Alan Halsall opens up on divorce from Lucy-Jo Hudson on I’m A Celeb as Corrie star admits he struggles to date

LAST NIGHT connected I'm A Celebrity, immoderate of the campmates discussed dating, which prompted Alan Halsall to unfastened up astir his divorce.

Tyrone Dobbs prima 42, who joined Coronation Street successful 1998, got candid astir his divorcement from ex-wife Lucy-Jo Hudson past night, adjacent admitting that helium struggles to date.

"Lucy near Corrie successful astir 2005, past we got joined successful 2009. We past divided up aft Sienna was born," Alan told campmates Dean McCullough and Tulisa Contostavlos.

"I emotion what I've got, adjacent present I'm connected my ain I emotion conscionable being dad. I've ne'er done dating apps," helium admitted.

The Coronation Street prima past admitted that with dating apps, helium wouldn't cognize however to navigate them, exclaiming, "I don’t adjacent cognize what I’d do!"

Tulisa past weighed successful with her thoughts, "I've lone done Raya [the personage dating app]," she explained.

She added: "I'm not truly a dater, adjacent though I've been connected there, I've ne'er gone connected an existent day with anyone connected there… I’m due guarded."

Alan and his ex-wife Lucy-Jo, who helium mentioned portion talking astir his dating life, divided successful 2018.

The brace met connected the acceptable of Coronation Street and were past joined successful 2009, and successful 2013, they welcomed their girl Sienna-Rae.

The mates past called clip connected their matrimony successful March 2016 but rekindled their romance specified months later.

2018 past saw the brace divided for good, with Lucy-Jo moving connected with a caller antheral and going nationalist with him conscionable 2 months later.

Lucy-Jo near Alan feeling "like a mug" erstwhile she fell for panto pal Lewis Devine, who played her rubric character’s champion mate ­Muddles successful Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

Then things took a crook erstwhile Lucy-Jo's caller antheral Lewis called Alan's girl Sienna his ain connected societal media.

SOCIAL MEDIA BUST-UP

"You’re invited to support the lying cheating 1 & telephone her your own! But not my daughter," Alan deed backmost connected societal media.

Lucy-Jo antecedently opened up astir Alan's societal media outburst to OK! Magazine, saying, "I had virtually conscionable fixed commencement to Carter erstwhile helium posted that truthful I didn’t spot it and my caput was elsewhere.

"He rapidly deleted it truthful helium indispensable person regretted it. I didn’t fuss bringing it up with him."

"I didn’t fuss bringing it up with him. Lew and I were some excessively focused connected Carter truthful it conscionable didn’t get our attention."

CO-PARENTING CLASHES

Lucy-Jo past admitted astatine the clip that co-parenting with her ex tin beryllium hard arsenic they sometimes clash.

She continued to the magazine, "The happening is, everybody who has a blended household knows it’s not easy. You can’t unreal that it is.

"And maine and Alan sometimes person antithetic views connected raising Sienna truthful trying to co-parent tin beryllium challenging. It’s astir apt similar that for a batch of blended families."

Lucy-Jo and Lewis welcomed their lad Carter successful 2020, with the mates inactive unneurotic to this day.

Alan yet moved connected with Tisha Merry, who played Steph Britton successful Coronation Street, but the brace divided earlier this twelvemonth aft respective years together.

"Alan and Trisha divided beauteous amicably, but Alan has been keen for a cleanable interruption and has good and genuinely moved on," a root told The Sun.

"They person a batch of the aforesaid friends and Alan has been spending tons of clip with his Corrie co-stars and conscionable concentrating connected being a large dad."

'WE GET ON GREAT'

Lucy-Jo precocious broke her soundlessness connected Alan's jungle stint.

Reacting to speculation astir their narration since splitting, Lucy-Jo said, "First of all, maine and my ex person been divorced 7 years.

"I really can’t judge it’s a taxable of speech due to the fact that it’s beauteous boring."

She continued, "We stock Sienna 50/50. We communicate. She’s a blessed kid. We get connected great.

"We person to enactment retired weekends – what we’re swapping, definite days helium wants, definite days I want.

"We don’t privation her missing retired truthful we alteration things for each other."

She went on, "Second of all, myself and Lewis volition beryllium sat down with Sienna watching the jungle. We privation him thing but the best.

"We are going to beryllium determination for Sienna supporting her passim this travel because, yes, she’s going to miss her dad.

"He’s successful her beingness each the time, truthful this is rather a unusual thing."

She past concluded by signing disconnected with, "He is who helium is to you guys, but for Sienna, it’s her dada and we're supporting her done that."