United Kingdom, Sept. 9 -- Renee Zellweger bonded with Ant Anstead over their shared love of cars.

The couple met four years ago when the Hollywood actress was a guest on Ant's TV show Celebrity IOU Joyride and he's admitted seeing Renee, 56, welding helped win him over because he discovered she's a "hands-on car girl".

Ant, 46, told Hello! magazine: "One of the many, many things that attracts me to Ren is that she's a hands-on car girl. It's really cool that we met on a car show.

"She welded - I mean, how cool is that?"

Ant's latest TV project - the second series of Born Mechanic - shows him restoring old cars which he's selling to fund the restoration of an old farmhouse which he bought for his parents and he credits Renee with taki...