Huge pop star goes celibate – 23 years after boasting about his sex life in his biggest hit
SINGER Craig David — known for his sexy lyrics and womanising ways — says he has gone celibate.
The decision is a long way from the famous line in his 2000 hit 7 Days in which he boasts of “making love by Wednesday, and then on Thursday, and Friday and Saturday”.
Craig said the sex break will leave him in a “healthy place” for when he next has a relationship.
He added: “Sometimes you gotta pull it back, man.
“I’m 42 years old now — things are different.
“If we can’t deep dive, if I can’t have a conversation and at the same time laugh like crazy with you, and see the beauty from within you, then we’re just gonna be doing the same game that I’ve been playing since day one.
“I don’t want that anymore.”
Craig’s hits also include All The Way, and Rendezvous which repeats the line “getting jiggy just for fun”.
But he told broadcaster Louis Theroux’s podcast that he was not currently dating and had not had sex for “maybe a year or so”.
He said repeated one-night stands can lead to “many different traumas” — and he wanted a relationship in which both people started from “a good place”.
Craig said he now realised in his 20s and 30s that he had a string of superficial short-term relationships because he was scared of getting hurt.
That followed the painful break-up of a whirlwind romance when he was just 16.
He added: “I had never felt anything like that before.
“My heart kind of closed down.”
Craig was in garage duo Artful Dodger who had a 1999 hit with Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta).
He was later infamously mocked by funnyman Leigh Francis on his Bo Selecta sketch show — but says he forgives him.