Although Cher, 77, doesn't often get seen out in public with her fella, the lovebirds who are separated by almost four decades have been married since 2022.
Pop icon Cher, 78, has been in the music business longer than some people have been alive — a staggering 61 years — but her stardom is as high as it’s ever been. And on Friday 29 November, she’s scheduled to sprinkle some jazz on Graham Norton’s chat show with stories from her most recent memoir.
But she's not the only one who's getting a little thrill: The songbird's romance is thriving, courtesy of her toy boy Alexander Edwards. Edward is a whole 40 years younger than Cher at 37 years old, but that hasn’t stopped the twosome from falling in love. Despite the age difference, the couple — who raised eyebrows when they were spotted hand-in-hand back in November 2022 — if you catch my drift — have been in a steady relationship.
In a candid talk with OK! magazine last year, Cher raved of her music exec romance: ‘He’s a dear but I haven’t hardly been able to see him. And it’s like the in and out, kiss, ‘hi baby’ and we get to have a dinner or something like that. But he’s coming to some fashion shows with me here [Paris], which is a really nice thing to do because he doesn’t care about that stuff as much, even though he loves fashion.” He simply went to take my hand.”
Alexander shot into the limelight following paparazzi photos showcasing their close relationship in November 2022. But Cher, despite criticism over the couple’s age difference, has not been carefully defiant, hurling a series of no-nonsense retorts on social media to put a tin can over the mouths of any disbelievers.
Then Cher took to Instagram to make it all official with a post that simply read “Alexander”. When someone asked if he was her “new man,” she replied with a love heart emoji. As for the age difference, she playfully reminded, “Love doesn’t know math.”
Alexander has experience in the celebrity dating arena; he dated model Amber Rose for three years before they called it quits in August 2021. Amber claimed on her Instagram that he had slept with 12 other people, which he later confessed. The exes share one son.
Amber insists her child is better off with Cher and Alexander together ( Image: Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
Amber opened up about her dynamic with Andrew and Cher’s involvement in their son’s life on The Jason Lee Podcast in March 2024. “I’m just so happy that [Alexander is] with Cher because it makes things stable for when [our] son goes over there,” she said, noting that things at Cher’s are not chaotic.
Alexander works as an executive at Universal Music Group, mingling with the stars Post Malone, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande. They first crossed paths at Paris Fashion Week in September 2022, and while Cher and Alex weren’t photographed together, Cher was seen with Alex’s pal Tyga.
One year later, in September 2023, the couple turned heads when they turned up at Paris Fashion Week (PFW) looking every inch the besotted pair. They sat front row at the Balmain Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show.
Cher explained how she started messaging Edwards during an episode of Chicken Shop Date with Amelia Dimoldenberg. I left to go to Switzerland and he texted me.” He said, ‘Where are you going? ‘ I said, ‘I am going to Switzerland, I got a little bit tired. And he wrote me back, ‘Well, get some rest babyyy.’ And I went, he doesn’t know me well enough to put three y’s on baby,” recalled the hitmaker.
"I was kind of pissed off. And he just started texting me.”
Cher jokingly owned up to how her own love advice went ignored when she said, “I told my friends, don't fall in love with a younger man, we're too old, and don't ever fall in love by text. There goes that theory."