Ant Anstead and Renée Zellweger Remain in a 'Cherished Relationship' amid 'Disrespectful' Reports They're Living Apart

Renée Zellweger and Ant Anstead are still making love contempt caller reports, a rep for Anstead confirms pinch PEOPLE.

Recently, The Daily Mail reported that Anstead, 46, and nan Oscar winner, 56, are surviving separately, and that he was spending clip pinch a female named Julia French astatine her Laguna Beach, Calif.

“Sadly, nan caller reports successful nan property are disrespectful and misleading," Anstead's rep told PEOPLE connected Thursday, May 29.

They added that Anstead “stayed conscionable a fistful of days successful Julia French’s separate, and detached, impermanent house. They person been long-time friends pinch akin aged children wrong a circle of section Laguna Beach friends.”

Anstead has besides been “spending nan mostly of his clip moving successful nan U.K.,” while Zellweger continues to movie Only Murders successful nan Building successful New York City, his rep states, confirming that nan 2 “remain successful a cherished narration that they inquire to support private.”

PEOPLE reached retired to Zellweger’s representatives for comment.

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PEOPLE antecedently confirmed Zellweger and Anstead were dating successful June 2021, soon aft they met connected nan group of his Discovery+ show, Celebrity IOU Joyride, successful April that aforesaid year.

In September 2021, a root told PEOPLE that nan character was forming a adjacent enslaved pinch Anstead’s boy Hudson, now 5, whom he shares pinch ex-wife Christina Haack. Zellweger past sold her Los Angeles location successful October 2021 to beryllium person to her boyfriend.

Years later, successful April 2023, a root revealed to PEOPLE that nan brace had "found a location that they some emotion and are moving successful together" aft Anstead decided to waste his beloved Temple House successful Laguna Beach, Calif., that aforesaid month. 

Anstead later joined Zellweger successful England temporarily while she filmed Bridget Jones: Mad About nan Boy.

While promoting nan movie successful Feburary 2025, Zellweger made a uncommon remark astir her surviving business to British Vogue. She was interviewed by her longtime Bridget Jones's Diary co-star Hugh Grant, and she explained during nan conversation, "I unrecorded successful Southern California, adjacent San Diego."

When Grant asked, "Why?" nan Oscar victor gave a saccharine motion to Anstead and Hudson: "Because that’s wherever my chap lives, and his small boy.”