According to reports today, the Loose Women star met with Joan Anderton and gave the relationship her blessing.
Part of the family: Tim Healy with his new girlfriend Joan Anderton who his estranged wife Denise Welch has met and given her blessing to their relationship
And she said that Joan and her new love Lincoln Towney were now part of the family.
She said: 'Tim’s moved on. The fact is, we are good friends. He’s spoken to Lincoln, I’ve spoken to Joan.
'We both knew about this situation and we’re still a family, we’ve just moved on.'
Denise, 53, is seeing party planner Lincoln Townley, 39, after they met in a club last April.
Making it official: Denise Welch and her new love Lincoln Towney made their first pubic appearance earlier this month
And she said of her toy boy: 'I love him very much. It’s early days, we’re very happy and I love the bones of him.'
The couple went public earlier this month for the first time since they met when they attended the cast change party for the Wizard Of Oz musical at the London Palladium.
Denise was first linked to Townley in January but she initially ignored the reports and put on a show of unity with Healy, who she married in 1988.
First love: Denise and Tim were married for 23 years
But on February 6, she broke down as she revealed she had split from Healy live on Loose Women.
She said: 'I just want to say, this is going to be really difficult for me... My family made a decision that we would talk about this today. Tim and I separated some time ago.
'So I'm not having an affair, we have been living our own lives for some time now. We're all just going to move forward as a family. Tim and I are still going to be co-parents and we love each other very much.'
