Justin Fletcher Seen With Samantha Dorrance at Wolverhampton hotel — Cbeebies
Justin Fletcher, 55, was seen arriving at The Mount Country Manor Hotel & Golf in Wolverhampton with Samantha Dorrance, 34, giving cbeebies audiences a first public look at the relationship reported between the two co-stars.
The pair wore matching New York Yankees baseball caps. Fletcher has played Mr Tumble since 2003, while Dorrance plays Tootsie on the same children’s show.
Mr Tumble since 2003
Fletcher’s public appearance with Dorrance lands after reports that they had started dating, and after a period when the two were already working in the same orbit. Dorrance joined The Tale of Mr Tumble as Tootsie in 2015, then performed with Fletcher as Cinders in Cinderella in 2024.
The hotel sighting also puts a name and a place to what had previously been a private arrangement. Castmates are said to be aware of the relationship, which suggests the news has already moved beyond a backstage whisper and into the working environment around the pair.
Wolverhampton hotel arrival
A source said the couple’s romance blossomed last year, and Fletcher and Dorrance were later seen together at The Mount Country Manor Hotel & Golf in Wolverhampton. Dorrance is understood to have moved into Fletcher’s £2.5million farmhouse in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, while the couple are on a break from the Justin Live: Justin Time to Rock! tour.
That makes this more than a fan-site style sighting. It is the first public snapshot of a relationship between two performers whose work overlaps on the children’s circuit, and it arrives while they are away from the road rather than in the middle of a live run.
Dorrance’s March clues
Dorrance also appeared to nod to her private life in March, when she wrote: “Last year, me and my partner hatched our own chickens.” She added: “I was making breakfast one morning and noticed all the eggs we had been buying from our local honesty box were fertilised.”
She followed that with: “My partner just so happened to have an old incubator, so we dug it out.” Put alongside the Wolverhampton sighting, the comments and the hotel arrival point to a relationship that has moved from offstage speculation to open visibility.
