Katie McGlynn didn't think she would 'get on' with boyfriend Ricky Rayment at first

Katie McGlynn didn't think she would get on with Ricky Rayment at first.

The 30-year-old actress met former 'TOWIE' star Ricky, 33, when they worked together on a cruise ship and even though they are now happily coupled up, she recalled blanking him when they initially met.

She told OK! Magazine: "I thought he was very good looking but to be honest I did judge him a bit prematurely. I recognised his face and just assumed he wasn’t going to be my type of person - you know, Jack, the lad from Essex - and I took it for granted we wouldn’t get on; happy to say I got that one wrong!

"I decided I probably wasn’t going to get on with him, wouldn’t talk to him and anyway, I was there with a friend and wasn’t interested in boys, so off I went to have a shower."

But the Manchester-born star - who is best known for playing Sinead Tinker on 'Coronation Street' from 2013 until 2020 - eventually found that when she did start speaking to Ricky, they "clicked" as they found that they had a lot of shared interests and realised by the end of the cruise that there was "something more" there when she missed her flight and Ricky changed his own plans so they could spend more time together.

She added: "When I finally started to talk to him we just clicked. It sounds cringey, but when we chatted, I felt like I was at home. It was so comfortable. We couldn’t stop laughing and we found we had a lot of shared interests and views; we understood each other. At first I thought he must be lying - I couldn’t believe we had that much in common - but the proof is in the pudding!

"I ended up missing my flight home, so Ricky also reorganised his so we could stay abroad a little longer and enjoy some time together. That was when I realised that this was more than just a holiday romance."

The former 'Waterloo Road' actress confirmed her relationship with Ricky earlier this year, when she uploaded a post to Instagram on Valentine's Day.

Alongside various snaps of themselves together, she wrote: "Every day is like Valentine’s Day with you!"