Cher Reveals Why She Dates Younger Men and Turned Down Elvis

Cher completely will get that it’s a enjoyable parlor recreation to make jokes about her courting a lot youthful males. However the joke is on you, as a result of the 77-year-old ageless pop surprise has the easiest motive for romancing males half her age.

“I’m actually shy once I’m not working and sort of shy round males,” she advised Jennifer Hudson on Wednesday (Could 1) on the singer’s daytime speak present. However right here’s the actual kicker: “And the rationale I am going out with younger males is as a result of males my age or older — nicely, now they’re all useless — however earlier than they simply by no means, they have been all the time terrified to strategy me and youthful males have been the one ones that…”

“They’re daring,” Hudson helped her out, with mom of two Cher laughing, “Yeah! Raised by girls like me!” The subject got here up as a result of the “Imagine” singer has not too long ago been linked with 38-year-old music exec Alexander “A.E.” Edwards. Cher went Insta official with Edwards in Nov. 2022 with a pic of them holding fingers. When requested if he was her “new man,” she posted a smiling emoji, shutting down haters feedback on their 40-year age hole by saying “love doesn’t know math” then doubling-down on that emotion in January after posting one other snuggly shot captioned “Love is Love.”

She additionally confirmed that she’d as soon as turned down a date with Elvis Presley, additionally for good motive. “It was as a result of I used to be nervous and I knew of the individuals round him and it wasn’t that they have been unhealthy individuals, it’s simply that I used to be sort of nervous of his popularity,” she defined.

Cher additionally talked about how she nonetheless has it so collectively at her age, giving her mother credit score for good genes, saying “I stole my mother’s voice and used it to develop into Cher.” She additionally revealed that Tupac Shakur is now certainly one of her favourite artists. “I used to be so stunned by the depth of the phrases,” she stated of the late rapper she was launched to by Edwards.

The interview additionally touched on which of her songs are her favourite — sure “Imagine” is on the checklist — and what she can be if she hadn’t develop into who she is. “I can’t consider some other occupation that I might have been good at,” she stated as Hudson prompt stylist or mannequin; Cher famous that she modeled for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar in the beginning of her profession, which late husband Sonny Bono didn’t like as a result of he was “actually, actually jealous.”

Watch Cher on the Jennifer Hudson Present beneath.