Couples update
Michelle’s mystery man, Scarlett’s saucy fling and Drew’s new love
Michelle Williams sure looked loved up as she clung to a mystery man in Rome last week, despite recently declaring she doesn’t believe in romance.
The 36-year-old, who has raised 11-year-old Matilda on her own since former partner Heath Ledger’s death in 2008, beamed on the late-night date with the hunk. She’s spending time in the Italian capital to film AlltheMoneyintheWorld, a movie based on the reallife kidnapping of 16-yearold John Paul Getty III. The Manchesterbythe
Sea star was most recently linked to author Jonathan Safran Foer, but admitted earlier this year that since losing Heath, her ideas on true love had changed.
“It’s hard to romanticise romance when you’re 36,” she said. “When you’ve been a parent for 11 years and you’ve done it alone, you don’t have romantic ideals because you have a practical understanding that you can do it by yourself. The romantic idea of having a story-book family life that looks like the model you grew up with – that doesn’t really exist for me.”