Nearly a decade after they first met, radio and 9 star Andy Lee and his long-term girlfriend Rebecca Harding are nonetheless going robust.
And whereas the couple has up to now resisted the urge to tie the knot or have children, that does not imply they aren’t dedicated to one another, with the pair sharing a number of properties and cute pet canine Henrietta.
However whereas others appear in a rush for Lee to lastly put a hoop on it, in accordance with the host of The Hundred with Andy Lee, the couple is in no hurry to make it official or hear the pitter patter of little toes.
And he says that removed from clashing over the long run, he and Harding are very a lot on the identical web page.
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October 19, 2014 – First assembly
A lot has been written in regards to the couple’s first assembly again when Lee was a radio star and Harding was slightly recognized scholar and mannequin working in a Richmond cafe.
In an interview for the Sydney Morning Herald “Two of Us” column in 2022, Lee stated he was writing jokes for that 12 months’s Logie Awards when the waitress caught his eye.
“She was engaging, but it surely was extra her bubbly persona and the way she wasn’t good at her job,” he stated. “She’d go away a desk figuring out in regards to the particular person’s grandchildren or canine, however neglect their order.
“I ordered cups of tea I by no means drank and finally left a observe on a serviette.”
He informed one other media outlet in 2015 that Harding was initially aggravated that he left his private electronic mail tackle and never a cellphone quantity, however after she emailed him, he rang her immediately.
“She was very shocked; she was used to individuals texting, not calling,” he stated.
“She informed me she was two weeks away from ending her grasp’s diploma for the 12 months. I stated, ‘That is a Tuesday. I will name you on the Saturday and inform you the place I will take you,’ and we went out Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday.”
For her half, Harding as soon as stated throughout an interview for 60 Minutes, that she wasn’t initially occupied with Lee. “He hadn’t had a girlfriend shortly, he was Cleo Bachelor of the 12 months, I assumed he was a little bit of a sleazebag, perhaps.” However she quickly realised there was extra to him than met the attention.
“He is a bit sweeter than I truly was picturing. He is a very candy, form, beneficiant particular person.”
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January 27, 2015 – Journey to the tennis
After a interval relationship out of the general public eye, Lee requested his girlfriend to accompany him to Day 9 of the 2015 Australian Open in Melbourne, the place they have been photographed watching the match.
He stated he tried to warn her that going public might be difficult, however she was nonetheless unprepared for the eye and “immense stress” that adopted.
August 2016 – Lee introduced the couple had break up
After beginning the 12 months with one other Australian Open date, Lee shocked listeners throughout a phase on his radio present when he talked about to co-host Hamish Blake that he and Bec “broke up a short while in the past.”
Lee later stated life within the public eye took its toll on Harding, who discovered herself questioning if she acquired a job or made mates merely due to who she was relationship.
Lee described their time aside as a “actually unhappy, powerful time” for him, whereas she appeared to get “her spark again” shortly after the break up.
Late 2016-early 2017 – The couple reunite
Nonetheless pining for his former girlfriend six months later, and following “a good bit of stalking,” Lee determined to attempt to win again Harding. And it labored!
By the time the Logies rolled round in April 2017, Lee took Harding as his date.
November 6, 2018 – Attending the the Melbourne Cup
By 2018, the couple was a fixture on the social scene, photographed at all the things from the tennis, to the Logies, to concert events and the races.
August 25, 2019 – Perth Airport
In 2019, they have been snapped collectively at Perth Airport.
Having moved in collectively in 2017, the couple travelled usually, with Lee admitting in an interview that Harding appreciated them to go abroad in order that followers did not know who he was.
2020 – Seaside home unveiled
Whereas it’s unclear precisely when the house was bought or once they moved in, 2020 was the 12 months Lee and Harding unveiled their Mornington Peninsula seashore home to the world.
Showing to sit down on a giant lot of land, they started posting pictures and movies from the pad in 2020, with Lee even broadcasting his radio present from the house’s golf simulator.
The house boasts a big pool surrounded by a deck which homes a pop-up TV.
By 2021, Harding opened the doorways of the renovated house as a part of Fletchers Actual Property “My Dwelling” collection.
Within the accompanying article, she talked in regards to the renovations, together with an edible backyard, and the addition of a brand new member of the household, a Welsh terrier known as Henrietta.
March 24, 2021 – New house
2021 noticed the couple present assist to one another on the funerals of Bert Newton and music promoter Michael Gudinski. Additionally they attended Gudinski’s state memorial service collectively.
Later that 12 months, they paid $8.5 million for an nearly derelict 1876-built Italianate mansion in Hawthorn.
Lee talked about the acquisition in a Sydney Morning Herald interview the next 12 months, joking, “We have simply purchased a home, an 1876 home in Hawthorn with no operating water, no rest room, no kitchen. It is one hell of an enterprise, however renovations are good for relationships, proper?”
As at 2024, the house stays untouched, however served as a backdrop for a glamorous picture shoot that includes the pair, and in addition has its personal Instagram web page, which can doc its eventual restoration.
2022
Within the 2022 interview for the Sydney Morning Herald “Two of Us” column, Harding stated Lee was her “finest buddy.”
“We complement one another. I watch him love what he does day by day. He’s inspirational,” she stated.
“He may go ridiculous hours, however seeing how a lot pleasure it brings has made me realise I ought to work in direction of making a life doing what I need to do.
“He exhibits me that when you work laborious and also you’re a pleasant particular person, you’ll be able to chase these goals.”
2023
When requested by 9Entertainment what annoys Lee about Harding, he stated it was the best way she reads out her cellphone quantity.
“She says it not within the ‘4, three, three’ quantity sequence,” he revealed. “She says three numbers, then two, then two, then three. It actually annoys me.”
That very same 12 months, Lee attracted loads of undesirable consideration after posting two pictures of he and Harding, taken 9 years aside, in New York.
Many requested, and even demanded, he lastly suggest to Harding.
He stated on the time neither of them thought marriage was “tremendous vital” and spoke of the “unfair stress” positioned on them to have children.
“I’ve gone by means of instances the place I assumed I might, after which I’ve positively gone by means of patches of feeling ‘I do not suppose I need this in any respect’. We’ll see,” he stated on the time.
They completed the 12 months on the entrance cowl of Australian Ladies’s Weekly’s digital Christmas version, revealing the picture shoot happened on the ninth anniversary of the day they met.
January 2024
In January he posted a photograph of a smiling Harding, whom he known as his ‘favorite human’, throughout a lunch date.
February 2024
Lee informed listeners on Mamamia’s No Filter podcast that he and Harding have been continuously requested once they have been going to have children, along with his mother and father even chiming in.
“My mum, dad and I have been down on the seashore home the opposite day and so they stated, ‘When are you going to start out a household?’ And I stated, ‘You realise, you would not be right here on this seashore home if I’ve had my circle of relatives and children.’ I feel I spend a lot time with them due to that [being child-free].”
And whereas he admitted he thought Harding can be “a tremendous mum” if the time ever got here, he stated they have been in no hurry to decide, and that they have been on the identical web page.
“There isn’t any rub between Bec and I on that entrance. As a result of she additionally would not need them proper now. That is the misunderstanding.”
February 14
Lee posted a video to his Instagram story of him arriving house with a bunch of flowers.
“Valentine’s Day, so I assumed I would higher get some flowers for my real love,” Lee stated to digital camera, earlier than turning his cellphone round to point out pet canine, Henrietta, operating to fulfill him.
The video then confirmed him strolling in direction of the breathtaking Mornington Peninsula house and into the kitchen, the place he shocked Harding.
“Are they for me?” she requested, earlier than the funnyman replied, “No, they’re for my real love. Right here you go Henri,” he stated as he bent down and handed the flowers to the canine, leaving Harding wanting disillusioned.
But it surely all labored out in the long run, with Harding posting a photograph of the colorful bouquet on her Instagram tales that night, which she captioned “Glad Valentine’s Day.”
