I'm gonna make you... wife No3: David Essex engaged to musical co-星／主役にする 26 years his junior

By Ben Todd
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With his cheeky grin and big blue 注目する，もくろむs, David Essex sent women into a frenzy in his Seventies heyday.

井戸／弁護士席, ro ck-on, the boy’s still got it. Essex, who will turn 63 this month, has become engaged to a pretty brunette of 37.

The grandfather of three met Susan Hallam-Wright at the end of 2008 on the 始める，決める of his 最新の musical, All The Fun Of The Fair ? 現在／一般に showing in the West End in London.?

New love: David Essex and Susan Hallam-Wright are believed to be living together in his Covent Garden flat

New love: David Essex and Susan Hallam-Wright are believed to be living together in his Covent Garden flat

Ironically, she was playing the girlfriend of the son of Essex’s character, fairground owner Levi.

The couple became engaged at Christmas and are now believed to be living together in his flat in Covent Garden.

Earlier this week, they returned there after a supermarket shopping trip. A theatre source said: ‘They are blissfully happy ? very much in love.?

大きくする ? Romance: Essex on the set of his musical with Susan, circled

Romance: Essex on the 始める，決める of his musical with Susan, circled

David Essex in his Seventies heyday

David Essex in his Seventies heyday

'It hasn’t, though, gone unnoticed that in the musical David plays Susan’s 見込みのある father-in-法律, somewhat 最高潮の場面ing the age gap between them.’

The curly brown hair beloved of his teenage fans may have been 取って代わるd by a grey cropped 削減（する）, but Essex still has his looks.

Another source said: ‘He’s very much a silver fox.’

His big break （機の）カム in 1971 when he was cast as the lead in the West End 攻撃する，衝突する Godspell.

'激しく揺する and film stardom soon followed. His pop 攻撃する，衝突するs 含むd 激しく揺する On, 持つ／拘留する Me の近くに and Gonna Make You A 星／主役にする. At the 高さ of his fame police would use dustbin lids to 保護物，者 themselves from his 女性（の） fans.

Essex told the Mail: ‘I met Susan about a year-and-a-half ago when we did the All The Fun Of The Fair 小旅行する.

'There’s no planned date for a wedding ? but we’re very happy.’ Essex has been married twice before.

'He 結婚する childhood sweetheart Maureen Neal in 1970 and they had two children. Although they separated in 1979 they did not 離婚 for another 17 years.

'In 1984, he fell for U.S. singer Carlotta Christy and they had twin sons. They 結婚する in 1997 and 離婚d in 2008.

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