Helen Flanagan says 'my next boyfriend will be my husband' - but she won't ever talk about her relationships again

She has appeared on Celebrity Ex On The Beach and Celebs Go Dating, but Helen Flanagan says she will keep her next relationship private. 

The actress, 35, believes her next boyfriend will be 'The One' and expressed her hopes she will soon marry. 

In a new interview with podcaster Lewis Nicholls' Life Stories, Helen reflected on how her turbulent love life hasn't made her lose hope of finding her perfect match. 

Helen, who split from former non-league footballer Robbie Talbot, 45, last year, said: 'I don't really date anyone. I find it quite difficult to meet people because I really want someone to love me for me.

'I am a romantic and know I will have my happy ever after. I do know I'm going to find my one.'

Helen said she finds it hard because she 'does get recognised' when she's out and wants to find a partner who will get to know her away from her public profile. 

She continued: 'I do feel when I have my next relationship, I think it will be my husband. I will choose to protect it and be more private. 

'I will probably say who that person is but I will want to protect it and keep it really special. I feel like everybody always has something to say.

'My ex-boyfriend was on Celebs Go Dating which was kind of iconic but I kind of just feel as well like I've learned a lot. I'm 35 and I've just learned like a lot. I feel like when I do actually find my one or my husband, you know, I really will have worked hard for my happiness.'

In March, Helen declared she would never date a footballer again amid her feud with her ex-fiance, Scott Sinclair. 

The exes have been at loggerheads since they broke up in 2022 after 13 years together. They share children Matilda, 10, Delilah, seven, and son Charlie, four, and have been co-parenting for the last four years since splitting.

The actress previously told the Daily Mail how she keeps her love life 'very separate' to her children as she is 'very protective' of them. 

She said: 'I keep my love life like very separate, my children are so precious.

'It would take a lot for me to introduce anyone to my children, because they're like that's so precious, it would have to be really right and a very sensible male, yeah.'

Elsewhere in the chat, Helen insisted she is sick of 'shrinking herself and toning things down' for men as she revealed what she is looking for in a relationship.  

'I feel like I've had to shrink myself sometimes', she said. 'I think it's a really lovely feeling when you're with a man and you feel like I can really be myself here and they think I'm great, they think I'm really funny and I don't have to tone myself down.' 

The mother-of-three insisted she never tries to force a connection with a man as she has found the 'connection is either there or not'.

Earlier this year, Helen laid bare the depth of her feelings for David Haye, 45, in her autobiography Head & Heart, admitting she fell 'deeply in love' with the former world champion, though their romance proved complicated. 

Helen and David, who she first met when they both appeared on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2012, enjoyed a brief romance after her split from Scott.

They crossed paths again when Helen bumped into David at an awards ceremony in autumn 2022, before he later reached out after seeing a lingerie shoot she had done for Ann Summers.