Celebrity couples who have huge age gaps but are more loved up than ever
Nicola Coughlan
Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has blown her cover – not as Lady Whistledown, but about her relationship status.
The 38-year-old recently shared a snap on her Instagram Stories that has the ton aflutter with her wonderful news.
After months of speculation, she "hard-launched" her new boyfriend on Instagram.
Posting a casual snap to her stories, the star wished her new boo, actor Jake Dunn, a happy 25th birthday.
The pair have mutual friends and met through her Derry Girls castmates Louisa Harland and Dylan Llewellyn.
Over the past few months they have been spotted going on dates in North-West London.
Dunn is kickstarting his acting career after recently graduating from drama school, having starred in Disney's period series Renegade Nell.
He was spotted here alongside his girlfriend and actress Alice Kremelberg at the premiere of the series.
Hugh Grant and Anna Eberstein
British actor Hugh Grant made a public appearance with his Swedish TV producer wife Anna Eberstein this weekend at the premiere of his new film, Heretic, in Berlin.
Grant, 64, and Eberstein, 41, share a 23-year age gap.
The couple have been married since 2018. It's Grant's first marriage, despite some high-profile relationships over the years.
He recently said on the SmartLess podcast that he had children ''much too old in life''.
He shares three children with his wife and has two from a previous relationship.
"But I had them much too old in life, you know I started when I was 52," he said.
"Now I'm 64, you know, and the youngest is six, and I need a long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey."
But he added that he thinks fatherhood has made him a better actor, saying: "Then I had children and suddenly I had heart and I had more layers, or something."
He also previously gushed about how much he likes being married, telling US Today: "I should have done it before. I'm just lucky; I'm lucky. I've got a great wife. I love her."
Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin
Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin's age gap, if you could believe it, is higher than the number of their combined kids.
The Hollywood couple have 26 years between them – Alec is 65 and Hilaria is 39.
But despite their difference in age, Hilaria says she sometimes feels like she is her husband's mother.
"Am I his mummy? Sometimes I'm his mummy," the mum-of-seven told Romper in an interview.
"At the beginning of our relationship, everyone was like, 'She must have daddy issues because she's married to somebody older'.
"But it's actually the opposite."
The Baldwins met in 2011 and married the next year.
The couple have seven children together, while Alec has a daughter – Ireland – from his first marriage to actress Kim Basinger.
"She has a prominent family background and is comfortable being around major stars and other high profile people," the source continued of Alfallah.
They added of her relationship with Pacino now the duo are expecting a child: "Whatever develops in it down the road remains to be seen with the age difference, but they seem to enjoy each other's company and have things in common in the entertainment area."
Alfallah and Pacino were first seen out together in 2022, though some sources have claimed they've been quietly dating since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In late May, it was confirmed they're expecting a child together. It will be Pacino's fourth – he is also a father to 33-year-old daughter Julie Marie, and 22-year-old twins Anton and Olivia.
"I really put a stop to it in a way because I judged the book by the cover," Chopra told Shepard, noting how she was "ready to get serious" and "settle down" and she wasn't sure if Jonas was at that same stage of life.
Jonas first messaged Chopra on Twitter in 2016, but they didn't meet in-person until 2017.
They kept in touch via text message, but Chopra was reluctant to jump into another relationship as she was scared she'd make the same relationship "mistakes" again.
"I kept making the same mistakes. A lot of the pattern in my relationships was me feeling gaslit because I gave that kind of power to the people that I was with, where I was like, 'You come first'," she said.
By May 2018, however, Chopra and Jonas had started dating, and were engaged a few months later.
They married in multiple wedding ceremonies in December 2018, and in January 2022, they welcomed a baby daughter, Malti Marie, via surrogate.
Cher and Alexander Edwards
She seems to be believing in life with love.
Goddess of Pop Cher has sparked romance rumours after stepping out with American model Amber Rose's ex-boyfriend Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, this week.
The duo were snapped holding hands as they entered the restaurant Craig's, a known celebrity hotspot in West Hollywood.
At one point in the evening, Edwards, a music executive, was spotted kissing the Believe singer's hand delicately as they travelled in a car together. It's also been reported that he was extremely attentive to Cher, with multiple outlets saying he told her to watch her step as the rumoured couple ventured over a curb.
Dinner, however, was not an intimate affair – the pair met with rapper Tyga, 32, for the meal, who was also photographed at Cher's mansion in Malibu days earlier.
Edwards shares three-year-old son Slash with Rose, 39, whom he dated from 2018 for three years. The former couple, however, split after he was caught cheating on Rose with several women.
"I'm tired of getting cheated on and being embarrassed behind the scenes," Rose wrote on her Instagram Story in 2021.
"All 12 of y'all bums (The ones that I know of there's probably more) can have him. Y'all very much knew he was in a relationship with a baby and y'all decided to f--k him anyway."
Edwards has admitted to being unfaithful to Rose, saying he "got caught" and Rose "just had enough, obviously" in an interview.
Cher was previously married to Sonny Bono from 1964 to 1975, and she later went on to wed Gregg Allman in 1975. The couple split in 1979.
The songstress shares 53-year-old son Chaz with Bono, and 46-year-old son Elijah with Allman.
Dolph Lundgren and Emma Krokdal
Rocky star Dolph Lundgren took his fiancée Emma Krokdal on her first red carpet, with the couple attending the LA premiere of Minions: The Rise of Gru.
The 64-year-old actor coordinated with the 25-year-old as they both stuck to the theme and wore yellow. His daughters, Ida, 26, and Greta, 20, also walked the red carpet with the couple.
"She's loving it. I took them out and got these yellow outfits last week," Lundgren told People at the event. "I met her three years ago and she hasn't been to a premiere yet because of COVID, so we're really enjoying it."
Krokdal, a Norwegian personal trainer who got engaged to the actor in 2020, also gushed about the event on Instagram.
"Yellow squad to see the Minions," she captioned photos of the group from the premiere.
Bianca Wallace and Ioan Gruffudd
Aussie actress Bianca Wallace, 29, and Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd, 48, look all loved up on a getaway to Scotland.
Wallace shared a series of photos of their holiday to Instagram this week, writing, "A little bit of stunning Scotland 😍🏴❤️"
Their getaway comes after Gruffudd filed for a domestic violence restraining order against his estranged wife Alice Evans earlier this year, and Evans sought full physical and legal custody of their two daughters Ella, 12, and Elsie, eight.
Evans and Gruffudd were wed in 2007, but in 2021, Evans confirmed the duo's marriage had broken down, then claimed he'd had a three-year affair with Wallace, who was Evans' close friend, on Twitter.
The tweets have since been deleted and neither Gruffudd nor Wallace have responded to the claims.
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