Coronation Street star, Helen Flanagan, is facing more heartache after revealing she’s been forced to sell her forever family home. The mum-of-three, 33, has lived in the plush eight-bedroom property in Bolton for four years, but is now downsizing after admitting she had, at one point, ‘lost all her money’.
The news comes as another blow for the I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! star after Helen admitted her boyfriend, Robbie Talbot, no longer lives with her – despite the actress previously asking him to ‘move in for a bit’. Lifting the lid on the couple’s new dynamic, she said she had to put her children first as they got used to her new relationship.
Opening up about the real reason, Robbie, who Helen met on celebrity dating app, Raya, last year, packed his bags and moved out, she told The Sun: “I don’t want to say I think this is forever, because it puts too much pressure on us.
“I’d asked him to stay for a while, because I often get quite scared in the house on my own and feel safer with a man there.
“But Matilda is very sensitive and a proper daddy’s girl, and she struggles with not seeing Scott as often as she’d like. I always think about how she feels when she misses her dad, and having my boyfriend there maybe doesn’t help her.”
Helen is now navigating another change as she looks for a new home after conceding her eight-bedroom property was ” a lot to keep on top of”.
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Explaining she wasn’t sure if she wants to stay in her home town or move to London, which would be “great for work”, she told the Declutter Hub podcast: “I don’t know if I’m best, because it’s not that far on the train, to just keep commuting. But I kind of feel like I want a fresh break. I don’t know if I kind of want to stay in my hometown.”
Admitting it will feel “weird” to downsize and lose the space of her current palatial pad, she continued: “I think I’m gonna struggle to… Obviously when I do [move] because obviously I will be downsizing so much.”
Helen added that while she’s “down to earth” and didn’t want to “sound a certain way,” she suspects it will “feel weird” living in a smaller property after being in her current home. She concluded: “Obviously, I will get used to it, I’m sure.”
The Rosie Webster star has been candid about her financial situation and her mental health in recent months, admitting that at one point, she lost all her money.
She had initially lived in the eight-bedroom house with her now ex-partner Scott Sinclair, 36, and their three children, prior to the couple’s separation in 2022.
However, taking to Instagram in January, she shared: “My love life was a s**t show…. I didn’t look after my mental health. I felt so s**t and sad. I felt like my whole life was f***ed up now and I had the perfect family. 13 years is a long time to be with someone. My whole 20s. I had a lot of family fall-outs too and I also lost basically all my money. Me and Scott weren’t married we were engaged.
“My mental health was so bad I thought maybe my kids would be better off without me and maybe they would be better off with their dad as he’s more level-headed than me. I love my kids more than words can say, but when you are not well you’re not well.”
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