Not only is she dating fellow screenwriter Martin McDonagh, her brother Jasper has just married Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery
Had the wedding between Jasper Waller-Bridge – brother of Phoebe – and Michelle Dockery taken place in the Fleabag universe, the homily would include some kind of sexual innuendo, a guest would be caught naked in the vestry, the dress would be badly stained, and either the bride or groom would be consumed by anguished second thoughts.
But this was real life, and so on Saturday the sun shone on a picture-perfect Chiswick church, Dockery wore unblemished Emilia Wickstead and Phoebe Waller-Bridge looked every inch the star she is in a pink Etro suit while on the arm of her award-winning director boyfriend Martin McDonagh – the man behind hit films like In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin.
Although both the bride and the pink suit were nearly upstaged by the third finger of Phoebe’s left hand, which gleamed with what looked like an engagement ring. If she and McDonagh do marry, it will be not only a union between Britain’s best-loved screenwriter-directors, but the merging of two creative dynasties.
Now a global household name co-writing James Bond films and raking in millions thanks to her Amazon contract, it feels almost ironic that Phoebe, 38, stormed into the national consciousness by being as subversive as possible. Within the first two episodes of Fleabag, which was released on the BBC in 2016, we had already watched her have anal sex and masturbate to videos of Barack Obama.