10 Ridiculous Age Mismatches in Hollywood
The odd thing about life in the real world is that if my wife found out a friend of mine were dating a girl 10 years his junior then she would think it was disgusting. Hell my brother is 37-years-old and is married to a 21-year-old. Doesn’t bother me. It is what it is and he’s happy so that’s all that matters.
But I find it funny how the same people who criticize this stuff don’t seem to harp on Hollywood. It’s as if Hollywood is exempt from morality arguments pertaining to age differences in couples.
Anyway, here are 10 crazy big mismatches that have occurred in Hollywood over the years….
Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris – 54 Year Difference
I mean we all kind of knew that this would be the case with Hef but it’s still almost a surprise you know? There’s just something spooky about it all. Dude can be her grandfather for Christ’s sake.
Tony Randall and Heather Harlan – 51 year Difference
You didn’t really hear about this relationship all that often but it’s certainly one of the biggest age gaps in history. Unfortunately Randall passed away in 2004 but the age difference is significant.
Anna Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall – 63 year difference
Everyone knew this thing was a crock but it existed nonetheless. And I have to admit, if I were in my 80s and a woman like this even hinted that I could play with her boobs I’d be in love with her too.
Cary Grant and Barbara Harris – 47 Year Difference
Grant was always married to a younger woman but the older he got the younger they got. Harris was the biggest age difference in his marriages.
Anthony Quinn and Kathy Benvin – 47 Year Difference
I’m pretty impressed, aren’t you?
Fred Astaire and Robin Smith – 44 Year Difference
You kind of had to figure a guy like this would marry a younger woman. After all in nearly every movie he was in, the leading lady always seemed to be half his age.
Patrick Stewart and Lisa Dillon – 39 Year Difference
Stewart is another guy who was married twice before and in each marriage the age gap grew. Way to go buddy.
James Woods and Ashley Madison – 39 year Difference
The kicker in this one is that Madison was 18 when they got married. Yup. 18.
Clint Eastwood and Dina Ruiz – 36 Year Difference
I didn’t even know Eastwood was married. I knew he had kids but that’s about it.
Woody Allen and Soon Yi Preven – 35 Year Difference
I always thought the gap was much bigger than this but I think the big issue is that Allen started up with this girl when she was super young.
Dennis Hopper and Victoria Duffy – 35 Year Difference
This one was a big issue because there was lots of stuff attached to the death of Hopper that made news. People wondered about Duffy and still do.
I don’t get how people interact with huge age differences. I spent the better part of a decade in the military. When I got out, I went back to college. Pretty much since I was in nothing but freshmen courses, I ended up hanging out and interacting with people about 10 years younger than me.
I will never…ever get into a sexual relationship with someone with that great of an age difference again. I pretty much stopped watching “Family Guy” and “The Simpsons” as I was constantly having to explain references to her and her friends. Even worse…one of her friends was a history major and would go to me for stuff about the Berlin Wall failing and the end of Communism. That is kind of a kick in the nuts when stuff from your childhood are now classes in college. Pretty much almost any interaction with her that included anyone besides her, made me feel really f-ing old.
Though honestly…the nail in the coffin between us was when I met her dad…and totally got why she was with me. I was basically the stable father figure she never got. That creeped the shit out of me.
How many of these were for love? Money? Status? You don’t marry your suggadaddy. Were are the Cougars on this list?
I think what pushes the skeev factor into the red with Woody Allen is that when he started his relationship with Soon Yi, she wasn’t technically HIS adopted daughter, but she was his girlfriends’ (Mia Farrow), as well as being the sister of his and Farrows’ other (adopted and biological) kids!
Yeah, we definitely need the cougar list, too. Demi Moore and Mariah Carey would have to be the most obvious choices, but there has to be some female celebs that married someone 20+ years younger than them. There has to.
you see guys, we men don’t like old meat.
Considering the fact that Patrick Stewart hasn’t aged since the 80’s, his marrying of younger chicks is excusable. The rest of these guys, though? No. Gross.
If you’re with someone younger, you are old meat. Older men are like used cars that you make excuses for because you’re glad they still start because you’re broke (probably no self-esteem). Truth is, older men have all the signs of being something from someone else’s rejection pile… like that faint smell you can’t figure out in an old BMW. It is what it is either way. After a while the younger one eventually takes the blinders off, male or female.