Pointless host Richard Osman, 48, has been spotted with his new girlfriend Sumudu Jayatilaka, 39, during a London stroll.
As the duo were seen together for the first time, the TV favourite was instantly recognisable by his neck-craning height as he headed out with the pint-sized singer - who is an incredible 17 inches shorter than her beau.
Daily Mail's Sebastian Shakespeare revealed last week that that two years after splitting from Absolute radio host Emily Dean, Richard has found love with jazz musician and Ronnie Scott’s star Sumudu Jayatilaka.
No tall order: Pointless host Richard Osman, 48, has been spotted with his new girlfriend Sumudu Jayatilaka, 39, during a London stroll
The star, who separated from the mother of his two teenage children 12 years ago, brought Sumudu as his date to the Fitzdares’ ‘Sports Quiz You Can’t Google’, which he hosted last week at crooner James Blunt’s Chelsea pub.
‘We met through mutual friends. I just looked down and there she was,’ he tells me. ‘I’m always looking down because everybody is short to me.’
That is no tall tale: at 6ft 7in, he towers over Yorkshire-born Sumudu, 39, a singer-songwriter of Sri Lankan descent who is only 5ft 2in. ‘We don’t really notice the height difference, though,’ he insists.
Last December Sumudu, who has sung with the likes of Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick and Elvis Costello, made an appearance on Richard’s game show when she performed in the Pointless Christmas special.
Happy days! As the duo were seen together for the first time, the TV favourite was instantly recognisable by his neck-craning height as he headed out with the pint-sized singer - who is an incredible 17 inches shorter than her beau
No stranger to the limelight, she made her BBC TV debut at 15 performing one of her own songs, and, while studying medicine at Sheffield University, went on to sing with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Like Richard, whose older brother Mat became a rock star as bassist with the Britpop band Suede, she enjoys a royal connection having sung live in front of the Queen for the Millennium countdown celebrations at the Dome in London.
Rhythm, however, doesn’t come as naturally to Richard. ‘They asked me if I would do Strictly Come Dancing this year,’ he adds.
Way back when: he previously found love with Emily Dean (pictured, left, and, right, with the quiz show star)
‘I told them honestly I don’t have time to do all the training — and have the affair.’
Richard won over hordes of female fans after he began presenting Pointless alongside comedian Alexander Armstrong in 2009.
In 2011 he was voted top of Heat magazine's 'Weird Crush' poll and has previously admitted that he has been proposed to on Twitter.
Two years later in an interview with Radio Times, Richard revealed that his teenage daughter was mortified by his new sex-symbol status.
Profile: Who is jazz performer Sumudu Jayatilaka?
The performer is of Sri Lankan descent and was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She moved to Scunthorpe, where she spent her childhood, and now lives in London.
Sumudu is a master of many instruments, having learned from a young age. She plays the piano, violin, guitar, flute and accordion among others.
She was just 15 when she made her BBC Television debut singing an original song. While studying medicine at Sheffield University, she was vocal chair of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra from 1997 to 2000. She recorded her debut album 'Who’s Blue' in 1999.
The jazz musician (pictured) is dating Pointless star Richard Osman, despite the huge height difference
Sumudu sang live in front of the Queen for the Millennium countdown at the Dome in London. The musician also sang 'Alfie' for Burt Bacharach & Hal David at London’s Royal Albert Hall. She appeared on the bill alongside Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello and Sir Bob Geldof.
Sumudu has sung for Disney at the BBC Proms in Hyde Park and has held residencies at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho, London.
Her 2011 album 'Waiting For You' was made with Grammy Award winning producer Kipper. Sumudu was a featured artist on the soundtrack of 'Anima', a film written by Fabrizio Ferri in which she also appeared.
She recorded her part of the soundtrack at Abbey Road with the London Symphony Orchestra. Acts she has opened for include Mica Paris, Curtis Stigers, Ron Sexsmith and Mark King.
Source: National Youth Jazz Orchestra
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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