Dear Caroline Flack,
I see you have been ‘spotted’ with a younger man? Fourteen years younger to be precise. He is, however, old enough to legally allow you to take an interest in him, and he is also too old to be your son – just – so that’s good news.
I am sure people are imagining that this came about because you unsuspectingly straddled him and manipulated the poor boy into making you feel good about yourself? No one wants to think of young Harry being predatory. You are an older woman, all people want to think is that you seduced him – the poor, credulous victim of your saggy old boobies and desperate, over eager fanny.
Well, Caroline. I have met Mr Harry Styles (one 5th of boy band One Direction) and I can confirm without equivocation that he is neither unsuspecting nor innocent. Nor is he a normal 17 year old (I might not write that again if it’s OK, it looks younger on paper). Due to his famous status he has already lived a life most thirty year olds haven’t experienced and therefore we have to isolate him as a special case and not apply the same ‘HE IS TOO YOUNG GET OFF HIM YOU HORNY OLD SLUT’ associations with this particular situation. I have also met you and can confirm that your boobies are neither saggy, nor old. So congratulations on both counts.
When those around you offer the inevitable advice to ‘be careful’ I suggest you revert back to them, a slightly shouty tone intact, and say ‘be careful of what? Being mind numbingly boring, making safe decisions and missing out on something that is potentially really really fun?’ Then swish around, making sure your hit them around the face with your hair, and drift off to the nearest off license to buy him his cigarettes.
Caroline, I personally am all for you and Harry Styles being ‘good friends’ and think you should persist merrily with your new found ‘friendship’, allowing your heart to go in the one direction (sorry) that it feels is right. Just don’t get caught getting him drunk, at least not until his 18th birthday. If only in that respect, be careful.
Much Love, Dawn x






