Noel Gallagher has sparked romance rumours as he stepped out with stunning Nina Johnson, who is thirty years his junior, on Saturday. The Oasis frontman, 58, is said to be 'smitten' with the marketing boss, 28, as they enjoyed a date night at a West London gastropub. Twice-married Noel split from girlfriend Sally Marsh in March after two years amid claims the pair were 'not right for each other'.
Source Comments on New Couple
A source said of the new couple: 'She is a lot younger than him but that doesn’t bother either of them. They really enjoy each other’s company and both love the finer things in life and go to a lot of the same places'. Nina, who works for a swanky events company, was said to have been introduced to the hitmaker through mutual friends. Following their date, an onlooker said: 'They were laughing and joking, but keeping a slight distance so they did not look like a couple. However, there was no mistaking the spark between them and they were clearly together. They had been engrossed in each other’s company inside and spent hours together, just the two of them'.
Outfits and Career
In snaps obtained by The Sun, Noel and Nina beamed as they emerged from the pub, seemingly coordinating in similar brown outfits. The source added: 'Her career is going great guns. She is really bright and taking her career seriously. She’s her own woman and Noel really respects that'. The Daily Mail has contacted Noel's representatives and Nina for comment.
Previous Relationships
Back in 2023, Noel and his ex-wife Sara MacDonald finalised their bitter divorce, with Sara expected to have received a huge payout. Insiders suggested Sara, 54, a music publicist, pocketed a whopping £20 million and the former couple's £8 million Hampshire mansion. A source told The Sun at the time: 'Sara stayed in the house after they split and Noel moved out. She's expected to stay there. They've deliberately done things quietly and behind closed doors, avoiding any sort of public battle, and they've got the resources to do that. By the end they really just communicated via lawyers.' They added that settling on a deal would have been a 'huge relief' to them both and that both sides seemed 'happy enough'.
Things were thought to have become so tense between the estranged couple that they only communicated through lawyers in the final stages of their divorce. After the settlement, which was drawn up last month, was agreed, both jetted off abroad to celebrate, with Noel landing in Vegas and Sara joining friends in Ibiza. Opening up about his split from Sara after 12 years of marriage, Noel revealed that the couple 'grew tired of each other', which he said was not unusual for couples in their 50s. Sara is Noel's second wife, whom he met at an Ibiza nightclub Space in 2000, a year before his divorce from his first wife Meg Matthews, 59, the mother of his eldest child, Anaïs, 25. The former couple were notorious for a party-hard lifestyle at the height of Brit Pop in the mid '90s as they lived it up during rowdy nights with north London's notorious Primrose Hill set, among them supermodel Kate Moss and actress Sadie Frost. But following their split, it was reported that Noel had an affair with Sara, an allegation they both denied. Noel and Sara married in 2011 at the Lime Wood Hotel in the New Forest in a £60,000 ceremony with guests including Russell Brand in attendance, but younger brother and former bandmate Liam said he wasn't invited. They share sons Donovan, 17, and Sonny, 14.
