Secret to life with Gervais? His ’n’ hers bathrooms

TOGETHER for 35 years, they are one of showbusiness’s most enduring couples.

And the key to a happy relationship, according to Ricky Gervais’s partner Jane Fallon, is ... separate bathrooms.

The author, who has been dating the comedian since 1982, credits his ’n’ her loos – and ‘friendship’ – for the couple’s continued domestic bliss.

Miss Fallon also says the pair have not yet married because neither of them can be ‘fussed’. She told the Mail: ‘To paraphrase Joan Collins, separate bathrooms is the secret to a happy relationship.

‘Separate bedrooms would be a disaster though!

‘Other than that I don’t really know. It sounds pathetic but you just have to get on. You’ve got to be friends and you have to be able to laugh.’

Miss Fallon, 57, met Gervais, 56, when she was a television producer – and years before he found fame. The couple, who have homes in London and New York, met as students at University College London.

Miss Fallon’s latest novel, Faking Friends, is published by Penguin and costs £7.99.