Heartbreak for Renee Zellweger as her TV star beau is caught crashing at spin instructor’s $8M home

Renee Zellweger and her British TV host boyfriend Ant Anstead have been living apart for the past year, DailyMail.com has learned.

The couple, who began dating in 2021, have not been seen together in public since early March when they were snapped supporting Anstead’s young son at a soccer game.

And Anstead, known for his roles in TV shows Wheeler Dealers and Born Mechanic, has instead been spotted staying overnight at the Laguna Beach home of a glamorous California divorcée while Zellweger has been in New York filming for a TV show.

Anstead, 46, is now facing bankruptcy for his car company, a raft of lawsuits demanding over $3million, and has been selling off his assets.

In recent years he owned a multi-million-dollar house in the exclusive town of Laguna Beach, California, and was pictured in 2022 moving in with Zellweger in her $30,000-per-month clifftop home across the street.

But for the past year he had downgraded to a modest, 832sqft, two-bed rental listed at $4,250 per month.

Anstead’s spokeswoman told DailyMail.com the small house he left over a month ago ‘was rented solely by Mr. Anstead’. His landlord confirmed Zellweger was not on the lease.

The Bridget Jones’s Diary star, 56, is currently in New York City filming a new season of popular Hulu show, Only Murders in the Building, while Anstead was believed to be spending time in his home country, the UK, in recent weeks before returning to Laguna.