Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan has confirmed that her engagement to The Wanted singer Max George is off, however, she stressed that it’s not because the couple have, or will, split.

Claiming to be “very much in love” with Max, Michelle – who of course plays the role of Tina McIntyre – told Fabulous magazine, “We’re not engaged any more, but not because we fell out or there was an argument.

“It was just there was no chance of us getting married any time soon because of our schedules. He’s away in America most of the time now and we just had a word about it.

“I’m a traditionalist so if I’m engaged, I want to get married and that’s not happening soon…

“I was getting asked by everyone: ‘Have you set a date? Have you been shopping with your mum? Have you chosen your dress?’

“So we just thought that we’d just say we’re not engaged and then nobody will ask and there’s no pressure.”

Also during the interview, Michelle addressed the furore caused when she was photographed by The People’s photographer inhaling helium from a balloon at her birthday party recently in trendy London nightspot Anya…

The paper published a picture of Michelle with the headline, “Corrie star on ‘hippy crack’.”

Michelle later posted this grinning picture of herself on Twitter which showed her holding a copy of the paper…

She tweeted, “Oh hell… Apparently, I’m a ‘crack addict’ Hahahaha! Yeah… OK!”

She later joked, “I can’t look my family in the eye!! Haha.”