No more Sarah Silverman… now Sheen ‘is dating Irish comic Aisling’
ACTOR Michael Sheen clearly has a soft spot for female comics: he recently broke up with US comic Sarah Silverman and is now reportedly dating the Irish comic Aisling Bea.
The actor, 49, has reportedly moved on with the Kildare star after parting ways with Silverman, pictured right with Sheen, over Christmas.
Bea, inset below, and Sheen were spotted at the Olivier Awards in London, although they didn’t arrive at the event together.
Speaking to The Sun, a source said: ‘They met through mutual friends and Michael is pretty smitten, telling people he is off the market.’
While they arrived separately at the star-studded awards ceremony on the weekend, they were seen together at the party, which took place at the Natural History Museum later that night.
An onlooker at the event said: ‘They stayed close all evening and Michael leaped to her defence when a reveller smashed a glass near her, making sure she was okay.’
Silverman announced her split from Sheen in February in a tweet that seemed to echo the words of Gwyneth Paltrow in her 2014 divorce announcement from Chris Martin.
She wrote: ‘The great @ michaelsheen & I consciously uncoupled over Christmas. I mean, not “over Christmas” – like that wasn’t the fight that ended it. No fight. We just live in different countries & it got hard. Felt we should just tell y’all so u stop askin, ‘How’s Michael/How’s Sarah?’’ Bea, from Kildare, is a rising star in Britain as both an actress and a stand-up comic. She made her initial breakthrough with a successful stand-up run at the Edinburgh Festival in 2012. She has since landed various acting roles as well as becoming a regular on British comedy panel shows. In February, Netflix announced that she would be one of the participants in a series showcasing international performers. She’ll be performing a 15-minute Netflix show that will bring her to a global audience. Late last year, Bea wrote an article in the Guardian newspaper in which she talked about how her father had taken his own life when she was three years old.