“Why Did he Treat me This Way?” – Helen Skelton BREAKS DOWN, Feeling SORRY for herself. A fairytale romance, A dream wedding. Viewers thought of it all, pinning their hopes on the TV couple Gethin Jones and Helen Skelton. BUT no one expected Gethin to shatter it All.
After a promising start to their romance, sources reveal Helen Skelton’s confidence has been ‘knocked’ following her split from Gethin Jones
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Just months after TV presenters Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones were romantically linked, it seems they’re already over – and sources tell Closer that Helen has been left d3vastated.
It was reported last week that Gethin had been spotted on celebrity dat1ng app Raya while on a l2ds’ tr1p to Australia, where he was said to be ‘keen to meet other women’.
Now, an insider reveals, ‘Helen is embarrassed and hurt by it all. They weren’t in a serious relationship but had been having a good time, and Helen really let her guard down with Gethin. She found it hard to trust men and she thought he could be different, as he made her feel great.’
Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones raised money for Comic Relief by doing a roller skating challenge ©Photo by Daniel Loveday/Comic Relief/Getty Images
Helen, 42, and Gethin, 47 – who host Morning Live together – first fuelled romance rumours in May, with eyewitnesses claiming the pair appeared ‘tactile’ when attending the BAFTA Television Awards. It was believed that they’d been enjoying secret dates – including a spa getaway – when spending their weeks in Manchester to film the BBC show. Prior to that, Gethin gushed over ‘super woman’ Helen in a social media post in March, after they completed a 24-hour roller skating challenge for Comic Relief.
Fans were thrilled to see Helen happy again after her public break-up from husband of nine years, rugby player Richie Myler. Helen announced her split from Richie, 35 – who she shares Ernie, nine, Louis, eight, and Elsie, three, with – in April 2022, saying, ‘Very sad to say that Richie and I are no longer a couple. He has left the family home.’ Richie then moved on with Stephanie Thirkill, who he now has two children with.
Welshman Gethin similarly hasn’t had the best luck with love. He dated opera singer Katherine Jenkins for four years from 2007 and proposed in 2011, but the pair ended up calling off their engagement. He then dated TOWIE’s Lucy Mecklenburgh in 2014 and he briefly dated First Dates’ Cici Coleman in 2023.
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Our source adds that Helen has now realised she and Gethin live ‘very different lives’, and she’s focusing on the future.
‘Helen has to put her children first but her friends and family encouraged her to go and have some fun and they thought Gethin could be The One. She doesn’t think Gethin is a bad person, just not the right person for her and where she is in life,’ the insider says.
‘But she feels a bit us3d and it’s really knocked her confidence again – she now worries she’s going to be that “unl::cky in love” woman. Things will be fine with Gethin when they see each other and work together, but it will be a bit awkward at first. She just knows not to go for a single man in his 40s who has never settled down.’
