Celebrity Couples With the Biggest Age Differences
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These celebrity couples have quite a few years of age between them, but when it comes to love, the adorable duos prove that age really is just a number. From Priyanka and Nick Jonas to Beyoncé and Jay-Z, click through to see which of your favorite celebrity couples have the biggest age differences.
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Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas: 11 Years
After two months of dating, Chopra and Jonas became engaged in July 2018. The couple then held a lavish wedding in December of that year, complete with two ceremonies and multiple celebrations in India. While many fans noted their age difference, the couple couldn’t care less. "The age difference is not a big deal to them whatsoever," a source close to Jonas told People. In fact, Nick reportedly is a fan of the age gap between him and Priyanka. He "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.”
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Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds: 11 Years
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.
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George Clooney & Amal Clooney: 17 Years
In 2014, the world was shocked when famed bachelor George Clooney, then 52 years old, 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.
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Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi: 15 Years
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.
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Adam Levine & Behati Prinsloo: 10 Years
Known for his modelizing ways before finally settling down, Levine, then 34, met Prinsloo, then 24, 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 gave birth to another daughter, Gio Grace, in February 2018.
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Jay-Z & Beyoncé: 12 Years
The power couple first started dating back in 2001, when Jay-Z was 32 years old and Beyoncé was only 20. 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 of that year.
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Jason Statham & Rosie-Huntington-Whiteley: 20 Years
Actor Jason Statham, 52, and model-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 32, 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.
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Alicia Vikander & Michael Fassbender: 11 Years
Alicia Vikander, 30, and husband Michael Fassbender, 41, 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 newlyweds after they returned from their incognito wedding in Ibiza in 2017.
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Camila Alves & Matthew McConaughey: 13 Years
Matthew McConaughey met model Camila Alves at a Los Angeles nightclub in 2006, when McConaughey was 36 and Alves was 23. 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.
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Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones: 25 Years
Zeta-Jones and Douglas may be 25 years apart, but they happen to share the same birthday: September 25. The pair was 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 still going strong.
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Sarah Paulson & Holland Taylor: 31 Years
Rumors started swirling in 2015 that American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson, then 41, was dating 72-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."
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Mary-Kate Olsen & Olivier Sarkozy: 17 Years
French banker Olivier Sarkozy, 50, and Mary-Kate Olsen, 33, 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.
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Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy: 12 Years
Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman and Shameless actor William H. Macy dated on-and-off for 15 years before finally marrying in 1997. H. Macy was 47, and Huffman was 35. "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.
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The King & Queen of Bhutan: 10 Years
King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 39, and his wife Jetsun Pema, 29, 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.
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Julius Tennon & Viola Davis: 12 Years
Viola Davis, 54, has been married to Julius Tennon, 66, 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.
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Princess Charlene & Prince Albert: 20 Years
First meeting at a swimming competition in Monte Carlo in 2000, Princess Charlene of Monaco, then 22, and Prince Albert II of Monaco, then 42, 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.
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Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green: 13 Years
Fox, 33, and Green, 46, 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.
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Hugh Jackman & Deborra Lee-Furness: 13 Years
Hugh Jackman, 51, and Deborra Lee-Furness, 64, 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."
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Nikki Reed & Ian Somerhalder: 10 Years
Reed, 31, and Somerhalder, 41, 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.
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Harrison Ford & Calista Flockhart: 22 Years
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart first met at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards, when Ford was 60 and Flockhart was 38. 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.
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Alec Baldwin & Hilaria Baldwin: 26 Years
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!” The couple now shares four children together.
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David Foster & Katharine McPhee: 34 Years
The duo first met in 2006 when Foster mentored McPhee and other contestants on Season 5 of American Idol. While they didn't immediately get together, dating rumors started swirling in 2017 after Foster's divorce was finalized with Yolanda Hadid. The couple later confirmed their engagement in 2018. "It doesn't make sense to a lot of people, but it does to us," McPhee said of her relationship with Foster in an interview with People.
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Hilarie Burton & Jeffrey Dean Morgan: 16 Years
The One Tree Hill actress and The Walking Deadstar began dating in 2009 after being set up by Morgan’s Supernatural co-star, Jensen Ackles. The couple welcomed sone Gus in 2010, and were married in 2014. They recently welcomed a daughter, George Virginia, in 2018.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Sam Taylor-Johnson : 23 Years
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.”
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Emma Heming Willis & Bruce Willis: 23 Years
Married once before (to actress Demi Moore), The Sixth Sense star married second and wife Emma Heming Willis in 2009. The couple now have two daughters together.
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Ariel Winter & Levi Meaden: 10 Years
The 21-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 2017 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.”
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Guy Ritchie & Jacqui Ainsley: 13 Years
After over five years of dating and three children together, Guy Ritchie, 51, and his model girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley, 38, finally said "I do" in 2015 with a lavish summer wedding.
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Alexis Roderick & Billy Joel: 33 Years
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.
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Rod Stewart & Penny Lancaster: 27 Years
Legendary rockstar Rod Stewart married model Penny Lancaster in 2007. Lancaster, who is Stewart's third wife, soon gave birth to two sons: Alastair Stewart in 2005 and Aiden Stewart in 2011. Rod Stewart also has six other children from his previous marriages.
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Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer: 13 Years
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.
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Rupert Murdoch & Jerry Hall: 25 Years
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. Despite the previous ties and vast age gap, 60-year-old Hall and 85-year-old Murdoch were married in 2016.
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Amber Tamblyn & David Cross: 19 Years
David Cross and Amber Tamblyn announced their engagement in August of 2011, and tied the knot the following year. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants actress and her actor/comedian husband welcomed daughter Marlow Alice Cross in 2017.
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Elliot Spencer & Stephen Fry: 30 Years
The couple met in 2014 and apparently hit it off. The Sun reports that they were married in 2015.
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For these A-list couples, age is just a number.