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WATCHING my gorgeous husband walk topless around our bedroom I know I’ve hit the jackpot.

While our relationship has often raised eyebrows, I shrug at the haters, firm in the knowledge my sex life and happiness could not be better.

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The controversy? The thing that has everyone clutching their pearls? I’m 44 and my man is 22. Outrageous, right?

But it turns out that I’m not alone in cougar-ville.

New research has found that women – in equal numbers to men – are now seeking younger partners.

As a mum-of-six who has dated her fair share of toyboys I’m confident in saying, ladies, you will not regret it.

Yes, people have mistaken me from my man’s mum. Yes, my own mother wasn’t that impressed at the start. And, yes, strangers stare. But, so what? I couldn’t be more loved up.

I’ve been wed three times and I know this time it’s for life.

I married my first husband in 2003, when I was 23. He was my childhood sweetheart, and we’d met when we were both just 15.

We divorced in 2009 when I was 29, and by then was a mum to my three oldest boys, now 22, 20 and 19.

It was only when I started dating again at 30 that I admitted to myself what I’d suspected for ages. I just wasn’t attracted to guys my own age, and definitely not to those who were older.

For years my girlfriends had gone for that kind of man, drawn to their maturity and money.

When they chatted me up though, I just saw boring guys who were already losing their hair, not ‘silver foxes’.

Then in 2010 a guy liked my picture on Facebook. I was 30, he was 24, and I was instantly drawn to his up-for-it attitude and energy.

We had two sons together, now 15 and 14, before marrying in February 2013. We then had a daughter, now 10, in July 2014. But by 2015 we were divorced.

The breakdown of our marriage wasn’t caused by our age gap, and the decade between me and my next boyfriend wasn’t a factor either. But when I was 40, and dating a 22-year-old, the raised eyebrows and comments were endless. 

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On holiday together in 2020 we were clubbing when a group of lads said kindly, ‘It’s so nice that you’ve come on holiday with your mum.’ I was mortified.

But still, I loved the energy that younger guys had. My sons were always telling me that I didn’t act my age, and to me that was a compliment.

I was 40 but still wanted to have fun, to make the most of every minute and found that it was the younger men who had that zest for life that matched mine.

Hearing he was 20 I felt a wave of panic. He was the same age as my eldest son.

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Unlike the 50-year-old guy who messaged me on Instagram. When I tried to let him down gently, explaining that his uninvited topless pics didn’t do anything for me, he was furious.

He wrote that I’d never find a younger guy to take on me and my ‘baggage’. I thought, I’ll show him!

Me and the 22-year-old split but when I was back on Tinder in July 2022, I didn’t even set an age range.

When I saw that a gorgeous young guy called Byron had swiped me, I didn’t hesitate. He hadn’t listed his age, but that didn’t matter. He knew mine because I celebrated it, I wasn’t ashamed of being 42. In fact, I’d learned that for lots of young men, it was a huge attraction.

As our messages flew, I felt such a strong connection. He was a dad to a one-year-old daughter, had his own place and worked hard as a plumber, so I knew he was responsible. But he also had such an incredible, youthful vibe. I was just drawn to him.

Three weeks later we had Sunday lunch with his daughter at his house, and he was just as gorgeous in real life. When we said goodbye with a wave, I didn’t know if he liked me, and our second date at a street food festival with both of our daughters ended with a super awkward hug.

Then on our third date, this time on the beach without any children, his phone pinged with a message from his mum. She was asking how our date was going. He’d already told her everything! Seeing Byron’s confidence about me was amazing. That’s when I asked how old he was.

Hearing he was 20 I felt a wave of panic. He was the same age as my eldest son, they even had their birthdays the same week.

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For a week I thought it over. Was the age gap just too big? But he was handsome, kind and fun. What did it matter if there were 22 years between us? When I told Byron I wanted us to be together he was thrilled.

My sons were amazing from the start. I didn’t have any nerves about them meeting Byron a few weeks after we got together, even once we’d realized that he’d been at the same college as my eldest. Thankfully they got on brilliantly and there wasn’t any weirdness.

It wasn’t quite so easy with my mum. A month into our relationship, I went on a girls’ holiday and Byron stayed at my house. Mum, who knew nothing about him, found him asleep in my bed. The poor guy woke up to her saying ‘who on earth are you?

She wasn’t happy and couldn’t understand why I kept going for younger men. I think she wanted to protect me from being hurt. Thankfully he won her over and soon she was telling me what a lovely, hardworking guy he was.

I was nervous about meeting his mum in October 2022, especially as we’re the same age. I wanted her to see the real me, to understand that I only wanted good things for her son. I was so relieved to hear from Byron that she liked me.

We’ve laughed when people assumed that I’m his daughter’s grandma.

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When you’re with a younger guy you don’t have to be ‘sensible’ just because that’s how society expects a 40-something mother to behave. We drew up a bucket list of adventures and immediately started ticking them off.

We ran a 10k race and climbed a mountain, got matching tattoos and partied at festivals and concerts.

There was a beach holiday to Magaluf, clubbing in Ibiza and celebrating our one-year anniversary in Portugal. Sightseeing on scooters I felt so happy. I didn’t think about our ages, we were just two people in love with life and each other.

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If strangers had a problem with it, we didn’t care. We’ve laughed when people thought Byron was my son or assumed that I’m his daughter’s grandma.

In fact, most comments were positive. Dancing on Byron’s shoulders and snogging at an N-Dubz concert, a woman commented on how cute we were, how she wished she could be with a younger guy. I told her to go for it and she’d never regret it!

Byron’s energy and enthusiasm are endless, in the bedroom and outside of it, and that gives me such a boost.

As for Byron, when we first got together my son’s friends would come over, shake his hand and say, ‘well played, mate!’ We both thought that was hilarious.

I’ve become an expert in being a cougar!

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In April 2023 Byron and my son had a joint 21 st birthday party – at a soft play! We sipped cocktails, sped down slides, and played hide and seek in the big pits of brightly coloured balls.

I didn’t care if it seemed weird that I celebrated my boyfriend and my child being the same age. We were having too much fun!

I did have moments when I looked in the mirror and thought, I look old. But Byron constantly told me how beautiful I was. When I worried that younger women could be sliding into his DMs, he looked baffled, saying no one was as sexy as me.

We moved in together in May 2023 and, despite Byron constantly asking me to marry him, I brushed off the idea. I’d been married twice, we didn’t need that to be happy.

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Then, in March 2024, we booked a holiday to Las Vegas for that May. The city had been on our holiday bucket list for ages.

A few days later, we were talking about all the amazing things we’d do. That’s when we looked at each other and at the same time said, ‘let’s get married!’

We decided to keep it a secret from everyone. We sneakily bought wedding clothes and chose a chapel, without saying a word to family or friends. It felt a bit naughty not to share the plan, but we just wanted to keep it to ourselves.

On May 26, we jumped in a taxi from our Las Vegas hotel and a few minutes later were walking down the aisle to the Ed Sheeran song For My Hand.

Just fifteen minutes later we were husband and wife. I was 44 and Byron was 22.

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We’d decided not to tell anyone at home that we were married until July. That’s when we’d throw an ‘engagement party’ and spill the beans!

It was so hard to keep the secret for two months. We had to hide the rings and kept giggling when we looked at one another and remembered what we’d done.

Finally, at the party we’d arranged, we made the big announcement, and everyone was thrilled for us.

No one batted an eyelid that my new husband was 22 years younger than me. And why on earth should they?

As this new study has just found, both men and women are attracted to younger partners. I’m not surprised at all.

I’ve known for years that women love younger guys, but have just been too embarrassed to admit it.

For decades no one has cared if an older man has a much younger wife, but somehow it was shocking when the roles were reversed.

That taboo is almost gone and like me, celebs including Sienna Miller, Heidi Klum and Priyanka Chopra have no shame in admitting they find toyboys hot.

I tell women not to lie on the dating apps but to put their real age. You’d be amazed how many gorgeous young guys are desperate to hook up with an older woman.

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I’ve seen it in my own friends and family. Last year a family member called me wanting advice. I had no idea what she’d ask until she said, ‘So, I’ve met this younger guy…’ I laughed. I’ve become an expert in being a cougar!

My advice is always the same. Just embrace it and have fun. They didn’t stay together for long, but she told me afterwards it was the most fun she’d had in months. Her confidence was sky high.

Then there was the close friend who always dated older guys, saying that she wanted someone to look after her. But in 2020 she started dated a much younger man and they’re still madly in love.

Let’s be honest, not every date with a twenty-something is going to turn into a long-term relationship. But between the great sex and the positive outlook that younger guys have, that can be more than enough.

I’m just lucky enough to have hit the jackpot. A gorgeous, fun-loving, committed man, who was desperate to make me his wife. I couldn’t care less how many candles are on his birthday cake.

TEN days ago, I watched Arsenal get knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Newcastle United at St James’ Park.

During that semi-final second leg, I spotted Eddie Howe and his assistant Jason Tindall screaming at their centre-forward Alexander Isak to sprint back and help his team defend.

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It must have happened five times and, on each occasion, Isak smiled at them and carried on jogging.

Howe and Tindall weren’t happy but they know that Isak is a proper goal-scorer and a match-winner.

It seems to me that the man in the opposing dug-out that night, Mikel Arteta, is frightened of signing a genuine No 9 like Isak.

True centre-forwards always have that element of selfishness, of single-mindedness.

They are often mavericks, they can often be disruptive, they usually have minds of their own and they live for scoring goals.

Arsene Wenger almost always had a world-class finisher, from Ian Wright to Nicolas Anelka to Thierry Henry to Robin Van Persie, right up to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in his final season.

But I believe Arteta is so wrapped up in his team ethos that he shies away from signing such players.

Fans paint murals of Arsenal’s set-piece coach when I’m sure they’d much rather be splashing the Dulux in homage to a world-class number nine.

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The policy of not signing a genuine centre forward backfired spectacularly after Kai Havertz suffered a season-ending injury on the club’s mid-season break to Dubai.

I know there was a £60million bid for Ollie Watkins in January but for me that just felt like a PR stunt. Watkins was never going to leave Aston Villa in mid-season.

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But it meant Arsenal could tell their fans ‘at least we tried’. It didn’t feel as if the club tried too hard.

When Ivan Toney was available last summer, Arsenal didn’t do the deal because of finances – but it was a false economy.

Victor Osimhen was on the market too but Arteta didn’t go for him.

Back-up striker Eddie Nketiah was sold to Crystal Palace and no replacement was bought.

Arsenal have been transformed and greatly improved during five years under Arteta – but while they have spent big in defence and midfield, they have not invested anywhere near as much in their front line.

The summer was the time to strike. In the January window you are always going to be struggling – especially when other clubs know you are desperate.

Gabriel Jesus, Arteta’s other option at centre-forward, had already been ruled out for the season so the idea of a serious injury to Havertz was always the nightmare scenario.

Fans paint murals of Arsenal’s set-piece coach when I’m sure they’d much rather be splashing the Dulux in homage to a world-class number nine.

Neither Jesus nor Havertz is an out-and-out centre-forward but the German has done a really decent job there.

People are going to realise how effective he is in both boxes – and as an attacking focal point – now that he is on the sidelines.

Without Havertz, Arteta is now into ‘false nine’ territory – with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli also out, his only attacking options are Leandro Trossard, Raheem Sterling and the 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri.

Those might be enough to beat Leicester handsomely today but they are not going to allow the perfect 14-match run-in Arsenal will need to have any chance of hunting down Liverpool – which would have to include a win at Anfield.

As an old-school nine, I’m sceptical about the idea of false nines.

The only two clubs who have been consistently successful playing such a system were Barcelona, with Lionel Messi, and Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, between Sergio Aguero and Erling Haaland.

Those were two of the greatest teams in history.

To play that way, you have to pass teams to death, grind them down. Only the very best are good enough to do that.

In the last two seasons, Arsenal could argue that City were a truly great team, more experienced and more expensive than them.

But when they miss out on the title again, this one is all on Arsenal – and their failure to sign a goalscorer.

Liverpool have only signed one player in the last year and they have overtaken Arteta’s team.

City have fallen off a cliff and Arsenal haven’t been able to capitalise.

I know there was a £60million bid for Ollie Watkins in January but for me that just felt like a PR stunt. Watkins was never going to leave Aston Villa in mid-season.

The Gunners don’t have a single player with ten league goals to his name this season – while Chris Wood, a veteran who has been around the block, has 17 for Nottingham Forest.

The other day, I was talking to a proven Premier League goalscorer, a centre-forward who is likely to be on the move this summer.

I told him that Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and perhaps Tottenham could all be options – because there aren’t many good young centre-forwards around.

This player could easily have done a job for Arsenal for the next few months had they come in for him.

Now Arsenal will be relying even more on set-pieces, meaning opposing teams will be extra determined not to concede corners against them.

Yet without Havertz Arsenal lack one of their prime targets from set-pieces too.

It seems crazy to me that they have allowed themselves to get into this situation.

Maybe it’s arrogance, maybe it’s tactical pigheadedness.

But for me it’s more a case of a manager too afraid to sign a striker with a one-track mind.

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WHAT on Earth were Manchester City thinking of with that giant banner and those posters of Rodri with the Ballon d’Or before their Champions League clash with Real Madrid?

Real boycotted the awards ceremony, believing their man Vinicius Junior should have won the prize rather than Rodri.

If that was a bit childish, then City’s response before a match against the 15-time European champions was sillier still.

Why would you want to go out of your way to wind up Vinicius and his team-mates?

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City are in no position right now to be taking the p*** out of the greatest club in the world.

I’m sure City’s own players wouldn’t have appreciated it.

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Watford’s mascot Harry the Hornet dived to ridicule Wilf Zaha during a match against Crystal Palace.

And I think the bloke inside the big wasp’s costume got sacked for that!

A WOMAN who accused Jay Z and Diddy of raping her after an MTV party has dropped her lawsuit.

Jay Z – real name Shawn Carter – hailed the legal withdrawal as a “victory” after previously blasting the lawsuit as “blackmail”.

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The anonymous victim accused the two rappers of raping her at a party following the MTV Video Music Awards in September of 2000.

Documents filed with in New York said the accuser had “volunteraily dismissed” the case “with prejudice” – meaning it cannot be refiled.

It was not immediately clear if the stars had reached a settlement with the woman, who has not been identified.

But 55-year-old billionaire Jay-Z welcomed the closure of the case, which he slammed as “frivolous, fictitious and appalling.”

He said: “This civil suit was without merit and never going anywhere. The fictional tale they created was laughable, if not for the seriousness of the claims.”

“I would not wish this experience on anyone.

“The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed.”

Jay-Z’s attorney, Alex Spiro, emphasised in a separate statement that the case “never should have been brought”.

He said: “By standing up in the face of heinous and false allegations, Jay has done what few can – he pushed back, he never settled, he never paid one red penny, he triumphed and cleared his name.”

The complaint said Combs and Carter — who is married to pop superstar Beyonce — took turns assaulting the plaintiff as another celebrity stood by and watched.

“Many others were present at the after party, but did nothing to stop the assault,” it went on.

“Carter has been with Combs during many such instances described herein. Both perpetrators must face justice.”

Combs, also 55, has separately been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering. Federal prosecutors allege that he sexually abused women and coerced them into drug-fueled sex parties using threats and violence.

He has denied all charges, and his criminal trial is currently slated to begin on May 5.

Diddy also faces a wave of sexual assault lawsuits, many of which were filed by the plaintiffs lawyer, Tony Buzbee, a Texas attorney who says his firm represents over 150 people, both men and women, who allege sexual abuse and exploitation by Combs.

Lawyers for Combs said dismissal of the lawsuit without a settlement confirmed that other lawsuits he is facing are built on falsehoods.

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In a statement, his legal team said: “For months, we have seen case after case filed by individuals hiding behind anonymity, pushed forward by an attorney more focused on media headlines than legal merit.

“Just like this claim, the others will fall apart because there is no truth to them.”

Jay-Z and Combs are part of a generation of hip-hop titans who rose to prominence in the 2000s, emerging as wide-ranging entrepreneurs and two of the worlds wealthiest rappers.

Carter is also married to pop sensation Beyonce – and they are one of the biggest power couples in the history of the music industy.

The artists have collaborated over the years, with Jay-Z being featured on Combs debut album, No Way Out and Combs appearing on Jay-Zs sophomore album, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1.

Diddy launched his Bad Boy Records around the same time Jay-Z launched his Roc-A-Fella record label. The pair pair has been frequently photographed together at events.

Jay-Z has won 25 Grammys while Diddy has collected three trophies.

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