The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host and his girlfriend of nine months, legal assistant Jane Bird, looked very much in love as they held hands and looked tenderly at each other when they encountered an autograph hunter after a romantic dinner at London’s Ivy restaurant.

Mother of two Jane, 44, separated from her window cleaner husband, met Tarrant at an aftershow party last year when she was in the audience of Millionaire.

“You don’t need to phone a friend to wonder if she’ll end up the new Mrs Tarrant one day,” said a chum.