Paul Hollywood ‘whisks his barmaid lover, 22, away on €12k getaway’

IT was all very cloak and dagger … and then the photos emerged on Instagram. Just hours after it was reported that Paul Hollywood had taken his new girlfriend to Mauritius on holiday, she posted two pictures of herself looking suntanned and in swimwear, right.

The Great British Bake Off host, 52, has whisked Summer MonteysFullam – who is 30 years his junior – off to a ten-day getaway in a villa at the €1,200-a-night Four Seasons.

Hollywood reportedly arranged for the barmaid to join him in America where he was working.

But she told friends she was flying out alone, giving no hints that she was meeting the star.

Their break comes four months after representatives for Hollywood denied they were an item.

An onlooker told a Sunday newspaper: ‘They looked extremely happy together. Despite looking more like father and daughter, when they did stroll around together they left people in no doubt that they were a couple.’

The pair are said to have grown close after his 20-year marriage fell apart last year.

Hollywood met wife Alexandra, pictured right, with whom he has a son, in 1995 – the same year Ms Monteys-Fullam was born.

He reportedly met the barmaid when he arranged a birthday party for Alexandra at the Duke William pub in Kent, where she was working.

Hollywood’s representatives did not respond to a request for comment last night.