Tilda Swinton and Sandro Kopp's complicated love affair

The actress's other partner John Byrne has a girlfriend

Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Tilda Swinton's love life is even more unconventional than first thought.

The actress, 47, lives in the Scottish Highlands with playwright John Byrne, 68, father of her twins Xavier and Honor, 10.

But she travels the world with German-born toyboy Sandro Kopp, 29, who went to the Oscars with her in February.

Now it has emerged John also has a lover – he has dated theatrical lighting designer Jeanine Davies, 42, for the past 2 years.

'It's all very relaxed and very amicable,' John says. 'We have not hidden away and Jeanine is very much part of my life.

'Tilda has Sandro, and the arrangement works very well.

'There is so much love there, I wish I could explain it.'

John insists he and The Chronicles Of Narnia star Tilda remain a couple.

'Tilda and I are still together, which I know will confuse people. But the dynamic of every relationship is different,' he tells the Daily Mail.

'Jeanine has met my children as well as Tilda. I wouldn't say we all socialised together but she has met Sandro and we have all been under one roof together.'