Coronation Street star Rob Mallard has gone public with his new relationship, posing happily with boyfriend Matthew Martin on a date night to the theatre.

The couple beamed as they posed together ahead of the Heathers The Musical press night at The Palace Theatre in Manchester on Tuesday.

Rob going official with modelling agent Matthew comes just weeks after his ex and co-star Daniel Brocklebank, who plays Billy Mayhew in Corrie, was pictured with his own new partner.

Daniel, 43, and Rob, 31, dated in 2017, but broke up after finding that it was too much coping with the pressures of the soap as well as their own real-life romance, although they have stayed good friends with each other.

Now, Daniel is dating police officer Jordan Coulthard and in July Daniel's friend, EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison, shared a picture of the couple at Lytham Festival.

Rob and Matthew's theatre visit is the second time they have been pictured at an event together, although the photos from Heathers were the first official ones.

In June, Rob shared a photo to Instagram of himself and Matthew looking glamorous in coordinating smart suits, waistcoats and open-necked shirts as they posed on a balcony ahead of the British Soap Awards.

And it seems Rob isn't short of admirers, as he told The Daily Star at the British Soap Awards: "I get a Valentine's card from the same person every year, they don't put their name in it but I know it's the same person.

"You know when you're a kid and you write something out and you write over it eight or nine times to the point where it looks like it's been written over eight or nine times? It comes to me every year in the same style handwriting in the office and I don't know who it is.

"Whoever it is who's doing it, can you put your name in it please because it's driving me mad!"

Rob, who plays Daniel Osbourne in the ITV soap, has spoken out about his neurological disorder essential tremor, which causes him to shake involuntarily.

He was diagnosed at 14 and told This Morning: "You assume with shaking it's an old person's thing and most older people do have a slight tremor.

"But it's actually amazingly common in young people and it's often misdiagnosed as anxiety disorders or people on the street might think something bad.

"They might think that you are on a comedown or that you're withdrawing from something or anything when it actually is just brain chemistry – just something going wrong, neurons in the brain firing incorrectly and it cause involuntary shaking in certain parts of the body.”

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