Bean lands a new girl, Sharpe-ish
DESPITE four wives and four painful divorces — and a year after he announced that marriage was not for him — heart-throb Sean Bean has found a new, and much younger, companion.
Just four months ago, Bean, 53, was arrested and fingerprinted over claims of abusive phone calls and text messages sent to his last wife, Georgina Sutcliffe.
The charges were later dropped and now the actor is to be found squiring a stunning Russian brunette who looks remarkably similar to the former Mrs Bean.
Yet unlike Georgina and her two predecessors, Abigail Cruttenden and Melanie Hill, striking Victoria Golembiovskaya is not an actress. She is a successful art curator who two years ago co- organised a £20 million art sale in London.
The other evening Bean escorted Victoria to a Vogue magazine party in Mayfair, a curtain-raiser for London Fashion Week, and happily introduced her to guests as his new girlfriend.
He tells me: ‘We bumped into each other a couple of months ago in Russia. Victoria is shy about going public but I am happy to say that we met and hit it off at a party for my new film, Soldiers Of Fortune.’
Sheffield-born Sean, a father-ofthree best known for ITV’s popular Sharpe series, adds with a smile: ‘We are getting along very nicely — and we share a love of vodka!’
Bean’s first wife was hairdresser Debra James, his school sweetheart. They married when he was just 21. The marriage ended when he moved to London to study at RADA and he wed actress Melanie, but that union collapsed after seven years and two daughters.
He then married Abigail whom he met on the set of Sharpe and they had a daughter in 1998, but divorced two years later.
Bean met Georgina in 2003 when she was managing the bar in a West End theatre in which he was playing Macbeth and they married in 2008. But two years later they too divorced.
Last year, while insisting he had given up on marriage, preferring to spend time in his garden, Bean added: ‘Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn’t believe in love.’