Jim Davidson, 72, dating Simon Cowell’s ex, 60, just weeks after cancelling sixth wedding to 23-years-younger fiancee
JIM Davidson has reportedly found love once again with Maria Rice-Mundy, a beauty pageant queen who previously dated Simon Cowell.
It comes just a month after the comedian and former Celebrity Big Brother star, 72, split from his fiancée and called off their planned nuptials.
In September, The Sun revealed how Jim had cancelled his wedding – which was set to be his sixth time tying the knot – to partner of three years Natasha, who is 23 years his junior.
But back on the dating horse already, Jim is said to have been seeing new partner Maria, 60, for “a few weeks”.
A source told The Daily Mail: “Jim’s already fallen big time and posted a picture of her on his Facebook.
“They’ve been on a few dinner dates and she’s very giggly around him. Jim doesn’t mess about when it comes to the ladies.”
The Sun has reached out to Jim’s representative for comment.
Maria, a mum of two, dated music mogul Simon Cowell back in the 1980s.
Jim has been married five times and it was set to be six before he called off his wedding to ex Natasha.
The pair were set to wed at Hampton Court Palace – the home of home of Henry VIII – and lost their £10k deposit when they jilted.
Speaking to The Sun in September, Jim revealed: “There’s no bad blood. Natasha is the most caring and dutiful person.
“It’s not like we’re splitting up because we don’t love each other anymore.
“It’s a sort of a grown-up separation. The timing’s not right because she has so much time for everybody and how can you knock that?”
He added at the time: “We still speak every other day, but whether we’ll ever find room to see one another again, I don’t know.
“She is very dutiful. She puts family first. And of course she has three children and now a grandson as well.
“She is just so busy and so I’m very busy as well.”
Dad-of-five Jim met Natasha, who is 23 years his junior, at the Southampton Boat Show in 2023 soon after the breakdown of his fifth marriage.
It was shortly after his split from fifth wife Michelle Cotton, whom he was with for 14 years.
Jim first married his childhood sweetheart Sue Walpole back in 1971, but the union lasted just a year.
He then went on to wed Julie Gullick in 2981, before they divorced in 1986.
TV presenter Alison Holloway was next, but she only stayed married to Jim for two years.
His fourth wife was Page 3 model Tracy Hilton, and they were together for ten years.
Jim’s most recent marriage – before getting engaged to Natasha – was Michelle, whom he married in 2009 and split from in 2023.