Helen Flanagan splits from football star?

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Helen Flanagan has split from her Premier League footballer boyfriend, according to reports.

The Coronation Street actress turned I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! contestant had been with Manchester City player Scott Sinclair for four years.

But The Sun said that she told friends: "It is over for good this time."

Helen, 22, who last week told her Twitter followers: "New chapter, got to be happy," is said to be planning to move out of the couple's Cheshire home.

A friend was quoted as saying: "Helen and Scott break up every other week. It is something all of her friends have got used to. But the fact that she's told close pals it's all over is a new step.

"She loves Scott, but thinks breaking free will give her a new lease of life."

The Sun reports that Celebrity Wedding Planner Helen recently went on holiday to Dubai without her boyfriend, taking her agent instead, and that he did not accompany her to January's National Television Awards .

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