Superman finds his real-life Lois Lane: a stunning British university student, aged 19
AS A beautiful blonde in her first few weeks of university, Tara King will undoubtedly have caught the eye of countless young suitors. The bad news for them is that they’ll need a pocketful of kryptonite to get anywhere near her.
For unknown to her fellow freshers, the 19-year-old is spoken for – and the lucky man is Superman star Henry Cavill, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Miss King was spotted cosying up to the Hollywood heart-throb in the crowd at Twickenham as England played Australia in the Rugby World Cup earlier this month.
Dressed in an England jersey and sporting a beard, Cavill, 32 – star of the 2013 film Man Of Steel – held his arm around the Bristol University history of art student as they chatted and joked together during England’s defeat. The couple are believed to have met in August at fashionable London nightclub Mahiki. According to social media, they have been seeing each other ever since.
Privately-educated Miss King headed off to university last month after leaving the home she shares with her mother Toni, 50, an investment banker, and PE teacher father Jonathan, also 50. She was educated at New Hall School in Chelmsford, Essex, where fees for fulltime boarders are £27,000a-year. A source said: ‘At school she was really popular, especially with the boys, and always having a laugh. She was very sporty and played hockey and netball.’
Cavill, who most recently starred in Guy Ritchie’s action film A Man From U.N.C.L.E, has previously dated a string of famous women in his quest to find his real-life Lois Lane, including American actress Gina Carano, 33, and Kaley Cuoco, 30, the star of TV comedy The Big Bang Theory.
The actor, who is originally from Jersey but was educated at £33,000-a-year Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, recently admitted not having much joy with the other sex as he grew up. ‘I was a pretty awkward kid and really didn’t have girls fancying me,’ he told Cosmopolitan magazine.
When asked about her daughter’s romance yesterday, Miss King’s mother said: ‘That’s something you would need to speak to her about, not me.’ Cavill’s publicist did not respond to requests for comment.