‘Romance’ that was news to Natalie

PETER CROUCH, married to model Abbey Clancy, was once asked what he would be if he had not become a football star. ‘A virgin,’ he replied.

Perhaps the same could be applied to chrome dome musician Moby, if he hadn’t become rich and famous?

In his new autobiography Then It Fell Apart he details a sexual liaison with actress Christina Ricci, pursuing pop star Lana Del Ray and dating 18-year-old Natalie Portman when he was 35.

News to her! ‘My recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school,’ she said this week. They met at one of his shows and he said ‘let’s be friends’.

On subsequent dates they kissed. Only later did she ‘realise’ ‘this was an older man who was interested in me in a way that felt inappropriate’.

Neither of them come out of this well. When Moby was a star, Natalie was happy to be with him. Now she doesn’t want to be associated with him. ‘I don’t blame her,’ he said this week. ‘But it happened.’

In other news, Johnny Depp blames ex-wife Amber Heard for his severed finger. And they say true ( celebrity) romance is dead!