TV and radio presenter Vanessa Feltz has opened up about her determination to find love again, despite a series of setbacks since her split from fiancé Ben Ofoedu last February. The 62 year old broadcaster shared her optimism for a new date she has lined up, expressing a ‘good feeling’ about the prospect.
In her column for the Mail on Sunday, Vanessa wrote: “If I had an ounce of sense, I’d say: ‘Never again! hang up my black lace balconette bra and matching G-string and give up. I haven’t and I won’t.
“I still think Mr Delightful is waiting out there somewhere.”
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Vanessa also mentioned her desire for companionship, saying: “I still need and want someone to turn to and say: ‘There’s a fox in the garden, when there’s a fox in the garden.’ I’m not ready to give up and eke out the rest of my days alone.”
Despite describing Tinder as a ‘no-go area’ for celebrities, she remains hopeful, stating: “In fact, there is another date in the offing. I have the glimmerings of a good feeling about this one. You never know,” reports the Express.
Vanessa, who was previously married to surgeon Michael Kurer with whom she has two daughters, reflected on her recent dating experiences, adding, “Writing this, I could describe myself as fresh from another dating disaster if the word ‘fresh’ wasn’t so blindingly inaccurate.
“It happened two nights ago and I’m pulverised, diminished and a little more desolate than I ever want to feel. To plough on with dating after a brace of bruising failures takes dollops of optimism.”
“You must trust the next bloke will emanate a shred of humour, gaze at you more longingly than at his apple crumble and exude enough pheromones to float your flipping boat.”
Vanessa has previously expressed her preference for younger men, stating that men tend to lose their appeal after the age of 55. In an article for the Mail on Sunday, she wrote: “In general, chaps fall off the fanciable precipice the minute they sail north of 55. They shrivel physically, intellectually and spiritually. Think Samantha’s older lover’s sagging buttocks giving her the ick – despite him giving her Cartier diamonds – in Sex and the City.
“Let’s be factual, not polite. It isn’t sexy hanging out with fellows who take an hour and a half to pee. Their toenails crumble. Their scalps flake through carefully combed wisps of frizzled hair.”