Is there a new Cohen in Australian actress Isla Fisher’s life?
The former Home and Away star, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday, was spotted with South African ex-football player Larry Cohen, 38, in London’s trendy Notting Hill neighbourhood.
The pair were seen looking very friendly indeed after a night out at the exclusive London nightspot Soho House.
The Sun reports that Cohen, who was born in Johannesburg, previously played for Ajax Cape Town before becoming a Lithuanian citizen in 2014.
If Larry is Fisher’s new romantic partner, it’ll mark a funny coincidence for the actress, given he has the same surname as her ex-husband, actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, 54.
Fisher – who finalised her $245 million divorce with Cohen in July last year, two years after they ended their 14-year marriage – said in a recent interview that the split was one of the hardest personal struggles she has ever had to face in her life.
“It’s the most difficult thing I’ve been through,” she told WISH in October last year.
But in the same interview, Fisher said that she feels grateful to be at a point where she’s able to change the trajectory of the “last act of her life”.
“It’s amazing to me that at this point in my life, I’ve got this opportunity, in a positive way, to reinvent what the last act of my life is now from the ground up. The kind of person that I would want to be with, if I ever wanted to get into another relationship, the kind of work I want to do, and who I want to be around socially, spiritually and emotionally.”
Isla shares three children with Cohen: Olive, 18, and Elula, 15, and Monty, 11.
“I’m not going to lie … it has been a really challenging time,” she told NewBeauty Magazine in November. “I definitely feel like there’s something about the divorce club that anyone in it understands in a way other people don’t. It’s a different grief.”
But she said she was also relishing the chance to reconnect with those outside her marriage now it had come to an end.
“All the relationships that you have in your life that were not necessarily the forefront of the way that you spend your time, because you’re married. Those relationships that are so supportive and brilliant and often really, really old get to retake centre stage.”
