Her list of exes includes such colorful personalities as fashion mogul Dan Single, cricketer Michael Clarke and Grilld founder turned extortion victim Geoff Bainbridge.
So we weren’t surprised to learn that Pip Edwards’ latest boyfriend is another big name in the eastern suburbs.
Her new man is Joshua Clapp, an interior designer and bar owner, best known as the face of Steel and Stitch, a construction company specializing in hospitality venues.
And of course, it wouldn’t be a romance with Pip Edwards without a hint of scandal.
You see, Clapp turns out to be the ex-partner of Edwards’s best friend, Leah Simmons, Sydney’s well-known personal trainer. And although Simmons and Clapp, who share a teenage son, have been separated for many years, we hear the relationship has raised more than a few eyebrows among Harbor City’s elite social group.
When approached for comment Monday outside her fitness studio, which her ex designed and built for her, Simmons simply laughed and said “no comment.”
In their first sighting as a couple, our snapper caught Edwards, 44, and Clapp, 52, looking particularly cozy during a romantic day at the beach on Friday.
Pip Edwards’ latest boyfriend is Joshua Clapp, an interior designer best known as the face of Steel and Stitch, a construction company that specializes in hospitality spaces.
Joshua is the ex-partner of Pip’s best friend, Leah Simmons, the well-known personal trainer. The former couple share a teenage son. (Clapp and Edwards are seen at Camp Cove on Friday)
The 44-year-old couldn’t keep her hands off her new man. as they frolicked in the water before returning to the shore to snuggle.
Edwards left little to the imagination in a skimpy bikini top and thong as she wrapped her arms possessively around Clapp.
After cooling off in the ocean, she stretched out her body on a towel and leaned on his back, at one point extending her arms to caress his torso..
Edwards is believed to be good friends with Simmons, who is the founder of fitness website KΛΛIΛΛ. Simmons and Clapp are co-parenting son Ryder, who is in his mid-teens. Simmons also has a younger daughter, Lucky, from a later relationship.
In February 2021, Edwards was seen spending time with Simmons and Lucky just months before the coach announced her split from then-husband Adrian Reed.
Despite their split, Simmons and Clapp are, by all indications, very close. The two went for lunch with their son at Bondi Icebergs in May this year and regularly post about each other on Instagram.
Despite being more low-key than Edwards’ usual type, Clapp is not entirely free of controversy.
In 2023, he was slapped with an AVO to protect nightclub boss Julian Tobias after the two men had a fight on stage at the Harem gentlemen’s club.. Clapp subsequently pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order.
Edwards is best friends with Clapp’s ex-partner Leah Simmons, founder of the fitness website KΛΛIΛΛ, and mother of his teenage son Ryder (all pictured in May).
The 44-year-old was seen packing on the PDA with her new man.
They cooled off in the water before returning to the shore to snuggle.
The fashion designer left little to the imagination in a tiny bikini top and thong panties.
Edwards showed off his toned abs as he stretched his body across Clapp’s back.
In their first image as a couple, our snapper caught Edwards and Clapp looking particularly cozy during a romantic day at the beach on Friday.
Awkwardly, Edwards also appears to be friends with Tobias, owner of The Island and Sussudio’s floating dayclub in Potts Point. Not only does she follow him on Instagram, but the couple was spotted partying together on New Year’s Day in Bondi in January 2023.
Pip was last linked to billionaire businessman Geoff Bainbridge, best known for co-founding the popular burger chain Grill’d.
He recently returned to Australia from a trip to the United States. She was there for work, having recently left PE Nation to take on a senior role at Ksubi, the brand where she got her start in the fashion industry.
Mr Bainbridge, 52, had joined Pip on his trip to America, but it seems their romance was just a flash in the pan, because she quickly moved on with Clapp soon after returning to Sydney..
Bainbridge made headlines for all the wrong reasons more than two years ago when he resigned as CEO of alcohol company Lark Distilling after he was caught on video smoking a glass pipe.
Known for being one of the early prominent investors in Grill’d, he left the business in 2015, shortly before the video was filmed.
At the time of the scandal, he explained that the images had been captured. after a night of partying in the southeast Asia. He He claimed to have been the victim of an extortion attempt, in which the blackmailers threatened to publish the video unless he paid them.
However, doubts were later raised about his claims, with The Australian publishing photographs which it said indicated the video was filmed not in Asia seven years earlier, but in the bedroom of his $3 million Melbourne home, which I had purchased only 18 months earlier.
Real estate photographs of Mr. Bainbridge’s Middle Park home revealed that it shared the same single light fixture and white wooden Venetian blinds as those seen in the video.
Other distinctive features, such as the room’s ornate ceiling decoration and a distinctive bed headboard, were also seen in several unreleased videos obtained by The Australian.
Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting Bainbridge was not telling the truth, simply that a discrepancy was raised.
When asked about the apparent discrepancy in his story, Bainbridge told The Australian “no comment” at the time.
A source told Daily Mail Australia last month that Edwards and Bainbridge were “dating”. But it seems that the relationship failed shortly after.
Edwards is also known for her high-profile relationship with former Australian cricketer Michael Clarke. They went their separate ways in early 2021.
However, in January 2023, Clarke was sensationally accused by his then-girlfriend Jade Yarbrough of sleeping with Edwards after their breakup.
The public brawl in a Noosa park was captured on video and later sold to the press.
A remorseful Clarke later took full responsibility for what happened. For his part, Edwards claimed that he had been “blatantly lied to.”