Roxanne Pallett enjoys date with property guru four months after being ditched by her fiancé
The 36-year-old actress was dumped by Lee Walton in January after he found love with a new woman
ROXANNE Pallett looked smitten as she enjoyed a date night with a hunky American last night - four months after she was dumped by fiancé Lee Walton.
The 36-year-old actress enjoyed Krispy Kreme doughnuts in Manchester's Trafford Centre with the handsome man, thought to be property entrepreneur Mike Etherington.
However, The Sun Online can reveal Mike branded her a "manipulative, disgusting, attention seeking woman" in tweets sent after the star's Celebrity Big Brother scandal with Ryan Thomas.
He was less than impressed by Roxanne when she appeared on the Channel 5 reality show last year - and even claimed that she should be put behind bars.
In resurfaced tweets, the property guru retweeted a scathing message about the former Emmerdale star, adding: "Manipulative, disgusting, attention seeking women who fake abuse, it's not only a slap in the face of true victims but a slap in the face of the law.
"This type of person needs criminal prosecution, equal to what a genuine abuser would face. #CBB"
He continued: "Girls who lie about domestic abuse should face the same consequences as a genuine abuser would.
"There needs to be a strong deterrent as situations like this are a slap in the face to genuine victims, and it can undeservedly ruin a genuinely good person's life forever."
However, things seemed much more relaxed on the date, with former Emmerdale star Roxanne wearing a plain white top with khaki trousers and stilettos while her date was in a T-shirt light jeans and boots.
They arrived at the centre in a black Range Rover, before the pair traded flirty looks during the relaxed meet.
The star is rebuilding her life after she falsely accused Ryan Thomas of punching her on CBB last year being ditched by her fiancé months later.
Steelworker Lee stood by her during her time on the Channel 5 show — even after he saw her grow close to reality TV no-mark and housemate Ben Jardine.
But The Sun exclusively revealed how Lee moved on with a new woman, with him taking a mystery blonde to a birthday dinner with his parents in his home town of Thirsk, North Yorks.
A source said: “Roxanne’s whole life appears to have fallen apart in the past six months. Professionally, no one wants to touch her and now her personal life is in tatters.
“She and Lee got very serious very quickly but it has ended completely. She is gutted.”
Roxanne found fame as Jo Sugden in ITV soap Emmerdale but made headlines for all the wrong reasons last August. On CBB, she tearfully claimed former Coronation Street actor Ryan had punched her during a play-fight and she was scared to sleep in the same room as him.
Once the truth emerged that she made the whole thing up and he never touched her, more than 25,000 viewers complained to watchdog Ofcom.
It was not her only reality TV meltdown last year. The next month she quit Bear Grylls survival show The Island, on Channel 4, claiming the smell of a bonfire gave her flashbacks to a house fire she was in as a child.
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While in the CBB house, she tormented her then fella Lee by cosying up to Ben, who found “fame” on Married At First Sight. He still called her his “soulmate” and told her he loved her despite only having known her a matter of weeks.
At the time Lee, who proposed to Roxanne after just a week of dating, said: “I am not worried. I know she loves me and I love her and we’re strong. Nothing will change when she gets out, other than we’ll get married.”
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