Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters She caused quite a furore when she dropped the bombshell during Celebs Go Dating that she had been secretly dating another man. But former Corrie star Helen Flanagan, as she reveals to OK! during our exclusive shoot , is determined not to lose too much sleep about it, as her romance goes from strength to strength. Helen, 34, who met her new flame Robbie Talbot the 'old-fashioned way', when the pair got chatting at a restaurant in Alderley Edge eight months ago, opens up about the revelation which caused a tabloid meltdown - and led a host of fans to wonder how Robbie, a former professional footballer, could be comfortable with Helen kissing other men on national television.
Telling OK! the truth behind the headlines, she says: “We met at the end of February and then I signed my contract for the show in March or April." It was ‘early days’ for them, she explains - and her heart was set on doing the celebrity dating show. “It was always what I was going to do, I love the show.
I told Robbie I was doing it and he said it was fine.” But what the doting mother of three, who shares daughters Matilda and Delilah and a son, Charlie with her ex Scott Sinclai r, didn’t expect, was for how serious things got with Robbie, 44 - and at what a fast pace. “Then things.