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FORMER CORONATION STREET STAR AND MUM-OF-THREE HELEN FLANAGAN TALKS TO LISA SALMON ABOUT CO-PARENTING AND SAYING NO TO TIKTOK FOR HER KIDS

- LISA SALMON

HELEN FLANAGAN admits she's "no superwoman", and isn't saying being a single parent is easy.

But despite "running around like a blue-a**ed fly" as she puts it, the former Coronation Street actress, who split from her footballer fiancé Scott Sinclair last summer, says her new single family life is working really well.

"I co-parent with my ex-fiancé Scott we've got three children together, and we were together for 13 years," explains Helen, 32, who recently appeared on I'm A Celebrity... South Africa.

"My friends help me with the children, because I do work nearly every day. I have a friend and we're a girl gang together - I'm not superwoman! So that works nicely at home.

"Scott's living with his mum at the moment in Bristol, and my children are really close to their nana, so it works really well. My kids just have a really happy environment, with me and my friend at home, and then they have a really nice happy environment with their dad and their nana." Helen, who lives in Manchester, says she has the children - Matilda, eight, Delilah, five, and two-year-old Charlie "the majority of the time", as their dad's away playing football for Bristol Rovers a lot.

"So it kind of can't be helped, really. But his mum is absolutely fantastic, we get on very, very well. She's known me since I was 19, so I'm close with his mum, and she helps me a lot with the children."

The actress admits that although she misses her "babies" when they're with their dad and nana, she makes the most of her child-free time.