{"id":142831,"date":"2023-10-31T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=142831"},"modified":"2023-10-31T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:00:15","slug":"emmerdale-lisa-rileys-love-life-heartbreak-the-one-and-friends-with-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/tv-movies\/emmerdale-lisa-rileys-love-life-heartbreak-the-one-and-friends-with-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale Lisa Riley’s love life – heartbreak, the one and friends with benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley has played Mandy Dingle on the ITV soap on and off for almost three decades.<\/p>\n

While Mandy has had her fair share of heartbreak over her 28 years on the show, it appears that the star's love life has been just as rocky.<\/p>\n

In her 2013 autobiography, Lisa opened up about her disastrous love from her former lover coming out as gay to falling in love with a married man.<\/p>\n

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Daily Star has taken a look inside Lisa's personal love life away from the ITV cameras to see what her heart has been through. <\/p>\n

Flatmate with be<\/span>nefits<\/h3>\n

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In an extract from her autobiography, Never Judge A Book By Its Cover, Lisa recalls her disastrous dating history.<\/p>\n

She reveals that she once flat-shared with her best friend called Darren who she "fancied like crazy".<\/p>\n

They pair ended up sleeping together after a few drinks and became "friends with benefits" but she wanted more.<\/p>\n

She later spotted Darren kissing a man in a nightclub and later got himself a boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Con man<\/h3>\n

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Lisa then fell for Lee Cooper and didn't think of question "how a guy on a waiter's salary could afford Gucci shoes".<\/p>\n

10 months into their relationship, Lee confessed to Lisa that he had been accused of fraud.<\/p>\n

He was later sentenced to three and a year years and Lisa writes in her book that her "whole world fell apart" and "everything crumbled".<\/p>\n

Married man<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Over Christmas 2002, Lisa appeared in a pantomime in Swansea and got chatting to set painter Nick Holly.<\/p>\n

She says in her book that he "wasn't exactly an oil painting" and was nearly 10 years older than her.<\/p>\n

Nick told Lisa he was married with kids but she writes that she was "ashamed to say I found the situation a little bit naughty and exciting".<\/p>\n

After trying to make the relationship work outside the Panto bubble, things didn't go to plan for the pair and their relationship ended.<\/p>\n

'Husband'<\/h3>\n

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Lisa met American musican Al back in 2014 after the pair were put in touch via mutual friends.<\/p>\n

He got down in one knee four years into their relationship but the couple are not in any rush to tie the knot.<\/p>\n

Lisa is very secretive about her beau, not even revealing his surname, she often talks about him in interviews.<\/p>\n

Speaking about her husband-to-be, the actress told the Mirror in 2020 said: "I already call him my husband and he calls me his wife. <\/p>\n

We just haven't gone down the aisle and got the ring and the paperwork.<\/p>\n

"In the six years we\u2019ve been together, we\u2019ve never spent as much time together as we have this year and we still love each other."<\/p>\n

Emmerdale airs weeknights on ITV1 and ITVX at 7.30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

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