The fake baby of American Sniper must be crying over this news. Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse have called it quits after two years of dating. I’ve been wondering about them lately. BCoop recently turned 40, and Suki is only 23. They surely wouldn’t last forever, although Us Weekly recently teased a possible engagement. Oh and there were pregnancy rumors in January. Alas, there shall be no mini Cooper from this couple. Fake baby will have to do. Mark Malkin broke the news:
It’s over between Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse.
I can exclusively reveal that the couple of about two years have called it quits.
Whether or not it’s permanent is anyone’s guess right now, but Waterhouse, 23, did attend the Oscars just last month with Cooper, 40, who was nominated for his work in American Sniper. (His mom was also with them.)
The lovebirds were first linked in March 2013 when they were spotted together in Boston.
Waterhouse’s rep declined to comment on the split. Cooper’s rep did not respond to our requests for comment.
[From E! Online]
It sounds like this relationship simply ran its course, which happens. I find it interesting that Suki mostly hid her personality from the media for so long. Last fall, she told Elle UK about how “boring” it would be to reveal personal details. Suki did rave about loving LA and building an acting career, but she stayed impersonal. Her tactics changed this week when a few obnoxious interviews dropped, followed by the breakup. Because a pimplenamer can’t date a three-time Oscar nominee and wearer of beige booty shorts?
People confirms the breakup and says Suki & BCoop quit it in January. They still went to the Oscars together and dined out the next day but “didn’t seem affectionate.” Us Weekly has a slightly different take and says the two lovebirds are only “taking a break.” Bummer. I’ll miss watching their awkward Wimbledon body language this summer.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet & WENN
What a surprise….
I’m sure there is someone younger out there for him…………….
I know. She was really starting to seem wrinkled, old and bitter.
BWAAAHA HA HA HA HA
SH*T JUST GOT REAL!!!!!!
BOOOM!!!!
Let’s go to highschool and start match making for him you guys!!
Right??? How skeevy. He was 38 and dated her when she was 21?? My daughter is almost 21, and we would have some things to say about her dating some 38 year old cradle robber!!!
No!!!! But what about all they had in common and all the amazing conversations that certainly took place between a 23 year old and 40 year old man?
Overall, Bradley Cooper is a no.
I’ve heard a few of his interviews and I think he seems pretty immature. For that reason, maybe they were good together….at one point in time.
you guys are f&cking hilarious! so true!
Isn’t her dad a doctor friend of Bradley? I never, ever considered them a real couple. It seemed to me a six month contract that kept exercising renewal options.
Her dad is rumored his plastic surgeon doctor for his hair
OMG.. I don’t know why but that hair plastic surgeon phrase made me laugh out loud.. seriously.. laughed out loud
Her dad is known for facial aesthetic surgery. This man gives defaced humans hope and a new life. Shocking how people degrade him and his work.
@Elly
I don’t degrade his work.I just wrote her dad was rumored to be Cooper’s plastic surgeon doctor for his hair.i don’t see why it would degrade to be plastic surgeon doctor.
Suki’s family has many money
No way did your comment degrade that doctor one bit. I guess Elly perceived it that way for some reason; but most people would agree that you said nothing wrong.
I think there’s sometimes- maybe not here but anyway – public confusion between plastic and reconstructive surgery – which would include surgery to correct facial disfigurements whether from birth, from an accident or from burns for example – and cosmetic and aesthetic surgery, which is fairly self explanatory. Some surgeons do both, but they are different, and “plastic surgeon” is sometimes used in the media in rather a derogatory way , quite unfairly. Hair surgeon is not one I’m familiar with…
PhD Gossip : I guess a beard romance can’t last forever 🙂
The beard contract is over!!
Yep, two years, a la George Clooney. TIme to re-beard up!
My first thought was he’s following cloon path..much younger, two year contract.
+100
@ Don’t Kill Me, I’m French : Darn, I put in my “beard” comment before I read yours. Yup, contract’s up. I hope she was well paid, I would expect to be under the circumstances.
Well, Bradley Cooper did shave all his hair for that magazine shoot, it was only natural that his beard had to go too ..talk about dedication lol.
The beige booty pants need their own Facebook page and Twitter handle
Shocked! I am shocked! Who gets custody of the beige booty shorts?
Clint Eastwood!
Now who keeps Lolita book?
The fake baby?
I don’t think that he’s gay personally. There’s nothing to back that up. I mean I get it for some other actors but point me to one legit rumor about him.
Her dad isn’t a hair transplant specialist like some seem to think. He does reconstructive stuff for children and facial treatments. I don’t understand how these rumors get a life of their own.
I don’t know if he’s gay or not but I never understand why gay rumors always imply beard/contracts, instead of bisexual? That’s where my mind goes anyway.
Anyway, you’re right. There isn’t much to back up he is gay. Or that Suki was a beard. Or Renee was one. Or Zoe was one. Or Jennifer was one.
On to the next twenty one year old model.
Check out the Lainey Blinds…also her post from yesterday. He enjoys himself in the desert… …Also, he was married to Jennifer Esposito for 4 months and then she divorced him citing fraud….there’s smoke, that’s all I’m saying.
She is implying the blind is about him but I don’t believe it’s true. When he supposedly was in the desert to party he was actually filming American Sniper for months. Do you really think that someone on a breakneck schedule is a druggie? He honestly seems like the furthest from that and is very put together. She picks people to pick on imo and doesn’t really have much to back it up.
I don’t think the blinds mean he is full-on gay — just that he enjoys a man (or men) occasionally. That’s not unusual for actors.
Well, he has spoken openly about his substance abuse in the past. It’s not uncommon for someone prone to that behavior to slip up again. Especially when they are under the pressure of an intense schedule, and an entire movie riding on their shoulders. Yes, I think it’s very possible.
It may be smoke but smoke about what? Does it make him gay and these women are just beards he’s in a contract with? Or is it that he’s bisexual?
I guess I wonder why people are quick to take the leap to cynical, business arrangements over something that seems far more plausible to me – that a person can be attracted to both men and women. I’m not being accusatory, btw. Just curious.
Yeah, I completely agree he’s probably bi and good for him. But I don’t think he was ever really “with” Suki. This just reeks of being a faux romance for People magazine. I think there’s a lot of turmoil behind the guise he puts out there (like all the rest of them) and it’s interesting to dissect on a Friday morning when work is slow.
I’m perfectly open to some good bearding gossip but with Bradley its a little ridiculous. I mean Renee Z was a much bigger star than him when they hooked up why would she beard for someone below her on the pecking order? Zoe S had a very nice career going when they hooked up and she barely rode that relationship, alot of people have no idea they were even together. And then why beard with Suki, a girl that young is very unpredictable and the cradle robbing actually damaged his good guy image. His bearding choices are just very off.
I think the rumors that he is emotionally distant to the point of being psychologically abusive are accurate. I think thats what happened with Jennifer E. and the reason why his exes want nothing to do with him when they are done. I think he is one of these guys who puts on a “nice guy” character when he leaves the house but is actually a very defective human being.
Leona:
All of his co-stars and friends always say what a great guy he is. It’s hard to believe that changes when it comes to his girlfriends.
@Melanie: some on can be nice to their co-workers and friends and also not so nice to their significant others. Do you really think abusers can’t function normally around their non-romantic partners?
this. some people are just obsessed with monosexuality and are convinced bisexual don’t exist. it’s ridiculous. if there are rumours about an actor being gay but he seems to date girls too, it would be obvious to assume he’s bisexual rather than bearding. I’ve said before, but the theories of so many actors being in the closet are as far fetched as conspiracy theories.
Bridget:
Maybe it’s because I’ve never known anyone who was abusive, but I would think if someone is a total jerk to the women they date, they would be like that with co-workers and friends too.
Melanie thats exactly how abusers operate. They have very convincing masks which is why they are even able to attract women in the first place. You only see the real guy once you are in.
I think its also very telling that his exes either avoid the topic of him or have some very negative things to say about him. Jennifer E called him a master manipulator and said that the mask slipped within days of their marriage. And its pretty clear to me that when Zoe gave that interview about being disrespected and manipulated into feeling bad about herself, she was talking about him. She certainly would know that since he was her last immediate ex, he would be the assumption and her failure to clarify that it wasnt him is very telling. She didnt even bother to issue a clarification once the media began claiming it was Badley.
@Melanie: abuse is about power and control, not being a jerk. Many abusers are actually some of the most charming people you’ll meet. They don’t just walk around with a sign on their neck that says “abuser” and kicking puppies.
Leona:
I’m assuming you’re talking about this article.
http://www.celebitchy.com/376355/zoe_saldana_i_have_been_in_relationships_where_a_man_has_disrespected_me/
I’m not convinced she was talking about Bradley, though. I’m sure she’s had other relationships other than him and her ex-fiance. Were people on other sites really assuming she was talking about him? I thought it was just around here.
Melanie , yes it was widely speculated that this was about Bradley. People connected the dots between this and the long running rumors of abuse with Jennifer.
Also, Zoes relationship immediately preceding Bradley was an 11 year old relationship so its highly unlikely that she was referring to somebody outside of that guy or Bradley.
But her statements about relationships when she and Keith broke up were certainly far from bitter. In fact she remained business partners with the guy. This tone only crept in after the break up with Bradley.
@melanie: pretty much everyone on every site thought she was talking about him. Don’t forget the weird stuff with Esposito, and the whispers about Zellweger.
Was he rumored to have been abusive/manipulative with Renee too?
@Melanie ~ I can’t speak about Bradley, but I can tell you that everyone that publicly knew my father when he was an abusive, horrible person thought he was wonderful. I even had to listen to a secretary rave about how great he was when she called the house the next day after a particularly bad fight. (I can’t remember if that’s when he tried to strangle me with the telephone cord or not.) I didn’t say what I was thinking at the time, and let her keep her delusion. Dad became sober over 25 years ago, so he has changed a lot.
My first fiance was also loved by everyone, but behind closed doors he was a controlling, abusive jerk.
Melanie thats a great question. Let me go fetch my Sherlock cap and cape.
The reports at the time were that Renee moved to live cities to be with him because she thought their disconnect was related to the distance. When they did break up his own sources claimed that it was because he was focusing on his career, although it was never suggested that Renee had been anything but supportive in his career. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1369499/Bradley-Cooper-Renee-Zellweger-split-His-career-came-source-claims.html
Ordinarily I would think this is just the typical hollywood move to avoid sharing the details of your breakup with strangers. But then I remembered there was always talk about their body language. They always seemed very very off. He had no interest in unstaged pap photos and even in the staged ones his body language is off. But then again thats true of EVERY single one of his subsequent girlfriends. The body language is just very strange. The women look like clingy little kids demanding attention. See here (one of many such examples) http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/g1331/bradley-cooper-renee-zellweger-breakup-photos/?
I feel like when we put all these things together we ought to wonder whether he isnt one of these guys who charms you quickly into a relationship and then flips into a cold, distant, uncommunicative boyfriend. Since the new persona is so different from what everyone sees and from how he was with you in the beginning, you assume that you did something wrong so you spend all your time trying to bring back the old charmer. He may even ocassionally make it clear that there is something wrong with you for needing more out of him. Or that a something fundamentally you is the reason why he doesnt participate in the relationship he initiated in the first place. Thats where the manipulation comes in. It may not sound like it but a relationship like that would seriously mess with your mind. Its abuse, period. This is my theory.
Leona:
I agree with some of the body language expert’s analysis of the photos of Renee and Bradley, and some I disagree with. I wish the same could be done for photos of Bradley and Zoe, but there are so few photos of them together. I think there were more sightings of those two than actual photos. I can only think of the Thanksgiving walk photo and the one where they are leaving the movie theater. I think he did have his arm around her in a protective way when they were leaving the movie theater, though.
@melanie: protective, or possessive?
Bridget:
Well, it looked protective, but who knows? LOL
I agree. The age gap creeps me out………..maybe he will meet a civil rights lawyer, act like he invented falling in love, gush about how wonderful she is and get married. I’m sure People will cover it.
I don’t think age is always a factor. My parents are 10 years different. It depends on how mature and intelligent both people are. He seems immature and perhaps her too. If both people were mature…..maybe.
clooney’s gfs were never that young though, younger than him, but usually late 20s-early 30s which is a completely different level of maturity.
The gay rumors hide what he really is…a douchebag.
This! This! A million times this!!!
+100
This is how he always comes across to me.
The gay rumors have been floating around long before he became well known playing douchey characters. It started on the set of Alias. He was super close to Vic Garber whom everyone knew is gay, though that time not openly.
But that’s what I’m saying. The only rumor about him is from like 2001. Maybe he just got caught up in someone trying to out VG who like you say was not really out at the time.
Well if he was friends with a gay man, boom case closed! I don’t think it is something you can catch like a common cold, also Lainey is a jackass for trying to out people.
Yeah the Victor Garber friendship and his quick divorce to Jennifer Esposito fueled the gay rumors. I think that maybe Victor just easily befriends his costars. He is close to Jen Garner, too. Also ugh to Lainey. I’m telling you, she is Perez 2.0!
Jennifer Garner must be gay too because she was also super close to Victor Garber and he officiated at her wedding. Gay, all of ’em.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/8806577/Is-everyone-giving-their-face-a-little-lift.html
In 2011, Suki’s dad is above all known for his facelift technic .His office is also known for anti winkle treatment
Did you really think someone joking abovethread “the dad’s a plastic surgeon for his hair” actually meant “hair transplant specialist”? Ha!
I don’t think he is gay. He may be bi, but I don’t think his relationships were beards. Suki may have been an arrangement because someone (harvey maybe) is trying to make that girl happen, but I don’t think he is a serial contractual bearder. What started the gay rumors? His closeness with Victor Garber? Victor seems pretty close to Jennifer Garner, too. Maybe he is just a loyal friend to his costars. I also don’t believe Lainey half the time. Someone at dlisted said she is becoming the next Perez, and I agree. She is so into herself and her connections that her writing becomes boring. I don’t care how hot you thought your husband was with bleached hair! I don’t care about your poo! At least on here the writers use personal anecdotes in relation to the post and don’t brag about themselves ad nauseum. I stopped reading Lainey all together a couple months ago, and it was a great choice.
The gay rumors actually started with Ted Casablanca and one of his blinds.
As for the rest, it’s all over. Lainey is far from the only source to suggest that something sketchy (and I don’t mean the implication that he might like to occasionally hook up with guys) is going on. Though Bradley is cleaned up his act since he went ‘legit actor’ a few years ago.
Glad to hear this. But weren’t they with child and engaged during his Oscar campaign?! LOL. This guy is a poom poom shorts wearing douche.
What is with all the crappy publicity stunts these days? Do publicists even care anymore?
It’s just the people got more sophisticated. We see the stunts a mile away. Years ago, Rock Hudson could marry his secretary and sell a “love match” – today not so much (see the couch jumping stunt by Tom cruise that is still ridiculed )
I don’t know that we got more sophisticated but we did get more informed, especially with technology letting us burn up the internet with speculation and gossip. It’s quaint to remember the days when my only source of gossip was People mag, my friends and I would love Fridays when it arrived in our mailboxes!
Not for nothing but I follow a site that had many posts about BC and there lots of normal fan photos of him out with SW in real life. I doubt there was any kind of contract or whatever.
This also goes to show much the tabloids make crap up. They were supposedly about to get engaged and now it’s like oops they broke up. I need to stop reading Star!
BUT WHO WILL SHE TAKE TO PROM?!?
LOL! Let’s hope his next girlfriend actually looks old enough to have a high school diploma.
January Jones would be good for him, if he really wants to settle down. She’s the right age, not a movie actress ( so no competition) and she has a son with no dad in sight — ready-made family.
Interesting idea but I get the feeling she’d think of him as a downgrade. I don’t see them together at all.
JLo?
Taylor Swift?
No,too famous
I guess an around 30 years old up and coming actress or a Victoria Secret model ( after all Cooper is Dicaprio’s fan)
Doesn’t Amal Clooney have a sister?
The bloom must’ve worn off. I’m surprised it took so long.
i bet that will be rumors about Cooper and Jlaw soon
X-Men filming starts soon .Lawrence will come back with Hoult
true but Jlaw has set Bradley up with her friends. I don’t think she was ever interested in him. As for Hoult we shall see but the way she talked about him on her last press junket tells me she’s over him in a big way. I believe even Letterman joked about how she was painting such a flattering picture of Nick. So who knows but that won’t stop the tab rumors regardless of course
Exchanging beige booty shorts for a half helmet?
She’s doing a movie with Keanu next.
Oh, and Jim Carrey’s in it too.
I “met” him in 2002 which was during his Alias days still (can’t remember the exact timeline of when he was on the show?). He was the biggest jerk, accidentally smashed into my friend and I at a bar, then shouted at us “get out of my way!”. It took us a few minutes to figure out who he was (like I said, Alias days, not very famous yet). We watched him be a huge d-bag to about ten more people before we left. Let’s hope he’s not still that way.
He might not’ve been sober then. He’s been open about his messiness — I think it was when he got Alias.
I saw him in a sport club in Paris.Apparently he was very nice but enjoyed to be the center of the attention ( according to the receptionist)
How long ago was this?
@Melanie
winter 2013 before Xmas
This is how I picture him—a jerk who wants to be the center of attention.
Not a jerk.A nice guy who liked the attention
I think he was a very big alcoholic around that time, and sobered up not too long after his Alias days. Maybe he was just a really nasty drunk.
The most surprising part of this story are those crazy sunglasses on the face of the woman sitting below them at Wimbledon! It might be fun to own a pair of those!
Yeah those sunglasses are something! Funny I didn’t even notice till you pointed it out.
I NEED those!
I really like the silver cat eyes that Suki is wearing in the header photo.
Maybe now he can date someone his own age (or at least a little closer to it). Not that I consider a 17-year age difference that terrible, as long as BOTH people are mature, grown adults. She was barely an adult when they started dating. I just found it so skeevy. And I really like him, so I was quite disappointed. Is Rachel McAdams available? They’de make a cute couple. 😉
A fully-formed frontal lobe IS a good thing!
McAdams is a nice idea
Can anyone tell me what kind of sunglasses those silver cat eye frames are? They are awesome!
My thoughts EXACTLY!
I liked the movie he was in, where he took a pill and got really smart.
could have been any actor though, I suppose.
what else have I seen him in?
that first bachelor thing, the guy on the roof. **shrugs**
I like the name Suki.
Limitless original Kay, I liked that too.
Good. Maybe now he can date someone he can have a meaningful conversation with.
Is anyone surprised by this? No. He looked like her father which always gave off the creep factor to me. What did they have to talk about? I am 8 year older than some of my coworkers (34) and they can’t seem to get my references to movies, tv shows, and music, can you imagine an almost 20 year difference?
Good! More for me.
(Ducks and covers)
Oh no, I’m not havering any of this. You are not allowed, young lady!
I’m ready to personally peel off those beige booty shorts and bury them. I’m selfless like that.
Lol FAKE BABY does not approve!
I always call her Suki Tapwaterhouse now, thanks to Michael K and Dlisted
Her contract was up.
ew, why is he wearing so much jewellery all the time, it’s very tacky.
HAHAHAHAHA… didn’t we last hear that she had introduced the concept of marriage to him and he was “getting excited.”
His body language speaks volumes. She is like repellent to him.
Exactly. These two have NEVER looked “together” the whole time they were together. I
I have to wonder if perhaps he’s just asexual? If he were gay or even bi I imagine some former male encounter would have blabbed by now. Nothing seems sacred these days and it’s too easy to reveal a famous person’s secret for 15 minutes of fame.
Dude’s got some major issues with women. Not sure where they stem from, as he seems to have a great one with his mom, if appearances are to be believed. He has loads of chemistry in photos with her, and zero with any woman I have ever seen him dating. That pic at Wimbledon is classic – it’s all he can do to stop himself batting her away from him.
Rumors on the internet are inherently unreliable, of course, but the story on him that I’ve seen in a few different places is that he’s a deeply self-loathing gay man, the sort of guy who if he could take a pill that made him straight, he would do it. His relationships with women are a facade to benefit his own sense of himself and who he wants to be, not merely to appear straight to the public.
That does make sense. There is something very angry/disturbing just under the surface with this guy. From the things Zoe and Jennifer said, he does sound extremely self loathing as only someone who hates themselves could be that awful to people who love them.
She looks like his daughter
I don’t mean to be ageist (oh yes, I do), But a 23 year old woman is too young to date a 40 year old man (no matter how immature he is). Okay, it’s not too young to “date”, but CLEARLY it wasn’t going to last. I have no clue who Suki Waterhouse is, nor do I care to know. Bradley Cooper has always struck me as a Mama’s boy – which is fine, but I think he keeps looking for love in all the wrong places. And I really think that playing Chris Kyle changed Bradley. That was a really emotional part – as is always the case when you’re not only playing a real-life person, but you get to meet his real-life widow. I think something about playing that part made Bradley feel small and shallow and made him feel like he wanted something more meaningful – like Chris and his wife had. And I think he recognized he didn’t and wasn’t going to have that with Suki.
good comment, LaurieH, I also think playing in American Sniper was a turnaround point in his career, definitely his most serious role, Suki is a nice girl but too shallow for Bradley (he can be shallow but has a more complex side too).
Exactly. And I don’t think it was playing a “hero” that did it; or even the emotional aspect of Chris’ relationship with his wife while he was in combat. I think what really brought it home for Bradley was that by the time the script was finished and shooting began, Chris had just been murdered and Bradley was there, during production, with Chris’ wife seeing and feeling that part of her grief too. It became real for him. Too real. In the script, he saw the deep, emotional relationship between Chris and his wife, but then he also knew the unhappy ending that was never shown in the movie: his murder. So he saw love and then love lost. And I honestly think that brought home to Bradley what’s really important in life.
I think that movie finished filming in June of last year, and of course the script was done way before that. Why would he wait until January of this year to break up with her?
Wow! when a celeb breaks up a storm blows in and while this site suggests be light, much is really hurtful. Bradley loves his mom, sister and his father who passed away a few years back. He has said he’d like to have a marriage like his parents. Odd thing, his mom does not seem at all to be abused, had what looks like a working traditional marriage. He has been open about slipping into drinking – drugs for a time ending about age 29, feels it’s important to be out with this and maybe because he knows he had some bad drunk behaviour. First place I ever really saw Mr. Cooper was in Silver Linings Playbook. I saw a man exposing his vulnerable guts, a gutsy guy with a real heart. Theme of the movie not an easy sell usually, but more so after (I hope) God bless him and David O. Russell for this. He’s dated a variety of women and married an actress who was sick with a disease that was a mystery to “everyone” at the time of their short marriage. Sure there were some manic scenes, they weren’t right for each other. He seemed to be under lots of stress, likely not avoiding booze etc then. It didn’t work out. He saw his life had to change. And at this time the right person “does not appear” to be in his life (boy that makes him such a nasty douche bag) how dare he let that happen! He’s expressive, can be a bit a.d.d. but seems super focussed when he’s engaged in a project. He’s the only guy who treated an eccentric Ukraine journalist with kindness and respect (DiCaprio didn’t freak out either, other stars did) and he joked with a sleepy red carpet interviewer because he knows himself what it like to be sleepy and human in media blitzing. He’s been very sincere, open and honest about his life. Super talented artistic guy who is a hot beautiful mix of the Italian and Irish. No one knows or should know the intimate of any of his relationships but the last one sure didn’t suffer professionally with the affiliation. But this break just brings more super yucky comments down on him. So hang this guy for being famous and trying to find love and start a family. We who like him only wish it be with someone mature enough but I’ve seen big age difference couples go the whole distance so Bradley Cooper is the only one who knows. We who also love him just want to see him healthy, happy and realizing his full potential.