Finding love isn’t easy for me, says Izzard

EDDIE IZZARD announced in 2020 that she wanted ‘to be based in girl mode from now on’ and should be referred to using the pronouns ‘she’ and ‘her’.

Now, the comedian admits that finding love is a struggle.

‘I would like to start dating, but it’s complicated with me being a trans woman,’ Izzard tells me at a red carpet event at London’s BFI IMAX Waterloo.

‘It’s going to have to be a very confident and strong-minded woman who has a relationship with me.’

The wannabe Labour MP, 60 — who came dressed in a floral frock and high heels — was previously in a long-term relationship with singer, director and producer Sarah Townsend.

They met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1989 and Townsend directed the 2009 documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story.