It’s official: Harry Styles has excellent taste in women

Olivia Wilde? You could hardly do better
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Looking for a sliver of solace in a dystopian world? Console yourself with Harry Styles’s excellent taste in women!  

The internet is salivating at the revelation that Styles is reportedly dating the actor and director Olivia Wilde, whose CV includes directing the excellent Booksmart, a wise and wise-cracking high school buddy movie about two nerdy girls on a calamitous night out; though true fans will know her best role was undoubtedly as Alex in The OC (shout out to the ageing millennials!). Wilde is directing him in her latest film, Don’t Worry Darling; their couple portmanteau could be Olarry, or Holivia, but should really be Wilde-Styles.

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The revelation is timely – not just because we’re staring down the barrel of lockdown 264567, but also as it comes hot on the heels of his new video for single Treat People With Kindness (see what he did there?), which co-stars Patron Saint of Women, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, wearing sharp white tailoring and a Fleabag side-eye. One great woman is lucky; two is design. Styles is sending a message, and I am here for it.

For you can judge anyone by the company they keep, and his other female friends include Florence Pugh - always trust a woman with a gravelly voice who has coolly acquired a Oscar nomination before the age of 25 - and Lizzo, with whom he has shared a stage, and a scene-stealing evening at the Brit Awards last February (remember fun?).

Wilde is 36, Styles is 26. All that I have to say on this matter is that as someone who was formerly 26, I do wish I’d spent more time hanging out with people who were a little wiser than me. I would have saved myself a full complement of bank cards, several sets of keys and much of the dignity it’s taken me over four years to reclaim in full. Harry: you’re doing amazing, sweetie.  

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