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Binky Felstead moves on from Josh Patterson with new love Max Darnton

After her devastating split from babydaddy Josh 'JP' Patterson, Binky Felstead has found love once again.

The Made In Chelsea star, 29, has fallen for businessman Max Darnton, who she met at posh members' club Soho Farmhouse at the start of this year.

And things are getting so serious that they're already looking to buy a house together.

Speaking to Hello! magazine, Binky said she was nervous to tell Max about her two-year-old daughter India when they they first started flirting at a bar.

She said: "I was at the bar ordering cocktails, and Max came up to me and said, 'So, how are you, what do you do?' And the first thing I said was, 'I'm a mum!'

"I was so nervous about him not knowing that I had a child, so I wanted to get it out there before he asked me any more questions, just to see if he was going to run off or not.

"But his reply was, 'OK... And?' That was so nice and put me really at ease right away."

Binky, whose real name is Alexandra, said that she had "hoped I'd meet somebody", adding: "I just didn't know it would be so soon, and I didn't know that this would be how I feel."

Binky and Josh 'JP' Patterson broke up last year (Rex Features)

She said that Londoner Darnton, 30, "brings out the best in me", adding: "I'm incredibly lucky to have met him."

The couple are planning on buying a house together, of which she said: "Things are going so nicely, so we'll be looking - together! - for a big house in London with a garden - for India, and so that Max can get a dog."

Darnton, a managing director at a global executive search and consulting firm, said: "We're both very different but equally as driven and ambitious.

Binky and JP's daugher India (binkyfelstead/Instagram)
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"We find each other funny - not many other people do! - and it's completely natural and chilled.

"I feel very lucky to have met her. We really connect. I feel settled, and it feels normal.

"And India is amazing - I look at them both together and it's really sweet. They have an incredible relationship."

Their interview appears in this week's Hello! magazine (PA)

Binky and JP were in an on-off relationship during their time in Made In Chelsea, although they were not together when she discovered she was pregnant.

They rekindled their romance after they learned they were to become parents in 2017.

But they announced their separation last September, 15 months after becoming parents.

*Hello! magazine is out now.

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