Joanne Froggatt celebrates her 43rd birthday with a trip to the supermarket after becoming ‘besotted’ with new boyfriend following marriage split

Joanne Froggatt celebrated her 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a trip to the supermarket in London.

The Downton Abbey star teased a glimpse of her slim midriff in a tight crop top she paired with flared jeans.

She slipped her feet into a comfortable pair of Birkenstock sandals and packed her essentials into a brown leather crossbody bag.

Joanne, who played Anna Bates in the ITV period drama, let her blonde locks fall loosely over her shoulders.

She parked her £82,000 Range Rover Sport and walked in with her returnable bags before coming out with a trolley full of groceries.

Joanne appears to have found love again following her split from husband James Cannon when she was spotted holding hands with new man Mark earlier this month.

The TV star has been seeing her new man for several months and is ‘in love’ with him.

According to the Daily Mail, Joanne recently took him to a party with her group of friends at The Greyhound Italian restaurant in Marylebone, central London.

She was spotted laughing at the friend’s birthday party last month, and a source close to her revealed, “Joanne is having a great time with Mark.”

It is the first time she has been publicly linked to a love interest since parting ways with IT consultant James in February 2020.

The star announced that the couple had split just weeks before the lockdown.

She said, “We’ve been broken up for a while. I look to the future. I’m just going to embrace this year and see what happens.”

A year later in 2021, Joanne admitted that the divorce from her long-term partner had put her life in a state of change.

She said, “I didn’t think I’d get divorced, I didn’t think we’d go through a pandemic, I didn’t think my life would be in flux like it was. But I’m okay with that.

“I am so grateful for my friends and family, for my health and for working so hard over the past year. You realize, when it comes down to it, how many positives you have in your life.”

Joanne, who was engaged to DJ Phil Vane at the age of 19, married Cannon in 2012 in a private church ceremony in Oxfordshire, attended by her fellow Downton Abbey cast members.

In a 2015 interview, she described her marriage to James as “perfect.”

She added: “He’s passionate about film and theatre, so we have a common interest – and he’s not in the industry, so it’s perfect.”

While they were together, she and James owned a production company called Run After It, but the actress now runs the company alone, saying being in charge “feels like an exciting new chapter.”