Joanna Page and Wynne Evans have fuelled rumours of a falling-out after fans noticed they no longer follow each other on Instagram.
The pair, who fronted the BBC One series All At Sea and often spoke about their lifelong friendship, appear to have distanced themselves from one another in recent months. Page, 48, has deleted all traces of Evans, 53, from her social media, while the opera singer — best known as the Go.Compare man — has returned the gesture.
In a post shared in January, the Gavin and Stacey actress paid tribute to the cast and crew who worked on the show, but notably omitted Evans’s name. He does appear in one image, joining her in a wetsuit as they brave the cold Welsh sea, though he isn’t tagged or facing the camera.
The pair’s final joint photo, shared to Evans’s page in March, shows them smiling together on set. Since then, neither has acknowledged the other publicly.
All At Sea, which followed the duo on a light-hearted boating adventure around the Welsh coastline, was quietly dropped by the BBC earlier this year.
It had been filmed prior to Evans’s controversial appearance on Strictly Come Dancing, which led to disciplinary action after he was accused of making inappropriate remarks during a press event.
Although Evans later apologised, he admitted last month that the fallout cost him dearly. “At 53, to lose all your singing work, television work and radio show is not an easy thing to have happen,” he told LBC’s Nick Ferrari. “But it was my fault.”
Page, meanwhile, remains a regular face on the BBC. She was recently announced as the host of Shift The Thrift, a new daytime series in which contestants scour charity shops to find items they can sell on for profit.
While neither has yet to address the apparent social-media split, friends close to the pair have described the silence as deeply surprising, and fans have been quick to notice the end of a friendship once described by the pair as full of “laughter” and “honesty”.
The Standard has contacted Joanna Page and Wynne Evans for comment.
