Helen Skelton is ‘grown close’ at Morning Live Co-star Gethin Jones while trying to keep ‘deeper connection’ under wraps after leaving Bafta TV Awards together

Helen Skelton And Gethin Jones have settled as a popular presenting duo BBC A person’s morning life thanks to their ‘flirty’ chemistry on the screen.

But according to insiders, the hosts have also formed a close friendship of the cameras, because sources are convinced that their band has developed into a deeper band.

The TV stars, both of which have presented Blue Peter and appeared as participants Strictly Come dance, are currently single after Gethin admitted that he had been in the dating scene for the past two years, had previously been involved with Katherine Jenkins, and Helen split from ex-husband Richie Myler in 2022.

To add to the intrigues, refuse their respective repetitions to also comment on the relationship between the duo, which received further attention after they were seen Bafta Television Awards together with colleague guests at the event last Sunday and said they were very ‘tactile’.

A TV source told MailOnline: ‘Helen and Gethin have an extremely narrow working relationship and there is a feeling in recent months that their friendship has come to a deeper connection.

“They are both like a lid to prevent public investigation, but it cannot be denied that their proximity is denied both on and outside the screen.”

Helen, 41, has been single since her high -profile 2022 of husband Richie, the father of her three children, Ernie, Nine, Louis, Acht and Elsie, three.

The Rugby League player, 34, was married to Helen for nine years before they split with the former Strictly Star Writing on Instagram that she was very ‘sad’, he had ‘left the parental home’.

The ex-blue Peter presenter spoke about how difficult she found the breakdown of her marriage, wrote in her autobiography that she was in ‘shock’ and ‘did not see it’, because the few months after the birth of their youngest child, it separated.

Helen’s dedication to her children saw the countryfile star resigning from her presenting role on BBC Radio 5 Live, as she announced in 2023 that her departure was so that she could spend more time with her family.

Richie has since continued with Stephanie Thirkill, the daughter of Leeds Rhinos President Andrew Thirkill, and they have welcomed two children, Olivia and Freddie.

Gethin has been single for two years with a short dated first dates of Star Cici Coleman in 2023.

He previously had romances with Towie’s Lucy Mecklenburgh in 2014 and the German underwear model Katja Zwara in 2017.

But his most serious relationship was with the Welsh Opera star Katherine Jenkins with whom he went out for four years from 2007.

The presenter, 47, even suggested in February 2011, but they broke their engagement in December of that year.

Gethin is supposed to have been a rock for Helen after the breakdown of her marriage with the couple who often socialize together, away from the cameras.

They are both located in Manchester during the week that they film Morning Live in Salford and and also attend together with big award shows, the TV duo also visited events alongside friends and family.

In April last year they attended a specially strict Charity event for theme at, The Burrow Strictly Ball, founded by the legendary late Rugby League star Rob Burrow’s Sisters Jo and Claire for the Neurone Disease Association motor.

An eyewitness at the event revealed: “It was very clear that Helen and Gethin were together like a few during the event, they were with good friends of Helen and their connection could not be denied.”

The same month Gethin was depicted who touched Helen’s hand, which was wrapped around his arm during the TV Choice Awards.

Helen posted the Snap on Instagram, who also included colleague -morning -guest Michelle Ackerley, and wrote: “Technically speaking of colleagues, but we know too much about each other.”

The insider added: ‘Helen and Gethin have been able to attend events together without much fanfare pure because they are colleagues.

“They are official to ‘represent the show’, what a bonus is for them, because they can slide under the radar, but everyone she has seen with these bashes will testify that they look extremely cozy.”

That narrow connection was again clear in January when they competed together at Manchester Fitness Event Hyrox Doubles, which would have had an extensive training.

And two months later, Helen and Gethin worked together to raise money for comic exemption in March when they participated in a non-stop 24-hour Rollen-Skate challenge.

Helen stumbled about Gethin on social media and wrote: ‘My best @gethincjones … you are a man.

“I don’t say publicly enough how much love and respect I have for you, my friend, because I assume it is known, but for the record you are a legend and I am more than grateful that I have you on the ice rink, the couch and beyond.”

In response, Gethin devoted an Instagram post to Helen, Writing: ‘And a small rating post for this super woman. Incredible physical and mental resilience …

‘Loves a smile but a deep thinker (I had to remind her a few times that we were live on TV). There is a lot that you can spend 24 hours with someone and she can still call an hour later for a debrief … ‘

The following month Helen participated in the Marathon in London, which appealed to more social media.

Gethin commented on her Instagram message: ‘Here she is … finding the time, packing boundaries, connecting them, (even treadmill sessions at 4 o’clock). Well done H, you never keep surprising me. ‘

Helen and Gethin have both been open earlier about their respective love lives.

In November 2022, when she strived for Strictly Come Dancing, Helen admits that her wedding split – who came shortly after the birth of her third child – left her ‘fight hardened’ and acted as a kind of ‘therapy’.

In the meantime, Gethin has pronounced the pleasure of this single status, unveiled on Martin Compston and Gordon Smart’s Restless Natives Podcast in February the managers on Dating -App -hinge refused to believe that he had registered and hit him in the assumption that he was a cheaper.

And after he had convinced them, he was ‘the real Gethin Jones’ that he left after he had not found a suitable date.

He explained: ‘The moment when I have to write on a Thursday evening on a Thursday evening,’ Dear Hinge ‘, you write to an online dating app. “Hello, it’s Gethin here, 46. I just want to get my money back because it doesn’t really work for me,” eating some breakfast cereals because I didn’t have any food. ‘

He may not be so bad luck in love …