Tamzin Outhwaite has expressed her gratitude towards her boyfriend Tom Child, who she has described as being a "dream stepdad" to her two children.
The actor, 51, has been in a relationship with the filmmaker, 31, for four years.
She was previously been married to fellow actor Tom Ellis, 43, between 2006 and 2014.
Tom has since married screenwriter Meaghan Oppenheimer, 35, and continues to coparent daughters Florence Ellis, 13, and Marnie Ellis, nine., with Tamzin.
Outhwaite paid tribute to her partner, Child, in a series of posts on Twitter yesterday, in which she told her followers that he was a "dream stepdad" to her two children.
The EastEnders alum outlined in the first "gratitude tweet" that her youngest child is currently ill, with her further noting that her scheduled has been "manic" recently.
She added: "My love has done school runs, vet visits, made dinner, packed lunches, cleaned, dog walks, taken the car to mechanics and generally lightened my load to the max."
Tamzin posted a follow-up tweet and addressed the idea that most men would do those jobs, with her responding to such feedback by stating that Child had done even more.
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The Masked Dancer participant said that her partner had moved into the spare room to allow her to sleep with her nine-year-old to "check her temp and give her meds."
She then added: "He holds her when she is sobbing ‘cos she misses her biological dad and then makes her laugh out loud." She accompanied this post with #dreamstepdad.
And in a subsequent post, she said that her children "sometimes give [Child] a hard time," with her noting in the tweet that such is often the case with stepchildren.
She however added: "Deep down they know he is kind, he cares and loves them deeply and I know how lucky I am." She concluded with hashtags such as #stepparentgratitude.
Outhwaite and Child began dating in 2017, with them having celebrated the fourth anniversary of their relationship in November last year - as documented on Instagram.
She wrote in a post at the time: "If it all ended tomorrow, I would be thankful and grateful and I know you would too ... yet what we have is a unique and beautiful LOVE."
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