At the start of her relationship with Gareth Gates, Faye Brookes said it was like a "real fairy tale". The Coronation Street star met the Pop Idol runner-up when they starred in Legally Blonde The Musical together.
Faye played leading lady Elle Woods while Gareth starred as her boyfriend Warne - and soon life imitated art. Gareth was married to ex-wife Suzanne Mole at the time, but they announced they had split in October 2012 after having "grown apart".
Just 10 months later, Gareth and Faye made their first public appearance together as a couple. "From the moment I met him he was writing songs for me...
it’s beautiful," she told Manchester Evening News in October 2015. Faye claimed their relationship was "like no other" and said she
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