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Lily Waddell

Gogglebox Jenny's real life off-screen - secret husband and how she met BFF Lee

Gogglebox's Jenny has a completely different life off screen which may surprise viewers.

Elements of mystery surround her real life romance as her secret husband Ray has never made an appearance on Gogglebox.

In fact he prefers to stay out of the spotlight almost completely.

That's why Jenny asked her best friend Lee whether he would do the audition with her for Gogglebox.

Lee found it hard to turn such a fantastic opportunity down, although he said he had to thin about it, and like Jenny has a partner of his own.

He's been romancing Steve for nearly 30 years now.

Fans best recognise the best friends Jenny and Lee, who hail from Hull, for filming in Lee's caravan in Patrington Haven caravan park.

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Lee previously said: "I wasn’t [at Beverley Races] but she asked me if I wanted to sit and do a test filming with her.

"I’d never seen Gogglebox, it had only just started, so I walked into filming swearing my head off because she’d got me out of bed on my day off."

More than two decades ago Jenny and Lee first met when he became a regular in her pub The Crown Inn in Paull, in East Yorkshire.

Fans best recognise the best friends Jenny and Lee, who hail from Hull, for filming in Lee's caravan in Patrington Haven caravan park (Twitter)

Since then, they have become inseparable as friends and now TV sofa buddies.

She told Ireland's Big Issue of their friendship: "He became a regular in 1994 and used to come in pretty much every night with his partner and we were friends from the off.

"We’ve been best friends ever since."

They don't live together but they do film in Lee's caravan for Gogglebox.

Off-screen they remain as close, frequently going on holiday in normal times.

Jenny and Lee on cruise (jennyandlee_gogglebox/Instagram)

The pair did, however, isolate in Lee's caravan during the first national lockdown to ensure they could film Gogglebox amid the coronavirus pandemic.

They were first propelled into fame in 2014 where they built their hugely supportive fan base.

Their friendship has only continued to flourish during their time on the show.

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