Inside the saucy life of Iris Jones, 82 – from raunchy This Morning confession to sex ban & splitting with toyboy
PENSIONER Iris Jones raised eyebrows on This Morning when she talked about her Egyptian toyboy – 46 years her junior.
The 82-year-old (not so coyly confessed to using an entire tube of KY Jelly lubricant when first getting intimate with toyboy hubby Mohamed, then 36.
She was equally candid with Fabulous: "The tablets I take make my skin terribly thin," Iris said. "So we can only do it lying down, with him on top of me. Otherwise it’s very painful and I’ll bruise.”
She fought tirelessly to bring him over to the UK, battling the Home Office for a spousal visa, and it happened in winter 2021. They lived together in her bungalow in Western-super-Mare, Somerset, and shared pictures of their life on YouTube and Facebook.
But bad news has hit and the pair have called it a day with Iris revealing she's happy with her new cat and Mohamed saying on Facebook he’s taking a break from social media.
We take a look back at their time together:
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LOVE AT FIRST SWIPE
It was early 2019 when Iris' son son Stephen bought her a laptop and signed her up to Facebook.
She joined a group for atheists, which is where she got chatting to Mohamed.
She previously told Fabulous: “His intellect shone through and when he sent me some pictures, I thought, ‘Oh my God he is drop-dead gorgeous’. But I realised how young he was, so I never thought anything would come of it.
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“When he started calling me ‘Babe’, I said, ‘Don’t start getting romantic notions, I’ll soon be an octogenarian’.
But the pair soon hit it off and romance blossomed
NOT A CAIRO IN THE WORLD
In November 2019 Iris flew from London’s Heathrow to Cairo, Egypt, for their first meeting IRL.
She said: “I had a wedding dress in my bag. It was just assumed we would marry, we were in love.
“In the arrivals hall I saw this tall, incredibly handsome man and just jumped into his arms.”
It was in a hotel in the city romance blossomed. She said: “I was a bit shy about him seeing my body. He’s so young and muscular whereas I’m an old hag."
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX, BABY
It was in January 2020 Iris came to the nation's attention after confessing on This Morning she had used an entire tube of KY Jelly lubricant when first getting intimate with Mohamed
She says: “I love shocking people. Why not? It gives them a laugh. I’m a prude really."
But she only had positive things to say about Mohamed.
She said: “Mohamed is my pharaoh. He is pure Egyptian. He’s very, very sexy. He’s a wonderful man.”
GOING TO THE CHAPEL
Iris and Mohamed’s path to marriage wasn’t easy. Unable to marry during a number of visits to Egypt for legal reasons, the pair finally tied the knot during Iris’s third visit, where she followed all government pandemic-related travel guidelines, in October 2020.
And it was a shock to her family - with her sons not finding out until she returned to the UK. "This is my life," she said. "The wedding was very simple, in an office building. Afterwards we celebrated with Coca-Cola and KFC."
HOME OFFICE DRAMA
But Iris had to fly home alone as the Home Office was yet to grant Mohamed a spousal visa, keeping the couple 5,864 miles apart, and leaving Iris heartbroken.
Just ahead of her first wedding anniversary in October 2021, Iris told Fabulous of her sadness: “All we are talking about now is what will happen when we meet.
“If he didn’t get a visa it would feel like the end of the world. It’s like he’s dead but he’s not dead — just missing.”
She even wrote a poem, begging for help and slamming ‘stony-hearted bureaucrats’.
MOHAMED IS GRANTED VISA
In April 2022 Iris revealed the good news Mohamed had been granted a visa. "Love is... Knowing you look like s**t after a days housework and gardening, without a scrap of make up on, dressed in my scruff!" she wrote on Facebook.
"After a month's absence, my wonderful husband will welcome me just the way I am, because that's what love is all about.
"Welcome home, Mohamed. Missing you this past month has made me realise what a priceless gem you are.
IRIS’ SEX BAN
In November 2022 Iris revealed she had put Mohamed on a sex ban because their raunchy sessions were ‘murder on her fragile skin’. “Sex has taken a bit of a backseat for now,” she told Fabulous.
“Mohamed wants me more than I want him but I’m 83 and I’m not as fit as I used to be. I need to take a bit of a break every now and then.”
MOHAMED AND IRIS SPLIT
Describing how the fairy tale came crumbling down, she told : “I never expected to fall in love with someone 46 years younger than me, but I did. I adored everything about Mohamed.
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“But it became hard work. We used to have a great sex life but then, rather than making love, we ended up arguing all the time about anything and everything. I can’t be doing with that. I’m not a lovesick teenager. I’m 83.”
Iris declined to comment to Fabulous but said she was holding up.
