Downton Abbey star Amy Nuttall has reportedly been left heartbroken after husband Andrew Buchan ‘walked out’ on her and moved in with new co-star Leila Farzad.

It’s the latest blow to befall the 40-year-old actress, who has had a rocky romantic past with her romances.

She was famously cheated on by her Emmerdale co-star Ben Freeman in 2005, who she had described as the ‘first real love of my life.’

The pair had played on/off lovers in the ITV soap and their will they/won’t they storyline ultimately seeped into their real lives as they struck up a romance, dating for four years.

However, much like the tumultuous storylines they played out on screen, their romance ended in tragedy when Ben was rumored to have cheated on her.

A look back at Amy Nuttall’s rocky romances: Amy was famously cheated on by her Emmerdale co-star Ben Freeman in 2005 (pictured in 2004)

She was aware of the female attention her boyfriend would attract on a night out but had convinced herself he wouldn’t stray.

In an ill-fated interview, she told The Mirror in 2003: ‘Girls seem to have no inhibitions at all, especially after a few drinks. It’s obvious that we are out as a couple, but it doesn’t stop them trying to clamber all over him.

‘Ben’s brilliant. He’s very polite, but he always puts his arm around me to make it clear that he is there with me.’

Making her stance on infidelity very clear, she continued: ‘The girls don’t make me jealous because I’m very secure in my relationship with Ben, but I do think it’s rude.

‘I would never dream of going up to someone else’s boyfriend and trying it on.’

Despite being a lads’ mag favorite in the Noughties, Amy insisted that she had no male attention in real life, stating: ‘I’ve never been chatted up since arriving on Emmerdale.

‘Even when I’m not with Ben, I get the odd look of recognition, but no one comes up to talk to me. Maybe they know I’m spoken for, or they feel intimidated because I’m on TV. Men like to play it cool, and I suppose they don’t want a knock-back.’

Yet by her own admission she wasn’t good at picking up signs from men, confessing that she had no idea that Ben was into her and that he did ‘all the chasing.’