Darts star Luke Littler has gone public with his secret ‘friendship’ with a fun-loving beautician.
Mail Sport revealed that Littler, nicknamed The Nuke, met Faith Millar in February and that the pair were understood to have become almost inseparable since.
Millar, 19, comes from Wigan, just 15 miles from Luke’s home in Warrington, Cheshire.
Both Luke and Faith had been keen to play down the significance of their friendship – insisting emphatically that they are not dating or in a relationship.
Now, the darts prodigy has shared his first public picture with Millar.
In an Instagram story, the 18-year-old was seen with his arm around Millar, who crouched alongside Littler, as the pair smiled and posed for the picture.
Darts star Luke Littler has gone public with his secret ‘friendship’ with a fun-loving beautician
Mail Sport revealed that Littler, nicknamed The Nuke, met Faith Millar back in February
Millar, 19, comes from Wigan, just 15 miles from Luke’s home in Warrington, Cheshire
There was no caption to the post. It was originally posted by a friend before Littler reposted it onto his own account.
Millar has already accompanied the PDC World Champion to public events including a Q&A session organised by his darts sponsors BoohooMan in Manchester in March.
Eyelash beauty specialist Millar is also believed to have already met Littler’s parents while visiting the 18-year-old at his mansion.
A source told MailOnline: ‘Faith and Luke have become firm friends and enjoy one another’s company a lot.’
The blossoming friendship comes nine months after the world number two split from his previous girlfriend 22-year-old Eloise Milburn last June.
At 19, Millar is closer to Luke’s own age than Milburn, who was in her twenties when she began dating him while he was just 17 – which saw her face hostility from some online, something known to upset both her and Luke.
Littler has since been much more guarded about making his love life a public spectacle than he was when he very publicly dated Milburn at the same time as he was becoming a public figure thanks to his darts heroics at Ally Pally in December 2023.
The source continued: ‘Faith and Luke met a few weeks ago. They just clicked and since then have spent quite a bit of time with each other.
Millar has already accompanied the PDC World Champion to public events including a Q&A session organised by his darts sponsors BoohooMan in Manchester this week
A spokesman for Littler confirmed that he and Millar had struck up a friendship but that it was ‘nothing more’ than that
‘They live quite close to each other so it’s been easy to meet up.
‘Faith has met Luke’s mum and dad and some of the friends he grew up with and she’s been round to his mansion a few times.
‘Faith was with him at a BoohooMan event on Monday.
‘But despite trying to stay in the background, she’s been pestered quite a bit by his fans who are keen to know who she was.
‘But there’s no bit story there – she’s a very ordinary, very sweet, normal girl’.
Littler is believed to have split from previous girlfriend Milburn because of his increasingly busy darts schedule left them with hardly any time to spend alone together.
Shortly after the break-up, however, Litter was rumoured to have found a new girlfriend when a mystery female voice was caught on his microphone during an online video game session with YouTuber Angry Ginge.
Both Luke and Millar have been keen to play down the significance of their friendship – insisting emphatically that they are not dating or in a relationship
The woman was heard saying in the background: ‘I’m going to try and get some sleep because I’m so tired.’
Angry Ginge pressed him on who the woman was prompting a foul-mouth response in which the darts prodigy laughed and told the influencer: ‘F*** sake. Your chat is going mad. F*** off.
‘If someone has screen recorded that, it’s in the papers in the morning. Yep, well played. Why’s the volume all the way up, you f***ing idiot?’
The woman was never identified despite the clip going viral.
