Sir Ian McKellan Played Babysitter On The Hobbit Set!

Mckellen is alledgely back with his ex Kiwi Nick Cuthell. Despite the 40 year age gap, the couple have been on and off for over 10 years, and still regularly travel together, sharing a bed and kissing publicly, even in front of Cuthell's various 'girlfriends'. The 33 year old painter has dated various black beauties over the years, many of whom bare an uncanny resemblance to eachother and even the same name! Friends were shocked that his ex fiance, actress and singer Gloria Onitiri, was such a dead ringer for his previous ex, artist Gloria Muikira. But the flash in the pan love affair was no surprise to friends of Mckellen who know that Ian is the real love of Cuthell's life. While the girls come and go, Ian and Nick remain a fixture with Mckellen funding the young kiwi's costly art training in New York and Florence, and being responsible for the bulk of his celebrity commissions, society portraits and exhibitions. It is thought that the engagement was largely motivated by New Zealander Cuthell's ongoing UK visa issues, but in any case, he and Mckellen remained 'close' with the pretty boy often accompanying the star to red carpet events. 'Nick obviously is sexually fluid and like's black girls as well as older men' a close source has revealed, 'But they never last that long. He knows what's good for him and always goes back to Ian in the end. Ian doesn't seem to mind. He knows it's just sex and that no woman has ever really come between them'.