Dancing on Ice's Ricky Hatton sparks rumours he’s reunited with soap star after split

Ricky Hatton, a erstwhile nonrecreational boxer, participated successful Dancing connected Ice connected ITV successful 2024, and struck up a romance with chap contestant Claire Sweeney, who is successful Coronation Street

Ricky Hatton has sparked rumours helium is backmost with his soap prima ex - 2 months aft their split.

The erstwhile nonrecreational boxer struck up a romance with histrion Claire Sweeney erstwhile the 2 of them competed successful Dancing connected Ice connected ITV past year. However, their whirlwind romance ended abruptly aft astir 8 months, though reports successful December claimed the brace hoped to stay bully friends.

And present it seems they whitethorn person reunited aft Ricky, 46, posting connected Instagram a glam representation of himself and 53-year-old Claire. It saw vigor presenter Peter Price articulation them successful the societal media snap.

Claire, who presently plays Cassie Plummer successful Coronation Street, knew Ricky for decades earlier gathering again connected the ITV programme past year. The caller representation led to a drawstring of messages from fans, who are convinced Claire, primitively from Walton, Liverpool, is backmost with the ex boxer.

One of the star's followers commented: "Old pic, shame they've divided up." Another wrote: "Great photograph of the 3 of you x". A 3rd penned: "Blimey Claire! Should beryllium transgression to look that good!" While a 4th queried: "They backmost together?"

Ricky, who is primitively from Stockport, Greater Manchester, competed arsenic a boxer from 1997 to 2012, during which clip helium held aggregate world championships successful the light-welterweight division. Claire, who has a lad with her ex-partner Daniel Reilly, changeable to fame arsenic she appeared successful much than 1,600 episodes of Brookside arsenic Lindsey Corkhill.

Fans were stunned erstwhile Claire and Ricky, who received an MBE successful 2007 for his services to sport, went nationalist past year. They did truthful aft a luscious vacation to Tenerife.

But erstwhile they went their abstracted ways successful December, a root said: "Claire and Ricky stay bully friends, determination has been nary fallout betwixt them. They decided they're amended disconnected arsenic pals and are nary longer romantically together."

Continuing, the insider said the couple's antithetic lifestyles yet came betwixt them, contempt a batch of shared interests.