Emmerdale actor Dominic Brunt has played lovable vet Paddy Kirk in the soap since 1997.
In the Yorkshire village, Paddy has been married four times. But in real life, he's been married to wife Joanne Mitchell since 2003.
And many soap fans will recognise Joanne, reports My London.
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Joanne, 50, has starred alongside Dominic in Emmerdale, playing three different roles in the Yorkshire soap.
She played DC Barnborough in 2003, Susan Davies in 2009 and most recently Sandra Flaherty in 2016, the mother of Liv Flaherty and step mum of Aaron Dingle.
She has also starred in Coronation Street.
Joanne played Marsha the mother of Kayla Clifton, played by Mollie Winnard, and the ex-wife of twisted policeman Neil Clifton, played by Ben Cartwright, as part of the harrowing Bethany Platt grooming story-line, as well as playing a sonographer in 2009.
She has also had roles in Holby City, Doctors and Waterloo Road, as well as featuring in some films and a number of other programmes.
Dominic, 51, met Joanne at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and in 2011 together they co-founded Mitchell Brunt Films.
The couple married in 2003 and they have two children.
Over a decade ago the couple were terrified they were going to lose their son Danny when he needed urgent heart by-pass surgery after being diagnosed with a heart condition at eight months old.
Dominic told the Mirror in 2018, when his son was nine: “At the time it was horrific. You’re in the eye of the storm, it was horrible. You think you are going to lose your son.
“We had only just got to know him – he was eight months old, and we thought that was it.
"We discussed organ donation. It was brought up by a nurse because there was a mortality rate with the operation.
"We had to discuss it, but even before that we’d all agreed to be donors in the family – my sisters are nurses so it was how we were brought up.”
During an appearance on This Morning, Dominic added: "He's absolutely fine now.
“At the time it's the most horrific thing to have to go through as a parent and obviously as a child, but he's football-mad now, he's completely fine.
“He has check-ups once a year for the rest of his life, but thankfully Leeds Royal Infirmary were great and the children's heart surgery fund have been great."
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