Here are some photos of a sad-looking Sean Penn arriving at Charles-de-Gaulle airport in France yesterday. Photos of Sean have been few and far between since Charlize Theron ghosted him and ended the relationship very suddenly in May. There were some tabloid stories that he was trying to win her back or even just make contact with her, but it seems like Charlize held firm. Good for her.
So obviously Sean is trying to show the world – and Charlize in particular – that he doesn’t need her, that he’s moving on, that he’s completely fine. That’s why he came to Minka Kelly’s birthday party in Napa a few weeks ago. That’s why sources claim that Minka and Sean are in the early stages of “dating.” Sources now say that Sean is “attracted” to Minka and that her friends are like “Girl, STAHP!”
Sean Penn is ”attracted” to Minka Kelly. The 54-year-old actor, who recently split from Charlize Theron after 18 months of dating, was spotted helping the former ‘Friday Night Lights’ star celebrate her 35th birthday at one of his favourite restaurants, French Laundry, in Napa, California last month, but they are taking things slowly.
A source close to the Oscar winner said: ”Minka and Sean got along great. But it’s unclear where the relationship is going. Sean is attracted to her. She’s smart and a giving person.”
The duo first met via his Help Haiti Home charity in January 2013 while Minka was still dating actor Chris Evans, 34. But another source told Star magazine Minka’s friends are worried about her dating Sean.
One insider said: ”Sean doesn’t exactly have a great track record with women and they’re begging Minka to carefully think about taking it any further with him.”
It will be interesting to see where this goes. It will be interesting to see Sean turn on “the charm” once again and lull another unsuspecting woman into his web of anger, violence and douchebaggery. Or maybe Minka is too smart for all of that, because I’m pretty sure this whole thing is just what it appears to be: Sean trying to rebound with another (younger) celebrity woman to stick it to Charlize. And possibly Robin Wright. Remember, Robin is still with Ben Foster, her much younger lover. And I’m sure that drives Sean up the wall.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
That man is so unattractive.
Yep. Call me when to Minka Kelly is ‘attracted’ to Sean Penn.
Right. Is that what’s meant by her being a “giving person”? EW.
Bah ha ha ha GingerC
This. Of course he’s attracted to Minka Kelly, she’s a gorgeous young woman and he’s a crusty, leathery old coot.
something nice – at least he’s not orange. He’s starting to look “normal” – at least by HW standards anyway.
This creepy old git should just crawl back under a rock and stay there. Yuck on all fronts.
He is not unattractive if you are talking about looks. His personality is what is unattractive.
He is the human embodiment of a scab.
bwahahahahahhaha I am going to use this .
He must be great in the feathers. I mean why else and even then……
he looks like a ghost
But he’s not orange. I’d rather see someone look normal than fake n’ bake ham.
Can someone please explain what these women see in him? Am I missing something??
They’re actors and Sean Penn is a widely respected actor. Roger Ebert once said he was the best actor of his generation. Competence is a turn on to women. He’s good at his job and he’s rich and charming so I guess that fools women into forgetting he’s a sociopath.
No one is fooled by him, they need him for their career. Minka Kelly is a nobody, Sean has got two Oscars. Even Charlize wasnt on his level.
That does not mean that they are actually attracted to him. Competence and charm do not override physical attraction. They merely put up with having THAT on of them to further their career.
Women are as visual as men! Men just have more social and financial power, so women will either have to fight harder or get with an unattactive men to higher their status. In a society where women and men are equal we would never see a woman wanting to be with an unattractive man like that.
Why would Charlize need anyone to further her career? She has an oscar. She’s doing well. Unattractive men ,with or without money ,get pretty women all the time. Women aren’t as visual men either. A woman will date a toothless ugly ,overweight poor man with no legs. Most women aren’t as shallow as men. I think you know that.
I beg to differ, Charlize was definitely not with him for attention. Neither was Robin. I think it’s more power and success that draws them to him. What I don’t get is that they all don’t seem to care about his past. Would be a major turn off for me.
And confidence. Some guys just project this aura of confidence that can totally be arrogance but you can’t always distinguish in the beginning.
Fingerbinger, the rest of your comment sounds as you want to contribute to the disussion but writing “A woman will date a toothless ugly ,overweight poor man with no legs” sounds a lot like trolling. come on. Either you troll or you think that we are somehow magical Angels that see the good on the inside. 99.9% of women wouldnt date such a guy and why would they?
Also unattractive men dont get pretty women ALL the time. in the MEDIA you can see it and it sticks out to you because it is so rare. Couples generally are on the same level of attractiveness. just like not all men are dating women 20 years their senior, most marriages dont have big age gaps and most women dont find older men more attractive.
Also those men as I said offer them different things to make those women consider dating them, that does not mean Mr Average Joe who is ugly will get a beautiful wife nor does it mean that those women are actually turned on or enjoy the sex with them.
Can we please burry the “women are not as shallow as man” myth? is really hurting women everywhere not to be able to go for the Hot Guys without judgement. Why do you think Magic Mike does so well and has an almost exclusive (90%+) female audience? Why do you think young girls cheer for Justin Bieber? Why do you think posts here are titled “Hot Men at … would you hit it?”
here is a link to a lot of myths about female sexuality:
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/female-desire
The only difference is that some women will commit to a man that they are not really sexually attracted to. Thats why the sex life usually goes bad. You can also look at lesbian couples (which are by far the least superficial couples), they have the least amount of sex compared with gay men and heterosexual relationships.
So in the end writing women arent visual is really doing a great disservice not only to female desire but also to men who believe those things and get angry when they find out that yes women want hotties and terrible for relationships if we fuel the myths that women wont care as much about looks and then stop having sex with their men because they were never attracted to them.
Lets take your example of the toothless, overweight ugly man. Him and a very conventionally attractive tall guy have the same personality and treat the woman the same, who do you think she wants to still have sex with after the honeymoon phase is over? Who do you think gets more numbers in a bar?
Dead Bedrooms are partially the cause of this myth of women not being visual. Of course women are visual and there is nothing wrong with it. Just like women love casual sex too and dotn need an emotional bond to want to sleep with someone.
sorry its a bit long but it makes me really angry when people dont let women desire men based on how they look.
ps: further reading:
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/02/the_truth_about_female_desire_its_base_animalistic_and_ravenous/
it also goes into that monogamy is usually harder for women.
Obviously the toothless legless comment wasn’t meant to be taken literally. The point I was making was that MOST women aren’t as shallow as men. I didn’t say women can’t or don’t desire a man based on looks.
And where is the evidence for that? i hear it all the time but no one can proof it.
ok I’m probably the only one, but his looks appeal to me.
> Women are as visual as men!
Sorry but no. Good looking men are nice to look at, but I don’t find that attractive in itself. What I find attractive is intellect and power (not the physical one, the mental kind) and many women are like that.
I think it’s a mix, I can find a guy super interesting, intelligent, charming, fun etc, but for me to feel sexually attracted to him, he must appeal to me physically. Just like the opposite is true, I can find a guy, incredibly good-looking, but if he is an idiot, jerk, that’s a turn off.
Okay, this is getting ridiculous.
“She’s smart and giving.”
Ha! Minka Kelly is a complete airhead with a cloying baby voice to rival Paris Hilton. Watch any interview with her.
That’s how you know there is some shady nonsense going on in the background.
1000% this.
Yeah, once I heard that Minka is “smart and giving”, I no longer believed the story. Minka is smart in the sense that she knows who to date/cling to in order to stay relevant. On that note, maybe she IS “dating” Penn.
We now know the source of this article: Smart and giving Minka Kelly.
Did Minka Kelly date Chris Evans, or am I making that up?
She seems like a low-level C-list actress trying to grasp onto fame, via dating more famous guys.
My opinion of her is that she’s a sociopath (look at her eyes!) so she and Sean deserve each other. They both have bad reputations.
I took “giving” to mean BJs.
haha…. me, too! But in the sense that he’s hoping he can flatter her into being so “giving.”
Oh my goodness that’s what I thought ‘giving’ meant as well. Good BJs!!!
Well, then, she should probably give Mel Gibson a call…
He looks worse than ever. I don’t buy the Minka Kelly stuff. If they were dating why didn’t they spend 4th of July together and why did he go to Paris without her? People magazine said it was just a group of friends and was purely platonic and they are a better source than these tabloids. I do think Charlize bruised his enormous ego by dumping him and it got out into the public that she dumped him in a cold way, so he ‘s trying to show that he can still get the beautiful women.
I think he was Prince Charming in the beginning and tried to act like he was a changed man, but his old raging self eventually came out. Once Charlize saw that, she was probably reminded of her abusive, alcoholic father, so she cut him off for her son’s sake.
Penn doesn’t do well in romantic relationships with his professional equals. This won’t be a problem with Minka.
His professional equals have the ability to walk away. I’m sure he’s worse to people who feel they need his name to move forward with their careers. Do you really think a bully would stop bullying because he found a weaker victim?
That “he looks worse than ever” is because he’s no longer draining the lifeblood out of Charlize (or Robin, or Scarlett…)
Time to find new supply!
Minka’s “giving” (whatever of herself) and “smart” – yeah, right, hoping she can last long enough with leatherface to at least get a part in one of his films.
Yes, I read this as a tabloid invention/exaggeration. It was a group event, and it was pure speculation that a relationship might develop. This is a non-story IMO.
Has he gone more grey or was he retouching his hair before. Sean doesn’t seem to have any problem getting women. Despite what anyone thinks. Charlize got into a relationship with him fully knowing his past. She didn’t care. Do you blame him for being what he is or the women that get involved anyway.
He does look a lot older in these photos
“Has he gone more grey or was he retouching his hair before….”
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For the longest time, I thought Penn wore a really bad wig.
Then Charlize came into his life… and suddenly what looked like a bad wig… got a really decent hair cut and color. And his hair looked like his own.
And now… it is back to looking like a really bad gray wig.
Granted, he just got off a very long flight, but his hair looks like a shredded frosted mini wheat, frosting side up. And he’s no longer orange. He looks like all the color leached out of him, the visual embodiment of depressed human being.
Ha!
Charlize obviously used to give him the JLO/Affleck make over how did he manage to look so rough in a matter of weeks.
I just want to spray a firehose in his general direction.
Put some Lysol in the water, too. Ick.
LOL
HA!!!
We’ll all help.
Add some pine sol!
I think he’d make a cute angry muppet, tho, based on the first photo.
OMG… you’re right! He’s got the requisite schnozz and mophead hair.
He looks like Dr Smith from Lost in Space – but with a wig.
Every woman he comes into contact with knows he’s a raging egomaniac who expresses himself in violence towards women. He’s been like that for decades and it’s too late for him to change now. I won’t insult any woman by assuming they’re desperate enough for love that they’ll take him and silly enough to believe they can change him. If she’s papped arm in arm with him then we will know she’s silly and desperate.
Kaiser, did you write “Remember, Robin is still with Ben Foster, her much younger lover. And I’m sure that drives Sean up the wall.” in the hopes that Sean would google himself, read this, and be sad? Or would that just be a bonus?
Ha ha!
Oh boy I hope she dumps that ugly big headed guy, I don’t like him at all, he seems so calculated and sleazy. She could do so much better, but I guess stunning women with brains like her or Charlize would never feel attracted by a nice loving guy: they need the thrill of the A-hole and are more attracted by intensity and drama rather than a loving and respectful guy.
Kaiser, at this point is ANY woman “unsuspecting” of Sean Penn? If Minka is unsuspecting, then she must be missing her cerebral cortex.
I don’t know why, I always thought that Minka and Chris Evans would end up getting back together. Now… Not so much.
Wait, Minka is 35??? Wow, I thought she was in her mid-20s.
ffs! He looks like an old bum….!! LOL
He also likes the fact that she can’t read ?
Minka hit the jackpot with Sean. She always clings onto a guy for press and fame. I thought she would eventually get back together with Derek since she had it good with him, but with Sean in the picture, it seems like she achieved what she wanted to. I never thought she and Chris were a serious couple to me. She seems like a 5 stage clinger and he seems like and frat boy who wants to sleep his way through boston and la.
Rumor has it that Sean and minka met when she was with Chris. I wonder what he thinks of that
Oy, her career can’t be worth her well-being! (Though IMO this is a PR relationship)
As for people.com, they’ve been getting a lot of stories wrong lately. Tmz and Us weekly always manage to break Sean penn news for whatever reason.
Minkas social media prescense has grown since she started up with Sean. I wouldn’t be shocked if they spent some part of the 4th together and she kept it hidden
Man is he unfortunate looking. He really looks like a caricature. Like somebody drew him, threw him out in the real world and now we are all pretending that he is a real person.
Robin Wright is a goddess and the mother of his two extremely spoiled children, and he was abusive to her. End of.
I never red anything about Penn being abusive towards Robin. She also did not imply this in her interviews…
Why are his children spoiled? let aside the boy had that unfortunate altercation with the paparazzi, and the girl is doing model gigs, I read that Sean and Robin cut them out financially when they dropped college and since then they take care of themselves, at least for their everyday expenses. I’m sure they got substantials trust funds for their future and their parents have their backs covered but they seem pretty normal to me. Also: in some interview not long ago Robin gushed about her son and how proud she was that he was a mature boy with a longtime girlfriend, not partying or clubs or randoms banging.
He use the n-word.
He’s always been with very thin/fit blonde women. She’s an interesting choice. Not that I think this is anything other than an occasional booty call/rebound situation.
Maybe that’s why minka’s been all about the gym in her latest ig photos, to show that she’s all about the fitness for Sean. She’s gone blonde before for a movie, i will laugh if minka is suddenly blonde for Sean. She seems to mold into whatever her boyfriends want.
Now that minka’s sunk her teeth into Sean, she’s not letting him go. She needs that fame. Sean seems thirsty for serious relationships so maybe she’ll get that ring from him. He may be a douchebag but in Minkas eyes he’s her lotto ticket
She’s so thirsty that I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets a pixie blond new haircut and becomes thin and fit for him.
Minka is a natural blonde, so going blonde won’t be a drastic change for her.
He looks like something I pulled out of the shower drain. Blech.
Ha ha ha – as someone with lots of thick, curly hair, I totally see the drain comment. Ha ha.
This comment is so in point!
Does he think because he’s dated Charlize Theron it’s gonna be like that episode of Seinfeld (where George carries around that pic of Elaine’s pretty cousin and said it’s his dead finance) that he’s automatically “in” somehow? He is whorible. Inside and out.
He’s so gross, I can’t imagine the hell Robin Wright experienced with him all those years. Run Minka run!
What kind of hell did Robin Wright go through?
I like Sean Penn, he is super talented and charitable. However, maybe he should try dating someone his own age.
That’s one horrible photo. I be he and Charlize are sorry now they were all starry-eyed in interviews about their great love affair. LOL It sure came back to bite them in the you know what.
Minka is beautiful. Please tell me she isn’t interested in him.
Minka is no threat to steal Sean’s attention and acting recognition. I believe Charlize was stealing Sean’s thunder and he couldn’t handle it. Robin Wright started getting attention and that’s when the marriage started to fail. Poor Sean needs a C-lister like Minka or Katy Holmes.
Yeah minka may be pretty-to some- but that’s just not enough. I mean Charlize is gorgeous, dynamic, with a successful career and Sean was so in love with her. After the break up Sean looks like a real mess. I bet he misses Charlize dearly. Sean is probably not serious at all about minka and I really don’t think that he will stand her after a while. I think it was minka who made up those statements about being ‘smart and giving’ to get back at Chris who thought that she was stupid L.A girl.
Sean seems like he needs a c/d list woman he can parade around and not be a threat to his career. Enter minka. If she can calm it with her thirst for fame, she can actually make it work with sean
Those talking points seem repetitive where Sean P is concerned. He seems to describe all his lovers the same way.
If she were really “smart,” she wouldn’t give that abusive d-bag the time if day….
DUMPED!
Its like this guy is the text book poster boy for domestic abusers. And yet he seems to be able to get any woman he wants….I have no doubt Minka Kelly has fallen for him, they always do. I get the part about his status as an actor working for him, and god knows I’ve fallen for a few douches myself, but but but, his face, his hair rug, gross little mustache, orange tinted complexion….how the hell does he do it?!?!?
He’s gross…also, what’s up with the old-man pornstache?
He looks like a penis…. Literally. I see nothing but flaccid dong.
That is a wig he’s wearing, right? He really needs to get a new one that isn’t so thick. It just doesn’t look natural for a man his age.