Teenage darts sensation Luke Littler has secretly struck up a close friendship with a fun-loving beautician, MailOnline can reveal.
The 18-year-old star, nicknamed The Nuke, met Faith Millar last month and the pair are understood to have become almost inseparable since.
Faith, 19, comes from Wigan, just 15 miles from Luke’s home in Warrington, Cheshire.
Both Luke and Faith have been keen to play down the significance of their friendship – insisting emphatically that they are not dating or in a relationship – but friends have been unable to miss noticing how close they have become, they say.
Faith 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.
Eyelash beauty specialist Faith is also believed to have already met Littler’s parents while visiting the 18-year-old at his mansion on repeat occasions over recent weeks.
A source told MailOnline: ‘Faith and Luke have become firm friends and enjoy one another’s company a lot.’
The blossoming friendship comes seven months after the world number two split from his previous girlfriend 22-year-old Eloise Milburn last June.
Faith Millar (pictured) comes from Wigan, just 15 miles from Luke’s home in Warrington, Cheshire
The 18-year-old star, nicknamed The Nuke, met Millar last month and the pair are understood to have become almost inseparable since
Both Luke and Faith have been keen to play down the significance of their friendship – insisting emphatically that they are not dating or in a relationship
At 19, Faith is closer to Luke’s own age than Eloise, 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.
Luke has since been much more guarded about making his love life a public spectacle than he was when he very publicly dated Eloise 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.
‘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.
A source told MailOnline that the pair ‘met a few weeks ago’ and just ‘clicked’ – they have since ‘spent quite a bit of time with each other’
The blossoming friendship comes seven months after the world number two split from his previous girlfriend 22-year-old Eloise Milburn last June
Faith 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
The 19-year-old was with Littler at a BoohooMan event on Monday, fueling discussion about the pair’s friendship
‘She works as an eyelash technician in Wigan but realises the fact that she hangs around with Luke, who is really famous, means that people will show her a bit of interest as well, she realises that.
‘Faith is a very sweet girl, very bubbly and kind. It’s no surprise that she and Luke get on so well.’
Faith declined to comment about the friendship when approached outside her family home.
But a spokesman for Littler confirmed that he and Faith had struck up a friendship but said: ‘That’s as far as it goes, they are just good friends for now. Nothing more.
‘Luke doesn’t want a girlfriend at the moment, he’s focusing on his darts and is too busy travelling around the country to start up a relationship.
On her TikTok account, fun-loving Faith films herself dressed up and mouthing the words to pop songs. In one video she appears as comic book hero The Flash as she sings along to Messy by Lola Young. In another she dances with a friend to Price Tag by Jessie J.
Both her TikTok and Instagram accounts are followed by Littler.
He and Ms Milburn – who was regularly seen cheering him on at the Alexandra Palace – remain friends despite parting ways via text message.
Eyelash beauty specialist Faith is also believed to have already met Littler’s parents while visiting the 18-year-old at his mansion on repeat occasions over recent weeks
At 19, Faith is closer to Luke’s own age than his ex-partner Eloise, who was in her twenties when she began dating him while he was just 17
A spokesman for Littler confirmed that he and Faith had struck up a friendship but that it was ‘nothing more’ than that
They are believed to have both agreed to split because Littler’s increasingly busy darts schedule left them with hardly any time to spend alone together.
At the time, Littler took to social media to defend his ex, who is also a darts player. He told fans: ‘Everyone needs to stop sending hate towards Eloise saying it’s her fault, this and that.
‘I myself split up with Eloise and everyone just needs to give us some time, no need for everyone to message her and give her grief.’
‘He has a lot of female friends.’
Luke is believed to have split from previous girlfriend Elouise because his increasingly busy darts schedule left them with hardly any time to spend alone together.
At the time, Littler took to social media to defend his old flame, who is also a darts player. He told fans: ‘Everyone needs to stop sending hate towards Eloise saying it’s her fault, this and that.
‘I myself split up with Eloise and everyone just needs to give us some time, no need for everyone to message her and give her grief.’
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.
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.
