, 58, took to Twitter to reveal the happy news, writing: ‘Got married to my love yesterday. We had the best of days’
He shared a picture of Hannah, 47, who wore a blue patterned dress for the ceremony, as they posed on a boat in Sydney harbor with their son Jack, 11
Hannah’s father died at the age of 74 in May, after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer less than three months before his death
Hannah and Huw have been dating since 2010, after a long friendship of over 10 years
Hannah acrimoniously split from her EastEnders co-star husband Ricky Groves in 2009, after he said the actress revealed she had been having an affair
Hannah and Huw relocated to Australia in 2014, where she’s been working as stage actress

Hannah Waterman has married The Bill star Huw Higginson in Australia – five months after her famous father Dennis died.

Huw, 58, took to Twitter to reveal the happy news, writing: ‘Got married to my love yesterday. We had the best of days.’

He shared a picture of Hannah, 47, who wore a blue patterned dress for the ceremony, as they posed on a boat in Sydney harbor with their son Jack, 11.

Just married! Hannah Waterman has married The Bill star Huw Higginson in Australia – five months after her famous father Dennis died

Hannah is seen gazing happily at her new husband as they sit on the back of the boat, with her wedding bouquet in her lap.

Huw looked dapper in a navy suit, while their son dressed in a black suit. Another photo shared by the groom shows the couple surrounded by family and friends.

Hannah’s father died at the age of 74 in May. At the time Hannah shared a picture of the legendary TV star smiling while cradling her as a baby as in his arms.

Happy news: Huw, 58, took to Twitter to reveal the happy news, writing: ‘Got married to my love yesterday. We had the best of days’

The actress, whose mother Patricia Maynard was left by her father for Rula Lenska after ten years of marriage in 1987, said: ‘My Dad! I loved him’.

Dennis was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer less than three months before his death, after a tumour was discovered in a bone in his leg.

Hannah acrimoniously split from her EastEnders co-star husband Ricky Groves in 2009, after he said the actress revealed she had been having an affair with Huw and was leaving on New Year’s Eve.

News: Huw wrote they had ‘the best of days’ as he shared photos from the couple’s ceremony in Sydney, where they relocated to in 2014

Hannah and Huw have been dating since 2010, after a long friendship of over 10 years, with the star revealing in a 2011 interview they became close again in 2009 when they were cast opposite each other in two plays.

Hannah, who had dramatically lost two-and-a-half stone as part of a fitness regime which featured in a DVD, was still married at the time to Ricky, who blamed her exercise DVD for the break-up.

She made no secret of her admiration for Higginson, saying: ‘Huw is lovely in real life. When there’s only two of you (on stage), you have to absolutely trust each other … he is a rock.’

Father and daughter: Hannah’s father, the legendary TV actor Dennis Waterman, died at the age of 74 in May

She left Ricky on New Year’s Eve 2009, before Huw moved into her Essex home in June 2010 after having issues in his own marriage to Geraldine Dove-Higginson, with whom he shares a daughter.

Huw married Geraldine, a stage manager and former art director on The Bill, in 1997.

‘I’ve been friends with Huw on and off for 10 years. We first met when he played my pervy landlord in EastEnders, but since then we’ve been in two plays together,’ Hannah recalled of their relationship in a 2011 interview.

‘Last year, Huw came a bit unstuck in his personal life and I was on tour with Calendar Girls, so he stayed at my house for a while. He moved in in June, and things progressed quite quickly from there!

Ex: Hannah pictured with her ex-husband Ricky Groves who she split with on New Year’s Eve in 2009 before going public with Huw (pictured in 2007)

Long term love: Hannah and Huw have been dating since 2010, after a long friendship of over 10 years (pictured together with their newborn son in 2011)

‘We’ve kept things quiet because we’re both quite private people. We wanted to give our relationship time to grow away from the public eye. We spoke early on in our relationship about the fact we’d like a family.’

Higginson, who played lovable but dimwitted police officer George Garfield in The Bill, co-starred alongside Waterman in plays Rattle Of A Single Man and Killing Time in 2009.

Hannah is best known for playing Laura Dunn in EastEnders, Ian Beale’s third wife who was killed off the soap in 2004.

Famous role: Hannah is best known for playing Laura Dunn in EastEnders, Ian Beale’s third wife who was killed off the soap in 2004

After leaving the BBC soap, Hannah went on to star in BBC One daytime soap Doctors, The Bill, as well as her dad Dennis Waterman’s hit show New Tricks.

Hannah and Huw relocated to Australia in 2014, where she’s been working as stage actress, including starring in the Australian production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in 2019.

She spoke about her family’s move in 2016, explaining it was a tough decision to relocate to the other side of the world as she was having big success on UK shores with a recurring role on Doctors.

‘Work had really started to pick up but we thought ‘well, if we delay it again we just won’t do it’, so we thought we’d give it a year,’ she told The Daily Telegraph Australia, before explaining how a year ‘wasn’t long enough’.

Since moving to Australia, Huw has had a number of TV and theatre roles, including appearances in series Rake and Total Control.

Remember him? Higginson played lovable but dimwitted police officer George Garfield in The Bill

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