GROUT OF THE BLUE Towie Lucy finds love in an unexpected place... with her bathroom tiler

REALITY TV star Lucy Mecklenburgh is in love and enjoying nights on the tiler.

The stunning model, 25, had designs on handyman Nathan Sharp, 37, when he pitched up to fix up her bathroom in Essex.

Tattooed Nathan’s tiles and smiles quickly melted Lucy’s heart.

Now the former The Only Way Is Essex star can’t get the hunky dad of two grout of her head.

One of Nathan’s pals said he couldn’t believe his luck that he had pulled superfit Lucy.

He said: “Nathan went to tile a bathroom and came away with a stunning celebrity girlfriend – it’s the stuff of dreams. They hit it off straight away.”

Lucy found fame on Towie but has gone on to be a hugely successful businesswoman.

She has been the face of campaigns for online shop Very, lingerie range By Caprice and sports wear Ellesse.

She also has her own clothes shop, Lucy’s Boutique, and has established herself as a fitness guru – launching Results With Lucy, an online workout programme and a healthy living book.

Lucy is estimated to be worth £2.5million but while her business empire is thriving her love life has been less successful.

Lucy dated ex-Towie star Mark Wright, 30, who went on to marry Corrie favouritee Michelle Keegan, 29, in 2015.

After breaking up with Mark she e went out with Mario Falcone, another guy fromom Towie.

The couple got engaged in June une 2012 but went through a messy split and went their separate ways.

In 2014 she started going out with Olympic gymnast Louis Smith, after meetingg him on the set of short-lived reality show Tumble. But in February last year they also parted.

Smitten

Lucy was first spotted with Nathanhan in September but she has remained tightlipped about the relationship.

Friends say the pair are having a great time and Nathan, who split from his wife Rachel last year, is smitten.

He has been spotted doing repairsirs at Lucy’s Essex boutique and last year ar they bumped into her ex, Mario.

She turned up at Alec’s Restaurant nt in Brentwood, Essex, for a meal withith Nathan and ran into Mario, who was there with a new woman.

A pal of Lucy says she is enjoyinging dating someone who isn’t a celebrity. y.

She said: “Lucy has played out her previous relationships in public and they haven’t worked out so she’s keen to keep this one under wraps.”