Philippine leader confirms relationship with TV starlet

“Well, we're seeing each other, OK?” the Filipino leader, who turns 52 next week, told reporters when asked about rumors swirling in the local press about him dating Grace Lee.

Lee, 29, who moved to the Philippines as a child, co-hosts a popular music radio program in Manila as well as several television shows. She has nearly 60,000 followers on Twitter.

Lee was also featured by the local edition of men's magazine FHM as one of its “100 Sexiest Women of the World” in 2010.

Confirmation that the balding, bespectacled president was dating again came after he said last year that the fizz had gone out of his love-life, describing it as going from “Coke regular” to “Coke zero.”

Aquino said then that he was resigned to the idea of staying single until his term as president ended in mid-2016 because the demands of his job were too great.

Nevertheless, one of his sisters told the local media in late 2010 that he had dated at least three other younger women, including his personal stylist, in the hectic period after he was elected to the presidency in May that year.

Aquino, who generally bristles at the intense media interest in his personal life, declined to provide further details of his romance with Lee.

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