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LOUISE ON HER SON GOING TO UNI AND HER NEW MAN

- EMMELINE SAUNDERS

WALKING down the street just a few feet away from each other, the sight of Louise Redknapp and the new man in her life brought a smile to many a face.

Finally, there was happiness for the woman who had suffered so much heartbreak when she split from former footballer husband Jamie after 19 years together.

And Louise cannot help but have a smile on her face too when the subject of businessman Drew Michael, 39, comes up, although she remains coy about their romance.

"It's so difficult with your personal life... it's all good," she smiles.

When we catch up on the 30th anniversary of her 1990s girl band Eternal's first single Stay, it is a few hours since she was spotted leaving The Groucho Club in Soho, Central London, with Drew on Monday.

And it seems she is keeping her cards close to her chest for now.

"Yeah, I've got nothing else to say on it, everything about it has already been written," Louise, 48, adds.

There have been plenty of eyes on Louise's love life since her split from Jamie six years ago.

And although she has been open to the idea of meeting someone, the singer and West End star has wanted life to stay consistent for the sake of her two teenage sons: Charley, who is 19 and attending college in the US, and Beau, 15.

Since their divorce in 2017, Jamie, 50, has remarried and had a baby with model Frida Andersson, 38, while Louise maintained staying single would be best for their boys.

"I've felt this as a mum and, to say this in the most sort of respectful way, my boys' lives changed dramatically and then it changed again when obviously Jamie got married and had a family," she said earlier this year.

"Their life changed and I felt like I needed to be their one staple."

It is a mantra that has carried her through the wrench of Charley leaving the UK for a new life Stateside, where he plays rugby for the University of Arizona.