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Amanda Abbington praised her "two favourites" for showing their support during her first live performance on Strictly Come Dancing.
The Sherlock star thanked fans after Saturday night's show, but paid tribute to two special audience members. Sat in the crowd was her Britain's Got Talent stuntman fiancé Jonathan Goodwin, joined by her teenage son Joe, shared with ex Martin Freeman. Amanda shared a screenshot of the two on-screen as she penned a tribute on Instagram.
What a trip. Thank you so much to everyone who has been so utterly beautiful and kind and generous saying lovely things," she shared with her 100,000 followers on Sunday. "It means so much! You have no idea!"
Amanda Abbington praised her 'two favourites' on Sunday (PA)Amanda added: "And to my two favourites in the audience who I love more than anything, except Grace, obviously, you are the three best humans on the planet. Next stop *insert this week’s dance here* And it’s EPIC."
She had referenced her other child shared with ex co-star Martin, their daughter Grace. Amanda and Martin split in 2016 and she's now engaged to escapology star Jonathan. It was love at first sight for the pair who got engaged just half an hour after meeting each other.
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The actress found love with daredevil Jonathan Goodwin 10 months after her four-year romance with The Queen's Gambit star Jonjo O'Neill broke down. The BGT stuntman helped the Sherlock actress get back on her feet again, after feeling "fragile" following the breakdown of her relationship with Jonjo.
Joe and Jonathan were sat in the audience on Saturday (BBC)Jonathan and Amanda had a whirlwind romance at the start of the relationship, where they spent hours talking on the phone every day for seven weeks before he flew to Vienna to meet her in person for the first time. They had been friends on social media for more than 10 years because her son Joe thought his act was 'amazing'.
"We kind of had a mutual respect for each other", she said but had initially 'friend zoned' him because he was with his wife. Amanda told Jay Rayner on his Out To Lunch podcast, they later spoke were she said to him "I've not had a great break-up" and he said"'well my divorce has just come through".
"I really liked him so I gave him my number and then the next day he said 'we should talk' and we were on the phones for seven hours", she added. The actress said within half an hour of meeting, the daredevil proposed to her.
Announcing their engagement, Amanda wrote at the time: "When you know, you know. I knew straight away. Within hours. My person is one of the kindest, sweetest, most amazing, incredible, talented, funny, brave, unstoppable, fearless and beautiful humans on the planet."