AN Emmerdale hunk has sparked rumours that he has secretly split from his girlfriend.
Rumours are rife that Ned Porteous, who played Joe Tate in Emmerdale, has split from his girlfriend Sophia Lo.
Ned and Sophia have been dating since 2022, with speculation that they’ve parted ways now ramping up.
The former Joe Tate star has deleted all photographs of his girlfriend from his Instagram account, with only solo snaps and photos without Sophia present.
Sophia has also got rid of all snaps of Ned.
All photos of each other seem to have been wiped from their accounts, with one photo still there because it was part of a photo dump.
It’s also apparent that the pair no longer comment on each other’s photos, which is something they used to do all of the time.
But despite all of this, they DO still follow each other.
In some of the now-deleted snaps, the couple could be seen enjoying holidays in Napa Valley and Yosemite National Park in California.
Other snaps from their travels saw them at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, as well as posing for photos while visiting Asia and Vietnam.
The Sun has reached out to Ned’s representative for comment. They did not immediately respond.
Ned was a soap favourite from 2017 to 2019 when he starred in ITV hit soap opera Emmerdale.
The actor – who was also Grant Mitchell and Michelle Fowler’s son Mark in EastEnders – appeared on the Yorkshire-set soap for 183 episodes in total.
Ned joined the cast of Emmerdale in 2017 as young businessman Tom Waterhouse, which turned out not to be his real name.
The character, who was quickly revealed to be Joe Tate, was originally played by Oliver Young.
Joe was seemingly killed off in October 2018 but was revealed to be alive and living abroad the following year.
Everything you need to know about Emmerdale
Since leaving the soap Ned has appeared in Netflix’s big-budget drama Bridgerton as Lord Wetherby.
Ned played Lord Wetherby in the first season of the period drama.
His character of Lord Wehterby was the lover of Sir Henry Granville.
The TV star appeared in three episodes of the period drama, but his character was not brought back for the second season.
