24-year-old unemployed graduate's jet-set life, courtesy of his sugar-daddy

Edward Oliver's financial worries are a thing of the past, thanks to his divorced sugar-daddy's generosity.

The London-based graduate's student debt was wiped out and his rent is being paid by a 56-year-old divorced father of one, who Oliver describes as a long-term platonic sugar-daddy.

According to Daily Mail, Oliver and his sugar daddy enjoy frequent five-star holidays and he gets a £2,000-a-month cash allowance.

Their arrangement, however, is not of a sexual nature. Whenever the pair go on holiday, Oliver insists on separate bedrooms.

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‘I think at first he was looking for a sexual relationship, but as we got to know each other it became very much platonic. I’m unemployed, but I do sort of look at my relationship as a job,' he says.

‘My friends and family don’t know anything about it. They know I haven’t got a job, and they know I have a lot of designer clothes and shoes and go away on lavish holidays.

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But they never ask where the money comes from. I’m from a comfortable background and went to a private school, so I think friends assume it’s family wealth,' says Oliver.

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