Um, one of the experts is now defending Helen having a secret boyfriend on Celebs Go Dating

Helen Flanagan shocked both her fellow Celebs Go Dating co-stars, experts and us viewers when she revealed during Tuesday night’s episode that she’s actually had a secret boyfriend this whole time. When I tell you my jaw was genuinely on the floor.

Despite the entire point of the show being to try and help the celebs find love, for some strange reason Helen still decided she’d gone on it, because why not?!

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During the episode, Helen Flanagan admitted to the Celeb Go Dating experts that she was already in a long-term relationship, revealing: “This is just really difficult because I feel like, I really have given the agency my heart and soul.

“I’m a very, very honest person, but I did meet someone at home at the beginning of the year. I really wanted to join the agency because I kind of felt like, obviously I was in a really long-term relationship, not much dating experience, and I really wanted to do this for me. For me to grow, to find out more about myself. But it’s really hard because there’s somebody at home that I have fallen for.”

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Despite huge backlash from viewers, Celebs Go Dating expert Hannah Williamson has now actually spoken out in defence of Helen. Talking to Yahoo, the expert said: “The revelation with Helen, none of that was staged. None of that was staged by her or staged by production. The minute the revelation came out, it was an enormous shock. All the time as you’ve seen in series, people get together when they shouldn’t have done. We just go with the flow.”

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She continued: “To be really clear, none of us knew about her situation until it came out and that is the god’s honest truth. It was one of the biggest shocks of the series! We think on our feet and this series is no different but I want to make it really clear because I have seen some of the headlines. We don’t set the scenes up and the storylines before we start filming. What you see on the telly is literally what is happening in real life and we just react to it.”

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Hannah also cleared up any rumours that the show is secretly staged, explaining: “The show isn’t staged in any way other than obviously, we have to set up dates. So we have to obviously contact a restaurant and say, ‘Hello, can we film in your restaurant?’ You can’t just turn up with a casual cameraman. And they’re staged in the sense that we have to set up a date for it to actually happen but none of the content is staged and I think that’s really important.”

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