ITV Coronation Street star Alex Bain, 20, reveals he's engaged to girlfriend - a year after popping the question

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Coronation Street star Alex Bain has revealed he is engaged to girlfriend Mollie Lockwood - a year after popping the question. The actor, best known for playing Simon Barlow in the ITV soap, asked his girlfriend the all-important question in October last year and kept it secret from their families until Christmas when they announced the happy news.

The loved-up pair met three years ago, in October 2019, when Mollie was auditioning for a performing arts college in the North West. Despite being in different years, love appeared to blossom when they got the chance to do a scene together during an acting class.

"We did a duologue together and I honestly couldn’t take my eyes off her," Alex, who has grown up on screens having joined Corrie 14 years ago, told OK! Magazine as they exclusively revealed their happy news to the publication.

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Three years after that moment, Alex decided the time was right, on a romantic night out in Chester, to pop the question on their two-year anniversary. "We had a lovely meal, then went back to our hotel, took a couple of bottles of bubbly up to our room and watched the sunset from the balcony," he told OK!

"That’s when I just asked her. I thought, ‘If I don’t do it now, I’ll keep getting more and more nervous!’ I was pretty certain she’d say yes, but I was still bricking it!"

Asked why it felt like the right time, the soap actor sweetly said: "I’m a big believer in making that move as soon as you know it’s the right person, and I’ve known that Mollie is my person pretty much since the day we met. She’s got my heart and soul already, so why not seal the deal? I can’t imagine