Helen Flanagan looked elegant as she joined Claire Sweeney at The Ivy’s Liverpool restaurant launch on Thursday. 

The former soapstar, 34, wore a fitted bandeau dress for the occasion that featured a huge satin bow on one shoulder. 

She teamed the festive number with a pair of silver strappy heels and styled her hair into soft curls. 

Claire, 53, dazzled in a gold sequinned gown which gathered around her waist and draped down the front. 

The actress completed her look with a pair of embellished heels and a slick of red lipstick. 

Helen Flanagan looked elegant as she joined Claire Sweeney at The Ivy’s Liverpool restaurant launch on Thursday

Claire, 53, dazzled in a gold sequinned gown which gathered around her waist and draped down the front

Departing the restaurant with her boyfriend Robbie Talbot, Helen later layered over a fur coat. 

The couple were joined by his daughter Sophie who wore a pretty pink dress. 

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Robbie shares children Sophie, 14, and Carina, 10, from a previous relationship while Helen has children Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and Charlie, three, with her ex fiancé Scott Sinclair.

Helen has revealed her ex-fiancé has blocked her despite the pair sharing three children. 

The actress broke up with Scott, 35, in 2022 after thirteen years together, four of which they were engaged. They share three children.

Speaking openly about the split for the first time last month, Helen said the pair weren’t right for each other.

Speaking on The Mail’s The Life of Bryony podcast, she said: ‘You read so much about how you don’t need a man to make you happy.’

‘No, I don’t need a man to make me happy, but it really f*****g helps when you’re in a healthy relationship to a toxic one.’

Helen said that her relationship with Scott was unhealthy.

The former soapstar, 34, wore a fitted bandeau dress for the occasion that featured a huge satin bow on one shoulder

Claire completed her look with a pair of embellished heels and a slick of red lipstick

Departing the restaurant with her boyfriend Robbie Talbot, Helen later layered over a fur coat

The couple were joined by his daughter Sophie who wore a pretty pink dress

‘No disrespect to the father of my children, you know, I’ve had three children with him, and I always have a lot of love for him.’

‘We’re both good people, but together we were very toxic.’

‘I think a toxic relationship can just damage your mental health a lot. Especially when you struggle with your mental health anyway.’

‘I mean, I’m on block at the moment on Scott’s phone. I really am. I’m on block.’

‘We do each other’s f*****g head in. But I know he always will have a love for me, you know, you always have kind of a respect for each other, I know he’s not a bad guy, we’ve just got our own s**t going on.’

‘And I think because we’re together from so young, we were just 19, and I just don’t think we had that time to grow until we’ve split up, we just didn’t work.’

Robbie has been living in the former Coronation Street star’s home since last month, eight months since the pair began dating. 

Asked by Bryony about her new relationship, she said: ‘He’s lovely.’

‘Everybody loves him. I just met him at a bar. I literally, I just, I could not stop laughing at this guy.’

Robbie has been living in the former Coronation Street star’s home since last month, eight months since the pair began dating

Helen broke up with her ex Scott, 35, in 2022 after thirteen years together, four of which they were engaged for

She added: ‘My boyfriend’s actually the funniest guy I’ve ever met. He’s got two kids and he’s, he’s really beautiful with my children.’

‘I think that’s what made me fall more in love with him because he’s so good with my mental health things and that’s the main thing for me that I need.’

‘I need someone that’s good for me mentally and emotionally, that’s my top thing and that’s what I’ve realised.’

‘No disrespect to the father of my children, I’ll always have that love for him, but he didn’t know how to cope with me or didn’t know how to do that, and not everybody does, but because the man that I’m with now really knows how to do that, it makes me happy.’