Little Mix star Perrie Edwards, whose debut solo single Forget About Us is out tomorrow, has revealed she and fiancé Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have never lived together

Little Mix star Perrie Edwards opens up about her ­long-distance ­relationship, saying: “We make it work for the ones we love.”

The 30-year-old singer is engaged to former Liverpool footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who now plays in Turkey, 2,500 miles from their Cheshire home. But, she explains, the couple have had separate houses for much of their eight-year relationship.

And Perrie says former England midfielder Alex, 30, built a studio for her in their home so she could juggle raising their son Axel, two, with recording her solo material. She says: “When he was playing for Liverpool and based in Manchester, it was so easy to do the back and forth but Turkey is a little bit further and he doesn’t get a lot of time off.

“I’m trying to launch a solo career whilst having a two year old so it is a lot to juggle but we make it work for the ones we love, don’t we? We’ve never lived together – the eight years we’ve been in a relationship, we’ve never actually lived together.”