Though I used to go out out with a much, much older TV presenter (he was 30 years older than me) whose only waking thought was raving at Torture Gardens, on the whole my vintage lovers have acted even older than the age on their passports (blue from the first time around).
And this might be my one beef about dating a confirmed bachelor of middling years: they tend to have consigned their grand gesture Don Juan days to the past, and are much more likely to remember April Fool’s Day than Valentine’s Day.
As Florence Pugh (29) who went out with Zach Braff (49) for 3 years pointed out, “I’ve always found it funny how I can be good enough for people to watch my work, and support my work, and pay for tickets, and I'm old enough to be an adult and pay taxes, but I'm not old enough to know who I should and should not have sex with.”.
Last year we celebrated by going to a party given by Gyles Brandreth for the Queen and every living Dame (think Lumley, Lipman, Redgrave, Routledge etc), this year is set to be much less groovy.
Frank Skinner said that when he was dating a 20 year old, even some of the nicer women he knew either turned “disproportionately vicious” or treated him like Woody Allen.
