Kevin Connolly has been secretly dating producer Francesca Dutton

A source told Us Weekly magazine: "They are keeping it very quiet and have been trying to be private about it."

However, eagle-eyed fans of the pair would notice that the couple have regularly liked one another's posts on social media.

The 44-year-old actor's new relationship comes after his split from his co-star in the hit HBO series, Sabina Gadecki, in 2016.

The pair met while shooting the spin-off movie in 2015, and their romance quickly blossomed, but in the end they simply decided they would be better off staying friends.

An insider said at the time: "They were better off as friends. They tried to make it more and it just didn't work."

Asked about the split, a representative for the model-turned-actress simply said at the time: "We don't comment on our client's personal lives."

Sabina played Melanie, the love interest of Kevin's character Eric, and previously opened up about a cringe moment on set doing a sex scene with Kevin.

She said: "It's not every day you film a sex scene and it's definitely a very intimidating thing to film and you're trying to feel sexy and trying to feel beautiful but you're wearing paper panties essentially! So I think that is a funny memory, not a sexy one!"

Before dating Sabina, 42-year-old Kevin was in a year-long relationship with Lydia Hearst, who he met through mutual friends via Facebook, but they split in May 2014.

And prior to that Kevin dated socialite Nicky Hilton on/off for two years, until calling it quits in 2006.