Simone Ashley looks incredibly chic in a white mini dress as she celebrates her 29th birthday with best pal Emma Raducanu

Simone Ashley posed for a sweet photo with her best friend Emma Raducanu during her 29th birthday celebrations over the weekend.

The Bridgeton actress took to Instagram to congratulate her dear friends and her handsome boyfriend for making her birthday “the best day ever.”

British athlete Emma, ​​21, looked happier than ever as she celebrated Simone’s intimate bash.

Simone captioned her post: ‘Thank you to my love for organizing the best day ever. I love all my friends so much.’

Emma’s outing with Simone comes after she withdrew from the Miami Open last month.

The tennis star rose to fame when she debuted at Wimbledon at age 18 and has recently fallen on hard times due to injuries.

The former US Open champion spent the second half of last year recovering from ankle and wrist surgery that sidelined her since May, the latest in a long line of injury problems since winning at Flushing Meadows in 2021.

She returned earlier this year and showed promising signs by reaching the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells before losing to Aryna Sabalenka.

Emma’s withdrawal in Miami casts doubt on her availability for Great Britain’s Billie Jean King Cup match against France on April 12-13.

Simone is best known for playing Kate Sharma in the second series of Bridgerton and Olivia Hanan in Sex Education.

Last year, Simone confirmed her relationship with her boyfriend Tino Klein, executive director of the GP Ice Race, a new winter event in Austria.

It is unclear how long Simone and Tino have been dating, but it was reported that they met at the F1 race in Monaco.

In 2022, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Simone’s first serious relationship was with coffee brand manager Luke Richardson, 13 years her senior.

The couple met in an east London cafe where he worked as a barista and quickly moved in together.

They then moved to Los Angeles while Simone continued her budding film career, but their two-year relationship ended when Grimsby-born Luke decided to leave California.

Simone previously told how her role as feisty aristocrat Kate Sharma in Netflix period drama Bridgerton helped her with her mental health after a breakup.

The Surrey-born actress, who has 3.4 million followers on Instagram, said: “I was going through a breakup in 2019-20, right before I had Bridgerton, and I wasn’t taking care of myself.” I was being very hard on myself.’

It is unclear whether she described being upset about her breakup with Luke, believed to have been in 2017, or a split from a subsequent partner.

One of Luke’s family friends said: ‘Everything was great for a couple of years. We really thought they were on their way to getting married and having kids.

‘It was a serious relationship. There is no doubt that Luke was truly in love with Simone and the feeling was clearly reciprocated.