Coronation Street actress Samia Ghadie and skater Sylvain Longchambon have finally confessed they are a couple - and in love.
The pair, who met on Dancing on Ice, have gone public after months of speculation following Longchambon's split on Christmas Day from Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe, and Ghadie's split with her former Coronation Street co-star Will Thorp.
Declaring it's "definitely" love, and that they have nothing to be ashamed of, Ghadie insisted that nothing happened until after Longchambon and Ghadie - who also met on DOI in 2011 - had split.
She told OK magazine: "Yes, we can finally say that we are together.
"Now is a good time for us, as since January we have been hounded. There has been all the speculation about 'Are they or aren't they?' We are at a stage where we are solid in our relationship and feel we are ready to say yes, we are together."
Longchambon added: "It is love." Ghadie agreed: "Definitely. If he loves seeing me doing those ugly crossovers on the ice, it must be love!
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"I hadn't tried it on with Sylvain. Nothing had happened at all. People thought we had been having an affair behind her back, that I had stolen her man, and it absolutely wasn't true. I would never ever set out to steal anybody's man."
Longchambon added: "I wasn't sure about my relationship with Jen any more. I started to have doubts and began to realise there was something wrong. I seemed to be enjoying more and more the time I was spending with Samia.
"I feel bad as I didn't want to hurt Jen. My feelings had changed but when you are reading every day that she is heartbroken, of course you feel sorry."
Ghadie continued: "I think if you are in a relationship with somebody and you do start to have feelings for somebody else, then you do think, 'I shouldn't be having these feelings', and naturally the only decent thing to do is not to stay with that person. It's not fair on them or yourself.
"If Sylvain had tried anything on with me when he was with his ex, I wouldn't be with him now; I wouldn't be able to trust him. He never made any move at all with me when he was with his ex.
"Nothing happened until after he split up with Jen."
According to Now, the couple are moving into Ghadie's Cheshire home. A source said: "Sylvain met Samia's daughter Freya last week. He'll be moving in with her properly soon."
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