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EXCLUSIVE: Actor James Norton was recently said to have enjoyed a date with pop star Lily Allen, but it appears that he is very much single after a cosy date night

James Norton has been spotted getting cosy with a mystery blonde woman. The Happy Valley star recently opened up about his split from his fiancée, Imogen Poots, last year after six years together.

But this summer, James sparked speculation that he was dating pop singer Lily Allen after the pair were seen enjoying a date night at a Charli xcx concert.

Now, the 39-year-old has been seen getting cosy with a mystery woman while enjoying a night out in London. A source revealed that the Grantchester star and his mystery woman made no secret that they were very fond of one another. The pair had been making the most of the recent heatwave while out in Shoreditch, east London.

Speaking to the Mirror, a source said: “James and his female pal certainly didn’t care who was looking. They were happy sitting outside the bar getting very cosy with one another despite the scorching temperatures across London.”

They added: “At one point, the woman was seen resting her hand on James’ bare knees as they engaged in a deep conversation. It’s a stark contrast from his recent date with Lily Allen, but it’s clear that he’s not short of female attention. ” Just last month, we revealed that James was “smitten” with Not Fair singer, Lily.

The pair are believed to have met on an exclusive dating app, used by high-profile people such as celebrities. James and Lily were spotted enjoying Charli’s performance at Lido Festival, east London last month and sources said they were very cosy with one another.

An insider said: “Lily was leaning into him at one point. She and James seemed really relaxed together, and she was really making him giggle. “

The pair were said to be drinking non-alcoholic beer, and that festival goers were doing double-takes when they saw them together. The onlooker explained that the Lido festival appeared to be the perfect first date opportunity, as there was something for everyone at the event.

The source went on to suggest that James and Lily may have met on the dating app, which she rejoined following the breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour.

Meanwhile, James recently confessed at Glastonbury Festival that he had believed he was going to settle down with his former fiancée Imogen. During a talk at the Silver Hayes, he said: “I got broken up with and it was massive.

“I thought I was going to have kids. The life I thought I was going to have disappeared at 38.” But he later went on to add that there was a silver lining to his heartbreak. “It was a gift in a weird roundabout way,” he said. James added: “She called it. She realised it wasn’t working. I’m crazily grateful for the pain she caused me.”

Noel and Liam Gallagher and older brother Paul were cute kids, and magic mum Peggy brought them up well, now new snaps show the brothers as adorable children

They haven’t always seemed so cuddly on stage or when getting into fights on their way to stardom. But here we see the Gallagher brothers Liam, Noel and Paul as loveable kids, in the years growing up before they became rock’n’roll stars who play Cardiff this weekend.

Peggy met compatriot Tommy, originally from County Meath just north of Dublin and they married in Chorlton-on-Medlock in 1965 and initially lived in the inner-city Manchester area of Longsight before moving to Burnage.

They had three children, the oldest being Paul Anthony Gallagher, along with Noel Thomas David Gallagher who was born on May 29, 1967 and much later William John Paul Gallagher, who would become known as Liam, on September 21, 1972.

Looking back, eldest Paul said: “We had bowl heads, knitted jumpers, little shorts. She used to knit our clothes. Imagine you’ve got no choice. You couldn’t say ‘I don’t want that mam’, because she just spent four years knitting your jumper. We were dressed identical. Maybe it was cheaper to do two instead of one. ”

The family later moved to Ashburn Avenue In Burnage shortly after Liam was born. But by now Peggy and Tommy’s relationship was not a good one and in 1984, Peggy left Tommy and took the boys to live in a council house nearby.

On her sons, Peggy recalls: “Liam arrived five and a half years after, I don’t know, I think there was always that bit of jealousy with Liam and Noel, because there was only Paul and Noel for so long, I idolized Paul and Noel because I had only two of them. Noel was absolutely beautiful when he was a baby. Then, of course, Liam came along, takes the limelight. You could tell the disagreement was there with them. ”

Noel insists despite sharing a bedroom with his brother they were not close, so the rivalry was more of a thing once the band began.

He says: “I didn’t hang around with Liam until I joined the band, although I shared a room with him five years as a generation apart all his mates when I was 15. They’re all 10, you know. So that’s massive. I’m leaving school at 15. He’s 10 years old. You’re fucking smoking weed at 15, he’s just out of short pants, so there is no relationship. ”

Liam responded in the film Supersonic by saying: “I think we got on. I think he was a bit of a stoner, a bit of a loner, one of them people that you’d throw stones at. He had a guitar, so he was copping for it, you know what I mean. One of them walking around with his guitar, with his weird mates. Our Paul was a mod, so he had a bit more about him. He wasn’t so weird like Noel was.”

Peggy left her abusive husband and brought the kids up single-handedly. Liam said: “Any good that comes out of me is all from Peggy and all her sisters and brothers. They were a good, close bunch of people. I never miss my father because my mother was both a mother and a father figure. She was there with the cuddle. She was also there with the whack. I’m generalising dad’s there because dads give cuddles as well. but if I needed bringing down she could do that as well as elevate me. ”

Oasis were formed in 1991 when Liam was still a teenager. He remains very close to his mum and took her on holiday earlier this year in the build up to the Oasis comeback.

They will begin the new live tour with two dates in Cardiff this weekend before heading to Manchester, London and Edinburgh.