Ryan Thomas has said he was secretly planning to break up with his now-fiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh.
The former Coronation Street star, 41, got engaged to the TV personality, 34, in 2019 two years after they met while competing on the reality show, Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
But it seems their romance was one which nearly never happened.
Ryan confessed on the latest episode of his podcast with brothers Scott, 37, and Adam, 37, that he was actually planning to break things off with Lucy on their first date after getting back from filming the reality show.
He admitted he found it ‘a bit unattractive’ that Lucy actually liked him and was going to self-sabotage by calling it quits.
However once he got to the date, Lucy looked ‘incredible’ and was ‘really cool’ – and he decided he was in it for the long haul.
Speaking on the Christmas special of At Home With The Thomas Bros, Ryan’s brother Scott began: ‘Ryan asked you to be his girlfriend…
‘On our first date yeah,’ Lucy chimes in, at which point Ryan adds: ‘But wait wait we’d been on an island for a month.’
‘No no wait but how did it… this is cringing me out,’ Scott says, at which point Adam and his wife start to laugh.
Lucy continues: ‘Well we’ve known each other for like two months, we’d been on the island for a month together.’
‘Did you not say “Are we official?”‘, Scott asks as Ryan says: ‘I would never say that I’m old school.’
Lucy says: ‘It gets worse. He later on told me he was meeting me, because I was working in Manchester, meeting me to say “No, no I’m not interested.”‘
