Helen Flanagan says her eldest child feels ‘embarrassed’ to see her on television

Reality star Helen Flanagan has shared that her eldest child feels “embarrassed” watching her mom on TV. The ‘Coronation Street’ actress has daughters Matilda, 10, and Delilah, seven, as well as five-year-old son, Charlie, with her 37-year-old ex-fiance, footballer Scott Sinclair.

The kids cannot help but burst into fits of laughter when Helen pops up on screen, reports ‘Female First UK’.

She told BANG Showbiz, “My children love seeing me on TV. My five-year-old will say, ‘That’s mummy’. I’ve watched bits of TV with them, and they find it hilarious, though my eldest does get embarrassed. It’s quite funny because at home I get outvoted on what we watch”.

Helen has starred on Channel 4’s Celebs Go Dating and more recently, Paramount+’s Celebrity Ex on the Beach, since she bid farewell to her Coronation Street alter ego Rosie Webster in 2018 after 18 years on and off.

As per ‘Female First UK’, the 35-year-old star wants them to get involved in everything she does, particularly when it comes to performing in pantomimes.

Helen said, “I like them to see what I’m doing because I’m often away working, so I try to involve them where I can, like bringing my eldest along when I was doing panto. “Everything I do is for them, so I want them to feel part of it”.

After she called off her and Scott’s engagement in October 2022, Helen dated former boxer David Haye, 45, which ended in December 2023 after six months, and ex-football player Robbie Talbot, 46, whom she split from in May 2025 after a one-year romance.

Flanagan first appeared as Rosie Webster in Coronation Street in January 2000. In 2006, she was nominated for the award of “Best Dramatic Performance from a Young Actor or Actress” at the British Soap Awards, losing to Ellis Hollins of Hollyoaks. In 2007, she was nominated for “Villain of the Year” at the same awards, this time losing to Coronation Street co-star Jack P. Shepherd. In 2010, Flanagan appeared in Coronation Street spin-off Coronation Street: A Knights Tale as her character Rosie Webster. In 2011, she had her own Coronation Street spin-off Just Rosie, which explored her character Rosie Webster trying to build a modelling career in London. Flanagan left Coronation Street in February 2012 to pursue other interests.

In November 2012, Flanagan participated in the twelfth series of I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in seventh place. In September 2013 she appeared in Celebrity Super Spa, a reality-television programme based in a Liverpool Salon on Channel 5. In January 2014, Flanagan starred in an episode of Celebrity Wedding Planner alongside Hugo Taylor on Channel 5. The following August she appeared as agency nurse Kirsty Brompton in an episode of Holby City.

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