Who is Stephen Merchant’s stunning new girlfriend Christine Marzano?

We’ve always known that girls like a man with a sense of humour and this cliche now begins and ends with Stephen Merchant and his impossibly stunning girlfriend.

The gangly Bristolian funnyman who stands 6’7″ and can usually be seen tittering away at Ricky Gervais’s jokes is dating the gorgeous Christine Marzano.

The pair attended the inaugural Walkabout Foundation gala at the Natural History Museum in London.

And she’s not the first cracker that the comic, 40, has been linked to. He’s also reportedly been courting X-Men star Rose Byrne and actress Hayley Atwell.

She starred in Paranoia with Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfus and Gary Oldman. She has also starred in Anger Management with Charlie Sheen.

According to an interview with the Irish Times, the former model who stands at a usually tall 5’11” (not so much next to him) thought of herself as ‘lanky.’

She recalled her high school days: “They called me lanky for a whole summer! I didn’t want to be the lanky one – I wanted to be the sexy one!