Scottish Daily Mail

Liz Earle, 61, took ten years off age to find love

- Daily Mail Reporter

THERE is many a tale of men who lie about their age on dating apps in the hope of meeting a younger woman.

But beauty entreprene­ur Liz Earle, 61, reversed the cliche when hunting online for a man following a divorce in her 50s.

She revealed how she took ten years off her age for her dating profile – apparently to great success, as she is now with a man 17 years her junior.

Ms Earle made the candid confession on the How To Be 60 podcast. She explained: ‘I was 59 at the time and I’d just done one of my genetic tests for my book and it came up as 39 so I thought, there’s quite a big difference, what am I going to do?

‘If I put 59, is he going to expect somebody who behaves in that way, perhaps there’s a perception to it?

‘So I split the difference and I put 49.’

After a handful of dates, she said ‘there was nobody really that sparked’ until she received a message from ‘quite an interestin­g younger guy’. She added that ‘a year later we’re about to have our anniversar­y’.

Ms Earle said that she ‘wanted to manage expectatio­ns in the best way but I did have to fess up very quickly’.

‘I did say and I was a bit nervous about it,’ she said.

The businesswo­man, who grew up in Portsmouth, founded Liz Earle Beauty in 1995 and has written more than 35 books on beauty, wellbeing and nutrition.

Ms Earle said her online search for a partner had not been without its hiccups. She switched to a dating website from an app after being blocked for supposedly impersonat­ing herself.

‘I was very honest: I uploaded pictures of myself [but] I just changed my name very slightly. Anyway I got blocked for impersonat­ing Liz Earle,’ she said.

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