Who says bumping into an ex is awkward?
Rafe Spall has old f lame Alice Eve in fits of giggles after their chance encounter in the street
THEY were lovers in the early days of their acting careers, but it’s clear there’s still plenty of chemistry between Alice Eve and Rafe Spall.
Beaming Rafe left his ex in fits of giggles as they stood and chatted for around 30 minutes in West London last week.
The pair, who lived together for almost two years after meeting in 2004 on the set of TV series The Rotters’ Club, looked delighted to bump into each other while out shopping near their homes.
‘You could tell that they were really pleased to see each other,’ said an eyewitness.
‘They definitely had a rapport. Both of them were smiling broadly and really affectionate. The weather was horrible, but it didn’t deter them.’
The couple set up home in East London when their on-set romance blossomed, but the prospect of marriage was never on the cards, according to the actress. In a 2005 interview, the daughter of Waking The Dead star Trevor Eve and actress Sharon Maughan said: ‘I love living with Rafe but we have no plans to get engaged, God no!
‘I’m only 23 and I don’t want to get engaged until I’m 30 at least.’
The Mail on Sunday revealed last year that Alice, 39, is now dating aristocrat Pete Czernin, 16 years her senior. She recently starred in the TV thriller The Power and is set to appear in the horror film The Queen Mary.
Rafe, 38, the son of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet actor Timothy Spall, is to play lawyer Atticus Finch in a London stage version of To Kill A Mockingbird in March. He married actress Elize du Toit in 2010 and the couple have three children.