Ah, to be young and in love. Or old and in love! Or young and in love with someone who is old enough to be your father? Age is only a number — and in Hollywood, anything goes when it comes to a celebrity age gap. Hollywood is the epicenter of the U.S. film industry. The Los Angeles neighborhood is flooded with celebrities and the glamour, scandal, and public intrigue that accompanies their every move.
Celebrity couples earn a massive amount of media attention, and “blind-to-age” romances make the gossip even more interesting. Let’s celebrate the famous celebrity couples who threw caution to the wind, ignored the celebrity age gap, and yelled “Love is blind!” Here are 25 Hollywood couples with major age gaps.
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness: 13-Year Age Gap
Deborra-Lee Furness is a cougar who captured the heart of The Wolverine star Hugh Jackman, and she’s kept him purring for more than 20 years. It didn’t take long for the love bug to hit, and the rest is romantic Hollywood history. The pair has two children, Oscar and Ava. And interestingly, Deborra-Lee is 13 years older than Hugh.
They say the secret to their successful marriage is that they always consult each other before making any decisions that could affect their family. “I think relationships, you have to be yourself, including the parts you don’t love, the parts you’re embarrassed about, or things you did wrong,” Hugh reportedly said in 2019. Great advice! Wonder what other nuggets of wisdom our next entry has…
Beyoncé and Jay-Z: 12-Year Age Gap
Bey and Jay — these two titans of the music industry are the ultimate power couple. They even shard a Grammy Award for “Crazy in Love.” They had their first child in 2012, and their twins made the family even more picturesque, if that’s possible. Needless to say, these two are R&B royalty, and have amassed a following as big as their net worths
We don’t know when Beyoncé and Jay-Z initially met, but she gave us a rough estimate in an interview with Seventeen in 2008. “There was no rush—no one expected me to run off and get married when we first met, 19 when we first started dating,” she explained. Today, the two continue to be philanthropists and musicians.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi: 15-Year Age Gap
These lovebirds’ marriage is a fan favorite for many. DeGeneres came out as gay in 1997, and the pair began dating in 2004. De Rossi is famous for her roles in the hit shows Scandal and Arrested Development. The pair considers humor and philanthropy their top priorities, but they also love real estate, having moved multiple times during their marriage.
They met at a party in 2000, but it wasn’t until 2004 that they became more than friends. Their friendship provided de Rossi the courage to come out as gay in public. “I’ve had many years of not being open, so it’s an honor for me to do this; it’s just lovely to be asked,” she says. The two, despite controversies, continue to stay together.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham: 20-Year Age Gap
The former Victoria’s Secret angel and the actor have been together for 10 years, and are currently engaged. Both hail from across the pond and have publicly discussed the possibility of raising their child, adorable baby Jack, in the UK. The two have been pretty private about their relationship, but we finally have a few details.
Their 20-year age gap may raise some questions. Statham was born on July 27, 1967, while the Mad Max: Fury Road actress was born in April 1987. During an April 2020 Instagram Q&A, Huntington-Whiteley informed her followers that the gap didn’t affect her. “Age is but a number!” ” she wrote back then.
Amal and George Clooney: 17-Year Age Gap
This couple is a force to be reckoned with. Amal is an accomplished barrister specializing in international law, and has traveled the world advocating for human rights. Side note: She’s drop-dead gorgeous. Mr. Clooney, you’re great, too. (The actor has won three Golden Globe Awards and two Oscars.) Now, imagine how amazing their twins will grow up to be!
In November 2020, George told CBS, “We never talked about marriage when we were dating, and I asked her out of the blue.” “It took a long time for her to say yes.” For about 20 minutes, I was on my knee. ‘Look, I’m going to throw my hip out,’ I finally said. We informed her parents about it, and they were like, ‘There’s something wrong with his hip?'”
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds: 11-Year Age Gap
If you’re a fan of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, you can thank Green Lantern for their romance. The couple met while filming the film in 2010, but didn’t start dating until 2011, and have since become one of our favorite celebrity couples. They initially met in 2010 on the set of Green Lantern, although they were both with other people.
By the fall of 2011, the actors had both become single and started dating. Reynolds has said that he knew Lively was “the one” after their first date. The actor was previously married to Scarlett Johannson, and became romantically involved with Lively after his divorce in 2011. The couple has two adorable daughters, James and Ines.
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin: 25-Year Age Gap
She’s about the same age as his daughter, but who’s keeping track? Alec and Hilaria fell fast in love when they met. Alec spotted her when she was teaching yoga — a good thing, given Alec’s track record of angry public outbursts. A little yoga deep breathing (and deep loving) is always good for keeping the love and flexibility alive.
They have four children together — three boys and a girl — and Hilaria has gone on record as saying that she’d be open to a fifth. “We were very confident our family was complete, and we’re beyond pleased with this surprise,” the fitness guru tweeted. “I’m sharing with you the moment we told the kids – as you can see, they’re super excited!”
Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder – 9-Year Age Gap
More vampires! Somerhalder starred in The Vampire Diaries, and Reed appeared in the Twilight movies. Nikki is 30 and Ian is 39, but apparently age is of minimal consequence to the undead. These particular creatures of the night have an adorable little daughter. To commemorate their fourth wedding anniversary in April 2019…
…the Twilight actress posted on Instagram, “I still have no idea if we’re doing it properly, but I know we both wake up every day and choose each other. We’ve seen a lot, we’ve done a lot, we’ve laughed a lot, we’ve laughed a lot of it off, and we’ve continued to be each other’s biggest cheerleaders, and truest support system.”
Emma Hemming and Bruce Willis: 23-Year Age Gap
Bruce Willis has always done things his way … and that includes loving younger women. He was wed to A-lister Demi Moore for years, but when that ended, he moved onto fling after fling after fling. Finally, he met beauty Emma Hemming, 23 years his junior. The two have tied the knot in 2009 and continue to live together to this day.
The two are now happily married and have two children together, and as far as Demi goes, there’s no animosity — she even attended the pair’s private ceremony! Emma Heming Willis, the 67-year-old actor’s wife, announced the news on Instagram on March 30, saying he is “moving away from the business that has meant so much to him.”
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor: 31-Year Age Gap
The two actresses have been dating since 2015. Despite a 31-year age difference, the pair couldn’t be happier. In an interview with Us Weekly, Taylor said, “I’m the luckiest person in the world. I can’t talk about my life today and not mention this wonderful love.” Awwww. Paulson revealed they started following each other on Twitter in a 2019 edition of “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.”
“It’s a long story. We met a long time ago. I was with someone else; she was with someone else,” Paulson explained. “We passed each other by, and then we started following one other on Twitter, and then… ” “Holland Taylor slid into your DMs?” said fellow guest Billy Eichner. “She truly did,” Paulson answered. “Yeah, it’s quite cool.”
Sumner Redstone and Sydney Holland: 54-Year Age Gap
Known for creating the slogan, “content is king”, Sumner Redstone was the majority owner of ViacomCBS. His ex-fiance of five years was Sydney Holland, who was fifty-four years younger than him. “Sydney Holland and Sumner Redstone have had a caring and wonderful relationship for over five years,” Holland’s lawyer, Brad D Rose, said in a statement after their breakup.
According to court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Sumner Redstone has banned his ex-lover Sydney Holland from his trust, but has included her seven-year-old daughter. On August 12, the media entrepreneur who established the ViacomCBS empire died at the age of 97, leaving a fortune of $3 billion.
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves: 13-Year Age Gap
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. McConaughey has joked that Brazilian model Camila Alves rejected him multiple times before their relationship began. Now, the married couple is parents to three children — so it’s alright, alright, alright! McConaughey and his pal Lance Armstrong went out to a bar on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 2006.
The actor noticed Alves, a model and actress who immigrated to the United States from Brazil at the age of 15, across the room and was immediately drawn to her. In 2020, McConaughey told Oprah Winfrey, “I didn’t say, ‘Who is that,’ I said, ‘What is that.” “We had a terrific connection; that night, I spoke better Spanish and Portuguese than I have since, you know what I mean?”
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas: 25-Year Age Gap
A love that endures. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who met in 1998, are the definition of “power couple.” “I was a little nervous since I wasn’t sure what he wanted to meet me about,” the Falling Down star said. Meanwhile, the actor was confident that the two would have a future together — but worried that a terrible pickup line had damaged his chances.
This duo is in it for the long haul. After a brief separation in 2013, Douglas told reporters, “Catherine reminds me, I like to say sometimes, we all make more effort with strangers than we do to the people closest to us.” Good advice! The pair of Hollywood elites is still happily married. And this is Hollywood, making this very rare!
Leonardo DiCaprio & Camila Morrone: 23-Year Age Gap
Camila Morrone and Leonardo DiCaprio are experts at keeping their romance hidden from the public eye. They were first seen together in 2017, and little is known about their relationship save for DiCaprio’s amazing ability to become a viral meme and their age difference (the actor is 23 years older than his supermodel/actress girlfriend, who is currently 24 years old).
So, how did this partnership come to be? When movie star Leonardo DiCaprio started dating Camila Morrone he was 42 and she was 19, making the gap between them a huge 23-years. Despite the age difference, the duo has been together for nearly four years, flying mostly under the public eye. That said, Morrone did accompany DiCaprio to the 2020 Academy Awards.
Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas: 11-Year Age Gap
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ love story began with a direct message on Twitter, arguably the largest whirlwind romance of 2018 (and remember, 2018 was the year of whirlwind romances). Here’s everything you need to know about Mr. and Mrs. Jonas, from their scores of hot Instagram comments to their seemingly endless wedding celebrations.
Despite the 11-year-difference between Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas, the happily married couple have never let it affect them. A source told People in 2018 prior to their wedding that Jonas “loves dating older women, and if anything it makes Priyanka even more attractive to him,” the source added. Jonas has “always been very mature for his age” and is “an old soul.”
Chris Pratt & Katherine Schwarzenegger: 10-Year Age Gap
After his well-publicized divorce from Anna Faris, Chris Pratt quickly rebounded with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daughter Katherine despite the couple’s 10-year age difference. The couple seem to be going strong, having their first child together in August of 2020. People think they are a rebound relationship, but there’s more to it than that.
In 2018, the couple began dating, one year after Pratt and Faris announced their separation after eight years of marriage (the exes welcomed son Jack in 2012). The Take Me Home Tonight actress and Schwarzenegger confirmed their engagement in January 2019. Six months later, the couple married in a stunning wedding in Montecito, California.
Elton John & David Furnish: 15-Year Age Gap
Elton John and his husband David Furnish have become the public face of same-sex marriage after more than 25 years together. The English rock star and Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive are red carpet regulars, proudly appearing for photos hand-in-hand or with one arm around the other at events and fundraisers.
Legendary rocker Elton John began a relationship with Canadian filmmaker David Furnish in 1993 despite the 15-year age gap between them. The couple became civil partners in 2005 and marrying in 2014, in conjunction with the passage of UK laws making those things respectively legal. The couple have two children together, each born with the use of a surrogate.
Simon Cowell & Lauren Silverman: 18-Year Age Gap
American Idol icon Simon Cowell began dating Lauren Silverman, 18 years his junior, in secret because Silverman was still married to someone else at the time, Cowell and Silverman chose to go public in their relationship in 2013, after the couple learned she was pregnant with his child. Silverman gave birth to their son in 2014.
He first met her in 2004 while she was on vacation with her then-husband, real estate magnate Andrew Silverman, at Barbados’ Sandy Lane resort. Simon and Andrew hit it well right away, and sources say Simon was immediately drawn to Lauren. Despite this, Simon continued to date women such as entertainment journalist Terri Seymour and beauty artist Mezhgan Hussainy.
Steven Tyler & Aimee Preston: 39-Year Age Gap
Following in the long-running…. tradition of aging rock stars becoming romantically involved with younger women, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler began dating his then-personal assistant Aimee Preston in 2016. Despite the near four decade difference in their ages, the couple are currently engaged.
Both Aimee and Tyler had been married before meeting each other and embarking on their fairytale love story. Tyler’s first wife was actress and model Cyrinda Foxe, with whom he began dating in 1977 and married the following year. However, their relationship was marred by abuse, resulting in a harsh divorce.
Dennis Quaid & Laura Savoie: 39-Year Age Gap
While the near four decade age difference between Dennis Quaid and Laura Savoie might have caught some people off-guard, it didn’t stop the actor from proposing while the couple were on a Hawaiian vacation. As he explained, “She was actually taking a selfie of us, and I put the ring in front and said, ‘Will you marry me?’—and then she fell down.”
The couple eloped to Santa Barbara after getting engaged in October and married on June 2 at a seaside resort. Quaid tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s issue, “It was amazing.” The couple had planned a wedding in Hawaii in April and a second reception in Nashville for family and friends, but the COVID-19 outbreak forced them to postpone the festivities.
Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz: 17-Year Age Gap
Supermodel Heidi Klum, who married Tom Kaulitz (17 years her junior) in 2019 spoke about the reaction to their age difference in an InStyle interview. Klum said, “You have to just live a happy life without worrying too much about what people think because worrying is only going to give you more wrinkles.”
The Maroon 5 frontman started dating Prinsloo in May 2012, just a month after ending his relationship with fellow Victoria’s Secret Angel Anne Vyalitsyna. Despite briefly breaking up in May 2013, the artist and the Namibian model couldn’t deny their attraction, rekindling their affair less than two months later.
Scott Disick & Sofia Richie: 15 Years
Sofia Richie was only 19 years old when she began dating then 34-year-old reality star, Scott Disick. The pair have been together since 2017, shortly after Disick’s relationship with the mother of his three children, Kourtney Kardashian, ended. During a fun-filled getaway to the South of France in May 2017, the Flip It Like Disick star was first seen cozying up to the model, who is 16 years his junior.
Us Weekly revealed the amorous couple’s relationship four months later. “While they were in New York City together over the previous week, things became official,” a source said at the time. “It’s strange. Sofia had been a family friend for years and was close to Kendall and Kylie Jenner, not just because of their age gap.”
The Magic Mike actor and his husband, who works as a Hollywood publicist, and he’s a successful one at that. He did publicity for the first McDonald’s for two years before he moved back to LA to become account manager at BWR Public Relations. They have been married for nine years and are parents to sons Henry, Walker, and Kit.
Heidi Klum was 45 years old when she began dating Tom Kaulitz, a 29-year-old guitarist from Tokio Hotel, in 2018. The pair married the following year, first formally in a civil ceremony and then in a grandiose Italian wedding in June. Klum told USA Today, “He’s a fantastic person, and I couldn’t be happier.”
Eddie Murphy & Paige Butcher: 17 Years
Eddie Murphy is unquestionably one of the greatest and most well-known comedians of all time. Following his four-year stint on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s, he has been a household name for decades. Eddie has a long series of box office comedic hits, a long list of epic characters, and several accolades and nominations under his belt, dating back to his first film, 48Hrs, in 1982.
Eddie has been growing his family in addition to continuing to create a great career. He has ten children with five women over the last three decades: Paulette McNeely, Tamara Hood, Nicole Mitchell, Melanie Brown, and Paige Butcher. Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher, a very private couple, confirmed their engagement in 2018 after six years together.
Emilie Livingston & Jeff Goldblum: 30 Years
Jeff Goldblum, 67, and former gymnast, Emilie Livingston, 37, got married in 2014. Since then, the happy couple, who boasts a 30-year age difference, has welcomed two sons together. The couple evidently adores one other, and their 8-year marriage has resulted in two children: Charlie Ocean, born 2015, and their younger son, River Joe, born in 2017.
They met under the most unexpected of circumstances: while exercising. In a 2018 interview with Wired, Jeff described their first meeting (complete with wonderful humorous narration). “We were at the Equinox gym on Sunset Blvd. “I saw her across a packed room and marched over to her, entranced, and struck up a discussion with her,” he explained. As they say, the rest is history.
Mary-Kate Olsen & Olivier Sarkozy: 17 Years
It was a strange match from the outset. After eight years as a couple and five years as husband and wife, Mary-Kate Olsen, of the multi-millionaire Olsen twins, and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s half-brother, Olivier, 20 years her senior, are currently in the midst of divorce procedures. And oh my lord, it is juicy.
In 2015, the pair married in a tiny ceremony with “bowls and bowls packed with cigarettes” as party decor. As the couple prepares to go to court on December 15, additional information about their assets is emerging, including the $13.5 million townhouse they shared in New York, which is expected to be put up for sale.