Craig David claims his celibacy has lasted two years

Craig David claims his celibacy has lasted two years.

The 42-year-old 7 Days singer — famed for boasting about “making love by Wednesday, and then on Thursday, and Friday and Saturday” on the observe, in addition to for his womanising on the peak of his Nineties fame — declared in the summertime of 2023 he hadn’t had intercourse in “maybe a year or so”.

He has now advised The TMZ Podcast about extending his self-imposed celibacy into 2024: “When I did the first album, Born To Do It, I was 17 years old. So these were all aspirations.

“In a funny way, as much as I was like, ‘Wow,’ to myself for a moment, it just felt that creativity has been on a hundred, on a max for those two years (since giving up sex.)”

Craig added he determined to “park” his sexual urge for food as he needed to discover what his life can be like with out the stress of being bodily with companions.

The singer is at the moment on his 7 Days tour which hit a snag on Saturday when his scheduled look in Las Vegas at Usher’s Lovers and Friends pageant was cancelled on Friday night because of harmful climate predicted for the weekend.

Craig final yr advised The Louis Theroux Podcast his womanising days and string of one-night stands sparked “many different traumas”.

He added about selecting celibacy as he hunts for real love: “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.”

He additionally spoke about being left with heartache from a two-week romance when he was 16, which he mentioned “closed down” his coronary heart.