Helen Flanagan was unrecognisable as she was seen sporting a wedding dress despite recently confirming her split from her fiancé Scott Sinclair. The actress is currently appearing on screens in I'm A Celebrity... South Africa with her huge engagement ring firmly on display.
However, before the first-ever spin-off series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here debuted on ITV last month, Helen revealed that she and footballer Scott split last July but she still wore her ring for filming in camp in the new setting of Kruger National Park in the South African bush in September to avoid any questions being asked.
"We actually broke up in July," Helen has told OK! Magazine about her relationship with Bristol Rovers footballer Scott, with whom she shared her three children - Matilda, seven, Delilah, four and son Charlie, two.
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Helen and Scott had been together for 13 years having started dating in 2009, before he proposed in Disneyland Paris in May 2018 before they welcomed their second daughter Delilah the following month. The former Celtic and Preston North End star announced the happy news at the time on his Instagram account by sharing a snap of the romantic moment he got down on one knee. "She said YES!" Scott gushed in the caption, alongside a shot of him and Helen in front of Cinderella's castle at Disneyland.
And after planning on getting married in 2020, the couple had to put their date back after "getting lazy" with planning but last year, Helen told how she had picked a date and found a wedding venue, Grantley Hall in North Yorkshire. But the former Coronation Street star who played Rosie Webster in the ITV soap, soon had to tell those involved that the big day was off.
"I did wear my engagement ring when I was in the jungle. We’d only just broken up, and I didn’t want everyone to be asking, ‘Where’s your ring,'" Helen shared with OK! She added: "I didn’t want to talk about it… I wanted to keep it private for the kids, I didn’t want to be talking about it on the show. I did find that difficult, because I had all that going on in my head."
Now though, Helen has been seen in a full wedding dress - but it wasn't quite as it seemed. The 32-year-old took to her social media where she shared a photo of herself posing on a gold-quilted bed while sporting a plunging denim dress.
Things then changed as the images moved to show the mum-of-three looking completely different with an unusually smooth facial texture and brunette locks while also sporting an extravagant, glistening white gown. "At this rate the closest I'm going to get," Helen typed alongside a number of crying laughing emojis and a skull emoji.
The picture was created using the FacePlay app, which is an internet trend where users can envision how they might look in different scenarios. She then laughed as she admitted to using the app: "Yes I'm a grown woman with 3 kids and I paid for this app and waited for it to download."
It comes after Helen was seen for the first time with Scott since confirming their split, although the video she shared on Instagram was filmed last year. The former soap star, from Bury, shared the moment she arrived home from South Africa following her second stint on I'm A Celeb, which came 10 years after the first.
It showed her being greeted by Scott who was holding onto their young son while their daughters Matilda and Delilah were all over their mum after spending a month away from each other. She also shared a string of pictures with her children and wrote to her followers: "Found these pictures of when I came back from @imacelebrity South Africa was away for a month.
"Was so nice to do normal things like do the school run, I missed Delilah’s first day of reception, food shops with Charlie and taking the kids to their activities. I think Delilah and I look like twins here."
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