Rachael, 40, and Bethany, 38, bonded over their love of a TV show, not imagining this would lead to a romantic relationship. They now live together in Norfolk
Before the pandemic, Bethany was travelling around the UK regularly for her job with an educational charity. “I was staying at lots of unglamorous hotels,” she laughs. “It was a lovely job, but quite lonely and I couldn’t join any evening classes as I was away so much.” She began looking for online groups and soon found a Twitter community for fans of the TV show Good Omens, which she’d been watching. “I discovered this lovely group of people and found out there would be a small convention for the show’s fans to raise money for an Alzheimer’s charity.”
The convention was being run by Rachael, who was based in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. “I had recently moved back to the UK after working in the US and Australia,” she says. Once home, she found a job in education content, but struggled to build a network of friends locally. “When this new show came out I wondered if there might be some interest in a convention. I’d organised them before for Star Trek and Harry Potter events. I thought people could come, dress up, play games and meet like-minded people.”
