Ulrika Jonsson says men who take her out on dates had better be ready to leap into bed by the end of the night as she wants to live her life like someone in their 20s.
The 54-year-old TV legend is on the look out for love – and trying her luck both via dating apps and through E4’s reality series Celebs Go Dating.
The star – who has been married three times and is a mum of four; son Cameron, 27, daughter Bo, 21, second daughter Martha, 17, and 13-year-old son Malcolm – also says she won’t be polite for the sake of ease on dates either.
Opening up about her new outlook on life and love, Ulrika says that sex is the obvious outcome for any date that anyone ever goes on.
She told The Sun: "A good date is what? One that ends in sex? That is why people are hooking up. Let’s not pretend."
Looking back on her own life, Ulrika says she is hoping to catch up on lost time in her 50s after dedicating her time to her family and career in her 20s and 30s.
The Swedish star shot to fame as a weather girl on ITV at the tail end of the 1980s before going on to carve out an impressive presenting career in the ‘90s.
She married her first husband, John Turnbull, in 1990 at the age of 23 and welcomed her first child when she was 27.
She divorced John in 1995 and went on to date footballer Stan Collymore, then later had a romance with German hotel manager Marcus Kempen – who she shares Bo with.
She embarked on a high-profile affair with former England football manager, and fellow Swede, Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2002 and that same year fell for a contestant named Lance Gerrard-Wright from the dating show Mr Right – who she married in 2003, divorced in 2006, and shares her daughter Martha.
She married American advertising executive Brian Monet in 2008 but divorced in 2019 and together they share son Malcolm.
Ulrika says that “everyone” else she knew was having fun in their 20s and 30s but she wasn’t as she was focused on her career and raising her children.
Determined to “have fun” now, the star is trying multiple avenues to find love.
She continued in her chat with The Sun: "I will still do dating apps. I am going to be brutally f***ing honest. If you can’t take it mate, that’s it.
"You do that whole thing of, 'I’ve got to be polite'...no, definitely not. Not my thing. People want to meet up for sex, that’s one thing. But I might not want that."
However, she also confessed she is “happy in my own company” and doesn’t think she wants to settle down or find ‘the one’ again.
Ulrika’s time on Celebs Go Dating has so far been a disaster, however – with her first date of the series telling her she should have got up and left.
