The couple have three children together (Picture: Getty Images)

Emmerdale star Matthew Wolfenden sparked reunion rumours with former co-star and girlfriend Charley Webb.

The pair met on the set of Emmerdale, and Matthew, 43, proposed to the 35-year-old in 2009.

However it has been a rocky road for the couple. They split in 2013, with a spokesperson saying at the time: ‘Charley Webb and Matthew Wolfenden have today confirmed they have separated.’

They got back together in 2015 with Matthew telling the Mirror: ‘It was never a permanent split, we just needed some time apart’.

But now, fans noticed that the soap star has re-followed his wife of 15 years, who is also the mother of his three children, Buster, 12, Bowie, six, and Ace, three.

However, despite this telling move, it has also been noticed that he has not commented on any of her recent pictures or posted about her in over a year.

They met on the set of Emmerdale back in the noughties (Picture: REX)

Matthew Wolfenden and Charley Webb married in 2018 after a long and rocky engagement (Picture: Instagram/Charley Webb)

This comes after The Sun recently reported that Matthew – who recently left Emmerdale after 18 years in the role of David Metcalfe – unfollowed his wife on Instagram.

An insider said: ‘Charley and Matthew were in very different places in their lives when they first got together.

‘Three kids later and with new careers in the mix, everything has changed and perhaps they are no longer the unit they once were.’

Matthew recently admitted that leaving Emmerdale was particularly difficult, getting emotional on a recent Loose Women as he said: ‘It was so emotional to say goodbye, particularly to Joe-Warren [Plant] who plays Jacob, he’s grown up with me.’

Now, he is playing Buddy the Elf in the newest revival of the musical, based on the 2003 film starring Will Ferrell.

Meanwhile, post-Emmerdale Charley bagged herself a role as in ITV police series The Long Shadow – out now – which dramatises the five-year manhunt for the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, commonly known as the Yorkshire Ripper. 

Metro.co.uk has contacted both representatives for comment.

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The duo met on the set of Emmerdale.