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Graham Norton: Ricky Gervais’ 40-year-long relationship and life before fame

As the third and final season of After Life drops on Netflix, Ricky Gervais enjoyed a chat to Graham Norton about the series on BBC One.

It might be a surprise for some to learn that the comedian, perhaps best know for his TV show The Office, isn’t married – unlike his After Life character Tony Johnson.

But Gervais has been in a long-term relationship with his partner, author Jane Fallon since 1982.

Jane is the award-winning author behind hit novels including Tell Me a Secret and My Sweet Revenge and was a TV producer with her works including popular BBC soap EastEnders.

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The pair met while studying at University College London and they’ve now been together for 40 years.

They aren’t married – it’s not something they ever plan on doing – and the couple don’t have any children.

In 2017, Gervais told US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that he would ‘worry sick’ if he had a baby.

He added: “There’s loads of reasons why I don’t have kids. The world is overpopulated, no one’s sitting around going, ‘Oh Rick’s not going to have kids, we’re going to run out, there’s loads!'”



Ricky Gervais and Jane Fallon arrive at the world premiere for David Brent: Life On The Road in 2016

However the couple have shared pets throughout their relationship, including Ollie, a cat gifted to the pair by Jonathan Ross.

Ollie made regular appearance’s on Gervais and Fallon’s respective Twitter accounts before the feline’s death in 2020.

But the animal lovers have found a new cat companion in the form of Pickle – a cat they were initially fostering, but ended up adopting.

Gervais has previously pledged to leave a large percentage of his wealth to animal welfare charities when he dies and is also a vegetarian.

The couple own a £2.75 million riverside house in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and live in a £10.8 million London mansion which has its own swimming pool and summer house, reports Wales Online.

But that hasn’t always been the case, and Fallon admitted the couple had ‘no money’ and lived above a brothel in Kings Cross, London before their lucky breaks.

In a past interview with the Daily Mail, Fallon said she was the sole earner, making £40 a week at a theatrical agency, learning to be a script editor.

They were too poor to afford the constant feed of 50p coins needed to keep the heating going, and froze every winter.

Today, Gervais is estimated to be worth around £100m and reports suggest Fallon is worth around £3m.



Pickle the cat

But in the Daily Mail interview, Fallon said they pool all of their earnings, ‘like an old married couple’.

Gervais has been well-known for his professional relationships, particularly with Stephen Merchant, who he co-created The Office and Extras with.

Shortly after The Office was released, Gervais met Karl Pilkington and the trio began a weekly podcast called the Ricky Gervais Show.

It became hugely popular and was even turned into an animated series for Channel 4 in 2010, reports Berkshire Live.

It then birthed An Idiot Abroad, a concept that saw Gervais and Merchant send an unassuming Pilkington to far-flung corners of the globe, setting up uncomfortable challenges for him to take on.

But neither Pilkington or Merchant have filmed with Gervais since 2013, when Pilkington starred in the first episode of Derek series two.

Gervais has denied this represents a split from the pair and in 2020 he said: “I purposely don’t answer [falling out rumours] because it annoys them [Pilkington and Merchant].

“But no no no, I haven’t [fallen out with them], I’ve always been doing my own thing, and now they are as well. It’s not a divorce thing.”

Pilkington revealed he quit the show in 2013 after deciding that acting was simply not for him. Merchant, however, has previously welcomed the idea of collaborating with Gervais once more.

“If the right idea was there, it’d be good to do something,” he said in 2018.

“But at the moment, there’s nothing on the horizon. We worked together cheek-by-jowl for over 10 years and I think it’s that feeling of being pulled in different directions creatively.”

All three seasons of After Life are available to stream now on Netflix.

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