Sad news: Home and Away star Jackson Heywood splits from girlfriend after 4 years together

There’s nothing that says “this relationship is getting serious” quite like the first posting of an Instagram couple selfie.

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And over the weekend, former Summer Bay star Jackson Heywood broke hearts across the nation when he went Instagram official with his new love.

Posting to his account, the 32-year-old actor, best known for his role as Brody Morgan on Home and Away, shared a loved-up black and white photo of himself with Miss Universe Australia finalist Anneliese Zanchetta, 21.

In the image, the pair were all smiles as the blonde bombshell adoringly gripped on to her man’s arm.

Seemingly a fan of being subtle, Jackson simply captioned the post with martini glass and scotch glass emojis, while Anneliese replied with three hearts.

Jackson’s fans were quick to gush over the happy snap, commenting “too cute” and “beautiful photo Jackson” underneath the image.

In April, Jackson admitted he was single but open to the idea of finding love while speaking to Now To Love about why he left Home And Away.

“I chose to go because I wanted to see what else is out there and I don’t have a mortgage, I don’t have kids, I don’t have a girlfriend. Like, I’d kind of like all those things but yeah, I just had the freedom to do it and I thought I may as well,” he confessed.

Jackson, who once dated the late Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda, also revealed the craziest thing he’s ever done for love.

“For love I was willing to move cities for this girl. I was so sure – we kind of had this on-and-off love affair but we were never in the same city. Like, I moved to a different country,” he said.

“We kept wanting to be with each other but it kept just… we were both just at stages of our careers where we couldn’t do anything about it.”