PREMIER League boss Russell Martin has found love with former glamor model Lucy Pinder.
The Southampton manager is said to be smitten with the 40-year-old – who is a die-hard Saints supporter.
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Premier League boss Russell Martin has found love with Lucy PinderCredit: PA
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Former glamor model Lucy and Southampton manager say they are ‘drunk’Credit: PA
The pair have grown close in recent months but were together this week when the football coach received an honorary degree from Brighton University.
They also attracted attention at the Sky Sports social dinner, with friends saying they were “mesmerised”.
A source said: “They are a match made in heaven — or at least in Southampton.
“They are mad at each other.”
Russ, 38, is plotting his side’s return to the Premier League after beating Mayo in the Championship play-off final.
He too came to terms with the end of his marriage to Jasmine, the mother of his three children.
The split has shaken Russell, who throughout his football career spoke proudly of his fitness model wife, calling her “supermom”.
In 2018, he said of her: “To achieve what she has with three little ones is incredible.”
The couple separated last year. From then on he was comforted by Lucy and gradually the duo forged an unwavering bond.
A source said: “There was no crossover. Russ’s marriage ended and he was depressed. It was all about taking care of the kids and making sure they were okay.
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“But in the midst of his grief, as he threw himself into work, Russ became intimate with Lucy.
“She is a regular at Southampton functions and is always at the club as a die-hard supporter.
“Over the weeks and months, their friendship grew into something more.”
Pin-up Lucy, now a TV personality, rose to fame as a glamor model in the early 2000s after a photographer spotted her on the beach in Bournemouth.
She became a regular in the now-defunct boys’ magazines Nuts, FHM and Loaded and starred in several films — debuting in 2012’s Strippers vs Werewolves — and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother.
Russell declined to comment.
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Pin-up Lucy rose to fame as a glamor model in the early 2000s Credit: PA: Press Association
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