04 September 2023 , 12:43
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Helen Flanagan came face-to-face with a massive tarantula in her family home which left her completely terrified.
The terrified actress confessed to being "creeped out" and took refuge in her dressing room, hoping that her ex, Scott Sinclair, would come to her aid. However, the mother of three didn't call for help from her ex-fiance, who was visiting their children Matilda, Charlie, and Delilah at their old home. She feared that Scott, knowing her phobia of insects, would "chuck it" at her and chase her around the house in jest.
The former Coronation Street star recounted the hair-raising incident to her one million Instagram followers, saying, "So I literally have just been tidying up the house and I was going down the stairs and didn't have the landing light on and noticed this tarantula on my stairs."
Despite having participated in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! last year which somewhat lessened her fear of creepy crawlies, she admitted, "I just don't like him, it was like massive and hairy as well." She later barricaded herself in her dressing room, where she busied herself with some editing work, only to find the tarantula had followed her.
Helen Flanagan took to social media to reveal she had been terrified after spotting a 'tarantula' in her home (Instagram/ @hjgflanagan)
The actress barricaded herself in her dressing room to escape the creepy animal (hjgflanagan1/TikTok)She added, "I thought to myself 'Could you imagine if I opened my door and it was there' and it was like what the hell!?" In a later update, she informed her fans that the eight-legged intruder had disappeared, which she confessed: "creeped her out more."
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In a dramatic turn of events, Helen discovered the same spider she had previously encountered lurking ominously around her home. She described it as "so big" and panned her camera over its intimidating spread outside her son Charlie's bedroom, declaring that it could "do one."
Returning on camera to update her fans about the ongoing saga, Helen contemplated enlisting Scott's help to remove the spider. However, she hesitated, saying: "I could ask Scott to remove it because he's here to see the kids but he knows I hate spiders so he will actually pick it up and run around the house with it just to upset me."
While laughing, she added: "I can't ask him. Usually, I would have asked him but he would probably just run around the house with it and try to chuck it at me." Their paths first crossed when Scott was playing football for Birmingham City and Helen was a budding 19-year-old actress on ITV soap Corrie.
After being engaged and sharing 13 years together, the couple decided to part ways. On the topic of moving on, Helen previously stated: "I don't think I'm really ready to talk about dating. I would at some point but not at the moment. She fondly recalled a past relationship, saying, "I did find someone who was really kind to me and we're really good friends still. He was lovely and he made me feel beautiful and made me feel special which was nice and I think is quite a big thing especially when you've had children..."
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