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50 celebrity couples with huge age differences between them

50 celebrity couples with huge age differences between them
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have a bit of an age gap.Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly
  • Some celebrity couples have large gaps between them.
  • Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra are 10 years apart, while Dick Van Dyke and his wife Arlene Silver are separated by 46 years.
  • Age doesn't matter for these couples.
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Age doesn't necessarily matter when it comes to love for these Hollywood May-December romances.

From the 12 years between Jay-Z and Beyoncé to the 17 years between George and Amal Clooney, these celebrities have found their match in partners more than 10 years older than them.

Here are 50 celebrity couples with a big age gap between them.

Anjelica Oswald contributed to a previous version of this article.

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Don McLean and Paris Dylan: 49 years

Don McLean and Paris Dylan: 49 years
Don McLean and Paris Dylan on her Instagram.      Paris Dylan/Instagram

"American Pie" singer McLean, 74, is dating 26-year-old model Dylan. She shared an image on her Instagram of the two of them in Paris in 2018 and captioned the photo, "A dream with my love." They've been posting photos together since November 2016.

Arlene Silver and Dick Van Dyke: 46 years

Arlene Silver and Dick Van Dyke: 46 years
Arlene Silver and Dick Van Dyke in November 2018.      Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images

Van Dyke, 94, married makeup artist Silver, 48, in 2012 after meeting her six years earlier at the SAG Awards.

Mick Jagger and Melanie Hamrick: 44 years

Mick Jagger and Melanie Hamrick: 44 years
Mick Jagger is with Melanie Hamrick.      Frank Hoensch/Redferns and Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

Jagger, 76, and Hamrick, a 33-year-old ballerina, have been together since 2014. They have a son named Deveraux.

Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell: 38 years

Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell: 38 years
Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell in February 2020.      Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Stewart, 79, married jazz singer Ozell, 41, in 2013 after dating for roughly five years. The two met when Stewart was performing in "Macbeth" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross: 35 years

Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross: 35 years
Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross in 2019.      John Rasimus / Barcroft Media via Getty Images

Gibson, 64, and Ross, a 29-year-old writer, welcomed a son in January 2017. They've been dating since around 2014.

David Foster and Katharine McPhee: 34 years

David Foster and Katharine McPhee: 34 years
David Foster and Katharine McPhee in February 2020.      Theo Wargo/Getty Images

Foster, 70, and McPhee, 36, got engaged in 2018 while on an Italian vacation. They tied the knot in June 2019.

Alejandra Silva and Richard Gere: 34 years

Alejandra Silva and Richard Gere: 34 years
Alejandra Silva and Richard Gere at a premiere in 2017.      Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images

It was revealed in April 2018 that Gere, 70, and Silva, 37, secretly married "weeks and weeks ago," People confirmed. The two have been dating since 2014.

They welcomed a son in February 2019 and Silva reportedly welcomed their second child in 2020.

Kitty Spencer and Michael Lewis: 32 years

Kitty Spencer and Michael Lewis: 32 years
Lady Kitty Spencer walking the runway at a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in September 2018.      Victor VIRGILE/ Gemma-Rapho/ Getty Images

The 29-year-old model was photographed with 61-year-old businessman Lewis in New York City in May 2019. Since 2018, people have speculated that Spencer, who's the niece of Princess Di, was in a relationship with Lewis.

Dennis Quaid and Laura Savoie: 39 years

Dennis Quaid and Laura Savoie: 39 years
The actor was previously dating model Santa Auzina, 32 years his junior.      Marco Garcia/Getty Images

Quaid, 66, is now engaged to 26-year-old PhD student Laura Savoie.

The two had been dating for the past few months before getting engaged.

Sean Penn and Leila George: 32 years

Sean Penn and Leila George: 32 years
Sean Penn in 2018 and Leila George in 2016.      Presley Ann and Brad Barket/Getty Images

The 59-year-old Penn has been dating 28-year-old George since 2016.

Emilie Livingston and Jeff Goldblum: 31 years

Emilie Livingston and Jeff Goldblum: 31 years
Jeff Goldblum and Emilie Livingston in February 2020.      Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Goldblum, 67, married gymnast Livingston, 37, married in 2014 and have since had two sons, the second having joined the family in April 2017.

Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor: 31 years

Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor: 31 years
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor in February 2020.      Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

"American Horror Story" star Paulson, 45, has been dating the 77-year-old Taylor since early 2015. Paulson confirmed their relationship in an interview with the New York Times in 2016.

Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff: 27 years

Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff: 27 years
Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff attend the Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis in 2018.      Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

After two years of being engaged, Roberts, 38, and Hasselhoff, 67, tied the knot in July 2018.

Hasselhoff told OK! Magazine that he did have some concerns about their age gap when they started dating.

"For the longest time I didn't think it was right to marry Hayley as I was so much older and I didn't want to take away the fun and the youth and the excitement of growing old together and having children," he said.

Dane Cook and Kelsi Taylor: 27 years

Dane Cook and Kelsi Taylor: 27 years
Dane Cook and Kelsi Taylor in a photo from Dane Cook's Instagram in 2018.      Dane Cook/Instagram

Cook, a 48-year-old comedian, has a 27-year age gap with the singer. The couple has been dating since 2017 and flew to Hawaii for a romantic vacation in early 2018.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin: 26 years

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin: 26 years
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin in March 2020.      Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Alec, 62, married yoga instructor Hilaria, 36, in 2012. The couple has four children together and another from Alec's first marriage. In September, the couple revealed that they're expecting their fifth child together after Hilaria had a miscarriage.

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones: 25 years

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones: 25 years
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas in January 2020.      Earl Gibson III/Getty Images

Zeta-Jones, 50, and Douglas, 75, share the same birthday. The two were introduced at the Deauville Film Festival in 1998, married in November 2000, and have two kids. The couple briefly separated in 2013, but are now back together.

Brittany Furlan and Tommy Lee: 24 years

Brittany Furlan and Tommy Lee: 24 years
Brittany Furlan and Tommy Lee at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.      Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Motley Crue drummer Lee, 57, married social media star Furlan, 33, on Valentine's Day in 2019. The couple announced their marriage with a post on Instagram that featured their dogs dressed as a bride and groom.

"Holy s---balls!!!! We did it!!! Mr. & Mrs. Lee," Lee wrote.

They got engaged on Valentine's Day in 2018.

Bob Saget and Kelly Rizzo: 23 years

Bob Saget and Kelly Rizzo: 23 years
Bob Saget and Kelly Rizzo in September 2018.      Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

Saget, 63, and TV host Rizzo, 40, married in 2018. Saget shared a photo on Instagram with the news.

"OK, so we went and did it," he wrote. "And damn are we happy."

Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone: 23 years

Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone: 23 years
Leonardo DiCaprio in 2016 and Camila Morrone in 2018.      Jerod Harris and Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

DiCaprio, 45, has reportedly been dating model Morrone, 22, since December 2017. According to The Cut, they met at an event in Florida.

Bruce Willis and Emma Heming: 23 years

Bruce Willis and Emma Heming: 23 years
Bruce Willis and Emma Heming at the premiere of "Glass."      John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx/AP Photos

Willis, 65, married model Heming, 41, in 2009. They have two daughters: Mabel Ray and Evelyn Penn.

In an interview after marrying, Willis said he fell in love with Heming after one date.

"We went on one date, on the Friday before Emma was getting ready to move back to New York, and then we fell mad crazy in love," Willis said.

Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson: 23 years

Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson: 23 years
Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in February 2019.      Chris Jackson/Getty Images

"Avengers: Age of Ultron" actor Aaron Johnson, 29, met director Sam Taylor-Wood, 53, when he starred in her movie "Nowhere Boy." He was 18 at the time. They were engaged months after meeting in 2009 and married in 2012. They changed their last name to Taylor-Johnson. The couple has two daughters, Wylda Rae and Romy Hero. Sam also has two daughters from a previous marriage.

Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin: 22 years

Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin: 22 years
Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin in August 2019.      Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images

Stallone, 73, and Flavin, 51, have been married since 1997. They first met in 1988, but Stallone ended the relationship in 1994 after having an affair with Janice Dickinson. They reconciled in 1995 and now have three daughters: Sophia Rose, Sistine Rose, and Scarlet Rose.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart: 22 years

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart: 22 years
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart in November 2018.      Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Ford, 77, and Flockhart, 55, first met at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards. They married in 2010 and have an adopted son.

Annette Bening and Warren Beatty: 21 years

Annette Bening and Warren Beatty: 21 years
Annette Bening and Warren Beatty in January 2020.      Sonia Recchia/Getty Images for RBC

Bening, 61, and Beatty, 83, met in 1991 while filming the gangster drama "Bugsy." The two married in 1992 and have four kids together.

Zach Braff and Florence Pugh: 21 years

Zach Braff and Florence Pugh: 21 years
Zach Braff and Florence Pugh are dating.      Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP; Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Zach Braff, 45, and 24-year-old "Little Women" star Florence Pugh are dating. The two actors were photographed holding hands in New York City in April 2019 and attended the LA premiere of "Marriage Story" in November, but walked the red carpet separately.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham: 20 years

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham: 20 years
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham in July 2019.      Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Actor Statham, 52, and model-actress Huntington-Whiteley, 33, started dating in 2010. The couple got engaged in 2016 and welcomed their first child, Jack Oscar, in June 2017.

Amber Tamblyn and David Cross: 19 years

Amber Tamblyn and David Cross: 19 years
Amber Tamblyn and David Cross at the 2017 premiere of "Paint It Black."      Christopher Smith/Invision/AP

Tamblyn, 36, married comedian Cross, 56, in 2012. The couple welcomed a daughter, Marlow, in 2017.

Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher: 18 years

Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher: 18 years
Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher together.      Chris Farina/Corbis via Getty Images

Murphy, 59, and Butcher, 40, have been together since 2012 and became engaged in 2018. The couple has two kids together, son Max and daughter Izzy.

Olivier Sarkozy and Mary-Kate Olsen: 17 years

Olivier Sarkozy and Mary-Kate Olsen: 17 years
Olivier Sarkozy and Mary-Kate Olsen at the Cutting Room in 2013.      Larry Busacca/Getty Images

French banker Sarkozy, 50, and Olsen, 33, were engaged in 2014 after reportedly dating for two years. They married in a small ceremony in 2015.

Amal and George Clooney: 17 years

Amal and George Clooney: 17 years
George Clooney and Amal Clooney in May 2019.      Peter Foley - Pool/Getty Images

George, 58, met international human-rights lawyer Amal, 42, at a dinner party hosted by a mutual friend in 2013. The couple tied the knot in Italy in 2014 and welcomed twins, Ella and Alexander, in June 2017.

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas: 16 years

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas: 16 years
Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are dating.      Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP and Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Ben Affleck, 47, and Ana de Armas, 31, met while filming the psychological thriller "Deep Water." They haven't publicly confirmed their relationship, but they've been photographed packing on PDA several times.

Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz: 16 years

Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz: 16 years
Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz in 2018.      Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Model Klum, 46, started dating Tokio Hotel guitarist Kaulitz, 30, in 2018. Klum opened up to InStyle about how dating a man 17 years her junior makes people bring up age more.

"My boyfriend is many years younger than me, and lots of people are questioning that and asking about it," she said. "That's really the only time when age seems to be shoved in my face and I have to give an answer for it. I don't really think about it that much otherwise."

The couple got legally married in early 2019 and had a formal ceremony in Italy in August 2019.

Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan: 16 years

Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan: 16 years
Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in September 2017.      Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

"One Tree Hill" actress Burton, 37, and "The Walking Dead" villain Morgan, 54, started dating in 2009 and officially got married in 2019. They have one son and a daughter.

Daryl Hannah and Neil Young: 15 years

Daryl Hannah and Neil Young: 15 years
Daryl Hannah and Neil Young at 2018 SXSW.      Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Hannah, 59, and Young, 74, got married in 2018. Young confirmed the news in November when he shared a video online urging fans to vote and referred to Hannah as his "wife." People reported that the couple had two separate ceremonies: one on Young's yacht and another in California. They started dating in 2014.

Scott Disick and Sofia Richie: 15 years

Scott Disick and Sofia Richie: 15 years
Scott Disick and Sofia Richie in 2017.      Splash News

Disick, the 36-year-old father of Kourtney Kardashian's three kids, is now dating 21-year-old model Richie, the daughter of Lionel Richie, who is apparently not pleased with the relationship and told Us Weekly he is "scared to death."

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi: 15 years

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi: 15 years
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres in January 2020.      Christopher Polk/Getty Images for People's Choice Awards

DeGeneres, 62, and de Rossi, 47, been together since 2004 and tied the knot in 2008 after the same-sex marriage ban in California was overturned.

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green: 13 years

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green: 13 years
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green at the 2014 Ferrari 60 Years In America celebration.      Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Ferrari North America

Fox, 33, and Green, 46, met on the set of "Hope & Faith" when she was 18. They became engaged in 2006 and they reportedly split three years later, but then the couple married in 2010. Fox filed for divorce in 2015. But by 2016, the couple was back together. They have three sons, and Fox is a stepmom to Green's son from a previous relationship.

Matt Bomer and Simon Halls: 13 years

Matt Bomer and Simon Halls: 13 years
Matt Bomer and Simon Halls at the 2016 GLSEN Respect Awards.      Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for GLSEN

Bomer, 42, and publicist Halls, 56, married in 2011. They have three sons.

Camila Alves and Matthew McConaughey: 13 years

Camila Alves and Matthew McConaughey: 13 years
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves in January 2019.      Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

McConaughey, 50, met model Alves, 37, in 2006. He proposed on Christmas in 2011, and the couple married in June 2012. They have three kids: sons Levi and Livingston and daughter Vida.

Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin: 13 years

Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin: 13 years
Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin at a screening for "Shots Fired" in 2017.      Kevin Winter/Getty Images

"True Blood" costars Moyer, 50, and Paquin, 37, started dating while filming the first season of the HBO show, which ran from 2008 to 2014. They were married in August 2010 and had fraternal twins, Charlie and Poppy, in September 2012. Moyer has two other kids, Billy and Lilac, from a previous marriage.

Hugh Jackman and Deborra Lee-Furness: 13 years

Hugh Jackman and Deborra Lee-Furness: 13 years
Hugh Jackman and Deborra Lee-Furness at the 2017 Met Gala.      Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly

Jackman, 51, and Lee-Furness, 64, have been together for more than 20 years, meeting on the 1995 set of Australian show "Correlli" and marrying in 1996. They've adopted two kids.

Viola Davis and Julius Tennon: 12 years

Viola Davis and Julius Tennon: 12 years
Viola Davis and Julius Tennon at the 2017 Emmy Awards.      Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Davis, 54, has been married to Tennon, 66, since 2003. The couple adopted a daughter in 2011. Tennon has two kids from previous relationships.

William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman: 12 years

William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman: 12 years
William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman at the 2017 Emmy Awards.      Getty Images

"Desperate Housewives" actress Huffman, 57, and "Shameless" actor Macy, 70, dated on-and-off for 15 years before marrying in 1997. They have two daughters.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé: 12 years

Jay-Z and Beyoncé: 12 years
Jay-Z and Beyoncé in July 2019.      by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP

Beyoncé, 38, and Jay-Z, 50, first started dating back in 2001 before tying the knot on April 4, 2008. Blue Ivy Carter was born in 2012, and the couple welcomed twins, Rumi and Sir, in June 2017.

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander: 11 years

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander: 11 years
Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.      Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

Vikander, 31, and Fassbender, 43, started dating after meeting on the set of "The Light Between Oceans." They married in a secret ceremony in 2017.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds: 11 years

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds: 11 years
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively in May 2019.      Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Reynolds, 43, and Lively, 32, met and became friends while filming "Green Lantern" about a year before they officially started dating in 2011. They married in 2012.

The happily married couple has three daughters: James, Ines, and a third child that was born in 2019.

Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo: 10 years

Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo: 10 years
Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo at his ceremony for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017.      Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP

Levine, 41, married Victoria's Secret model Prinsloo, 31, in 2014. Prinsloo gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Dusty Rose, in 2016 and their second daughter, Gio Grace, in 2018.

Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder: 10 years

Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder: 10 years
Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder at an EIF event in 2017.      Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for EIF

Reed, 31, and Somerhalder, 41, started their relationship in 2014. They were engaged in early 2015 and were married in April that same year. The couple welcomed daughter Bodhi Soleil in July 2017.

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas: 10 years

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas: 10 years
Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas got married in December 2018.      Rob Kim/Getty Images

The 27-year-old singer and 37-year-old actress made their first public appearance together in 2017, a year before they began dating. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Chopra said that she and Jonas were both wearing Ralph Lauren to the Met Gala, so they decided to attend the event together. She described the night as "fun," but didn't reveal much of anything else.

They married in December 2018 in multiple ceremonies.

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger: 10 years

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger: 10 years
Pratt and Schwarzenegger were married June 8 in California.      Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Audi

Katherine Schwarzenegger, 30, married 40-year-old "Avengers: Endgame" star Chris Pratt in a low-key ceremony on June 8, 2019.

The two had been engaged since January 2019, and were reportedly dating for many months before that.

The couple shared matching posts to their Instagram accounts after their wedding ceremony. Both called it "the best day of our lives" and said they feel "nothing but blessed."

Now, they're expecting their first child together.

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