Huge pop star goes celibate – 23 years after boasting about his sex life in his biggest hit

SINGER Craig David — known for his sexy lyrics and womanising ways — has gone celibate, he says.

The decision is a long way from the famous line in his 2000 hit 7 Days in which he boasts of “making love by Wednesday, and then on Thursday, and Friday and Saturday”.

The star has confessed that he is not currently dating and had not had a romp for “maybe a year or so”.

Craig told broadcaster Louis Theroux’s podcast that repeated one-night stands can lead to “many different traumas” — and said a sex break will help him focus and put him in the right mindset for when he next has a girlfriend.

The All The Way singer insisted he wanted a relationship which started from “a good place”.

He added: “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.”

Craig, whose hits also include Rendezvous, which repeats the line “getting jiggy just for fun”, said he realised in his 20s and 30s that he had a string of superficial short-term relationships because he was scared of getting hurt.

That followed the painful break-up of a whirlwind romance when he was just 16.

He added: “I had never felt anything like that before. My heart kind of closed down.”

Southampton born Craig was in garage duo Artful Dodger who had a 1999 hit with Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta).

He was later infamously mocked by funnyman Leigh Francis on his Bo Selecta sketch show — but says he forgives him.