Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan has gotten candid about her love life, branding herself a “lover girl” and giving her honest opinion about “guys that ghost girls”. The ex soap star and reality TV personality joined Celebs Go Dating to find love in 2024 and has now looked back on her relationships, including that with her former partner of 13 years, football player Scott Sinclair, with whom he shares three children.
Taking to social media this week, Flanagan, who played Rosie Webster on Corrie, said she’s “always been a romantic” and has “been boy mad” since she was 14.
“It’s always very intense, and I fall in love hard,” she wrote on Instagram in a series of slides titled: “Things I experience as an ADHD woman.”
“Doesn’t mean that it’s not genuine, as at the time it is,” she continued. “My second boyfriend was my kids’ dad, who I was with for 13 years, and I had his name tattooed at 19 LOL.”
Flanagan also shared hew views on casual sex, saying she’s not great and keeping things lowkey. “I’m not a casual girl. I’m a lover girl/wifey, and I do get attached,” she wrote. “I think guys that ghost girls after sleeping with them are big fat rats LOL.”
She then continued: “I go for someone that I find exciting, I go for a soul connection. Someone that makes me feel understood. I look for the male version of me.”
The I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! 2012 star then opened up about experiencing an obsessive state of infatuation known as limerence in her romantic connections.
“Last time I had proper feelings for someone, it just felt a lot. Intense. My friends say I’m like Cathy Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights LOL,” she wrote. “I get limerence, and I always get terrible rejection sensitivity, but I’m learning to deal with that better.”
Flanagan left the cobbles behind in 2018, but has since weighed in on a possible Rosie return to Corrie.
In March this year, the actor shared she’d be up for reprising her Coronation Street role if the soap bosses reached out. “Honestly, if they want me to come back, I’d love to, but [show bosses] just haven’t spoke to me,” she told Liverpool Echo.
“Everybody always asks me, ‘When are you going back to Corrie?’ And it’s like, ‘They haven’t called me’. If you want to call me, that’s great. But they haven’t.”
