Celebrity Growing closer? Matt Smith

Celebrity

GROWING CLOSER?

Matt Smith and Claire Foy are said to be taking their on-screen romance into the real world

Having played husband and wife in the fi rst two series of The Crown , Matt Smith and Claire Foy have since starred as a married couple in the play Lungs at the Old Vic Theatre, set to transfer to New York. They have also been spending more time together, amid rumours that Matt has split from his girlfriend of fi ve years. Body language expert Judi James tells us what’s really going on…

‘Flattering and fl irty’ This picture shows that, ‘Claire and Matt are close in real life as well as on screen, as they use the kind of interest signals that look fl attering and even (in Claire’s case) almost fl irty,’ Judi says. The fact that Claire is beaming is ‘a grin of approval and interest for his words and his delivery’, rather than just a polite smile.

(Left) As Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth in Netfl ix’s The Crown

‘Extraordinarily cute’ In this picture, Judi says ‘Matt’s eye-attention is focused on Claire’, while Claire’s ‘extraordinarily cute expression’ is one ‘you might use to impress someone and –again –fl atter them, rather than an expression you might use with someone you’d known for years’.

Eyes for each other According to Judi, this picture shows Claire and Matt ‘cutting themselves off from any other people using mutual, eye-to-eye contact’; and she noticed the fact the couple are standing in ‘very close proximity’ to each other. We wouldn’t get this close to a lot of our friends –come on guys, who are you trying to kid?