I Was Duped By A Cocaine Casanova!

Susie Elelman admits she’s given up on love after her toyboy lover was arrested in a $245 million drug bust.

- Craig Bennett

Bubbly TV star Susie Elelman is still shaking her head in disbelief after seeing the handsome face of the musician and part-time model she was dating flash up on the news recently.

“To say my jaw hit the floor with a thud is an understatement,” reveals the usually unflappable 63-year-old presenter.

“I was getting ready to attend a movie screening when I heard something about a yacht loaded with 700 kilos of cocaine being seized at Lake Macquarie on the NSW Central Coast.

“Then I heard Craig Lembke’s name mentioned among the three alleged drug traffickers. I looked up and, to my shock, it was the Craig I’ve been very casually seeing, on and off, since July.

“I stood staring at the screen and thought, ‘Well, that explains why I haven’t heard from him for weeks’. ”

Susie says she met Craig, 47, in June when he emailed her to ask her on a date, after hearing her lament a personal dating drought on morning television.

“I’d appeared on Studio 10 and when the topic of dating came up, I explained that I had become ‘invisible’ to men – something I’d felt since I was about 55,” she explains. “There just wasn’t much interest in me.