Coronation Street star Kym Marsh is said to be ‘heartbroken’ this weekend, with the revelation that she and fiancé Dan Hooper are over for good.

Kym and Dan shocked fans and followers everywhere last month, when they confirmed that they were on a break. Kym went on to make an emotional appearance on ITV’s This Morning, during which she admitted that the pair had been going through “a really difficult time”.

Now, sources have revealed that the couple’s seven-month engagement is off and they have split indefinitely.

“Kym is heartbroken. She carried on wearing her ring after she and Dan decided to take a break and hoped they’d get back together,” a Coronation Street insider said this weekend.

The insider added: “It has become clear there is no way back for them. There are a lot of feelings still there, but the engagement was too much, too soon, and seems to have driven a wedge between them. Neither was prepared to go through with the marriage when it wasn’t right.”

Kym and Dan’s 18-month romance was not without its fair share of controversy. Dan had just come out of a five-year relationship with Hollyoaks star Stephanie Waring – with whom he has a daughter – when he and Kym got together, resulting in a high-profile spat between the two actresses.

Let’s hope these two can remain friends.

She has found herself at the centre of plenty of controversy over the past year, so we can understand why actress Kym Marsh would be pretty peeved today.

Reports emerged this weekend claiming that the Coronation Street star had sacked her fiancé Dan Hooper as her personal trainer, in a bid to ‘save their relationship’.

An unnamed source told The Mirror: “They were bickering in the gym so she has decided to get rid of him for the sake of their relationship.”

However, Kym had a different version of events, and took to Twitter to angrily deny the claims from the so-called ‘source’.

A furious Kym wrote: “How on earth could I have ‘sacked’ Dan as my PT when he was never my PT in the first place!!!”

Her rep further dismissed the claims in a statement, saying: “Needless to say this story is completely untrue. Kym’s personal trainer is Anthony Bingham and has been for some time. Kym and Dan are very happy in their relationship.”

The story comes just a week after Kym and Dan celebrated what has been a dramatic year together. The couple found themselves at the centre of controversy when they first went public with their romance, just six weeks after Dan split from his long-term partner, Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Waring.

Waring had publicly blasted the pair at the time, criticising them for being insensitive towards her former relationship with Dan.