EASTENDERS' Max Bowden has broken up with his long-term girlfriend just weeks after his co-star Jessie Wallace sent him a sexually explicit comment on Instagram.
The actor, 26, who plays Ben Mitchell in the BBC1 soap, had been dating former show runner Danielle McCarney for two years. The split was "amicable" - but quickly follows a bizarre exchange with Jessie, 49, last month.
A source told The Sun: "They have been working through issues for a while, but decided it was time to call it quits. "They are a young couple and it was completely amicable. "Jessie had nothing to do with it, her post with just a joke about the NTAs and everyone took it the wrong way." The 49-year-old actress - who plays Kat Slater - typed the cryptic message.
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