Harry Styles sets an upper age limit for a girlfriend.

Harry Styles next girlfriend may come with an age limit.

The hunky singer from One Direction is wanted by women young and old and he has been known to bed a cougar or two, but he won't date a woman who is older than his own mother.

She is 43 years old, so that still leaves a fairly wide open field of female candidates.

The 18-year-old One Direction singer has been romantically involved with a string of older females - including TV host Caroline Flack, 33, and 32-year-old DJ Lucy Horobin - but he says he would draw the line at anyone older than his 43-year-old mom, Anne.

When asked how old is too old, Harry replied: ''Any woman older than my mum Anne - who is 43.''

Harry is constantly linked to many different women, but he insists most of them are just friends.

He told You magazine: ''I guess I go out in London and quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then according to the papers I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.''

As well as interesting love lives, Harry and his bandmates - Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik - have had huge success in the past two years and they say they deserve every part of it.

Liam added: ''There are a lot of people who get paid a lot for doing not much at all - socialites who appear in reality shows or people who earn, like, a million pounds a day working a couple of hours buying and selling shares. What we earn, we earn for doing an awful lot. We are constantly working.''

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