Trying co-stars Rafe Spall and Esther Smith have shared that ... after Rafe announced his split from Hollyoaks actor and wife of 12 years, Elize Du Toit, with whom he shares three children.

Rafe Spall is talking about love ... a laidback Londoner raising two adopted kids with his gorgeously het-up wife, Nikki, played by Spall’s real-life girlfriend, Esther Smith.

Arterton stars as Kate Henderson, a seemingly ordinary civil servant married to Stuart (Spall) with two teenage children ...