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I’ve had my fill of toy boys — now I’m dating men over 50

For Katie Glass, 43, Anne Hathaway’s age-gap rom-com brought back memories of her days as a cougar

Katie Glass: “The plus side of dating older men has been feeling looked after”
Katie Glass: “The plus side of dating older men has been feeling looked after”
MONTANA LOWERY
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I can’t think of anything more annoying than having a toy boy. Although right now being a cougar is in vogue: there’s Sam Taylor-Johnson with her younger, Bond-hopeful husband, Aaron (24 years her junior); Kate Moss’s on-again, off-again romance with Nikolai von Bismark (37 to her 50); Sienna Miller, 42, with her boyish beau, Oli Green, 27; Madonna, 65 with … whoever the latest sapling is that she’s seeing.

And now there’s Anne Hathaway’s age-gap rom-com, The Idea of You, which I sat down to watch with a sense of déjà vu. The story of a woman on the cusp of 40, Solène (Hathaway), who falls for the 24-year-old boy band star Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), felt familiar. Not because I’ve dated pop stars,