RYAN Thomas has admitted he almost dumped fiancé Lucy Mecklenburgh after “self sabotaging” during the early stages of their relationship.
The pair are engaged and share two children now but the former Coronation Street star has revealed it all nearly didn’t happen.
The two first met on The Island with Bear Grylls before coming back to the UK and going on proper dates.
On the latest episode of his podcast with his brothers Adam and Scott, The Thomas Bros, the trio were joined by Lucy and Adam’s wife Caroline.
Talk soon turned to Ryan and Lucy’s relationship as they recalled what happened right at the beginning of their blossoming romance.
Love Island star Scott began: “Ryan asked you to be his girlfriend…”
Lucy added: “On our first date yeah,” as Ryan jumped in: “But wait wait we’d been on an island for a month.”
Scott interjected: “No no wait but how did it… this is cringing me out.”
Lucy continued: “Well we’ve known each other for like two months, we’d been on the island for a month together.”
“Did you not say ‘Are we official?’, Scott asked as Ryan said: “I would never say that I’m old school.”
Former TOWIE star Lucy then dropped: “It gets worse. He later on told me he was meeting me, because I was working in Manchester, meeting me to say “No, no I’m not interested.’
Ryan interrupted to say: ‘I was just a bit like… ugh I dunno I just found it a bit unattractive that someone actually liked me and once I got them I was like “No it’s not for me.”‘
“Then when I went to meet her…”, he added, as Lucy said: “It’s mad isn’t it.”
Clarifying what he was intending to do, Scott exclaimed: “So you were going to break it off and then you saw her.”
Ryan divulged: “And she looked incredible. And she was like super cool and we had this kiss in the car, yeah in Adam’s car.
“I don’t know why you had your shoes off… but your foot were on the dashboard. And I went ‘Yeah I’m in.’”
The couple got engaged back in June 2019 while on holiday in Italy together.
They welcomed son Roman into the world in March 2020 before having daughter Lilah Rae two years later.
Ryan is also dad to singer and Waterloo Road star, Scarlett Thomas, who he shares with ex Tina O’Brien.
The Celebrity Big Brother star previously opened up about Lucy walking out on him during a big date night.
Speaking on the podcast, he expressed: “We got to the hotel, lovely room, went for dinner in this beautiful new restaurant overlooking the whole of Manchester.
‘It just slowly, I just started to feel it bubbling.
“And every time a conversation come up, it was a debate, right, rather than conversation it was like, you just felt the energy was all off.
“I thought she’s gone to the toilet, 10 minutes has passed, 15 minutes has passed, half an hour passed!
“And I was still sat there. So I text her and said ‘long toilet break’.
“I rang her, and it went boom down, I rang her again, and it went down, and then I was like okay, so she’s not coming back.”