Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan has opened up about her romance with boyfriend Robbie Talbot.
The star, 34, played Rosie Webster on the ITV soap intermittently between 2000 and 2018.
Since then she’s appeared on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! and Celebs Go Dating, the latter role causing quite a stir when it was revealed that she wouldn’t be looking for love on the E4 reality show.
‘This is really difficult because I feel I have given the agency my heart and soul and I have been totally honest – I am a very, very honest person – but I did meet someone at home at the beginning of the year,’ she admitted.
‘I really wanted to join the agency because I felt like, because I was in a long-term relationship and didn’t have much dating experience, and I really wanted to do this for me and grow and find out about myself, but it’s really hard because there is somebody at home that I have fallen for.
‘This has become quite difficult for me now, because unfortunately, I am comparing everybody to him and it’s making it very difficult now when I’m dating.’
It was revealed in September that Helen is dating former pro footballer Robbie Talbot, 44, after splitting from her long-term partner Scott Sinclair and father to her three children, two years ago.
She’s since spoken about the happiness she’s found from the new relationship.
‘What I love about Robbie, my boyfriend, is he’s very level headed’ she told The Sun.
‘I have to say, I do think as a girl, I’m very much a boyfriend kind of girl. I always like to have a boyfriend.
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‘And I think what it is, I think I like a guy to be there for me, I think I like a boy for more to be there for me, there kind of emotionally and what have you.’
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She continued: ‘Robbie really reminds me of home. He’s very northern, and he’s very Scouse. He’s just lovely. And it just reminds me of home.
‘He’s a really genuine, lovely man, and he’s the funniest man I’ve ever met. Scousers are just a laugh.
‘He’s just really lovely. He’s very understanding as well. I sometimes come quite complex, but he’s very understanding and very kind and lovely and patient.’
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