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Inside Love Island star Mary Bedford’s close friendship with Coronation Street actress
LOVE Island's Mary Bedford may be famous now, but before entering the villa she already hung around with celebrity pals.
We previously exposed how she once went out on a date with Chris Hughes, but now we can reveal that her best friend is a Coronation Street actress.
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Mary, 21, is good pals with Arianna Atjar, who played played Olivia Radfield on the ITV soap.
Her first appearance on the show was between May and June in 2018 but she returned to the cobbles in January 2019.
Her character, Olivia, was a model who came to Weatherfield to do a shoot for Underworld but it turned out her agent Antoine Reese was using models as drug mules.
Arianna, who is also a model, runs her own online fashion boutique that specialises in swimwear and bodysuits, called Mars The Label.
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She has also been looking after Mary's Instagram since she started filming Love Island.
Over the last year the two friends have been enjoying luxury holidays and posh nights out together.
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As mentioned earlier, this isn't the only celebrity Mary knows, as she once went out with former Love Island star Chris Hughes.
However, The Sun exclusively revealed how the blonde bombshell LIED about her romance with "footballer boyfriend" Chris after he told us that they "only went on one date".
The model had a brief fling with the hunk after he split up with former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson in August 2020.
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And she couldn't resist mentioning him on the show last week - as she admitted not wanting to date a footballer again.
She's currently growing close to player Aaron Simpson who appeared eight times for League of Ireland football club Waterford in 2019.
But Chris told The Sun Mary isn't a former flame - because they only dated once.
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Asked if he knew "his ex" was going on Love Island, Chris insisted: "No, but Mary's not my ex!
"I went on a date with her and I was pictured with her but that was as far as it went. She's a nice girl and I wish her all the best, but she's not my ex.
"It was ages ago, about a year ago. I don't really want to chat about Mary because I don’t really know a lot about her to be honest."
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