'On paper it's kind of ridiculous!' Cher, 76, pokes fun at age gap with toyboy ... trends now

Cher poked fun at the yawning 40-year age gap between her and her new boyfriend, music executive Alexander Edwards. 

The 76-year-old singer held forth about her 36-year-old toyboy during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week. 

'Well, on paper it's kind of ridiculous,' Cher admitted: 'But in real life we get along great. He's fabulous and I don't give men qualities that they don't deserve.'

She hailed Alexander as 'very kind' and added: 'He's very smart, he's very talented and he's really funny so - and I think he's quite handsome.' 

Cher noted: 'If I hadn't met younger men in my life, I would have never had a date, because older men just didn't like me all that much, do you know what I mean?'

The If I Could Turn Back Time singer had 'a couple boyfriends' who were 'hovering around my age' but she felt that 'they just didn't like me for some reason.'

Cher shot to fame in the 1960s alongside her mentor and first husband Sonny Bono, whom she met when he was 28 and she was just 16.

By the mid-1970s their romance crumbled into a rancorous divorce, which she filed for on grounds of 'involuntary servitude.'

On Kelly's show she said: 'Younger men don't care if you're, you know, funny or outrageous and wanna do stupid things and, you know, and you have a strong personality, you know? I mean I'm not giving up my personality for anybody, okay?' 

After a storm of rumors that they were

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