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10 celebrity couples you might not realise are in a relationship

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Joe Alwyn has been dominating headlines this week saying he wants the details of his relationship with ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift to stay private. The Kinds of Kindness actor said: “As everyone knows, we together – both of us, mutually – decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private.” He added: “There is always going to be a gap between what is known and what is said.”

Joe Alwyn is famous for attempting to keep his six-and-a-half-year-long relationship with the global superstar out of the public eye – and it almost eels as if the world has found out more about their relationship now it’s ended than when they were together. 

Here are 10 other celebrity couples who keep their relationship so private that you might not even realise they’re together.

Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter

, who starred, and , who plays Mr Carson in , have been together for over 40 years. The couple met in 1982 when they starred in a National Theatre production of . They got married a year later.

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