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35 Celebrity Couples With The Biggest Age Differences

For these couples, age is just a number

February 27, 2018
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35 Celebrity Couples With The Biggest Age Differences
Amber Tamblyn & David Cross: 19 Years
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David Cross and Amber Tamblyn announced their engagement in August of 2011, and tied the knot the following year. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsactress and her actor/comedian husband welcomed daughter Marlow Alice Cross in 2017.

Sam Taylor-Johnson & Aaron Taylor-Johnson: 23 Years
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In 2009, Sam Taylor-Johnson announced her engagement to Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who’s 23 years her junior. According to The Daily Mail, the two met on the set of Nowhere Boy, where Sam was the director. Of the age gap, Aaron reportedly told Men’s Health in a 2014 interview: “She’s such a young, beautiful soul that you wouldn’t even know.”

Donald Trump & Melania Trump: 24 Years
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According to Business Insider, Donald Trump met Melania at New York Fashion Week in 1998, when Trump was 52 years old and Melania was 28. In April of 2004, after five years of dating on and off, Trump proposed to Melania. She said yes and became his third wife. The couple has been married for the past 13 years and have one son, Barron, together.

Hilarie Burton & Jeffrey Dean Morgan: 16 Years
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The One Tree Hill actress and The Walking Dead star began dating in 2009 after being set up by Morgan’s Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles. Burton, 36, and Morgan, 52, welcomed Augustus in 2010, and in September of 2017 it was announced that the couple will be expecting their second childin 2018.

Ariel Winter & Levi Meaden: 10 Years
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The 20-year-old Modern Family actress is ten years younger than boyfriend Levi Meaden. The couple celebrated their first anniversary in November of 2017 and are currently living together. In regard to the negative comments about their age difference, Winter told Refiney29 in a recent interview: “I don’t understand why someone would even comment on our situation at all. There are tons of people of all ages that live with their boyfriend.”

Penny Lancaster & Rod Stewart: 26 Years
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After dating for several years and having two children together, in 2007 Rod Stewart marriedformer-model and now-wife Penny Lancaster. Lancaster is Stewart’s third wife.

Alexis Roderick & Billy Joel: 33 Years
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In 2015, Billy Joel married his fourth and now-wife Alexis Roderick at his Long Island estate. The couple welcomed daughter Della Rose in 2015, and second daughter Remy Anne in 2017.

Rupert Murdoch & Jerry Hall: 25 Years
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Two and a half decades fall between media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former-model Jerry Hall. Hall was previously married and had four children with Rolling Stones front-man Mick Jagger, before the couple split in 1999. Murdoch also has children from previous marriages, but despite the previous ties and vast age gap, 59-year-old Hall and 84-year-old Murdoch were married in 2016.

Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer​: 13 Years
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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer met on the set of True Blood back in 2008. The small-screen actors wed in August of 2010, and now have two children together.

Emma Heming Willis & Bruce Willis: 23 Years
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Married once before (to actress Demi Moore), The Sixth Sense star married second and current wife Emma Heming Willis in 2009. The couple, Heming, 39, and Willis, 62, are still married today, and now have two daughters together.

Alec Baldwin & Hilaria Baldwin: 26 Years
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Alec and Hilaria Baldwin met for the first time in February of 2011 when Hilaria was working as a yoga instructor. The couple moved quickly into a stable relationship as Hilaria told Beach magazine in a 2013 interview: “Five months into our relationship, we got an apartment together; then we started talking about getting married; then he proposed; then we got married; now we have a kid,” she explained. “So it all went quite fast!” As of 2017, the couple announced they were pregnant with their fourth child.

Hayden Panettiere & Wladimir Klitschko: 13 Years
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A true definition of “opposites attract,” the 5’1″ Nashville star and 6’6″ Ukrainian boxer fell in love back in 2009. The couple tied the knot in 2003 when Panettiere was 24-year-old and Klitschko was 37, and they now have a baby girl together.

AnnaLynne McCord & Dominic Purcell: 18 Years
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The former 90210 actress and Prison Break star have had an on-again, off-again kind of relationship since they started dating in 2001. Following a three-year relationship, the couple split in 2014, but rekindled their love in 2016, despite the 18-year age difference— McCord is 30 and Purcell is 48.

Nikki Reed & Ian Somerhalder: 10 Years
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Reed, 30, and Somerhalder, 39, began their relationship in 2014, much to the excitement of vampire fans. Reed had starred in the Twilight movie series, while Somerhalder played the main hunk on Vampire Diaries. Somerhalder popped the question after only six months of dating, and they were married that same year. “She accepted with glee. She is madly in love,” an insider told Us Weekly. The couple welcomed baby girl Bodhi Soleil Reed Somerhalder in July of 2017.

Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy: 12 Years
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Desperate Housewives actress Huffman, 56, and Shameless actor Macy, 68, dated on-and-off for 15 years before finally marrying in 1997. “I was so scared of marriage that I thought I would’ve preferred to step in front of a bus,” Huffman told Tribune News on her hesitation towards marriage. The couple has two daughters together.

Sarah Paulson & Holland Taylor: 31 Years
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Rumors started swirling in 2015 that American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson, 44, was dating 75-year-old Holland Taylor. Paulson later confirmed their relationship in an interview with the New York Times in 2016, stating: “What I can say absolutely is that I am in love, and that person happens to be Holland Taylor.”

Guy Ritchie & Jacqui Ainsley: 13 Years
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After over five years of dating and three children together, Guy Ritchie, 50, and his model girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley, 37, finally said “I do” in 2015 with a lavish summer wedding.

Harrison Ford & Calista Flockhart: 22 Years
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Harrison Ford, 76, and Calista Flockhart, 54, first met at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards. They continued to date for another seven-and-a-half years before Ford finally popped the question over Valentine’s Day weekend in 2009. They married that same year in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and have one adopted son together.

Liam Payne & Cheryl Cole: 11 Years
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Liam Payne, 24, and Cheryl Cole, 35, first met when the One Direction star auditioned on The X Factor, where Cheryl was a judge. He was just 16 at the time. The pair later got together while Cheryl was going through her divorce to second husband Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini at the beginning of 2016. Cheryl gave birth to the couple’s son, Bear, in March 2017.

Hugh Jackman & Deborra Lee-Furness: 13 Years
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Hugh Jackman, 50, and Deborra Lee-Furness, 63, first met on the 1995 set of Australian show Correlli, which served as Jackman’s first break out of drama school. The two married in 1996 and adopted two children together, Oscar and Ava. Jackman told People that despite their age difference, he’s still the adult: “I’m literally the adult in the relationship. She’s just like a little kid. I’m the [one saying], ‘Babe, this is not a legal parking spot.”

Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones: 25 Years
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Zeta-Jones, 49, and Douglas, 74, may be 25 years apart, but they happen to share the same birthday. The pair were introduced at the Deauville Film Festival in 1996. Douglas proposed in 1999, a month after he confirmed rumors that Zeta-Jones was pregnant. The actress gave birth to son Dylan in August of 1999, and the two were married in November 2000. They briefly separated in 2013, but soon rekindled their relationship and are going strong.

Julius Tennon & Viola Davis: 12 Years
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Viola Davis, 53, has been married to Julius Tennon, 65, since 2003. The couple first met on the set of TV show City of Angels, with Davis telling People of their first encounter: “The only thing I thought was, ‘He’s good-looking. He’s really good-looking.'” The couple adopted a daughter, Genesis, in 2011, and Tennon has two children from previous relationships.

The King & Queen of Bhutan: 10 Years
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King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 38, and his wife Jetsun Pema, 28, first met when she was just 7 years old at a picnic. Although Jetsun Pema is considered a commoner, her family has many connections with the royal family and it’s said that at the picnic, she innocently confessed her love for the dashing prince. Her childish confession caught the prince’s heart and he promised that when she grew up and if they were both single and in love, he would marry her. The two later married in 2011, and gave birth to a son in 2016.

Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green: 13 Years
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Fox, 32, and Green, 45, met on the set of Hope & Faith in 2004 when she was only 18. They became engaged in 2006, but split three years later. However, the couple later rekindled the flame and got married in 2010. The couple has three sons together, and Fox is also stepmom to Green’s son from a previous relationship.

Camila Alves & Matthew McConaughey: 13 Years
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McConaughey, 49, met model Alves, 37, at a Los Angeles nightclub in 2006. While it took some convincing to win her over, the two finally started dating and he proposed on Christmas Day in 2011. The couple then married in June 2012. They share three kids together: sons Levi and Livingston and daughter Vida.

Mary-Kate Olsen & Olivier Sarkozy: 17 Years
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French banker Olivier Sarkozy, 49, and Mary-Kate Olsen, 32, got engaged in 2014 after reportedly dating for two years. The couple married in a small ceremony in 2015, where party decor included“bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes.” The two currently reside in a $6.25 million townhouse in New York City.

Princess Charlene & Prince Albert: 20 Years
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First meeting at a swimming competition in Monte Carlo in 2000, Princess Charlene of Monaco, 40, and Prince Albert II of Monaco, 60, dated for ten years before finally becoming engaged in 2011. The couple married that same year in a lavish royal wedding, where the bride stunned in a a Giorgio Armani gown.

Jason Statham & Rosie-Huntington-Whiteley: 20 Years
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Actor Jason Statham, 51, and model-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 31, started dating in 2010. The couple confirmed their engagement in January 2016, and announced that Huntington-Whiteley was expecting their first child about a year later. The model gave birth to son Jack Oscar Statham on June 24, 2017.

Jay-Z & Beyoncé: 12 Years
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Beyoncé, 37, and Jay-Z, 49, first started dating back in 2001 when Beyoncé was just 20 years old. They later tied the knot in a super secretive wedding on April 4, 2008, and gave birth to daughter Blue Ivy Carter in 2012. In 2017, Beyoncé completely broke the internet with an Instagram post announcing that the family of three was expecting twins. The couple soon welcomed babies Rumi and Sir in June 2017.

Adam Levine & Behati Prinsloo: 10 Years
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Known for his modelizing ways before finally settling down, Levine, 39, met Prinsloo, 29, in June 2012 after he ended his relationship with Prinsloo’s close friend and fellow VS model Anne Vyalitsyna. The couple became engaged in 2013 and later tied the knot in 2014 in Los Cabos, Mexico. Prinsloo gave birth to baby girl Dusty Rose in 2016, and recently gave birth to another daughter, Gio Grace, this year.

Alicia Vikander & Michael Fassbender: 11 Years
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Alicia Vikander, 29, and now-husband Michael Fassbender, 40, started dating back in 2014 after meeting on the set of The Light Between Oceans. The lovebirds kept it low-key for the cameras at the beginning of their relationship, but were outed as a married couple after they returned from their incognito wedding in Ibiza in 2017.

Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi: 15 Years
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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi started dating back in 2004, and their relationship moved swiftly from there. By 2005, the couple was sharing a home in Los Angeles and DeGeneres (who’s 15 years de Rossi’s senior) told People, “It’s the first time that I’ve known in every cell of my being that I’m with somebody for the rest of my life.” The two were married in 2008, after same-sex marriage was legalized in their home-state of California, and have been together ever since, recently celebrating DeGeneres’s 60th birthday.

George Clooney & Amal Clooney: 17 Years
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In 2014, the world was shocked when the famed bachelor, then 52-year-old George Clooney, announced his engagement to international human rights lawyer, then 35-year-old Amal Alamuddin. The couple officially tied the knot in September of 2014 (just a year after they met) with a beautiful Venetian wedding, and welcomed two children, twins Ella and Alexander, in June of 2017.

Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds: 11 Years
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Meeting on the set of Green Lantern early in 2010 when Lively was just 22-years old and Reynolds was 33, the two started dating in 2011 and were married in September of 2012. Today, the adorable A-listers are proud parents to two little girls, James and Ines, and appear on every red carpet affectionately arm-in-arm.

Elliot Spencer & Stephen Fry: 30 Years
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The couple met in 2014 and apparently hit it off. The Sun reports that they were married in 2015. Allegedly, the now 61-year-old British actor and comedian is currently in recovery from prostate cancer surgery.

This article originally appeared on Harper’s BAZAAR US. 

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