London: While most estranged couples only speak to each other through their lawyers, Denise Welch and Tim Healy seem to have taken a very different approach to divorce.
Pictures emerged of the couple singing karaoke just last week with Welch half naked while her husband of 23-years can't take his eyes off a fellow singer who is exposing her breasts to camera.
Clutching a microphone and pulling her jumper up over her trademark nude bra Denise smiles at the camera while the only clue her actor husband might not have eyes for his wife is his lecherous leer at the blonde female friend's exposed breasts.
It paints a very different picture to the weeping Denise who appeared on TV yesterday, crying over the loss of her marriage.
In fact Benidorm actor Healy and Welch look happier than ever at the bash down their local.
She broke down in tears on live television as she confessed that her 23-year marriage to actor Tim Healy was over, and it had been for 'some time'.
She was forced to come clean after a series of allegations surfaced that she had two affairs with toyboy lovers, when in fact it seems she was single the whole time.
A tearful Denise said: 'I just want to say, this is going to be really difficult for me... My family made a decision that we would talk about this today. Tim and I separated some time ago.
'So I'm not having an affair, we have been living our own lives for some time now.'
She added: 'I just wanted to thank everybody. Tim and I feel a sense of relief that we don't have to hide this anymore. We've actually become better friends since we've made the decision but we wanted to have Christmas with the family without telling anybody.
'We're all just going to move forward as a family. Tim and I are still going to be co-parents (to Matthew, 22, and Louis, 10) and we love each other very much.'
The next day she told Loose Women viewers: 'Everything’s fine at home, absolutely fine. We had a great day yesterday. It was Tim’s birthday.'
But after the show, she raced to the exclusive Marriott County Hall to spend the night with Lincoln, the Sunday Mirror claimed.
The pair were pictured together outside the hotel which is apparently the same spot where they have been carrying out an eight-month affair.
Denise left on Tuesday morning for a brief appearance on This Morning before joining her colleagues in the nearby Loose Women studios.
After the show, she then dashed to the Landmark Hotel in Marylebone for coffee with her toyboy.
A fan who spotted the pair told the newspaper: 'They looked like any other couple. It was busy in the bar but they were not being discreet at all, which was surprising after she said everything was OK with her husband Tim.
'She didn’t seem to care who saw them and what people thought about her being with him... although everyone was very nice to her in the bar.'
Denise then caught a train back to the home she shares with Tim in Cheshire.
'Denise has had a very busy week with her TV commitments after leaving the show but has still found time for Lincoln.
'She is worried her marriage has taken its course, but it’s not that simple. When she’s in front of her viewers on Loose Women, talking to her fans on the street and playing up for the photographers she makes out that all is fine at home .'
Denise is believed to have met Lincoln at a nightclub in central London last April while she was on the Dancing on Ice tour.
They are said to have gone back to his flat in Hampstead afterwards.
They then saw each other casually while she was filming Loose Women in London and from September the relationship became serious.
She apparently spent a night with Lincoln at the Marriott before going into Celebrity Big Brother.
Lincoln's chequered past was revealed this week after he appeared in court charged with stealing £12,000 cash from a building firm.
He is accused of stealing the money from FM Conway, a construction company based in Dartford, Kent, in 2009.
The case was adjourned until May.
Meanwhile, in 2004, Denise admitted having an affair with TV studio carpenter Steve Murray.
But in her autobiography she said she had repaired her marriage after that relationship.
Denise caused a stir in the CBB house with her erratic behaviour and clashes with Reservoir Dogs actor Michael Madsen.
After leaving the house, Michael revealed: 'She offered to sleep with me a number of times. She just kept trying.'
Denise hit back later saying she was happily married.
'Even at 53, I don’t go without my offers. Why, when I have a husband and children watching at home, would I beg him for sex?'
