She may play a rather out of control character in the Channel 4 show ‘Shameless’ but one things for sure, Tina Malone has finally found happiness with a new toyboy and they seem to be ready to spend the rest of their life together. She has turned her life around from being a self confessed junk food addict to managing to lose over 6 stone she has snared her younger man and happier than ever.

There seems to be a recent trend towards so called ‘cougar dating‘ with shows such as Sex and The City and Cougar Town becoming prime time series (sex and the city was a massive ratings winner for Channel 4 – even with their own Hollywood blockbuster movies following in their wake. Only last year Catherine Zeta-Jones fell into the fold with her film ‘The Rebound’ – a story about a 40 something divorcee who falls for her child’s babysitter. Catherine had previously been quite scathing about younger men older women relationships and but it seemed that she changed her mind.

Tina managed to get her weight down due to the use of a gastric band, but if you speak to most younger men the story is that they find older women very attractive. Its often a breath of fresh air for a women of say 40 or 50 to be chatted up in a bar by younger men / toyboys. Online toyboy dating has really taken off and it seems that its here to stay!