Coronation Street actor Alex Bain has reportedly split from his student fiancee just six months after the couple got engaged.
The 21-year-old soap star, who has played Simon Barlow for 15 years, is said to have split up with fiancee Mollie Lockwood last month after dating for three years.
Alex and Mollie are said to have been left "gutted" that their relationship didn't work out and their friends have been rallying around them for support.
It comes after Alex - who is dad to four-year-old daughter Lydia-Rose with ex-girlfriend Levi Selby - spoke about proposing last year and said that he "couldn't spend [his] life with anyone else".
A source told The Sun of their split: "Their mates have rallied around to support them and keep them busy. Simon is focused on the soap and getting stuck into storylines and his role.”
Alex had proposed to Mollie in October during a romantic night on in Chester on their two-year anniversary.
The pair had had a meal out before they returned to their hotel room and watched the sunset from the balcony when Alex popped the question.
He told OK! magazine last year: "That’s when I just asked her. I thought, ‘If I don’t do it now, I’ll keep getting more and more nervous!’ I was pretty certain she’d say yes, but I was still bricking it!"
Quizzed on why he thought it was the right time to ask, he said: "I did have a tiny inkling on the night that it could happen – just because it was such a special day in such a romantic place! And we’d spoken before about getting married and spending our lives together."
The Mirror has reached out to Alex's reps for comment.
