It was just three months ago that Kym Marsh happily declared her son was the only man she needed in her life – but now the actress has revealed she has found love again.
Former Corrie star Kym, 48, has fallen for her 29-year-old theater show co-star Samuel Thomas, who is 19 years her junior.
Kym Marsh has gone Instagram official with her new boyfriend, actor Samuel Thomas[/caption]
Kym met fellow actor Samuel Thomas in 101 Dalmations: The Musical, in which they both star[/caption]
After sharing her new romance on social media, she quickly shut down a cruel troll who said he looked like her eldest son David, who was born the same year as Samuel.
Kym shot back on Instagram: “Do one.”
The couple met while working together on 101 Dalmations: The Musical, with the actress calling him her “soulmate.”
Their unexpected romance comes after the actress split from her third husband Scott Ratcliff, 35, last year.
Samuel also posted: “I didn’t expect you, but here you are. I love you.”
And Kym, who is also mum to Emilie, 27, and 13-year-old Polly, isn’t the only soap star who believes age is just a number when it comes to their love lives.
Michelle Collins
EastEnders star Michelle, 62, revealed last month that a psychic told her she would meet ‘the love of her life’ as she approached her 50th birthday, and met her toyboy husband Mike Davidson, now 39, just months later.
The actress – who returned to the soap last year after a 25-year hiatus as fan favorite Cindy Beal – met Mike in 2012 after her niece arranged a date with him.
During her 2016 speech, Michelle admitted that she hated the word cougar, which is often used to describe an older woman who dates younger men.
She said: “Mike is 22 years younger than me and I am considered a predator. It drives me crazy. People call him my toyboy beau. He’s almost 35, for God’s sake.’
EastEnders star Michelle Collins was told by a psychic that she would meet ‘the love of her life’ just months before meeting her now husband Mike Davidson[/caption]
Actress Michelle looked beautiful when she married Mike Davidson in 2022[/caption]
She added: “I laugh about it now but it’s annoying. And I hate that word cougar. I can’t stand it. I find it so humiliating. A puma is a predator that goes around looking for young meat. I’m definitely not like that.”
The couple announced their engagement in April 2022 before tying the knot in August of that year. Michelle, who has daughter Maia Rose, 27, with her ex-partner Fabrizio Tassalini, looked stunning in her wedding jumpsuit.
Last month the actress said: “I thought it would never happen; I just didn’t think I would ever get married. But Mike and I have been married for two years in August.”
Maisie Smith
Former EastEnders star Maisie and The Wanted singer Max George have repeatedly had to defend their relationship due to their 13-year age difference.
Maisie, who played Tiffany Butcher in the BBC soap, said about being cheated on last year: “If that wasn’t the case it would be something else.
“People don’t understand what goes on behind closed doors in a relationship, and I think they also forget that I’m a consenting 21-year-old woman who has actually been working longer than Max!”
And Max, 35, said in 2022: “It never crosses my mind. Maisie has done so many things that I am in awe of – I look up to her.”
The couple met when they both took part in the 2020 Strictly Come Dancing series, with their friendship blossoming into romance in the summer of 2022.
Maisie, who lives with Max in Manchester, said of their relationship last month: “He is definitely The One. He’s just perfect. We are very happy.
Chris Quinten
Former lap dancer Robyn is now said to be selling racy snaps on the adults-only platform OnlyFans[/caption]
Chris rose to fame as Gail Platt’s murdered husband Brian Tisley in the ITV soap Coronation Street. After leaving the soap in 1989, he moved into strip club management.
He now runs The Secret Lounge in Hammersmith, west London, where he met fiancée Robyn Delabarre after she auditioned for a job as a lap dancer at the gentlemen’s club.
Chris, 66, and Robyn, who is 40 years his junior, enjoyed a whirlwind seven-month romance before he proposed at her 21st birthday party in 2019.
Robyn, who now reportedly makes a fortune from her £6-a-month OnlyFans account where she sells exclusive sexy snaps to her followers, said in defense of their relationship on This Morning that year: “Chris is a lot older but we We had such a nice bond that we got along well, we talked a lot.
I hate that word cougar. I can’t stand it. I find it so humiliating. A puma is a predator that goes around looking for young meat. I’m definitely not like that
Michelle Collins
“[My parents] found it very difficult at first. The big age difference. My mother is 38 and my father is 40. Now they support me very much.”
Chris then joked: “I could be your grandpa!”
And he has said before: “We don’t care what anyone thinks. All we know is that we are in love.”
The father of three adult daughters now wants to start a family with his young lover, saying: “I can’t wait to have a baby with her. Firstly, the baby will be beautiful and secondly, she will be the best mother in the world.”
Cheryl Fergison
The actress lived separately from her husband Yassine Al-Jermoni for nine years[/caption]
Actress Cheryl played Heather Trott in EastEnders before the much-loved character was dramatically killed off by Ben Mitchell in 2012. And her life was just as interesting off-screen too.
Cheryl, 58, married second husband Yassine Al-Jermoni, who is 21 years her junior, in 2011 after the pair met online a year earlier.
But the actress, who has son Alex, 24, from her first husband, revealed in April that she spent the first nine years of their marriage separated from her Moroccan husband as he struggled to get a visa for Britain. to get.
Cheryl said: “We try to keep our affairs private but yes, financially it can be difficult to get these visas.
Things have been thrown at us that should never have been thrown at us; things that others would have broken. But we got through it
Cheryl Fergison
‘But we’re here now, we’re in Blackpool – the Vegas of the North! – and we are settled.”
And last year she defended criticism of their relationship, saying: ‘Obviously there’s always speculation whenever someone in the public eye meets someone else, no matter who it is.
“But things have been thrown at us that should never have been thrown at us; things that others would have broken.
“But we got through it. We kept our heads down and plowed on. And we are still here.”
Tamzin Outhwaite
Tamzin Outhwaite says people have told her she is old enough to be her boyfriend Tom Child’s mother[/caption]
Former EastEnders actress Tamzin has been in a relationship with boyfriend Tom Child, 33, who is 20 years her junior, since 2020 and has been forced to suppress criticism of their age difference
In 2020, she said: “A woman being very sure about what she wants or what she is in her life doesn’t make her a cougar because there are two people involved in this relationship.
“Not all men want younger women, that’s different. If you find someone you connect with, what shouldn’t you do because you’re different ages?’
Tamzin, 53, who has two daughters, Florence, 16, and Marnie Mae, 12, with her ex-husband, actor Tom Ellis, 45, also said in 2022: “I get the strange strange comment, saying, ‘You look old enough to be his mother.’
“It makes me want to say, ‘Well, I’m old enough to be his mother, but I’m not!’”
