Lockdown strengthened their love, but would Jonathan and Kit survive life’s ‘boring bits’? Sirin Kale In June, we met the whirlwind lovers of lockdown: the single people who threw caution to the wind and jumped into new relationships as the world was shutting down around them. Some of the couples spent lockdown together despite hardly knowing each other: in one case, after just one date. Jonathan Lovett, 53, a design director from London, and his boyfriend Kit Yunes, 46, a retail manager originally from Argentina, had been a couple for just a few weeks when they moved in together on the eve of lockdown.