Hannah Waddingham appeared with Nick Beresford-Cleary at the Ride or Die screening at the Ham Yard Hotel, turning a promotional night into another public step for the couple. It was their second red carpet event together, after they first appeared earlier this month at the Variety Power Of Women event in London.
That timeline matters because Waddingham has said it took her eight years to consider dating again. She told Women's Health, “It’s taken me eight years” and added, “I didn’t really have the space mentally or emotionally for that. I’ve hunkered down and focused on my girl and me. [But] now I’m ready to stick my head above the parapet a bit more.”
Ham Yard Hotel appearance
The Ham Yard Hotel outing adds a second public data point to a relationship Waddingham has only recently been willing to place in view. Her comments on being “really lovely” in her relationship sit alongside a practical explanation for why she stayed private for so long: she said she was busy, picky, and focused on her daughter Kitty and herself.
Waddingham also said on Table for Two that she wants a man who “scoops me up” and is a “lovely positive, charismatic soul.” That is a specific standard, not celebrity vagueness, and it matches the more guarded way she described re-entering dating after years of keeping her attention on home and work.
Ride or Die and the cast
Ride or Die is an eight-part Prime Video series starring Octavia Spencer and Bill Nighy, so the screening doubled as a publicity beat for the show as well as a personal appearance for Waddingham. For Prime Video, the relationship framing gives the title a bit more visibility before viewers see it on screen.
Waddingham and Gianluca Cugnetto were together for around 10 years, and they welcomed Kitty before they went their separate ways. That history explains why this appearance reads as a new phase rather than another routine red carpet stop.
What changes next
The practical takeaway is simple: Waddingham is no longer keeping her relationship entirely off the carpet, and the second appearance suggests she is comfortable letting it register publicly while promoting Ride or Die. The open question is how far that visibility goes from here, but the relationship itself is no longer being treated as off-limits.
