Thought For The Day: Simon Callow

Callow has found turning 60 a more agreeable process than turning 50, but with advancing age come intimations of mortality. “I had a very good friend who died recently,” he muses. “It’s a terrible thing, this way in which contemporaries fall off when you least expect it. But, generally, when you get to 60 it gets better. You say, 'Right, that’s it.’ You are never going to be young any more. You have peaked.”
Compensation has come in the form of his partner, Sebastian. The two met last year. “It is a strong and rich relationship,” he says. “He’s 30. We get on very well because I, on the whole, find younger men attractive, and he, on the whole, finds older men attractive. So it’s nice and neat.”
He lives a quieter life now. “I did quite well quite quickly in life, so made quite a bit of money. But, of course, I squandered it all, on meals, aeroplanes and romance – taking some gorgeous person to the south of France, or something like that.” 
Does he ever do that now? “Can’t afford to.”

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