Katie Couric has come out to the press for the first time and given us all insights into her relationship with a toyboy who is 17 years younger than her. She has been seeing her new guy Brooks Perlin, who is an executive office at a building company, but despite at the beginning having to put up with commentators who dismissed their relationship as merely a ‘fling’ the couple have gone the distance and stayed together.

Couric may be 54 but she looks fantastic for her age, and must have had lots of toyboys after her. She has reached a point where she has begun to even consider marriage to her younger suitor. They met back in 2006 – Brooks was 31 at the time, they began chatting at a charity fund raiser. It didn’t take long for the pair to realise that they had a special chemistry and after numerous dinner dates they started to get more serious.

Its great seeing a so called ‘cougar dating’ (as the term in the States goes) couple going strong and as we predicted late last year 2011 has seen a string of new relationships featuring older women and younger men. Couric didn’t even realise about the age difference at the tome and although it was a bit of a shock they kept seeing each other and it looks like they have been proved right!