Sheridan Smith reveals she had a secret fling with hunky stuntman Alex Anlos while filming The Castaways in Greece and says 'it's so romantic'

Sheridan Smith has revealed she had a secret fling with hunky stuntman Alex Anlos while filming The Castaways. 

The British actress, 44, confessed that she had a romance with Alex after she split from her fiancé, insurance broker Jamie Horn in 2021.

Sheridan was busy filming for her 2023 Paramount+ drama in Greece where she played Erin, a woman who goes to Fiji to investigate the disappearance of her sister Lori. 

Now speaking to Alan Carr on his Life's a Beach podcast, Sheridan confessed to the holiday fling which she admitted was so 'romantic'. 

She said: 'I did have a holiday romance actually. I was filming in Greece and the stuntman – I'm giving so much away – he taught me to swim, so he was holding me.

'And the next thing we did have a bit of a romance – it's an exclusive! It's so romantic and it's the heat and the bodies are all out!'

At the time of filming in Greece, Sheridan shared a picture with Alex as they cosied up for a behind the scenes Instagram snap.

She wrote: 'Hanging out after stunt rehearsals with @that_stunt_dude Greece. This guy has made me look bad ass.'

Sheridan also shared a second photo of the pair and penned: 'Love filming here in Greece. With my set bff @that_stunt_dude. I was a non-swimmer till we met!'

The Cilla star split from fiancé Jamie in 2021 after three years together.

The pair had met on dating app Tinder and moved into a £1.5million Essex home together before getting engaged in 2018.

Before splitting their welcomed their son Billy in May 2020. 

It comes as Sheridan was branded 'superb' for her role in the 'astonishing and deeply moving' thriller The Cage as viewers binge watch the gritty new show.  

The five-part crime drama hit screens on BBC One on April 26 and is also available to watch on iPlayer. 

'Leanne and Matty are both robbing from the same casino – setting them on a high-stakes crash course with gangsters, police... and each other,' BBC iPlayer's synopsis reads.  

The show stars actress Sheridan as Leanne and Michael Socha as Matty.

The pair are joined by the likes of Barry Sloane, Geraldine James, Sue Jenkins, Abby Mavers, Louis Emerick and Ian Puleston-Davies. 

Although the show only landed on Sunday, many critics have been able to watch the series and shared their thoughts. 

The Telegraph's Anita Singh's headline states: 'Sheridan Smith is superb in the gripping follow-up to The Responder.'

She adds: 'Smith brings her natural warmth to the role of Leanne, a single mother who is caring for a grandmother with dementia and facing eviction.

'Socha, an actor who deserves to be a bigger deal, is a lovable loser called Matty who is in the grip of a gambling addiction. 

'His eyebrows are two punctuation marks of despair. The series opens with the The’s This is the Day (it’s a great soundtrack): “This is the day, your life will surely change/This is the day, when things fall into place.” It’s not, and they won’t.

'Matty is the casino manager and Leanne is the cashier. When they each discover that the other is cooking the books, taking a little bit here and a little bit there, they team up. 

'It’s the classic story of amateurs getting in over their heads and finding themselves at the mercy of serious criminals.'

The Guardian's Lucy Mangan's describes the new show as 'an astonishing, deeply moving state-of-the-nation thriller'.

She writes: 'The Cage works as a companion piece to The Responder, giving a voice to and empathising more with the people Freeman’s character likened to whack-a-moles in trackie bottoms than with those attempting to corral them.

'A state-of-the-other-nation piece, perhaps.' 

In contrast, The Times writer Carol Midgley says: 'The premise of The Cage (BBC1), his new series, didn’t really float my boat. 

'I find casinos a turn-off, both in real life and in TV dramas: the flashy lights, garish carpets, black glass and flinty-eyed ambience all designed to relieve you of as much money as possible and usually filled with people in whom I have no interest. 

'I couldn’t see how something set in this world, which is alien to so many, could have the raw, jagged authenticity that made The Responder special.

'The Cage isn’t really about casinos, though, even though it’s set in one. It is about the things that desperate, struggling people will do, people who are in financial trouble for all different kinds of reasons and which are not always their fault. 

'It shows how, when you are in a certain kind of trap, the world is rigged against you.'