It’s been 10 years since they split, but fans reckon all is far from well between exes Tina O’Brien and Ryan Thomas .
It all kicked off when Ryan and his TOWIE star girlfriend Lucy Mecklenburgh shared a video of his and Tina’s daughter Scarlett, 10, being told they’re expecting.
The clip shows Scarlett bursting into tears as Lucy insists, “these are happy tears,” and soon after Tina, 36, uploaded a post stating, “Don’t always trust what you see on social media. Even salt looks like sugar.”
After deleting that one, Tina returned to social media today with a second quote that read, “Don’t waste your time with explanations. People will hear what they want to hear.”
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There’s no word from Ryan or Lucy yet and Tina – who also has son Beau, four, with husband Adam Croft – has neither confirmed nor denied that she’s talking about her ex.
After all, the Coronation Street stars have been close in recent years, with Tina even inviting Ryan to her wedding.
But their 2009 split was anything but amicable, with Tina once claiming he dumped her just a week before Scarlett’s first birthday because she “didn’t do it for him anymore.”
“He said he didn’t love me any more,” she told new! magazine, admitting they had struggled with the new dynamic of parenthood.
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“He said I didn’t do it for him any more. Those were his words. I was absolutely devastated. He said he didn’t want the responsibility of a relationship with me.”
Admitting she begged him to change his mind, she said Ryan – who played Jason Grimshaw in the ITV soap – refused to ‘fix’ their six-year romance.
“Ryan can be a very loving and nice guy, but he can also be laddy. He was keen to go out a lot,” she added.
Tina and Jason got together in 2003, just after she ended a year-long romance with their fellow Coronation Street star and Ryan’s on-screen brother, Bruno Langley (Todd Grimshaw).
“It was five months later when I got together with Ryan and I was worried about it as he’s a friend of Bruno. But we worked hard to make sure there wasn’t any tension between the three of us,” she told The Mirror in 2007, revealing she stuck the lips on Ryan after a night out.
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“Ryan and me are for keeps. I think we’ll be together for ever, fingers crossed. I don’t see myself with anyone else,” she continued.
She quit the soap that same year to have Scarlett, and had been planning to return before Ryan talked her out of it.
“Maybe he knew he was going to end it and didn’t want the hassle of us working together,” she told new! magazine.
She did eventually rejoin Corrie in 2015, and Ryan departed the following year, heading Down Under to star in Neighbours.
