Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan shares Matilda, seven, Delilah, five, and Charlie, two, with her ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair, who will be hosting their children this Christmas

Helen Flanagan detailed her plans for Christmas, without children Matilda, seven, Delilah, five, and Charlie, two.

The heartbroken former Coronation Street actress will spend the festivities at home in Bolton as the kids enjoy the holidays with their dad, her ex-fiancé Scott Sinclair. Helen, 33 and Scott, 34, went their separate ways in July 2022 after 13 years together.

The couple’s kids are heading on holiday with Scott in Bath over the Christmas break and Helen has opened up about missing them on the big day, revealing her grand plans for a big winter holiday of her own to treat Matilda, Delilah and Charlie for the New Year.

“My children really miss their daddy and they’re very close to their nanna, so they’re going to spend Christmas with them,” she told Closer. “I won’t have them for about four days. It will actually be the first Christmas that I don’t have my children.”

She’ll get the kids back after December 25, and it taking them to Bali. It comes after it was revealed that Helen is still wearing her engagement ring from her relationship with Scott – despite splitting from her footballer ex-fiancé last year.

In a series of sweet Instagram snaps with her youngest on Thursday, however, Helen’s diamond was there for all to see as she cradled the youngster in a mirror selfie. Helen captioned her post: “My beautiful snotty toothy little gremlin. Mamas boy.” It comes after the actress reportedly joined former boxer David Haye in his latest ‘throuple’ with Sian Osbourne.

After signing up for dating app Raya earlier this year Helen recently revealed her attempts to find a new man have failed dramatically as she shared an hilarious video on TikTok. The clip saw Helen introduce “the men of 2023” to her followers – a list of past dates in her phonebook she had saved as “too obsessed with their dog” and “Ruined my mental health”.

Since then, however, Helen posted a cryptic quoting to Instagram in which she hinted she was “falling in love” again. Reports soon emerged that she’d been given Sian’s blessing to go on a string of dates with David, who she met when the pair starred on I’m A Celebrity together in 2012. In May the threesome attended in a boxing after party at London’s Ovo Arena, with onlookers describing exchanges between Helen and David at the time as “flirty”.

A source close to Helen told The Mirror: “Helen reconnected with David earlier this year. They got on like a house on fire and have been messaging a lot since. Helen and Sian have also met and hit it off straight away. Helen’s a very open-minded person and all three got on well. Helen has had some difficult dating experiences since becoming single but is really enjoying David’s company.”

The source added: “Helen and David got on well in the jungle, and so have seen each other a fair bit over the years. But recently they seem to have really clicked and had that chemistry. They’re having a lot of fun together.”

Addressing her break-up and “love” for Scott last month, meanwhile, former soap star Helen told the Sun: “I love Scott and I know that he loves me, but I suppose we just don’t like each other very much at the moment. We don’t really speak and there’s no point in pretending that we’re the best of friends when we’re not. What we had was really special, and because of that, the emotion between us is just too raw. Luckily, I get on really well with his mum and he speaks to my parents, so I’m sure Scott and I will eventually have a better relationship.”