Sophie Rundle and Matt Stokoe step out amid rumours they are married and are expecting a baby

She was severely ill with coronavirus just before Christmas and Sophie Rundle, star of Gentleman Jack and The Nest and her partner Matt Stokoe might have some better news to celebrate. 

The couple headed out to walk their retriever, Buddy, in the park on Wednesday, with Sophie and Matt, both 32, flashing a gold ‘wedding’ band on his finger amid rumours they have tied the knot and are expecting a baby. 

Sophie put her left hand in her pocket as she stepped out in the cold with her love, who she got engaged to in 2019. 

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Gentleman Jack’s Sophie Rundle and Matt Stokoe walked their retriever Buddy amid rumours they have got married and are expecting a baby a year after they got engaged to one another

Symbol: A high-spirited Matt flashed a gold 'wedding' band a year after engagement, but the couple have not yet confirmed the news

Outing: A smiling Sophie showed a bump while pictured for the first time since recovering from Covid earlier in the week

Symbol: A high-spirited Matt flashed a gold ‘wedding’ band a year after engagement, but the couple have not yet confirmed the news 

The actress wore a black padded jacket for the outing, with light tracksuit bottoms and red Hunter wellies, keeping warm with a cosy looking knitted hat. 

Matt, who kept hold of the dog’s lead, wore a casual jacket with trousers tucked into wellies and a burgundy hat.  

The couple were engaged in conversation as they got some exercise amid the UK’s third national lockdown. 

Over the weekend, the Mail On Sunday reported that both Sophie and Matt have been sporting wedding bands but neither has confirmed their marriage.  

Soon after their engagement in 2019, Sophie said: ¿The whole wedding thing is weird. Everyone expects you to be desperate to be a princess for the day ¿ that¿s not really my scene'

Soon after their engagement in 2019, Sophie said: ‘The whole wedding thing is weird. Everyone expects you to be desperate to be a princess for the day – that’s not really my scene’

Wrapped up: The actress wore a black padded jacket for the outing, with light tracksuit bottoms and red Hunter wellies, keeping warm with a cosy looking knitted hat after revealing she fell severely ill with Covid before Christmas

Wrapped up: The actress wore a black padded jacket for the outing, with light tracksuit bottoms and red Hunter wellies, keeping warm with a cosy looking knitted hat after revealing she fell severely ill with Covid before Christmas

Unwell: The actress told her 250,000 Instagram followers that she had to go to hospital to be treated for Covid-19. She penned: ¿Greetings from my sick bed. So for Christmas this year I got myself a juicy bout of Covid-1'.

Adding: 'I also have a very festive bloodshot eye from all of the hardcore vomiting I was doing in hospital. I can taste nothing, I have a cough to rival a Dickensian workhouse orphan boy.¿

‘I also have a very festive bloodshot eye from all of the hardcore vomiting I was doing in hospital. I can taste nothing, I have a cough to rival a Dickensian workhouse orphan boy.’

Soon after their engagement in 2019, Sophie said: ‘The whole wedding thing is weird. Everyone expects you to be desperate to be a princess for the day – that’s not really my scene.’

Shortly before Christmas, the actress told her 250,000 Instagram followers that she had to go to hospital to be treated for Covid-19.

She penned: ‘Greetings from my sick bed. So for Christmas this year I got myself a juicy bout of Covid-19. 

‘I also have a very festive bloodshot eye from all of the hardcore vomiting I was doing in hospital. I can taste nothing, I have a cough to rival a Dickensian workhouse orphan boy.’

All going on: She also told how she was suffering from a pain from a ¿gnarly¿ wisdom tooth, saying it all added up to ¿quite the feast of festive ailments'

All going on: She also told how she was suffering from a pain from a ‘gnarly’ wisdom tooth, saying it all added up to ‘quite the feast of festive ailments’

In demand: Before catching Covid, Sophie was filming the second series of Gentleman Jack with Suranne Jones, pictured

In demand: Before catching Covid, Sophie was filming the second series of Gentleman Jack with Suranne Jones, pictured 

She also told how she was suffering from a pain from a ‘gnarly’ wisdom tooth, saying it all added up to ‘quite the feast of festive ailments’.

Sophie and Matt, star of BBC period drama The Musketeers and Netflix series Cursed, have been together since 2016 after meeting on the set of Sky One drama Jamestown. 

Since then, Sophie has barely been off our screens, with appearances in Bodyguard, Peaky Blinders and Sky’s Urban Myths, where she played Princess Diana and Line Of Duty. 

She most recently starred alongside Matt in the claustrophobic horror film Rose: A Love Story, in which they played a couple living in a remote woodland cabin.

And before Covid laid her low, she was spotted filming the second series of Gentlemen Jack in West Yorkshire last month, alongside Suranne Jones.

Love: Sophie and Matt, star of BBC period drama The Musketeers and Netflix series Cursed, have been together since 2016 after meeting on the set of Sky One drama Jamestown

Love: Sophie and Matt, star of BBC period drama The Musketeers and Netflix series Cursed, have been together since 2016 after meeting on the set of Sky One drama Jamestown

Busy bees: She most recently starred alongside Matt in the claustrophobic horror film Rose: A Love Story, in which they played a couple living in a remote woodland cabin

Busy bees: She most recently starred alongside Matt in the claustrophobic horror film Rose: A Love Story, in which they played a couple living in a remote woodland cabin

Superstar: Since then, Sophie has barely been off our screens, with appearances in Bodyguard, Peaky Blinders and Sky¿s Urban Myths, where she played Princess Diana and Line Of Duty

Looking good: Matt, who kept hold of the dog's lead, wore a casual jacket with trousers tucked into wellies and a burgundy hat

Superstar: Since then, Sophie has barely been off our screens, with appearances in Bodyguard, Peaky Blinders and Sky’s Urban Myths, where she played Princess Diana and Line Of Duty