Singer Louise Redknapp has said she is ‘very lucky’ to have met her boyfriend as she opened up on their relationship.

Formerly part of the band Eternal, Louise began dating Drew Michael in 2023. She said that the London businessmen, who she is nine years older than, is ‘great with her kids’.

Louise, 50, met him six years after splitting with ex-footballer Jamie Redknapp, reports Gloucestershire Live.

Louise told Lisa Snowdon and Andy Goldstein’s podcast ‘We’re not getting any younger’ that Michael is “great with my boys, he’s a great friend to them.” She added: “He’s just a really great guy I feel very lucky to have met him.”

Addressing the age gap in her relationship, the mum said: “We live in a a society where if it’s the other way round it doesn’t get talked about but it does get brought up”. Redknapp divorced the League Of Their Own presenter and former footballer Redknapp after 19 years of marriage, during which time they had two sons – Charlie, 19, and Beau, 15.

The singer continued to gush about her new beau saying things in her love life “are super good and its just nice enjoying somebody and someone’s company and having a nice time” adding it is “all positive”. She told the podcasters she has “learnt to enjoy the good things- I really have.”

But she made it clear it’s not all sunshine and rainbows adding: “Of course we all worry about things and what’s next but I’m just really focusing on the now which has taken me a really long time to do.”

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The Angel Of Mine singer said that she manifested her relationship. One song on her new album Confessions is called manifesting and it’s “totally” about Michael.

She continued: “I’ve got a song on the album called manifesting right? And its totally about him.”

She said even though the pair “laugh about the song all the time” there is a seed of truth in it, and she believes she manifested what she was looking for in a partner.

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“And we laugh all the time and its not about him as such but it was like manifesting what you’re looking for and what you need. The whole song is really tongue in cheek – I didn’t manifest him at all but I think you meet people at the right time for you in your life.”

It comes after Louise admitted the divorce gave her the freedom to return to her first love of music.

“The kids were getting older, I was well aware I needed to find something for myself, I couldn’t just keep on kind of just being there existing – I’m an entertainer,” she previously told Virgin Radio’s Mark Wogan.