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England player Cole Palmer enjoyed a festive night out with his new girlfriend at Winter Wonderland on Thursday – and she looks exactly like his ex.
The footballer, 23, who split from nail technician Connie Grace in July, headed out for a date with beauty specialist Olivia Holder, 23, and she bears a striking resemblance to his old flame.
Cole went incognito in a balaclava and a hoodie for their romantic evening, at London’s Hyde Park.
The pair were spotted enjoying the attractions, with the duo managing to scoop two big prizes as they carried huge stuffed animals around the park.
Olivia looked glamorous as she wrapped up warm in a brown fur coat which she teamed with a pair of distressed jeans and Ugg boots.
She runs a beauty clinic alongside her aesthetics nurse sister which offers treatments such as semi-permanent makeup and injectable skin treatments in Bromley.
It is unknown how long Olivia and Cole have been dating, with her sharing photos to Instagram from Stamford Bridge earlier this week.
Cole and his influencer ex Connie were also pictured at the festive attraction last year, they unfollowed each other on social media just days after the Chelsea star won the Club World cup in July.
The Chelsea star and his partner also removed all pictures of one another from their respective accounts.
He starred in the Club World Cup final, scoring two goals and claiming an assist for Joao Pedro, as Chelsea beat Paris Saint-Germain to become world champions.
Grace had travelled to the US during the tournament but was not among the wives or girlfriends who celebrated the win on the pitch at the MetLife Stadium. They later unfollowed one another on Instagram.
Cole said afterwards that he was looking forward to being reunited with his girlfriend, but that he first wanted to visit St Kitts and Nevis.
Daily Mail Sport exclusively accompanied the footballer as he returned to his ancestral Caribbean homeland for the first time, where his paternal grandfather was born.
He was given a hero’s welcome as he arrived on the island, 4,000 miles from the Manchester suburb of Wythenshawe where the Chelsea and England star grew up.
Meanwhile, Connie continued to enjoy a holiday in Miami, posting a picture of herself in the city on her Instagram.
Cole and Connie went public together in November last year at the GQ Men of the Year Awards.
Grace is a nail technician and Instagram influencer who is also from Manchester. The duo met when they were 17 through mutual friends.
In March she said: ‘Cole now is still the same Cole that I met when I was 17. Obviously, he’s changed, he’s grown up, and his life now is completely different, but he’s still the same boy, he’s still laid-back Cole.
‘Cole will adapt to whatever situation he’s in. He’s not bothered that he’s that far from home because all he wants to do is play football and if it means leaving home and being in a place which is completely different to where he’s from, he’ll do it.
‘He’s not bothered about the whole fame side of it and he’s not bothered what people think of him.
‘He is only just bothered about scoring goals and doing well for his team, doing well for his country, and you’ve got to love him for that.’
Palmer was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester, in 2002 to Marie and Jermaine, with two older sisters.
His hero growing up was Wayne Rooney but he was scouted by Manchester City at the age of eight and came through their academy to make his debut in September 2020.
In 2023 he took the bold step of joining Chelsea for £42.5million, penning a seven-year deal at the opposite end of the country.
In the documentary, he opens up on how moving to Londoner has been something of a culture shock.
‘Going from Wythenshawe to meeting people in Chelsea, it’s different ends of the spectrum,’ he said.
‘The accent, the size of it, the people. No one knows each other in London because it’s so big.
‘Even on my road, if that was Wythenshawe, people would be stood in the garden in pyjamas and that, you know what I mean? Just chatting to each other and having a cup of tea. But obviously here it’s a completely different way.
Connie added: ‘Cole couldn’t become a Londoner, are you crazy? Have you ever spoken to him? That accent isn’t changing. No, he’s a Manchester boy.’
