Natalie Imbruglia finds love with David Walliams
February 02, 2008
With a face worth a fortune and a newly bare wedding ring finger, the chances of Natalie Imbruglia staying single for long were always going to be as slim as the starlet's trim figure.
But social snaps of the former Neighbours actress posing with Little Britain funnyman David Walliams - and his mother, no less - have fuelled rumours she has quickly found a new man.
Less than a month after announcing the end of her marriage to Silverchair's Daniel Johns, music circles were yesterday buzzing with talk she is moving on - with the UK comic by her side.
Noted for being a ladies man, Walliams chose an A-list gala for cystic fibrosis to introduce Imbruglia to his mother Kathleen.
The stellar fundraiser, at which Imbruglia acted as patron, drew plenty of headlines in London yesterday, with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah in attendance, while David Beckham snubbed the event.
But it was the juicy details of a potential new romance between the Torn singer and comedian which captivated the gossip columns. Walliams and Imbruglia had previously denied they were anything more than "just friends" despite persistent sightings of the couple together last year. They were first forced to reject reports of an affair almost two years ago, when they were snapped dining together while her husband Johns was working away, in Australia.
London party spies, who mix in the same artsy social circles as the pair, were convinced of the couple's chemistry in July, when she reportedly spent the night at a mutual friend's wedding at fashionable hotel, Claridges "draped over Walliams". Walliams has something of a fetish for Aussie women having squired several single gals about town during his brief trip to Sydney last February. In the space of a fortnight, the smitten Little Britain star caught up with his Aussie ex, poster girl Emily Scott, wined and dined "serious athlete" Candice Falzon and openly snogged a local cocktail waitress at the after-party for Billy Crystal's one-man show.
Reps for Imbruglia and Walliams were unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
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