Corrie actor Alex Bain and fiancé Mollie Lockwood ‘SPLIT’ just 6 months after their engagement
Alex Bain has reportedly split from his fiancé Mollie Lockwood.
The Coronation Street star, 21, and the aspiring actress, 20, are said to have called it quits just 6 months after they got engaged.
Alex – who has played Simon Barlow in the popular soap since 2008 – has erased all traces of Mollie from his Instagram account.
That’s what an insider told me The sun: “They are gutted that the relationship didn’t work out, but they are both so young it’s hard to make such a big commitment so early in life
“Their mates have gathered to support and keep them entertained. Simon is focused on the soap and getting caught up in storylines and his role.’
ABOUT! Coronation Street star Alex Bain, 21, has reportedly split from his fiancé Mollie Lockwood, 20, just 6 months after getting engaged
Lead role: The Coronation Street actor is known for his role as Simon Barlow in the hit soap opera, which he has been playing since 2008 (pictured on the show in 2021)
Romance: Alex announced that he popped the question to Mollie in December 2022
Alex announced that he put the question to Mollie in December 2022.
After getting engaged in October after a year of dating. Two months later, the lovebirds broke the happy news to their friends and family over Christmas.
In conversation with OK! magazine, Alex gushed, “I can’t spend my life with anyone else.”
As Mollie explained why the couple kept the news a secret for so long, she said: “We just wanted to enjoy that special time together, just the two of us.”
Alex talked about his nerves and said, “I thought, ‘If I don’t do it now, I’ll get more and more nervous!’ I was pretty sure she’d say yes, but I was still working on it.’
Alex became a father when he was 17, when his then-girlfriend Levi Selby gave birth to their daughter Lydia-Rose at the age of 16.
A source told The Sun at the time: “They were over the moon when their baby girl was born and were very happy together. But they’ve been through a lot together and they’re both still so young.’
Their relationship ended in May and the soap star met dancer Mollie in 2018.
Former flame: Alex became a father when he was 17, when his then-girlfriend Levi Selby (pictured) gave birth to their daughter Lydia-Rose at the age of 16. The couple split up in 2019
Alex previously wrote that his daughter and his role in Corrie saved him from “dark times” in the past.
He said, “If I hadn’t stayed with the job I have now, I would have been lost.
“Corrie has kept me going and having a daughter in particular has kept me going – it gives me something to do.”
His hard work has paid off as he has won Best Young Soap Performance twice – first at the British Soap Awards in 2011 and again in 2014 at the Inside Soap Awards.