Coronation Street star Alex Bain looked totally unrecognisable as he stepped out with his fiancée.
The 21-year-old actor is best known for playing Simon Barlow on the ITV cobbles – but he didn’t look anything like his character after undergoing a facial hair transformation.
The young actor sported some designer stubble on his chin and upper lip as he headed out for lunch with Mollie Lockwood, after announcing their engagement last month.
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The pair enjoyed coffees and smoked salmon toast together at a cafe, with Alex rocking a grey hoodie and charcoal jacket against the winter chill.
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His wrists were adorned with a leather bracelet and a metal chain, while the actor grinned for the camera with his trademark curly hair on display.
Alex’s fiancée Mollie captioned the snap: “Late birthday treat for @alexbainofficial.”
Reposting the snap to his Instagram Stories, Alex told Mollie: “I love you!” with various love heart emojis, before sharing a sweet snap of his lunch.
The pair were secretly engaged for a whole year before publicly revealing the news to OK!, with Alex proposing in October last year during a romantic date night.
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They only told their loved ones the news at Christmas in 2021.
Alex told the publication: “I can’t spend my life with anyone else.”
He added that if he “didn’t [propose] then”, he would “keep getting more and more nervous” although he was “pretty certain she would say yes”.
Mollie said of their decision to keep the news under wraps: “We wanted to enjoy that special time together, just the two of us, for a while.”
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Alex became a father for the first time when he was 17 with his ex-girlfriend Levi Selby, who was 16 at the time.
They welcomed a daughter, Lydia-Rose, when they were just teenagers, with a source telling The Sun at the time: “They were over the moon at the birth of their baby girl and were really happy together, but they’ve been through a lot together and they’re both still young.”
Alex said his daughter has “kept him going”, along with his job at Coronation Street.
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