Paul Gascoigne ‘is self-isolating with glamorous single mother-of-two

Paul Gascoigne has been weathering the coronavirus storm by staying with a single mother of two.

The England legend, 52, was seen with Wendy Leech and her dogs near her £65,000 flat in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Gascoigne is believed to have met the glamorous 43-year-old when they were both on holiday in Spain.

A source told the Sun: ‘Paul looks happy with Wendy. They met in Spain while he was on holiday earlier this month and have been together now for a couple of weeks.’

The former Tottenham star has previously hinted he was seeing someone when he said: ‘There is a girl I like.’

It comes after Gascoigne told in January how he tried to ‘save’ one of Britain’s most wanted men Raoul Moat.

He opened up about how he wanted to befriend Moat during his time on the run.

The retired sports star claimed he was at his most vulnerable during his addiction battle when Moat had a standoff with Northumberland Polce 10 years ago.

He said he had been in a taxi with a fishing rod and four cans of lager.

In July 2010 Moat was on the run and had been near the woodland area surrounding Rothbury, 26 miles from Newcastle.

Gascoigne told The Mirror: ‘I thought that I could take Raoul Moat fishing because he was near a river.

‘I told the taxi driver ‘head for the airport’ and then when we got to Newcastle airport I said ‘head for Rothbury’.

‘The taxi driver said ”you are not going where I think you are going?” And I said ”yes I am”.’

Gascoigne said he went on to tell the cabby he could ‘save Moat’ because he had been through so much himself.

When Gascoigne got out of the taxi he said he headed straight for the field where Moat was surrounded by police.

He asked the police ‘where’s Moaty’, and one officer asked if he knew him personally, to which Gascoigne said no.

The former footballer said rumours started to circulate as to how he knew Moat with some claiming they were friends. 

They had never met, but as the situation around Moat intensified, Gascoigne found himself on TV screens.

It was the next day – July 10 – that Moat shot himself after he was surrounded by police.

Gascoigne woke up to text messages and voicemail messages asking him about the incident.

At the time of his death Moat had been on the run for a week after being released from Durham prison.

Just two days after his release the 37-year-old wounded his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart before he shot dead her boyfriend Chris Brown on July 3.

Hours later he left PC David Rathband blind, who his own life two years down the line.

Days before the stand off with police, officers released new images of Moat and urged the public to stay away from him.

Pictures were also released by police showing the equipment Moat was using to hide in his woodland lair.

On Friday July 9 officers located three of Moat’s mobile phones.

One, used to make the two 999 calls to police before and after PC David Rathband was shot.

Moat was later cornered into a riverbank and had a shot gun to his head.

Moat’s friend Tony Laidler was escorted into the police cordon and food and water items were also bought in as the stand off continued.

In the early hours of the Saturday morning a gunshot was heard as Moat killed himself and no shots were fired by police. He was taken to hospital for treatment but died hours later. 

In January Gascoigne revealed how he had a Christmas alcohol relapse despite having £20,000 anti-pellets in his groin.

The former England star has blown his £20million fortune from his playing career and gone in and out of rehab because of alcohol-related problems since retiring.

His admission came as video footage was also released of him on holiday.

Gascoigne was seen enjoying the sun and was filmed walking around the pool in his shorts over the Christmas period.

He chatted with other holidaymakers before bringing over a red football and was seen kicking around with a youngster and teaching him to header. 

Tourists who were staying at the Hard Rock hotel in Tenerife between the end of December and the beginning of January, said the star had been ‘drunk the majority of the holiday’ and one source said he had been doing shots at 9.30am.

One holidaymaker told MailOnline many had ‘felt sorry’ for Gascoigne, who was said to have been on holiday with his girlfriend.

The source said: ‘He was playing up to the Gazza thing, he thinks that’s what people want – it’s heartbreaking.  He was wasted everyday.’

On the day the video was filmed they said he had been drinking shots since 9.30am and that he had been loud around the pool.

‘It was sad to watch, he looked frail , like he would fall over. He didn’t look in a good way at all,’ the source added.