The two are more than just training partners

ELLE BROOKE has found a best friend and mentor in Ebanie Bridges – but the pair are no longer joined at the hip.

Brooke first met the former bantamweight world champion at trainer Mark Tibbs’ Essex boxing gym.

And Bridges would go onto corner the social media star while helping her in training and sparring.

The two have even shot racy content together on OnlyFans but Bridges has now switched to Dave Coldwell’s gym in Rotherham.

Brooke, 26, told SunSport: “She’s still my mentor, 100 per cent.

“I don’t see her as much, obviously she was training for her fight and she’s up North now so we’re separated.

“If she was round the corner we’d see each other all the time but we’re still such good friends, we’re like sisters.

“She’s less involved with the boxing now but she’s always there for me mentally and she’s honestly the biggest and the best hype woman in the world. I can always go to her for advice.”

Brooke bravely opened up on how a party lifestyle drove her to drugs and depression – before boxing helped turn her life around.

The sport also introduced her to soul sister Bridges and the rest of Tibbs’ stable.

She said: “If it wasn’t for boxing I would’ve never have met her.

“I would never have moved to Essex, I would never have met Ebanie, never have met some of the boys in the gym.

“And because I don’t go out on the weekends, they’re the ones I rely one for company a lot of the time. My life revolves around boxing now.”

Brooke makes her return in Leeds on Misfits 12 against ex-Love Islander AJ Bunker, who she beat in 2022.

The bad blood has since brewed so bragging rights will also be on the line as well as Bunker’s Misfits belt.

Brooke said: “We know of each other now. When we first fought it was just someone else in the influencer scene to take on that fight.

“Whereas now she’s champ, I’ve already beat her and it’s her opportunity for redemption, my opportunity to win the belt and that’s the story.

“We also aren’t that fond of each other, so it’s got great ingredients for a good fight.”