The British comedian confirmed a relationship in December 2025, after years of talking openly about being single. Here is what is known.
On 20 December 2025, Rosie Jones posted a photo on Instagram. She was hugging a woman on a film set. The woman’s face was turned away from the camera. The caption did the rest of the work.
“Our Doc Martens touched,” she wrote, “and now I’m in a relationship with the most wonderful woman who is kind, clever…”
Six months before that post went up, Jones had announced a stand-up tour built entirely around being single. Life, apparently, had other plans.
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Is Rosie Jones in a Relationship?
Yes. Rosie Jones confirmed she is in a relationship on 20 December 2025, through a post on her Instagram account (@josierones). Her girlfriend’s name and identity have not been made public. Jones deliberately kept her partner’s face out of the photograph and described her only as “kind” and “clever.” No credible publication has named the woman she is with.
Who Is Rosie Jones?
Rosie Jones is a British comedian, writer and actress, born on 24 June 1990 in Bridlington, Yorkshire. She has ataxic cerebral palsy, caused by oxygen deprivation at birth, which affects her movement and speech. She is openly lesbian and has spoken about both without hesitation throughout her career.
She broke through as a regular face on The Last Leg, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and QI, before co-writing and starring in Pushers, Channel 4’s six-part sitcom that aired from June 2025 and became the first British comedy series with a majority-disabled cast. In 2026, she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Female Comedy Performance for the role.
She also launched the Rosie Jones Foundation in 2025, which provides mental health support and community connection for adults with cerebral palsy.
Rosie Jones’ Dating History and Personal Life
Jones has talked about her love life, or the absence of one, as openly as she has talked about anything.
In a 2019 interview with OX Magazine, she described herself as having been “single for 28 years” and said she was “ready, and on a mission to find somebody.” She and fellow comedian Anneka Harry launched a podcast called Date My Mate around the same time, in which Anneka set Rosie up on ten dates with ten different women over ten episodes. The podcast was honest, often funny, and did not find her a lasting relationship.
In January 2022, she appeared on the cover of DIVA Magazine, where she told the editor: “I remember literally googling, ‘Can you be disabled and gay?'” Growing up, she said, there was nobody who looked or sounded like her anywhere on screen. Disabled characters were victims or inspiration figures. They never got love stories.
That same year, while co-hosting Sky’s Dating No Filter alongside Josh Widdicombe, she admitted on air to a brief fling with a female contestant from the show’s first series. She had followed the woman on Instagram after her televised date went badly and chatted her up online. She told the story without embarrassment.
As late as May 2025, when her stand-up show I Can’t Tell What She’s Saying was announced for a UK autumn tour, DIVA Magazine described it as a show addressing “her single relationship status.” The tour ran through autumn 2025.
Seven months later, she posted about a girlfriend.
The December 2025 Relationship Announcement
The post went up on 20 December 2025. Jones was photographed with her girlfriend on what appears to be a film set, with her partner’s face not visible. She addressed that directly in the caption.
“Social media is a tricky beast,” she wrote, while making clear her girlfriend “DOES have a face… and it is nice.”
She also explained how the relationship started. She had pitched an idea to her director, named in the caption only as Joe. The idea was about disability and romance, specifically the near-total absence of disabled people in loving relationships on screen. The day she told him about it, she met the woman she is now with.
“The DAY I told my wonderful director Joe my idea, I met somebody,” she wrote. “Our Doc Martens touched and now I’m in a relationship with the most wonderful woman who is kind, clever…”
The post was covered by Metro, which ran it on 20 December 2025, and picked up widely across entertainment media.
Who Is Rosie Jones’ Girlfriend?
Her name is not known. Metro, PinkNews, Chortle and The Guardian all covered the announcement without naming or identifying her. That is not an editorial gap. Jones has made a deliberate, consistent choice to keep her partner’s identity private.
What has been confirmed:
- Jones and her girlfriend met the same day Jones pitched a creative idea to her director, Joe
- Her girlfriend is described by Jones as “kind” and “clever”
- She appeared in the announcement photograph with her face not visible
- She is not a public figure, based on all available reporting
- Jones has no apparent intention of identifying her publicly
Anyone claiming to know her name should be treated with considerable scepticism. The information is genuinely unavailable, not being withheld for any other reason.
Why She Chose to Share the Relationship at All
Jones was explicit about her reasoning, and it was not simply about marking a personal milestone.
She had spent years talking about not feeling deserving of love. She traced that feeling directly to the lack of representation she had grown up seeing. Disabled people on television were not shown dating, being heartbroken, being romantic, or having complicated love lives. They existed in their own separate category, away from all of that.
Her decision to share the relationship was, by her own framing, an act of visibility. She wanted other disabled people to see that a relationship like hers was something they were allowed to have too.
This was not a new angle for Jones. It was the foundation of Pushers, which placed disabled characters at the centre of a messy, funny, human story. It was in the Rosie Jones Foundation, built around the idea that nobody with cerebral palsy should feel unheard or alone. It was in that 2022 DIVA quote about googling whether someone like her could even be gay and disabled at the same time.
The Instagram post in December 2025 was the personal extension of all of it.
Rosie Jones in 2026
As of April 2026, Jones holds a BAFTA nomination for Best Female Comedy Performance for Pushers, which remains available on Channel 4. A second series of her Comedy Central show Out of Order is reportedly in development. She continues to host the podcast Daddy Look at Me alongside comedian Helen Bauer, with whom she has worked since 2019.
The Rosie Jones Foundation has expanded its work to include in-person events, some of which were incorporated into her 2025 tour, giving people with cerebral palsy the chance to meet others in the same situation. For some, it was the first time they had done so.
Her girlfriend remains out of the public eye. Jones has shown no sign of changing that.
For years, Rosie Jones made comedy out of loneliness. She googled whether someone like her was allowed to fall in love. She launched a podcast to help find a girlfriend. She wrote a whole stand-up show about being single and booked theatres across the country for it. Then, the same day she came up with an idea about disabled people and romance, she met someone.
She posted about it five days before Christmas, with the woman’s face turned away from the camera, and said their boots touched.
That tells you most of what you need to know about Rosie Jones.
