Binky Felstead has found love again, a year after splitting from Joshua ‘JP’ Patterson.
The former ‘Made in Chelsea’ star – who has two-year-old daughter India with JP – has been dating businessman Max Fredrik Darnton since January, and the couple are already set to take the next step in their relationship as they are looking to buy a house together.
On the day they met at Soho Farmhouse, Binky told HELLO! magazine: "I was at the bar ordering cocktails, and Max came up to me and said, ‘So, how are you, what do you do?’ And the first thing I said was, ‘I’m a mum!’
"I was so nervous about him not knowing that I had a child, so I wanted to get it out there before he asked me any more questions, just to see if he was going to run off or not.
"But his reply was, ‘OK … And?’ That was so nice and put me really at ease right away."
The 29-year-old beauty split from JP last September, 15 months after their little girl was born, and admitted she wasn’t expecting to find a new partner "so soon" after the breakup, but she feels "incredibly lucky" to have found Max.
She said: "I just didn’t know it would be so soon, and I didn’t know that this would be how I feel.
"I’m incredibly lucky to have met him."
On their plans to live together, she said: "Things are going so nicely, so we’ll be looking – together! – for a big house in London with a garden – for India, and so that Max can get a dog."
Max has described the relationship as "completely natural and chilled" and admitted he feels "settled".
He added: "We’re both very different but equally as driven and ambitious.
"We find each other funny – not many other people do! – and it’s completely natural and chilled.
"I feel very lucky to have met her. We really connect. I feel settled, and it feels normal.
"And India is amazing – I look at them both together and it’s really sweet. They have an incredible relationship."
Binky and JP were in an on/off relationship when they first started seeing each other during episode 10 of the E4 reality series in August 2015.
After a brief break, the pair got back together in March 2017, just weeks before Binky found out she was expecting India.
Binky Felstead ‘incredibly lucky’ to have found love again
