age is just a number at least it is to
these Hollywood stars who got together
with romantic partners who in some cases
could easily be their grandchildren
feeling like a good cringefest find out
if true love really is blind with these
extremely uncomfortable age gaps Michael
Douglas and Catherine zeta-jones have a
lot of things in common they both won
Oscars and they also have the same
birthday September 25th but one thing
they don't have in common the
generations to which they belong
Douglas is on the cusp of the baby boom
born in 1944 but Sita Jones is more of a
generation Xer born in 1969 nevertheless
the quarter century gap wasn't a problem
when these two married in 2000 so how's
your love life
oh we know much to talk about you know
she was half my age listen half your age
is still an old woman the couple has
since endured some serious health scares
and rough patches but they've managed to
avoid splitsville despite a period of
separation around 2013 Douglas shed some
light on how they make it work telling
Access Hollywood it's not taking the
person closest to you for granted
sometimes you speak more of an effort
with strangers and I think we've very
blessed to have a lot of mutual respect
as the creator playboy and the very
mascot of the swingin lifestyle it
represents the late Hugh Hefner famously
hung out with much much younger women
for decades if you don't love all of
this and you're a fool on New Year's Eve
2012 Hefner married his third wife
Crystal Harris she was 26 at the time 60
years younger than the 86 year old half
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well it probably wasn't a shock to many
that have got hitched to someone in her
20s it's easy to see the cringe factor
when you consider his four children from
his first two marriages Christie who's
66 David who's 64 Hooper who's 28 and
Marston who's 29 basically has two
oldest children could have been his
wife's parents yikes writer director
Woody Allen and model actress Mia Farrow
were romantically involved for more than
a decade they never married but Allen
helped raise Pharaoh's adopted children
that pretty much ended in 1992 when
Farrow reportedly discovered Allen was
cheating on her after finding intimate
Polaroids of another woman in Allen's
apartment even worse the pictures were
of Sunni Previn arrows adopted daughter
they were so casual about it they didn't
seem to be appropriately upset Allen
supposedly told Ferrell that he was
deeply in love with Previn and wanted to
marry her and not only was he
essentially hooking up with his
stepdaughter there was an age gap of
about 35 years
Allen was 57 at the time while Previn
was about 20 or 21 Allen and fremen
married in 1997 but the legality of the
Union has done little to dispel the
general public's feeling of unease about
the whole thing Celine Dion started to
wade into singing professionally at the
age of 12 thanks to the tutelage of her
manager the twice-divorced 38 year old
Rene Angelil the relationship was purely
business for years until in her late
teens Celine's feelings apparently
started to change
he said Celine I need you first time in
my life I felt like it was needed
mmm made me feel great fortunately her
semi scandalous relationship to her
manager who was 26 years her senior
worked out a what in 1994 started a
family and remain devoted to one another
until Rene passed away from cancer at
age 73 in 2016 if the old adage that
rockstars are only in it to meet women
is true then Billy Joel must be the
biggest rock star of all time his huge
hit uptown girl was originally called
uptown girls and it was about three
women models Elle Macpherson and
Christie Brinkley and singer Whitney
Houston Joel wound up dating Macpherson
and marrying and fathering a daughter
with Brinkley a couple divorced in 1994
Joel was five years older than Brinkley
but he decided to skew a lot younger
with his next two marriages
some of them aged better than others in
2004 he went Katie Lee a food writer
chef and former host of Top Chef it was
about 32 years younger than Joel they
split in 2009 next up for Joel a
brokerage employee named Alexis Roderick
they married in 2015 when the bride was
33 and the groom was 66 and here's a fun
fact Roderick is only about three years
older than Joel's daughter Alexa Bruce
Willis was half of one of the most
famous celebrities super couples of all
time when he was hitched to Demi Moore
from 1987 to 2000 but the good-looking
movie star divorcee found love again
when he met Emma Heming in 2008 on an
episode of people's lists hemming said
that when she met Willis she was
surprised at how charming and funny he
was the two
married in 2009 when Willis was 54 and
hemming was 32 while their fast-paced
romance sounds sweet the Daily Mail
couldn't help but point out Emma looks
very much like Bruce's first wife to me
more just 16 years younger nevertheless
these days hemming and Willis are going
strong with their two kids we are still
married and happy and happy about it if
Haley Roberts would have taken her
husband's last name she would have been
the second Haley Hasselhoff in the
family with only 12 years between them -
that's because Baywatch star David
Hasselhoff has a daughter named Haley
with ex-wife Pamela Bach the couple
divorced in 2006 and in 2017 the pop
star announced his engagement to Roberts
after five years of dating they made it
official in July 2018 the Hoff told
hello magazine I waited to propose
because I thought I was too old for her
he was 63 and she was 36 when he popped
the question
Roberts told the son that she was living
with her parents in Wales when she ran
into Hasselhoff at a bar and asked to
take a picture my arm went there she is
that's a girl that I've been dreaming
about there she is go get her they hit
it off and the rest is Hollywood history
it might be hard to believe but
stone-cold British action star Jason
Statham celebrated his 50th birthday in
2017 and Rosie huntington-whiteley a
Victoria's Secret model and actress is
20 years his junior respect each other's
you know strengths and weaknesses when
it comes to living together while
there's a chance they might not
understand each other's pop culture
references they seem to get along just
fine
Rosie even told salt magazine that
Statham is her quote best mate the
couple started dating in 2010 and got
engaged in 2016 mary-kate Olsen began
playing Michelle Tanner on Full House
along with her twin sister Ashley when
she was about one year old and at that
moment in time Mary Kate's future
husband Olivier Sarkozy was already 18
big trouble mr. Sarkozy is a French born
banker the half-brother of former french
President Nicolas Sarkozy who's been
working in finance in the US since the
early 90 win the unlikely couple married
in 2015 complete with complimentary
bowls of cigarettes for guests Olsen was
a 29 year old designer and
Cosi was the 46 year old co head of the
Carlile financial services group and
father to two kids from his previous
marriage
by the time Amber Tamblyn got her big
break with an emmy-nominated starring
role in Joan of Arcadia in 2002 David
Cross had already established himself as
one of the most important stand-up
comics of his generation and to sketch
comedy legend as the co-creator and
co-star of HBO's mr. show with Bob and
David excuse me
do these effectively hide my Thunder
true love may not always match up people
of the same age but it often seems to
pair up the coolest couples maybe go on
a couple's kalanick it's it's a it's a
terrible terrible idea
the duo welcomed their first child in
February 2017
Tamblyn was 33 and Kross was 52 when
their little one debuted there are about
32 years between Sarah Paulson starved
the emmy-winning the People vs OJ
Simpson and Holland Taylor the Emmy
winning character actress known for hit
TV and movies like Legally Blonde but
they might as well be teenagers with the
way they delightfully and unabashedly
shared their love Holland Taylor slid
into your dance she actually did that in
a 2017 interview with Sandra Bernhard a
74 year old Taylor said her 42 year old
partner makes her feel like the quote
luckiest person in the world imagine
being in love at my time in my life with
somebody such a great artist such a free
independent spirit and during her Emmy
acceptance speech in 2016
Paulson cried out quote Holland Taylor I
love you and in an interview with the
New York Times she said of her beloved
partner she was probably the most
exquisitely beautiful woman I'd ever
seen
Tom Cruise had been in the public eye
for more than two decades and previously
married to Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman
when he famously appeared on The Oprah
Winfrey Show in 2005 and jumped up and
down on a couch because he was so in
love with former Dawson's Creek star
Katie Holmes certainly I did not think
that it would turn into the brouhaha
that it did a year later the couple
welcomed a baby girl named Surrey and
they went later in 2006 though the fairy
tale ended a divorce in 2012 it
certainly began on a happy note Holmes
reportedly even told Seventeen magazine
that when she was younger she
about marrying the Top Gun star who was
17 years her senior I can't even
describe it belly this big smile on my
face disguise what's even more
uncomfortable than the teen crush factor
was the fact that Katy was allegedly
assigned to Scientology chaperone during
their time together totally normal right
as relayed in their New York Times
wedding announcement Baldwin approached
yoga instructor ilaria Thomas and a
vegan restaurant and said quote I must
know you then he gave her his business
card which is quite possibly the most
old man way to ever approach a woman in
the history of courtship but it worked
no doubt in part because he's one of the
most recognizable actors on the planet
Oh have I got your attention now
they played phone tag for a while
finally got together and obviously hit
it off the couple with the 26 year
difference in age married in the summer
of 2012
it's Thomas's first marriage in
Baldwin's second he was previously
married to Kim Basinger who was four
years his senior there are advantages to
being married to a man alex age for one
thing he is a wonderful grandfather to
our children well we kid Baldwin for his
old fashioned pickup moves don't think
this relationship is that of a caretaker
and her geriatric lover these two got
right to work on growing a family the
New York City real estate magnate turned
reality TV star turned President of the
United States was not yet either of the
latter two things when he met Slovenian
model Melania at a party in 1998 it's
gonna be a great evening it always is
according to GQ at the time he had been
separated from his second wife Marla
maples for more than a year
Donald was 52 a Melania was just 28 it
appeared the 24 year age difference
didn't matter much and the two married
in January 2005
the United States since his rise to
political stardom there have been many
seemingly uncomfortable revelations
about the pair's marriage but perhaps
none more cringe-worthy than those made
by Donald himself he was an open book he
would say anything we're talking about
Trump's infamous call ends to shock jock
Howard Stern's radio show like the time
Donald joked about giving it in five
months pregnant Melania a quote week to
get back in shape after giving birth
later David Foster is the soft rock mega
producer songwriter and arranger who
transformed the band Chicago into an 80s
light FM machine and who also helped
acts like Celine Dion Kenny G and
Michael Buble find their way unto every
dental office playlist in America do you
have the McPhee burn here she is
katharine McPhee is the singer who
combined Broadway level pipes with model
looks to propel herself to a
second-place finish on American Idol as
well as a successful acting career
starring in movies like the House Bunny
and the TV shows smash and Scorpion but
despite their 35-year age difference
these two make it work in 2018 Foster
proposed to McPhee in the couple Wed in
June 2019 Mick Jagger is the consummate
definitive rock star both because of his
ability to electrify and enchant a crowd
for more than 50 years now with his
singing and rooster like swagger and for
how he is unabashedly non-monogamous
among the women whom Jagger vowed his
temporary undying love were modeled
Jerry Hall model and future first lady
of France Carla Bruni model Anita
Pallenberg model Luciana Jimenez and
singer Marianne Faithfull but in June
2014 Jagger went for someone who didn't
walk the runway or sing songs for a
living and got together with American
Ballet Theatre dancer Melanie Hamrick in
2016 Hamrick gave birth to her first
child but the rolling stone front man's
faith and all the couple's respective
ages as of 2020 put him at 76 and her at
33 by the late 1980s Aerosmith the rock
band fronted by scarf aficionado and
raspy voice singer Steven Tyler
around for so long and endured so many
ups and downs that it was ready for a
comeback which it achieved via the hit
albums permanent vacation and pump and
it was during that period that Tyler
turned 40 and his future loved Amy
Preston was born even Tyler's daughter
model and actress Liv Tyler was into the
double digits by then I certainly had my
way with women and women have a
tradition too but before Preston caught
Tyler's eye romantically she turned his
head professionally working as the
rockstars personal assistant according
to Entertainment Tonight Preston worked
with Tyler for years but they first
emerged as a couple in early 2016 the
duo were spotted holding hands while
walking into the Elton John AIDS
Foundation Oscar viewing party and
they've basically been inseparable since
the 12-year age gap between Lisa Bonet
and Jason Momoa is the last thing on the
Aquaman star's mind because for him it
was literally love at first sight
speaking to James Corden in 2017 Momoa
said he was head over heels for Bonet
before she even knew he existed all
thanks to her role as Denise Huxtable on
The Cosby Show
he said ever since I was like eight
years old and I saw on a TV and I was
like mommy I want that one I'm gonna
stalk you for the rest of my life and
I'm gonna get you of course Jason who
openly admitted to being quote
full-fledged stalker went on to explain
that he said nothing about any of this
to Lisa
until they had two children together you
know for obvious reasons I've always
wanted to meet her and I was she was the
queen always the couple started dating
in 2005 and made it official more than a
decade later with a secret wedding in
2017 her Us Weekly according to Bonet
the night she met Momoa was the dream of
every fan of the Game of Thrones hunk
she told Porter magazine he basically
picked me up and threw me over his
shoulder caveman style less than three
months after comedian Pete Davidson and
Ariana Grande split the SNL star and
actress Kate Beckinsale were spotted
flirting at a Golden Globes after-party
according to page six and a romance with
a 20 year age gap began an insider told
he news that although they seemed like
an unlikely pair he all
Houser laughing and that's a good
feeling to have they talk a lot and
never run out of things to say
a week later Beckinsale told the LA
Times that she was surprised at all the
attention her romantic life was getting
she said it's all quite shocking and
something to get used to I think if you
liked the person less you would bow out
of it less than a month later the
whirlwind romance was over when Ben
Foster and Robin Wright met on the set
of the film ran part the sparks flew
despite the 14-year age difference three
years later the actors announced their
engagement Wright told The Telegraph
that boss ters proposal was surprising
but ultimately inevitable
she explained we felt married anyway
we've been together ever since the first
date but their blissful engagement
lasted just 10 months a source told Us
Weekly the gap just ended up being too
much Ben was kind of immature she
couldn't deal with him anymore the
couple reconciled a few months later but
in 2015 they called it quits once again
in 2016 Foster popped the question to
that 70 show and orange the new black
star laura Prepon and the couple who are
just one year apart in age welcomed
their first child a year later I have to
be like let out of prison to be able to
get married so we'll see what happens
the duo tied the knot in 2018 and are
expecting their second child in 2020
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