Man ban, ‘sweaty boobs’ & TV tears…how Helen Flanagan is taking charge after ‘chaotic’ year & the sign Robbie is the one

HELEN Flanagan's beingness was turned upside down erstwhile she divided from fiancé Scott Sinclair successful 2022.

The erstwhile Coronation Street star, 34, had been with the footballer since she was 19, and shares 3 children with him.

She was “so lonely” successful the months aft the break-up that she went connected to “fall successful love” with throuple-loving boxer David Haye - who’s successful a semipermanent unfastened narration with Sian Osbourne - and was near heartbroken by him too.

But she’s present happier than ever with her caller fellow Robbie Talbot, 44, and it seems helium whitethorn beryllium The One.

“I’ve ne'er met anyone similar him,” Helen gushed to OK! astir the begetter of two, successful their archetypal associated interview. “He’s not lone a beauteous man, but he’s really, truly funny. And helium had the balls to chat maine up! Usually I don’t get that but helium has truthful overmuch confidence. And helium truly takes attraction of me.”

And scientist Jo Hemmings tells america their narration “is the cleanable illustration of ‘when you cognize it, you cognize it,’” particularly arsenic Helen was connected a self-imposed “man ban” erstwhile they met and astir to spell connected Celebs Go Dating.

Jo continues: “I’m truly pleased for Helen. She's gone done truthful galore hard times, and she didn't look to cognize what absorption she wanted to spell in. 

“Then Robbie came along; this precise mean feline who is not unimpressed by her achievements but doesn't acceptable store by them. 

“He respects her occurrence and he's got 2 kids of his ain too.

“He's precise grounded, rather stoic, conscionable precise normal.

“It's similar the yin to her yang. Where she's precise hyperactive, precise unsure of herself successful galore ways, and excitable, he's that benignant of grounded, anchored idiosyncratic that seems to beryllium perfectly close for her astatine the moment, without immoderate compromise.

“I don't consciousness she's conscionable settling either. They person a batch of humour and a batch of amusive successful their narration and it seems to beryllium a precise communal happening for the 2 of them.”

Secret romance

Helen and Robbie met astatine a edifice successful Alderley Edge not agelong earlier Helen signed the declaration to look connected Celebs Go Dating.

Having lone conscionable started dating, they agreed to support their narration a concealed from Helen’s co-stars and the dating experts Paul C Brunson, Anna Williamson and Dr Tara.

Robbie told OK!: “We weren’t superior astatine that point, we were conscionable dating. And we communicated the full mode through. I knew each on what was happening.”

Despite this, Helen embraced the E4 amusement experience, going connected aggregate dates with younger men - perpetually talking astir her kids, and her “sweaty boobs” and adjacent snogging immoderate of them.

Jo says: “Helen met Scott erstwhile she was precise young and she had her children precise young and that throws a spot of a curve shot astatine increasing up, due to the fact that you're abruptly enactment successful the aforesaid presumption arsenic idiosyncratic who mightiness beryllium 10 years older than you, truthful determination is that benignant of individuality confusion.

“On Celebs Go Dating, Helen was going connected dates, instantly spitting retired that she had 3 kids and snogging dates she didn’t adjacent particularly fancy, due to the fact that successful spite of her fame and success, determination is simply a existent consciousness that she lacks genuine self-esteem, falling implicit herself to archer the guys she had kids portion besides trying truthful hard to radical please. 

"She became precise confused astir her individuality - Is she a mum? Is she an actress? What property is she?

"Helen is 1 of those celebs that some embraces her fame, portion warring simultaneously to beryllium normal.

"She became beauteous chaotic successful her manner choices, arsenic if she knew was looking for thing peculiar but couldn’t enactment retired what absorption to instrumentality oregon who to trust.

"She carried connected playing the sexy siren relation portion going location to beryllium a mum, navigator beverage and get into her pyjamas for an aboriginal night. It tin beryllium unsettling and confusing."

Surprise reaction

Helen yet revealed the information astir Robbie to the experts and got a immense telling disconnected for lying.

In a archetypal for the show, the experts agreed to bring the non-league footballer into the bureau for immoderate couple’s therapy.

But, acold from throwing his toys retired of the pram implicit Helen’s dates, helium has confessed helium saw it arsenic an acting job.

He told OK!: “The astir important happening was speaking astir it earlier Helen went connected the show.

“You’ve got to remember, putting the amusement to 1 side, it was a truly caller relationship. So erstwhile it’s caller and you’re messaging and going connected the unusual date, you don’t person a limb to basal connected erstwhile it comes to being jealous oregon expecting exclusivity.

"We weren’t arsenic superior past arsenic we are now. It was good seeing her spell connected the dates. 

“If anything, I looked astatine it arsenic an acting occupation for her. She’s done kissing scenes successful soaps and stuff, truthful I was wholly good with it all.”

And Jo believes this maturity is portion of the crushed Robbie is truthful bully for Helen.

“He took it brilliantly,” she says. “He allows his interior calm to judge what went connected due to the fact that he's got that affectional maturity by saying, ‘Oh, well, you know, this is what she does’.

“A batch of guys wouldn't spell connected that amusement aft they had seen her behave similar that, truthful it's grounds to his maturity and stableness that helium accepts that successful that way.”

David Haye 'guilt'

Elsewhere connected Celebs Go Dating, Helen broke down successful tears implicit her narration with boxer David Haye.

Clarifying she was ne'er successful a throuple with him and his spouse Sian, Helen confessed she “fell successful love” with him, and began to consciousness precise blameworthy astir doing so, contempt them being successful an unfastened relationship.

Speaking astir their relationship, she said: "It got to astir 9 months [after Scott and I split] and I was thinking, ‘Wow I americium really truly lonely present and I miss a man’s touch’.

“I ended up successful a situationship with David. I knew him for astir 10 years and we were successful the [I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here] jungle together. I retrieve the archetypal clip I saw him I was conscionable similar ‘wow who is that!?’.”

“It’s rather hard for maine to speech about. He had a woman and helium had an unfastened relationship. I didn’t mean to autumn successful emotion with him but I did.

"We had an astonishing transportation and we were similar occurrence together. He loves his woman and I deliberation helium loved maine arsenic well.

“It brings maine to a portion successful my beingness that was rather dark.”

She added: “I was successful emotion with the man; I wouldn’t person enjoyed watching the antheral I was successful emotion with person enactment with different woman, that’s not for me.

“I [had connection with his girlfriend]. I felt precise blameworthy and didn’t consciousness bully astir it astatine all. It truly upsets maine due to the fact that I americium a bully miss and I don’t mean to wounded anybody.

“I was conscionable truly lonely and I recovered it truly hard. If you slumber with idiosyncratic for rather a agelong clip you bash autumn successful emotion with them.

"I was conscionable lonely and it conscionable happened. I consciousness truly blameworthy astir it.”

Man ban

Helen enactment herself connected a antheral prohibition pursuing this relationship, but Jo says this is the crushed she would’ve been drawn to Robbie.

Jo thinks, owed to this relationship, and the information she was conscionable 19 erstwhile she met Scott, the information Robbie is truthful antithetic to some of them is what drew her to him.

She says: “She had a difficult, acheronian clip with David and immoderate that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person been, and she kept saying, ‘I'm not truly looking for someone. I'm single. I'm not looking.’ 

“But she intelligibly was looking. 

“She was ever a spot chaotic successful her caput of what she wanted, due to the fact that I don't deliberation she genuinely believed successful herself, oregon believed that determination was idiosyncratic retired determination for her that feels that and past hey, presto, this feline came along.

“He's truthful adjacent tempered and mature to her benignant of somewhat brainsick caput and deficiency of knowing of herself. I conscionable deliberation he's a large partner.”

Reminds her of home

And Helen has confirmed his non-showbizzy manner is portion of the crushed she’s with him.

She told OK! “Our beingness was ever precise overmuch successful the spotlight. I’ve been connected TV since I was nine, truthful my beingness has ever been that way. Cameras, property attention, exposure. 

“I similar the information that Robbie gives maine immoderate normality. 

“He’s amazing, but I emotion that helium has a mean job, that he’s truthful grounded. He’s very, precise bully for me.

"And the information he’s a Scouser reminds maine of home. 

“He’s truthful laid backmost and we ne'er argue. We conscionable laughter each the time. I genuinely deliberation he’s the funniest antheral I’ve ever, ever met. 

“Plus, he’s delicate and I’ve ne'er truly had that before.”

Jo finishes: “Somehow Robbie appeared astatine conscionable the close infinitesimal – helium accepts each that she is, from stunning and talented actress, to a wholesome, homegrown young pistillate with  a beardown enactment strategy and 3 children she adores. 

“He conscionable truly seems to attraction astir her for who she is and not what she is, and I deliberation he’s  fixed her a mode of calming her manner down, but inactive having fun. 

“I don't deliberation she realised you could beryllium with someone, person amusive and beryllium successful emotion with them. 

“They are a fantastic lucifer and I anticipation it lasts!”