Luke Littler

[Derlei]

Ignoring the fact that he looks nowhere near 16 years old(!) but if he is 16, then why are the DM romanticising his relationship with a 21 year old woman?

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12917331/Luke-Littlers-girlfriend-posts-message-latest-victory.html

This basically. He’s being deluged with offers right, left & centre and unless he’s got a decent manager who is experienced enough to deal with it all, it could go very wrong very quickly. He’s crossed over to the mainstream already in a way few darts players do & the media can be utter bastards

Yep, there potentially is a relatively small age gap here, he is 17 this month, she could have just turned 21. Some 16/17 yos are not little children (as MN likes to believe). My 17 yo DS is really mature, he is an adult in my eyes, he behaves that way and most people we know see him like that. Some of his friends from college I wouldn't see in the same way as they are still so dependent. DS has a job that requires similar maturity to Luke Littler (not quite on the same scale) and I really think that makes a huge difference.

His parents do sound a bit crap. I hope he's not about to be exploited by them, his agents and the media.

My brothers met their wives in their teens and so did a lot of my relatives and some were even married at 18 / 19 , but this was in the 70s when attitudes did seem different and people got married and had children much younger , left school at 16 and went and found a job straight away and told to be an adult and earn money ( the biggest reason for much of that )
I didn't know anyone myself who went to Uni , maybe college but because of their job as day release, but generally it was straight into work so maybe seen as more mature than they might be thought of these days ?
Attitudes around teenagers has certainly altered a lot I think and we ( as a nation ) also have the build them up then tear them down attitude to anyone who is good at anything ( including myself as I questioned earlier on in the thread if she is only with him for fame or money? But I don't know anything !)
When is the final for the darts taking place ?
I wished I'd put some money on him winning it too ! Lol

"I hope he uses any winnings to book a personal trainer and maybe some cosmetic dentistry."

Oh come on then @Janiie post a pic, let's all have a look at you shall we?

Did you pay good money for your perfect princess looks? Shame you can't buy class, decency and personality isn't it?

Mums net is an odd place sometimes you get threads with posters saying they would never leave an under 16 year old home alone ever and yet on this thread
Some posters think its fine for someone who left year 11.six months ago to be in a relationship with someone five years older because they look much older

Mad suggestion here, but maybe they're not the same posters...

I guarantee at 16 I did not have a middle aged spread and bad teeth. Honestly someone needs to guide him a bit. Yes a great success at darts but he really does need to pay attention to his health.

Call him what you want; he can, legally, have a relationship with a 21 year old woman, so the rest is kind of irrelevant to all of that.

He’s only just become famous in the last couple of weeks hasn’t he? Not sure how long he has been with his gf but she’s hardly hooked up with him because he’s a millionaire. Unless they literally got together last week.

Back in the 80's when I was 17 and at school in 6th form, my boyfriend was 22 and worked full time in the shop where I had a Saturday job. The only unequal aspect of that relationship that I felt was that I was heading for uni and wanted to broaden my horizons, while he was content to stay in that job and live in the same town for the rest of his life.

When I was 16/17, many of my friendship group were dating 22-25 year olds. Some of us married them and are still married. This was mid-1990s. No-one batted an eyelid. The boys in our sixth form were dating 14/15 year olds. We wouldn’t have looked twice at boys the same age. I guess times change.

Times change, pendulum swings, maybe even too far. My guess that those former teenagers who dated over 20's - many of them had a not so good experience and don't wish it on their own kids. And happy ones are ignored.

The relationship?

Most peoples first relationship doesnt last so, it probably wont.

That has no significance to what people are talking about.

He might have bad teeth as his parents couldn't afford private or couldn't find a nhs dentist locally to them or just not that invested in taking him as a small child or whatever.
My mum was big on all that as she was neglected by her mum about her teeth and had dentures as an adult ( she was born in the mid 1920s ) so we were encouraged to go to the NHs dentist twice a year and try and look after them. Didn't stop me having problems later on as an adult , but at least they tried.
Sometimes it's genetic too I'm sure.
He may well get them sorted out with any winnings too and have all the procedures done in time especially as looks and so on are much more important these days with SM and daily mail articles about you!

I don't think I'd even entertained the idea, at 21, to date a child. Very odd.

All this reinforces my opinion that darts is a game and not a sport

Ummm not sure I get this leap of "logic"???

I always assumed darts was a sport in the big leagues and only a game up the pub or legion

Apparently they’ve been together 3 years. That’s even worse

No, six weeks according to DM

Where are you getting this from?

Given it seems literally unbelievable and inaccurate?

Well, his made the final !

I'm pleased for him he made the final but I'm another who thinks the age gap with his girlfriend is too large. I have 15 & 17 year old boys and can't imagine them with a woman that age.