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Katie Fitzpatrick

Dancing On Ice favourite Faye Brookes keeps a low profile in Manchester as she heads to rehearsals

Faye Brookes has been on dazzling form on the celeb skating show Dancing On Ice.

At the weekend the former Coronation Street favourite was magical as Mary Poppins on the ITV ice extravaganza, alongside skating partner Hamish Gaman.

But the Flixton actress was keeping a low profile as she headed to Manchester Piccadilly train station to catch the train for Dancing On Ice rehearsals.

She stepped out in a warm puffer coat teamed with legging and chunky trainers.

Faye headed to rehearsals (Aaron Parfitt)

Wearing a protective face mask she wheeled a suitcase through the rainy streets.

Faye, 33, who played Kate Connor in Corrie, has been named as favourite to win the long-running skating contest after two jaw-dropping performances.

She said about the performance: "Musicals week has taken this show to a whole other level. Everyone was just incredible!

Faye is tipped to win Dancing On Ice (Aaron Parfitt)

And @hamishgaman & I absolutely loved opening the show as ‘Mary & Bert.'"

Paying tribute to the Dancing On Ice crew she said: "Thank you for helping me transform into the infamous MP."

This week Faye has opened up to OK! magazine about her love for boyfriend Joe Davies, saying they'd love to get married, and the well-wishes came flooding in for the couple.

Commenting on Faye's Instagram, her former Corrie co-star Victoria Ekanoye said: "That’s the love.

"It’s been waiting for you and it makes me so happy that you've finally found it."

Faye played Corrie's Kate from 2015 to 2019 and won a National Television Award for Best Newcomer for her portrayal of Kate in January 2017.

She was part of many huge storylines during her time on the cobbles, including the devastating death of her fiancé Rana Nazir in the Underworld factory collapse on what was meant to be their wedding day.

Faye went public with her romance with Joe at the end of 2019.

Last Valentine's Day she spent Valentine's Day with her new man, a health and lifestyle coach, in New York and Bermuda.

She was engaged to pop star Gareth Gates but it was announced that they had split in August 2019.

The couple called off their engagement after seven years together.

A source told the MEN at the time that they were "both extremely sad about their relationship ending" but that it was "not meant to be."

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