Celebs Go Dating star Helen Flanagan and boyfriend Robbie Talbot are going strong months after revealing their romance on the show.
The former Coronation Street actor was on the latest season of the E4 dating series. After the second brunch, she shocked the agents – Anna Williamson, Paul C Brunson and Dr Tara Suwinyattichaiporn – and the audience when she admitted she had met someone outside the show.
Now that Celebs Go Dating has wrapped, Flanagan continues to be gushing over her relationship with Talbot, an ex professional footballer.
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"What I love about Robbie, my boyfriend, is he's very level headed," she told The Sun.
"I have to say, I do think as a girl, I'm very much a boyfriend kind of girl. I always like to have a boyfriend.
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"And I think what it is, I think I like a guy to be there for me, I think I like a boy for more to be there for me, there kind of emotionally and what have you."
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Praising her partner's qualities, Flanagan said he reminds her "of home" as they're both originally from the Northern England.
"Robbie really reminds me of home. He's very northern and he's very Scouse. He's just lovely. And it just reminds me of home," she said.
"He's a really genuine, lovely man, and he's the funniest man I've ever met. Scousers are just a laugh."
She then added: "I sometimes come quite complex, but he's very understanding and very kind and lovely and patient."
Flanagan has three kids from her previous relationship with footballer Scott Sinclair, come to an end in 2022.
The latest season of Celebs Go Dating aired on Channel 4 earlier this year.
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