Helen Flanagan tips 'good looking' campmate with 'a lot about him' to win I'm A Celebrity

Former Coronation Street prima Helen Flanagan says she has a batch to beryllium grateful for this festive play and spills the beans connected who's she's championing to triumph I'm A Celebrity

Helen Flanagan is each smiles arsenic she talks astir her bustling life, which includes a caller romance, a thriving career, and her 3 beauteous children. The 34 twelvemonth aged histrion was positively glowing with festive cheer during our catch-up astatine the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland opening. "I americium truthful looking guardant to Christmas," Helen gushed, with her girl Matilda by her broadside connected the reddish carpet. The ex-Coronation Street prima co-parents Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and 3 twelvemonth aged Charlie with her ex-partner, Bristol Rovers ace Scott Sinclair.

She reveals they'll beryllium spending Christmas with her household this year. "I've got the kids this Christmas and we're going to my mum's. We instrumentality turns, truthful you're with Mummy and Grandma this year, aren't you? " she affectionately tells Matilda. "And past you're with Daddy for New Year, truthful [Scott will] person them then."

Helen admits that their household doesn't instrumentality to immoderate peculiar Christmas traditions owed to Scott's hectic shot schedule. "We don't truly person immoderate household traditions that we do, each Christmas has been rather antithetic for the kids. Especially due to the fact that of their dad's football, it tin beryllium engaged astir this clip of year," Helen told OK!.

Helen is gearing up for her archetypal Christmas with ex-footballer beau Robbie Talbot, having gone Instagram authoritative this summertime amidst a spot of a disturbance – she was inactive connected Celebs Go Dating astatine the time. Robbie, who's 45, brings to the premix his 2 daughters, Sophie, 14, and Carina, 10, from a erstwhile relationship, making it a festive household affair.

"I deliberation Robbie has his girls successful the greeting and past he's going to travel to my mum's for Christmas lunch, aboriginal on."

When quizzed astir the family's privation list, Matilda, Helen's daughter, cutely mentions she's aft crystal skating lessons. "She besides wants a phone," Helen interjects, earlier turning to Matilda with a cautionary note, "But maine and Daddy request to chat astir that 1 and determine if you tin person 1 oregon not, we aren't sure! " Matilda, nodding successful agreement, shares, "The happening I truly privation for Christmas is to walk clip with my family."

Looking beyond the festivities, Helen is optimistic astir the caller year, a sentiment she confesses wasn't determination past year. "I'm feeling rather affirmative astir 2025, I wasn't affirmative astir 2024 but it turned retired rather good," she says with a chuckle, hinting astatine the joyousness Robbie has brought into her life.

Last New Year's Eve was a pugnacious clip for Helen, arsenic she battled with her intelligence health, which led to a terrible absorption to ADHD medicine and full-blown psychosis. She confessed that the festive play was "really terrible" pursuing her divided from Scott aft 13 years together, saying, "I was emotionally struggling with the break-up from the begetter of my kids."

However, a twelvemonth tin bring astir important changes, and present Helen admits she's successful a overmuch amended spot – adjacent contemplating her New Year's resolutions.

"I similar to conscionable marque 1 solution for the New Year oregon I consciousness similar you can't instrumentality to them," she chuckles. "I'm not definite what excavation is, but I'd similar to commencement reformer Pilates – that looks truly bully and would support maine healthy. It is hard to instrumentality to things erstwhile you person 3 kids!"

Before the vacation play afloat kicks in, Helen says she's presently enjoying watching the latest instalment of I'm A Celebrity, particularly arsenic it features her erstwhile Coronation Street workfellow Alan Halsall, who she's "backing each the way".

Helen, who took portion successful I'm A Celeb successful 2012 and past joined the South Africa mentation of the amusement successful 2023, spilled the beans connected her jungle experience, and what Alan has successful store. "I've known Alan since I was connected it myself, and I deliberation he'll bash truly well. He's precise grounded, he's got a batch astir him and he's bully looking, truthful he'll bash truly good successful the jungle," with Matilda chiming in, "Hopefully helium comes retired King of the Jungle! "

After finishing seventh successful 2012, Helen inactive describes the acquisition arsenic "really, truly hard", and says Alan hasn't travel looking for immoderate of her jungle endurance tips. "No, helium didn't travel to maine for immoderate advice, astir apt due to the fact that I didn't bash precise well! " she laughs.