Evans is openly gay. In a 2002 interview, he said, "Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London I never tried to hide it," and that by being open he would not have "that skeleton in the closet they can rattle out".[19] In 2004, he said his acting career had not suffered by being out.[20] The Spanish media has reported he is in a relationship with model Jon Kortajarena.[21][22][23]
In 2015, he was named one of GQ's 50 best dressed British men.[24]
According to the Spanish press his relationship with Kortajarena ended in May 2015.[25] And according to English press he has a new boyfriend.[26]