Cheryl Cole dating toyboy music producer Patrizio Pigliapoco?
The 'Promise This' singer is said to be "inseparable" from 21-year-old Patrizio Pigliapoco, who has been helping Cole launch her career in America.
Sources claim that the pair have embarked on "several late-night sessions" in his recording studio.
"Cheryl and Patrizio have been together 24/7," an insider told the Daily Star. "They have really become inseparable. After a lot of near-misses when it comes to blokes, Cheryl hopes this one could be the real thing.
"They have loved their late-night sessions in the studio, just the two of them. They've rarely been apart and have genuinely fallen for each other.
"Cheryl really adores Patrizio - she loves his carefree attitude to working and to life, and can't wait to see him again."
Pigliapoco is also quoted by the publication as calling Cole's former husband Ashley Cole "crazy" for his alleged infidelity.
On his relationship with the singer, he apparently said: "I thought her ex-husband was crazy to cheat on a beautiful woman like her... Everything happened so fast. Four months ago I was on tour with a group as an engineer and now I am spending nights with Cheryl Cole."
Cole has been r! omantica lly linked to Taio Cruz and Alex Da Kid since heading to the US, though both relationships have been denied.