Kym Marsh: "I couldn't be happier"

Kym Marsh and Hollyoaks star Jamie Lomas have opened up about their romance for the first time.

The couple, who have been dating for three months, went public with their relationship at Monday's Inside Soap Awards 2008 launch.

Lomas told the Daily Star: "Of course we are so happy, just look at the smile on her face! I guess you can say we’ve come clean about what has been going on."

Marsh added: "I couldn’t be happier."

The actress, who plays Michelle Connor in Coronation Street, announced the end of her six-year marriage to ex-EastEnder Jack Ryder in March. However, she insisted that the separation had occurred some time before it became public.

She said: "Jack and I had been split up quite a while before it came out in the papers. A lot of the magazines have been speaking absolute rubbish about my situation.

"We are all just getting used to it at the moment."