When even an ice-cold bitch like me goes “Awww…” upon seeing these photos, you know an actor’s transformation from “Former Cracken Sexual Partner” to “Solid Husband and Father Material” is complete. These are photos of Jason Segel and Matilda Ledger out for breakfast in NYC yesterday morning. There were photos of Jason and Matilda out together last week too – some say Michelle was traveling and Jason was looking after Matilda solo? I know Michelle made an appearance at Comic-Con last week, on behalf of Oz: The Great and Powerful (Michelle plays Glinda the Good Witch). It’s possible that Michelle decided to jet off for a few days solo and Jason volunteered to spend time with her daughter. Radar says that Michelle was actually back in New York on Friday, but Jason took Matilda out early Saturday morning to let mom sleep. Which is kind of awesome. And I have to say… these photos are heartbreakingly adorable.
Jason and Matilda look very engaged with each other, and Matilda looks like a happy kid in general. Jason has only been dating Michelle since the end of February… and by all accounts, it got super-serious really, really fast. By April, Michelle landed a cover of Us Weekly that made it sound like Hollywood’s Perpetual Fragile Victim had finally found one decent man. That tabloid cover would have been enough to scare off most men – so I was pleasantly surprised when it seemed like Jason was sticking around. He does seem to be in this for the long haul. Will they end up getting married? My guess is… probably.
Have you watched the trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful? It’s okay. I’m not in love with it. But then again, I was never a Wizard of Oz person. My favorite part? Michelle’s wig. I’ve always thought she looked prettier with long hair.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
Aww, Matilda looks so much like her dad!
Cute!
Wow shes a mini heath ledger so adorable
I know! It’s amazing how much she resembles him! The eyes especially.
There is little better than when the man you love is in love with your child(ren). I saw some other pictures of them where he was smiling at her, holding her hand, stuff like that, and it’s obvious he loves the girl. So, so sweet.
+1 to this. The way he looks at both of them is enough to make me smile. I think the trust and comfort Matilda shows with him also speaks volumes.
Awww
Darling. There is nothing sexier than a man who loves kids.
He is so good with her and she clearly adores him. Matilda really looks like her dad. I hope Jason stays in their lives it’s a lot harder to break up with a child then it is an adult.
I so would. He’s just got me!
HIMYM sidenote: LOVE the “Zagat Rated” sign in the window. (Best burger EVER, anyone?)
Nah, that’s not it…no green door. 🙂
That’s cute! She’s the spitting image of her dad.
“Adorable?”
To answer the question, yes. These pictures are adorable. How or why is up for debate?
+1
Wouldn’t anyone else here hesitate to leave their little girl with a boyfriend of 5 months?
I wouldn’t. I don’t have kids so I don’t know for sure, but I think that after 5 months, I would feel completely comfortable to do that. Especially since they seem to get along so well.
Michelle has a nanny who I am sure is around so it’s not really the same thing.
So so cute! I hope things work out for them.
Thank you, Abby. I thought I was losing my mind. Very irresponsible.
I don’t have kids. But if I had, I would hesitate. Good point!
Thank you Abby, I thought I was the only one.
Yes. But Michelle and he have been friends for YEARS now. It’s not like he’s an “unknown” to her or Matilda.
With a guy you may have just met at a bar and who is not in the public eye all the time, maybe. She would have already known a lot about the guy before she ever got involved with him.
At the same time, it is a little sad that there is a knee-jerk reaction to leaving a child with a male.
Thank you…This.
If you really think men are all a bunch of predators until proven innocent, then why on earth would you date one at all?
If the genders were reversed and it was Michelle on an outing with her boyfriend’s kid…not one word would be said.
Honestly, I wouldn’t. I’d rather be safe than very sorry.
I would. How well do you really know someone in only 5 mos? Not enough to be alone w/my kid…jmho.
If it were a boyfriend I had only KNOWN for 5 months, then yeah, I wouldn’t let my young daughter hang out alone with the man.
But Michelle has known Jason for years. He worked with her BFF Busy Philipps on Freaks and Geeks back in 1999. So they’ve only been dating for 5 months, but they’ve known each other for probably a decade, and her best friend has known him for 13 years. I wouldn’t have a problem with my child being alone with a man who had been known by me and my best friend for that length of time.
No. I wouldn’t hesitate at all. If, after five months of intimacy, I still didn’t trust a man with my kid…he wouldn’t be my boyfriend anymore. If, after five months, my daughter didn’t want to be left alone with him while I run errands or if she hadn’t developed a relationship like the one you see in these pictures…he wouldn’t be my boyfriend anymore. If I really thought a man had to prove to me that he was neither a child-beater nor a pedophile for longer than 5 months, he would never have been my boyfriend, and my daughter would never have met him.
This is a ridiculous and disturbingly misandrist mindset.
I seriously don’t get the “irresponsible” comments. This man has been a daily and intimate part of their lives for five months…not five weeks. If you feel you can’t trust your kids with someone after five months, you shouldn’t BE there.
Hit the nail on the head. If you can’t trust your boyfriend after 5 months together, why are you wasting your time with a loser?
+1
Calling the mommy police. Zomg you do not know their situation, so take a seat. I have a boyfriend of 5 months, and he’s watched my son. A) I live right across the street from him, and I’ve known his sons and his ex-wife for a lot longer than 5 months. B) He’s seen this man more in the past two years (just by virtue of being friends, neighbors and having sons close in age who are friends) than he’s seen his actual father. Yeah, we’ve dated 5 months. I also know he’s a wonderful father and wonderful to my child, and when you sign your kid up for kindergarten, exactly how long did you know the teacher? Geezy Peets, just get off your high horse and step down.
I’m glad someone said this. It was my first thought, but I was hesitant to say it and be all sour grapes, since Jason seems like a wonderful man, and clearly there is great rapport between him and Matilda. I just wouldn’t go out of town and leave ANY b/f in charge of my little girl (if that’s what Michelle did). And if it’s true that he ever dated Lohan, then his judgment is really in question. (I wouldn’t even DATE anyone who’d been with Lohan, much less leave my little girl alone with him.) Sorry, but I have to agree with this perspective.
i agree. we have to be way more than 5mos serious for me to leave my child overnight with some guy. i dont care if he has 20 siblings he raised by himself. its just boundaries you need to set and 5 mos isnt long enough to know anyone really. this guy could be out of her life next week.
Exactly….There is no way in hell she should be leaving her daughter with him. She has only known this man for a few months.
Agreed. Five months is nothing. It would take me a very, very long time to leave my kid alone with a guy. I know too many woman who were molested by their mother’s boyfriends. Not accusing Jason, just saying …
Wow. It’s like Marshall is real! I hope he’s as good as he seems (or as good as Marshall seems). This is so cute.
Since there is a nanny involved, I think it’s ok that the boyfriend is watching the child. I was a single mom and very over-protective when she was small, but I think they are adorable together and knowing there is also a nanny there, it should be quite safe.
I agree. I would not want my kid alone with a bf of only 5 months. No way, no how.
But the idea that a nanny is there makes it much MUCH better. Smart Michelle. Good on you.
wow..that child is the spitting image of her dad…its almost freaky…My mom started dating my dad when my brother was 5 years old. Five years later they were married…mom said one of the main reasons she loved my dad was because he adored my brother and my brother adored him…it takes a real man to step in and become a good dad to a child that is not biologically his own…damn, lots of men I know aren’t even good dads to their bio children…good for Jason…
I totally agree with you. I, too, was blessed with a fantastic dad who was not my biological father. Thank God.
I was a single mom from the time my son was 2 until he was 11, and yes I did my fair share of dating. To answer the qustion of “would I leave my kid with someone after 5 months?” the answer is a decided NO. Now to be transparent: my son’s dad was still very much in the picture and available, so generally there wasn’t a need to do so. But I also had a nanny…as no doubt does Michelle. I would let someone I was dating maybe pick the kid up from somewhere, but that was only around the 6 month mark. I kept a decided distance between my kids and my dates/boyfriends for the most part. Only when one was marriage material did that happen.
There is so much of her father in her.
I haven’t seen photos of Matilda in a while…at least here she looks a lot like Heath! So cute!! Looks like she and Jason brought food back for Mom too…so adorable!
Didn’t make me go “aww”. Adorable? No.
Jason’s gross and pudgy. Don’t get the appeal at all. If he was a female his “hilarious” personality wouldn’t be enough either.
He just seems skeevy to me. I can’t get over the fact that he’s been inside Lindsay Lohan, yuck.
Exactly, the idea that he was with Lohan should have turned her off immediately.
The sad thing is you apparently believed that.
Yep she looks like her dad.
Matilda is the spitting image of her dad.
She looks as if she’s an outgoing little girl and a real chatterbox! So sweet!
We all know this is going to end badly. He’s all West Coast goofy and she’s all New York chic. She’s going to get tired of his immaturity and he’ll want to sow more wild oats. They are playing house. It’s not cute because there is a kid involved. If you think I’m wrong, you’re naive, and you can remember me when their relationship finally takes a turn, whether its in a couple of months or a couple of years.
Incidentally, Matilda is holding a Fairway shopping bag, and I LOVE Fairway. They have one out here on Long Island. Best. Supermarket. EVER!
“It’s not cute because there is a kid involved”
So Michelle is supposed to stay single forever, because her relationship *might* end someday? Possibly years from now? I’m not a mom, but how exactly is a single mom supposed to find a father figure for her child without starting a relationship? Is she supposed to know the day she meets a guy, that they are going to stay together forever for the sake of her child? Please.
It’s not like she’s every drunk townie I see on a daily basis, with a different boyfriend every time, and a kid from each one of them.
“She’s going to get tired of his immaturity and he’ll want to sow more wild oats”
so because he’s form the west coast and he’s goofy he will always remain immature and irresponsible? I didn’t realize people were permanently typecast in real life and that it made them incapable of growing up and having any depth
+1
I can’t help thinking she’s scraping the bottom of the Hollywood dating pool here.
For me he’s in the John Mayer/Russell Brand category: all funny self-deprecation to camouflage deep-seated douche & issues with women. (Not to mention the roomful-of-Muppets blind item.)
I don’t think this is going to end well either. On the other hand, look-wise, they’re sort of the American version of Mulligan-Mumford.
Well… As an elementary school teacher, I am really pleased to see her wearing an analogue watch. I was starting to think parents had forgotten how to teach their children basic living skills like, telling time, counting money, and tying shoes. Way to go, Michelle!
I like this pairing so much, and really feel that Jason has been looking for a partner for quite some time. I hope that they were friends for so long helps them make it through the long haul. I’ve been a fan of his for a long time, and while he is goofy, he always struck me as very intelligent, self deprecating, funny, wise and kind of a dork who wanted to be settled. If anything, I hope she doesn’t break his heart, but again, the whole friends thing…I don’t think many women cross the line between friends with someone to relationship, especially with a child, if they aren’t sure it’s going to work out.
Also, I bet he was just hanging out with Matilda, not watching her all alone.
I am just wondering how many of you who are judging her for leaving her daughter with a man she has had a friendship with for years send your kids to daycare?
A daycare and a boyfriend does not even compare.
Yes, they do compare. Daycare workers are usually strangers you have never met before, and you are trusting that they are legit based on their track record and reputation. How is that any safer than a family friend you have known for years? I feel that the fact that they are dating is irrelevant here. It is possible they were close enough friends beforehand that she would have already trusted him, and now that they are closer and he has a bond with Matilda, I really don’t see what the big deal is.
Segel is soooo hot and not because he’s funny. Well that and the hotness. He looks like a cuddly bear that turns into a crazy animal in the sack and afterwards you can have a laugh with him before round two.
In other photos there is usually a woman accompagning then again, don’t stars always keep their team close by but out of the pictures, you know, to keep it “real”? Williams has a nanny, for sure but for the photo-op (come on) they usuallly keep out of sight.
Mathilda has her father’s face but I hope she has more of her mother’s personality.
That said, they are still an odd couple to me but I can see a marriage in a not so far future, say two years?
I can see HIS appeal, obviously, but hers? Yeah, she’s talented and beautiful and smart but she is a nasty spiteful person (fansite shut down) but most of all what Gilliam, unrespectfully, shared about the breakdown of Ledger’s and Williams’ relationship.
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2009/06/heath_ledgers_last_director_te.html
I’m sure Ledger had his issues and wasn’t easy but for Williams to lie about what they had (cosmic love was it?), treat him the way she did knowing he was troubled enough and then use the relationship to promote her image for an oscar push is just sad.
Abby:
Wouldn’t anyone else here hesitate to leave their little girl with a boyfriend of 5 months?
YES! There is no way I would let my boyfriend of 5 months be alone with my child. My SIL does that. She meets a guy and 5 seconds later he is watching her four daughters.
Having your kids meet anyone you are sleeping with is not healthy either. Isn’t this like the 3rd or 4th ‘uncle’ this kid has met by now since her dad died?
He’s looking pretty rough…
I thought so too. I am sure he’s sweet but gawl, he looks just awful and ‘skeevy’ as someone else said…eew.
I don’t think I understand your version of “rough”. JS looks better than he has in years. Groomed facial hair, clean clothes, shirt tucked into pants & GASP even a belt! If that is “rough” then I’d hate to see your version of “smooth”
He needs to either wash his hair or lay off the gel.
My God, if after 5 months you suspect your bf/gf might be a child molester why would you still be with them?
I don’t really get your arguments about not letting your boyfriend of 5 months, who was your friend way before, to watch your child and approving it only when the nanny is around. Do you know the new nanny longer than 5 months before you leave your child with her? I seriously doubt (and I’ve seen what my friends do) if most moms know the new nannies more than few days before letting them around their children all by themselves, because that’s how it works. I’m not a mother yet but I would have a bigger problem with the nanny who is a hired stranger I could only hope is trustworthy enough, than a man I care about and have a contact with every day for 5 months and whom I know longer than that.
Maybe there’s hope Hollywoods kids won’t all grow up neurotic. They look fine.
I get a good vibe off Jason when I see him with Matilda… hope he sticks around. Does anyone else see the resemblance between Heath and Jason? It’s subtle but it’s definitely there.
+1
LOVE THIS!!! and love him 🙂
Really interesting how you lovely ladies are arguing about the 5 mo-kid watching thing. I don’t have children, but for me I wouldn’t let any man watch my children unless they are blood related (and we all know that is no guarantee). 5 mos isn’t a year but she is of course allowed to trust and live so I dunno
Really? Blood related. I guess I should go tell my husband (my son’s step father) he isn’t allowed to watch Emerson why I go to the gym. And my (adoptive) father that bc he isn’t “blood related” that there will be no more Poppy/Emerson sleepovers. Doesn’t matter that he loves that little boy more than he loves his daughters, he’s not “blood related,” so it can’t happen.
All of you harping about the fact that her boyfriend taking her daughter out are ridiculous…even more ridiculous when one takes in to consideration that your sentences start out with…”I don’t have children, but…” Well if you don’t have them, you really have no idea what you’d do!! It is really easy to speculate, but a whole different ball game when you do! If you don’t trust someone to watch your child, why bring them around them in the first place? As another poster pointed out, if Michelle were taking his child out, nobody would blink an eye. And, as others have pointed out also, if she didn’t trust him, after 5 months of dating (that we know of) and God knows how long of friendship, to watch her daughter, then what’s the point of continuing a relationship?? My husband was a good friend for 5 years before we realized we had something. We moved in together after 4 months, and I have never and will never hesitate to leave them alone together. Hate on it all you want. As far as I am concerned, it’s all utterances from a moronic source.
Meh. It just makes feel bad about what Heath is missing out on. Plus this guy isn’t a big enough star to be dating Michelle Williams She could do better.
He has a higher net worth, movies that made huge money, a tv show that’s number 1 in ratings…she has a bunch of little indie flicks. He is, without a doubt a much bigger (in every meaning of the word) star than she.
I hope they’re a good couple and it works for the 3 of them. LOL that so many of us are projecting the character of Marshall onto Segel 🙂
Matilda’s dress is lovely. Perfect for a little girl her age but elegant & delicate. Watch out Suri! You’ve got competition!
Saw them at Newsies. Meh, not a fan of either actor.