Everything I Know About Love’s Street Champions Mental Health IRL

When Dolly Alderton published her memoir Everything I Know About Love, British millennials experienced a wave of collective nostalgia. While not faithfully adapted from the book itself, the BBC’s adaptation of the best-selling memoir has all the heart and joy of Alderton’s original. The cast features a mix of familiar and new faces, including Pistol’s Emma Appleton as Maggie and The Morning Show’s Bel Powley as Birdy. But Maggie’s love interest, Street, played by Connor Finch, is quite the character too. Here’s what you need to know about the heartthrob.

While Everything I Know About Love may not be Finch’s first television role, it’s certainly one of his biggest. His first appearance on the small screen came in 2021, when he starred in an episode of The Larkins as Kenny. He’s also set to appear in the Ben Miller-led drama Professor T in its second season premiere as Joss Jones.

Prior to landing these roles, Finch studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools London before moving on to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2017. Having studied and performed there for three years, he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Acting in 2020.

Humorously, the rising star’s Instagram bio reads: “Just your average cockney, from time to time thespian and full on failed rockstar really”. It’s full of sunny posts of his travel escapades, from boating in the Caribbean in a Rolling Stones T-shirt, to flying a plane over the North Sea. Plus Christmas dumps alongside his sister Amy Finch. He posted a snippet from Everything I Know About Love on Jun. 1, with the caption starting, “One week to go!”

Finch has been very candid about his mental health on social media. In November 2020, he shared his recovery journey after “battling severe mental health issues around eating disorders and addiction” eight years ago.

“Speaking openly and seeking help was single handedly the best decision I’ve ever made in my life,” he wrote on Instagram, sharing a tattoo with the text “hope” and the date “05 11 12” above. “I aim to do everything I can to raise the awareness and importance of speaking about and seeking help for mental health.”