Renee Zellweger and Ant Anstead go official on Instagram

They have been distraught since their meeting in early June.

And now, new couple Ant Anstead and Renee Zellweger have made things official on Instagram.

The Wheeler Dealers star, 42, proudly displayed her new love, 52, while promoting her new Celebrity series IOU Joyride in a photo with co-host Cristy Lee on Sunday.

Renee and Ant met while filming her episode of the series, in which the stars surprise their friends and family with their dream cars.

And it was clear that they had been taken in by the behind-the-scenes look of the series, which premieres with the Zellweger episode on Monday, August 23 on Discovery.

Ant couldn’t help but brag about his show and his girlfriend, taking the caption to write, “It’s finally here….” while adding “And that’s the amazingly magical Renee Zellweger.”

“Join @ cristylee09 Ren and I as we pay forward to two amazing men who have given so much to one of Ren’s dearest and closest friends ……”

In the episode, Renée deals with the brothers Jerome and Jerald with hot wheels as a token of gratitude for their 24-hour care for Zellweger publicist Nanci Ryder during her battle with ALS.

Other celebrities set to appear in the series include James Marsden, who surprises his brother-in-law, as well as Octavia Spencer, who surprises his hard-working hairdresser.

Danny Trejo will gift a car to his longtime friend while Tony Hawk surprises his office manager for 10 years and Mary J. Blige has been treating his trusted assistant for over eight years.

Things moved quickly for Renée and Ant.

While they only met at the beginning of June, the Oscar winner would already call her her “soul mate”, an insider told Us Weekly.

“The relationship is going in a positive direction,” the source added.

Renée and Ant made their red carpet debut earlier this month at the Radford Motors Gala at the Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, Calif.

And Anstead is thrilled that the couple can now host events together, the insider adding, “Now he can show it in a way when he attends work-related events.”

The beloved couple “truly cherish the time spent together” before the actress returned to work.

According to the insider, Ant tries to maintain a low-key approach to her love life.

They shared, “He’s more private. He’s never been one to post too much about his personal life.

The post comes after the Plymouth-born star recently finalized his divorce from ex-wife, Flip or Flop star Christina Haack, 38, with the couple sharing legal and physical custody of their 21-month-old son Hudson. London.

Ant is also the father of two children – his 14-year-old son Archie; and daughter Amélie, 17 – from her 12-year marriage to Louise Anstead, 41, which ended in 2017.

Renée was last linked to singer-songwriter Doyle Bramhall II, 52, who she started dating in 2012, two years after separating from his ex-wife with whom he shares two children .

Ahead of the whirlwind romance, the Judy star dated Bradley Cooper, 46, after the couple met while filming their 2009 thriller Case 39, although they split two years later.

Before that, the Texas actress was married to country star Kenny Chesney, 53, but the marriage was later called off in 2005 after just four months, citing “fraud” as the reason for the union’s end.

Zellweger then issued a statement to “clarify that the term ‘fraud’ as stated in the documentation is merely legal language and does not reflect Kenny’s character.”

She also dated White Stripes frontman Jack White, 46, after meeting while filming Cold Mountain in 2003, but they broke up a year later.

The two-time Oscar winner got engaged to Jim Carrey, 59, in 2000, after they hit it off while directing the comedy Me, Myself & Irene in 1999. However, they split in amicably less than a year after being together.