Helen Flanagan packed on the PDA with new man Luke on Celebs Go Dating as they shared a steamy kiss during their first date on the show.
The former Coronation Street star, 34, split from fiance Scott Sinclair, 35, who she shares three children with in 2022.
Helen hasn’t given up on love yet as she revealed that she wants to get married one day while enjoying a romantic dinner date with Luke.
The soap star, who looked incredible in a plunging black dress, asked her date: ‘Have you got a type? Do you usually go for taller girls, or smaller girls?’
‘My ex was quite tall,’ he told her. ‘So you’d go out with a girl who was six foot three?’ she asked. ‘Six foot three!’ he laughed.
Helen Flanagan packed on the PDA with new man Luke on Celebs Go Dating as they shared a steamy kiss during their first date on the show
Helen hasn’t given up on love yet as she revealed that she wants to get married one day while enjoying a romantic dinner date with Luke
The former Coronation Street star, 34, split from fiance Scott Sinclair, 35, who she shares three children with, in 2022
In a diary room interview, Helen said: ‘Things are going really well with Luke and he’s got amazing eyes. It’s time for the cougar m**f to pounce’.
On the date she tactfully challenged him to a staring contest, where she looked deeply into his eyes.
As she giggled, Luke told her: ‘You can’t laugh, you’ve failed already’.
‘You just blinked,’ he said before she repeated: ‘I just blinked,’ before leaning in for a kiss.
The pair passionately snogged and Luke gently held her face before asking: ‘Where did that come from?’
Helen pulled away and smiled: ‘Have you ruined my makeup?’ as she playfully wiped her foundation off his nose.
Celebs Go Dating Love Coach, Anna Williamson, described Helen as: ‘The poster girl’ for single mums fresh from a break-up.
She said: ‘Helen needs to do a lot of work on her inner-self critic. Your 20s are a time for experimentation with no pressures, typically.
‘Your 30s – more responsibility. She is doing it the other way around, so it’s completely reasonable that she’s feeling like a fish out of water.’
In a diary room interview, Helen said: ‘Things are going really well with Luke and he’s got amazing eyes. It’s time for the cougar m**f to pounce’
On the date she tactfully challenged him to a staring contest, where she looked deeply into his eyes before leaning in to kiss him
The pair passionately snogged and Luke gently held her face before asking: ‘Where did that come from?’
It comes after Helen broke down in tears as she discussed her split from ex-Scott on Loose Women.
The actress appeared on the show alongside her former co-stars Sally Dynevor and Sue Cleaver, as well as presenters Kaye Adams and Denise Welch.
When asked if she believes in a ‘happy ever after’, Helen said: ‘I was with my ex Scott since I was 19 and he was like my world. I always thought we were going to be together. Always.’
Discussing mental health, Denise said: ‘I just know that you really struggled – could you just take us through because you had a breakdown, a real psychotic breakdown.’
Fighting back tears and clutching Sally’s hand for support, Helen – who played Sally’s daughter Rosie Webster on the ITV soap – replied: ‘Gosh, I didn’t think I would get so emotional today!’
‘I didn’t really want to talk about it but the reason I did was because I was about to do a six-month theatre tour, so that’s why I spoke about it.’
Speaking on signing up for Celebs Go Dating, Helen said: ‘I’ve loved it, so much fun. I think you just have to be open-minded and it was a great way to spend the summer.’
‘But I think it would take someone really special to introduce them to my children.’
It comes after Helen, who is trying to find the one on the E4 dating show, opened up on personal heartbreak following her split.
While struggling with her emotions, she also had a frightening reaction to her ADHD medication that plunged her into psychosis.
Helen is looking for love again after she sadly split from her ex-fiancé Scott (pictured), who is the father of her three children Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and son Charlie, three
‘I really wasn’t very well,’ she recalls now. ‘Basically, I was struggling with my mental health around December and January, so I took my medication to try to make me feel better, and then unfortunately it just made things worse.’
It took weeks for Helen to recover during which she was forced to withdraw from a touring production of Cluedo that she’d hoped would mark a return to the dramatic spotlight.
She was eventually replaced by her former co-star and Strictly Come Dancing winner Ellie Leach, but will make her comeback on Celebs Go Dating instead.
Dating agent Anna previously revealed Helen was incredibly close to getting booted off Celebs Go Dating after breaking one of the agencies’ rules.
Speaking about the juicy series, which airs later this year, Anna told The Sun: ‘Helen, I just love her.’
‘What I will say about her though – and I don’t want to spoil anything – but Helen has the biggest cliffhanger pivot of a storyline that we’ve ever had in Celebs Go Dating history.’
‘Helen nearly got thrown out of the agency two weeks ago. She did something huge which goes against all the rules of the agency.’
