Rakie Ayola Wife: Meet Adam Smethurst

Adam Smethurst is an English actor and writer. He has appeared in TV dramas including Casualty, Marple, and Lewis is the son of Love Thy Neighbour star Jack Smethurst and is married to fellow actor Rakie Ayola, with whom he has two daughters.

Meet Adam Smethurst

Smethurst is the son of Love Thy Neighbour star Jack Smethurst.[1] During a 1998 production of Hamlet at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Smethurst met his future wife, Rakie Ayola. Ayola has stated that there was initially “no spark” between them, however, they met again two years later during the production of Twelfth Night and went on to become a couple.

Asked to describe what attracted her to Smethurst, Ayola responded: “He’s a very nice, uncomplicated man, but I saw something deeper in him. I also liked his incredible cheerfulness and openness and he has grown up with sisters so that made him easy with women.”