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To feel bad for Helen Flanagan here?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/01/2026 19:57

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/helen-flanagan-furiously-hits-out-36599678.amp

she’s being made to sell their home and work, taking jobs she wouldn’t normally, and being away from her kids?

I know some of you are gonna be like ‘poor little rich girl’ 😂😂😂 but honestly, what kind of man is this?? Feel for her a little (from my own, much lower, tax bracket)

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Lopteluga · 23/01/2026 20:14

Fluffyholeysocks · 23/01/2026 20:03

A Coronation Street actress married to a Bristol Rovers player? Hardly a a 'rich girl'? surely? Just a soap star married to a minor league football player?

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To be fair, he used to play for Man City and Celtic, so wasn’t always a lower league player.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/01/2026 20:12

Statsquestion2 · 23/01/2026 20:10

Why should she be allowed to be a housewife and not expected to work though? Every other woman who divorces or separates is expected to work and therefore so should she!!

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What’s with this mentality that ‘I suffer so so must she’ ??

presumably she had kids on the proviso that she’d be a sahm - he sounds terrible making her work and be away from the kids, whilst also missing kids events!

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Statsquestion2 · 23/01/2026 20:10

mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/01/2026 20:06

I agree, they aren’t that rich and understand that that house would’ve been expensive

but she wasn’t working when she had the kids, iirc, she was a housewife? I think she should be able to continue that life, this man is shite

also, didn’t know he wasn’t a prem league player

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Why should she be allowed to be a housewife and not expected to work though? Every other woman who divorces or separates is expected to work and therefore so should she!!

Pancakeflipper · 23/01/2026 20:09

Plenty of actors take on work outside of acting to keep.paying their rent/ mortgage.

He has a career as precarious as hers.

It's life, she needs to crack on. She's had good times. She might have good times again but needs to stop playing the victim.

YellowPixie · 23/01/2026 20:07

She used to live round this way when he played for Celtic. Saw her a few times with her kids, seemed a nice enough lass.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/01/2026 20:06

Fluffyholeysocks · 23/01/2026 20:03

A Coronation Street actress married to a Bristol Rovers player? Hardly a a 'rich girl'? surely? Just a soap star married to a minor league football player?

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I agree, they aren’t that rich and understand that that house would’ve been expensive

but she wasn’t working when she had the kids, iirc, she was a housewife? I think she should be able to continue that life, this man is shite

also, didn’t know he wasn’t a prem league player

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newmenewwhatever · 23/01/2026 20:06

She is not being made to do anything!
the owner of the house wants to sell it and wants her to downsize.
she also needs money to live so has to work.
not sure how else she would get money !

Fluffyholeysocks · 23/01/2026 20:03

A Coronation Street actress married to a Bristol Rovers player? Hardly a a 'rich girl'? surely? Just a soap star married to a minor league football player?