15 Celebrity Couples With Major Age Differences
Celebrities like to make waves in the news. Often times the headlines highlight the crazy age differences between them and their current lover. Don't even get us started on Leonardo DiCaprio. My father has a creepy but truthful joke he likes to say on the matter: Why do celebrities date so young? Because they can." Celebs can have whatever they please. Move over Jake Gyllenhaal, these folks dated young and stayed the course. From Priyanka and Nick Jonas to Beyoncé and Jay-Z...Blake and Ryan to Holland and Sarah, we've rounded up the biggest names who know that age is just a number and have found lasting love with partners significantly their senior. Keep reading for 15 celebrity couples with huge age gaps.
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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Age difference: 10 years
Nick and Priyanka recently joked about their age difference on The Jonas Brother's Family Roast. The 39-year-old actress acknowledged the couple's 10-year age gap before taking a dig at his onscreen career. "Nick and I have a 10-year age gap, we do. And there are many '90s pop culture references he doesn't understand, and I have to explain them to him…" She then went in for the kill, adding, "He teaches me how to use TikTok, for example, and I teach him what a successful acting career looks like."
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Beyonce and Jay-Z
Age difference: 12 years
Queen B and Jay-Z met when she was just 18 and started dating when she was 19 and he was 31. The power couple quickly became the it couple of music and dated for seven years before finally tying the knot in a top-secret ceremony in 2008. They had daughter Blue Ivy in 2012 and twins Sir and Rumi in 2018, and continue to collaborate in both music and life.
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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DiRossi
Age difference: 15 years
Few people seem to know that the popular talk show host and actress have such a large age difference between them. But despite the large age difference, the couple knew they were each other's soulmates pretty much from first sight when they met in 2004.
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
Age difference: 11 years
The gorgeous couple met on the set of "Green Lantern" when Lively, fresh off her "Gossip Girl" success was just 22 and Reynolds was 33 (and married to fellow actress Scarlett Johansson at the time.) They got married in 2012 and, in addition to drawing huge laughs for their social media antics, are now the parents to two daughters, James and Inez.
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Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher
Age difference: 18 years
The legendary comedian and Australian model/actress have been together since 2012. In 2018, Butcher gave birth to Murphy's 10th child. The couple also are parents to a daughter, who was born in 2016. Murphy has eight other children with four other women.
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Dane Cook and Kelsi Taylor
Age difference: 27 years
The comedian and singer are definitely one of those romances that have everyone going, "Huh?" The couple apparently met at a game night when Taylor was presumably still a teenager. They started officially dating when she was 18. Yikes.
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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves
Age difference: 13 years
Alright, alright, alright, the heart wants what the heart wants. The free-wheeling actor and former Victoria's Secret model and met when Alves was 23 and McConaughey, 36. According to McConaughey, he was not looking for love at the time, but when you spot your soulmate, you just know.
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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Age difference: 25 years
Despite their quarter-century age difference, the stars all pointed the way to this surprising romance — both Douglas and Zeta-Jones were born on Sept. 25, 25 years apart. The handsome couple got hitched in 2000 when she was 31 and he was 56, and they have two kids together.
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George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin
Age difference: 17 years
Much to everyone's surprise, the world's most famous bachelor finally settled down with the accomplished human rights lawyer who is 17 years his junior. Clooney was 52 when he proposed to then 35-year-old Alamuddin, and the glamorous couple soon got hitched in a star-studded affair in Italy.
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Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas
Age difference: 26 years
Following the nasty and public divorce from Baldwin's first wife, actress Kim Basinger, the actor found love again with yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas who was 26 years his junior. The couple married in 2012 and are now parents to six children.
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Amber Tamblyn and David Cross
Age difference: 19 years
The former "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" actress and her comedian husband definitely turned major heads with their nearly two-decade age difference when news of their romance first broke back in 2012 when Tamblyn was 25 and the "Arrested Development" actor was 44. Fast-forward to today, and the couple is still going strong as the proud parents of daughter Marlow.
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Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor
Age difference: 32 years
When 40-year-old Sarah Paulson began dating 72-year-old Holland Taylor in 2015, more than a few eyebrows were raised. After meeting at a dinner party 12 years prior, the couple reconnected many years later via Twitter, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo
Age difference: 10 years
The Maroon 5 frontman and Victoria's Secret model started dating when he was 33 and she was 22. They got married in 2014 and now have two children together.
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Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster
Age difference: 26 years
Penny Lancaster was only 27 and a student photographer when she met superstar Rod Stewart (then 53) in 1999, but that didn't stop the sparks from flying. The "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" singer and model got married in 2007 and have two children together.
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Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield
Age difference: 27 years
Bottom line: Legendary comedy man Steve Martin met his wife, journalist Anne Stringfield, when she was a fact-checker for The New Yorker and had to call the actor regarding a piece he wrote for the publication. They were phone friends for a while, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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