WILDE ABOUT HARRY!
Actress’s romance with Styles – who’s a decade younger
HE’S previously been linked to a number of older women.
And Harry Styles seems to be continuing the trend after being spotted with Hollywood actress Olivia Wilde.
The singer, 26, and Miss Wilde, who is ten years his senior, held hands as they arrived at his manager’s wedding in California over the New Year weekend in their debut as a couple.
She is the latest star to catch the attention of the former One Direction singer, who has been linked to a bevy of models and actresses over the years.
The singer dated the late Love Island presenter Caroline Flack in 2011 when he was 17 and she was 31, after they met on The X Factor.
Speaking about their short-lived romance in 2015, Miss Flack, who died last February, said: ‘It began to go wrong when Harry was pictured coming out of my house one morning.’
She added: ‘Once that was out, it was open season... in the street peoas
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ple started shouting at me “paedophile” and “pervert”.’
Styles is rumoured to have had a ‘dalliance’ with singer Nicole Scherzinger in 2013 when he was 19 and she was 35, and American writer Erin Foster, 38, who is 12 years his senior.
He also dated actress Emily Atack and US singer Taylor Swift, who are both five years older than him.
The singer addressed his apparent penchant for older women in an interview in 2012, when he was 18. Asked if there was an upper age limit with his love interests, he told The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine: ‘Any woman older than my mum Anne – who is 43.’
His latest romance comes a year after Miss Wilde split from actor fiance Jason Sudeikis. The pair, who had been dating since 2011, have a son, six, and four-year-old daughter. Miss Wilde was married to filmmaker Tao Ruspoli from 2003 until 2011.
Miss Wilde, who is a director as well an actress, hired Styles to replace Shia LaBeouf in her psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, which also stars actress Florence Pugh, 25.
Styles plays Jack, who is hiding a dark secret from his unhappy wife Alice, played by Miss Pugh, who discovers strange goings-on in their 1950s California neighbourhood.
The role marks Styles’s second feature film, following his debut in Christopher Nolan’s war epic Dunkirk.
Earlier this year Miss Wilde revealed her excitement at securing Styles for the film, telling US Vogue she ‘did a little victory dance... because we knew that he has a real appreciation for fashion and style’, adding that ‘some actors just don’t care’.
Styles is no stranger to flamboyant outfits and stoked controversy after posing in a ball gown on the cover of the magazine in November.
He said: ‘When you take away “there’s clothes for men and there’s clothes for women”, once you remove any barriers, obviously you open up the arena in which you can play.’ Styles added: ‘There’s so much joy to be had in playing with clothes.’