Harry Potter star Tom Felton looks worlds away from Draco Malfoy as he enjoys romantic getaway with rarely seen girlfriend Roxanne Danya in sun-soaked Portofino
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Harry Potter star Tom Felton looked worlds away from Draco Malfoy as he soaked up the sun with rarely seen girlfriend Roxanne Danya in Portofino this week.
The actor, 36, who found fame as Harry's nemesis in the fantasy franchise, he cut a casual figure in white T-shirt, joggers and a baseball cap.
Sporting stubble, Tom toted his essentials in a backpack and carried a camera as he and Roxanne larked around for fun snaps amid their romantic getaway.
The gorgeous jewellery designer, who is believed to have been dating the actor for four years, put on a leggy display for the outing in a pair of shorts.
She completed the look with a bell sleeved floral top and shades and appeared in great sprints as the couple made the most of the glorious weather.
Harry Potter star Tom Felton looked worlds away from Draco Malfoy as he soaked up the sun with rarely seen girlfriend Roxanne Danya in Portofino this week
The actor found fame as Harry's nemesis in the fantasy franchise (Right, pictured in 2002's Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets)
Sporting stubble, Tom toted his essentials in a backpack and carried a camera as he and Roxanne larked around for fun snaps amid their romantic getaway
The couple are said to have met in her native South Africa and she moved to the UK to be with Tom in 2022.
Tom previously dated actress Jade Olivia, who played Darco's onscreen wife Astrid, for eight years and in 2020, co-star Emma Watson revealed that she could remember the exact moment that she 'fell in love' with him while on the set of Harry Potter.
The actress - who played Hermione Granger - reminisced about her crush on the actor and vividly recalled him making her heart skip a beat for the first time.
The pair also shared a warm embrace as they hugged with delight while reuniting on camera in The Great Hall for the TV special to mark the film's 20th anniversary.
Tom was 14 years old when the first Harry Potter movie came out in 2001, while Emma was just 11. They both starred in all eight Harry Potter films.
She recalled: 'I walked into the room where we were having tutoring. The assignment that had been given was to draw what you thought God looked like, and Tom had drawn a girl with a backward cap on a skateboard.
'And I just don't know how to say it – I just fell in love with him. I used to come in every day and look for his number on the call sheet, it was number seven, and if his name was on the call sheet, it was an extra exciting day.
'He was three years above me and so for him he was like: "you're like my little sister".'
Despite being at the centre of dating rumours for years, to Emma's disappointment nothing ever happened between her and Tom, although the actor admitted that he was fully aware of his secret admirer.
The gorgeous jewellery designer, who is believed to have been dating the actor for four years, put on a leggy display for the outing in a pair of shorts
for one snap Tom jumped into the air with Roxanne capturing the moment
She completed the look with a bell sleeved floral top and shades and appeared in great sprints as the couple made the most of the glorious weather
The lovebirds later dined alfresco
Tom said: 'I think I was in the hair and make-up chair and someone said something along the lines of, "Yeah, she had a crush on you."
'I became very protective over her. Yeah, I've always had a soft spot for her and that continues to this day. There's always been something that's like, I don't know, a kinship.'
Since Harry Potter concluded the pair have remained close friends - in 2019 he posted a snap of him teaching her how to play guitar in South Africa.
Emma has confessed in various interviews that she had a childhood crush on him in the early days of their friendship while making the movies.
'For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows,' she told Seventeen in 2011.
Tom previously dated Jade Olivia Gordon (right), who starred as Draco's wife Astoria Greengrass in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
In 2020 co-star Emma Watson revealed that she could remember the exact moment that she 'fell in love' with him while on the set of Harry Potter (pictured together in 2004)
She recalled: 'I walked into the room where we were having tutoring... And I just don't know how to say it – I just fell in love with him. I used to come in every day and look for his number on the call sheet, it was number seven, and if his name was on the call sheet, it was an extra exciting day'- pictured during a tutoring session
'We talked about it - we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that's cool,' said Emma, who is now dating businessman Leo Robinton.
During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show she elaborated: 'Between sort of the ages of 10 and 12 I had a really terrible crush on Tom Felton.'
She explained: 'We love a bad guy and he was a few years older and he had a skateboard and that just did it, really.'
Emma said Tom 'totally knew' about the crush but would say: '"Oh, I see her in like a younger sisterly way," and it just broke my heart.'
