Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer in love split riddle with boyfriend as couple has not been pictured together in 3 years
KILLING Eve star Jodie Comer is at the centre of a love split riddle with her boyfriend James Burke.
As the actress stars on stage in New York – where last week she won a prestigious Tony Award for her one-woman play Prima Facie – there’s been no sign of James.
Jodie, 30, has been focusing on her career as it goes from strength to strength, and it appears that has taken its toll on her and James’ relationship.
Liverpudlian-born Jodie met US IT consultant and lacrosse player James, 29, while filming action movie Free Guy, opposite Ryan Reynolds, in Boston in 2019, where he is based.
But the pair haven’t been pictured together since 2020.
Jodie attended the Tony Awards at United Palace in New York last week with her brother Charlie and thanked “family and friends” in her acceptance speech – with no mention of James.
An industry source said: “Jodie and James were really loved up for a while, but they’re in different parts of the world.
“She is at a really exciting time in her career and putting all the opportunities coming her way first.
“All of her hard work over the years is paying off and she is looking forward to her future.”
The actress also scooped a prestigious Olivier award in April, again attending the ceremony with family but no sign of James.
Prior to that she was at the WhatsOnStage Awards in February and the Bafta TV awards last year in London.
In 2020 James was trolled for his supposed Republican leanings and later that year (2020) she opened up about their long-distance relationship in an interview with the Sunday Times.
She said: “So it has been tricky. So there’s a lot of face timing. But it’s working! It’s good. It’s really good. It’s like with anything in life, if you want it enough you make it work.
“You know, I would never want to speak badly about people in my past, but yeah, this relationship feels very different. This feels like nothing else.
“ When you actually feel it, you’re like, ‘Ahhh, so this is what it feels like!’ And it was special.
“I was away, it was the height of summer, I was doing this incredible job that was so much fun, it was my first time working in the States. So it was a lot of firsts.”
Jodie, who found fame playing the glamorous Russian assassin Villanelle in Killing Eve, is still best friends with her schoolmates from Liverpool and they are in a Whatsapp group called “Hoes In Different Area Codes”.
She tries to keep out of the limelight and said recently: “If I go to a party, I want to be in my mate’s living room listening to Fall Out Boy on a playlist of early 2000s hits.
“That’s where I’m letting my hair down, not at an event where I’m seen leaving. That terrifies me.”
Jodie has always had her sights set on Hollywood.
Speaking in 2019 she said: “I think I must have always believed in myself,” she said in 2019, “because I’ve had conversations with people on nights out, and they’re like, ‘Oh, so you think you’re going to be in films, do you?’ And I’m, like, ‘Yeah!’ And you feel bigheaded, but if I don’t believe in me, who else is going to believe in me?”
The Sun on Sunday reached out to Jodie’s spokeswoman for comment.