Countdown Susie: I can’t even think about dating
SHE regularly astounds Countdown contestants and fans as the show’s brilliant wordsmith in ‘Dictionary Corner’.
But there’s one word that’s currently not on Susie Dent’s lips: dating. The lexicographer tells You magazine today that after her split last year from her husband of 20 years, Paul Atkins, romance is ‘absolutely not on my radar’.
She reveals that friends tried to set her up recently with a housemaster from top school Eton College, but says: ‘I’m not looking for anyone at all. I’ve always liked my own company.’
And she wouldn’t dream of looking for love on an online dating service such as Tinder, saying: ‘I wouldn’t, for a second, think of putting myself on a dating app.’
The Oxford graduate, 57, admits that as she gets older, she feels ‘invisible’ to the other sex. ‘I quite like that the pressure is off… I don’t really feel like I need someone.’
Now she is focused on her children, Lucy, 22, and Thea, 14. ‘My
daughters are my life,’ she says.