Russell Tovey Continues His Conquest of Our Hearts with New Sitcom "Him & Her"

Russell Tovey with Him & Her co-star Sarah Solemani

We admit it , we absolutely love out British star Russell Tovey. He's been making steady progress up the AfterElton.com Hot 100 (this year up to #29), he continues to thrill us as wolfboy George on Being Human, and now that he's on Twitter, he's been entertaining us with his self-depracating humor and general hotness.

Now Russell is taking another step forward in his burgeoning career with the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her. The show (which was originally titled Young, Unemployed & Lazy) stars Russell as Steve, and follows his relationship with live-in girlfriend Rebecca. Here's the plot outline, described rather vividly:

Steve and Rebecca drink, loaf, shag, bicker, eat toast in bed, watch Inspector Morse boxsets in bed, squeeze spots, pick each other's noses, fart and pee and poo loudly, and generally slump around. Him & Her is as much slobcom as romcom. There is a beardy weirdo upstairs and a dimwit sister and her argy-bargy fiancé always popping round. There is no laughter track, and the acting and dialogue are in your face. You'll fancy you can taste the intimate, claustrophobic flatulence of a young couple with no jobs, poor personal hygiene and a fondness for grazing on chunks of cheese out of the fridge.

That pretty much describes most twenty-something relationships (although I don't recall ever picking my boyfriend's nose).

If that sounds graphic, Russell goes even further about the sitcom (which has been garnering rave reviews), belching out these tidbits:

I think that so many people will get it on so many levels especially teenage boys who like Men Behaving Badly and farting and crapping.

... because men do openly fart, burp and talk about crap. It's hilarious amongst your mates if someone lets a stinker off, whereas I don't imagine it is with girls....actually maybe that's a massive sexist statement?

But the thing with this script is that we'd end up talking absolute filth to each other not realising there were other people in the room, there'd be sound guys with earphones and booms and you'd just ignore them. They would be able to hear every word we were saying - it was absolute filth!