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Tom Herbert

Who is Emma Mackey's boyfriend, Dan Whitlam? Inside the Sex Education star's relationship

The second season of hit Netflix show Sex Education dropped on the streaming site this January - and has already proven a massive hit among fans.

Social outcast Maeve Wiley became a fan favourite character with her no-nonsense attitude and biting wit, brilliantly played by the French-born actress, Emma Mackey.

Mackey has been dating her actor boyfriend Dan Whitlam for while now, and both have shared a number of snaps of each other to their millions of Instragram followers.

Here's the lowdown on Mackey's partner, Dan Whitlam.

Who is Dan Whitlam?

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Dan Whitlam is an actor himself, and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Professional acting credits to his name include playing Albert Kropp in All Quiet on the Western Front and The Mayor in Govrnment Inspector, both of which were staged at the Pleasance Theatre in London.

Standing at a lofty 6ft 4inches, the red-head certainly cuts an impressive figure and can count singing as well as playing the piano and saxophone among his many talents.

Whitlam, who counts south east London as his home, is also a skilled dancer, sportsman, and even a freestyle rapper and poet.

In an interview with London News Online, Whitlam revealed he was stabbed as a teenager while defending a friend who was being mugged outside the Pleasance Theatre.

Whitlam told the website that he and some friends were leaving an audition as a 16-year-old when one of the group was mugged.

A fight ensued and he was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung after being stabbed with a screwdriver.

He now considers the episode as a "classic case of wrong place, wrong time".

How long has Emma Mackey been dating Dan Whitlam?

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Mackey is reluctant to talk about her private life and not much is known about the couple.

However, it appears the pair have been dating for at least two years with Mackey sharing the first photos of the pair in January 2018 along with an emoji of a boy and girl holding hands.

More recently, the couple went on holiday to Cannes in the south of France with a group of pals, with both Mackey and Whitlam sharing shots of their sun-kissed French holiday.

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