In spite of a subtle whiff of skeeve that I get from James Marsden, I actually like him. He’s been around for years, he works all the time, he has great stories about costars and he seems to genuinely enjoy himself. There’s no angst, you know? He’s never tried to convince us that he’s torturing himself for his art. As for the skeeve part… I think it’s just his personal life. He was married with young children, he and his wife separated and he got some random hookup pregnant. He has three kids now, he’s 40 years old and I guess he’s living a second bachelor-hood. Star Mag says that he’s now dating 25-year-old Nina Dobrev? Oh God.
James Marsden just hit the Hollywood jackpot: the 40-year-old actor – the father of Jack, 13, and Mary, 8, with ex-wife Lisa Linde, as well as William, 18 months, with a former fling – has been dating Nina Dobrev for almost two months.
The new couple had a wild night out at a karaoke bar in New Orleans on May 3, and eyewitnesses say they couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
“Nina and James were making out the entire time,” says a spy. “They didn’t care who saw.”
Pals say Nina doesn’t mind James’ hectic family life and even hinted things could turn serious. “She is totally smitten… it’s adorable.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
This is going to make me sound like such an old fart, but I really have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that young women like Nina and Selena Gomez are sexually active because they just look SO young. Selena could easily pass for 14 or 15. Same with Nina. As for their actual age difference… I judge them. I freely admit it. A 40-year-old divorced dad of three with a 25-year-old CW princess? Yeah. I’m judging.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
So much for the reconciliation rumors with Somerhalder.
I had no idea Marsden was such a sleazebag.
Why, Nina, why?
Tey are not together. They met once. he is a friend of one of her castmates from her last film – Final girls, and he is not single too. You people are so stupid to believe this. Do your research. Besides, James is with someone already. LOL
Stupid here doesn’t care either way, genius
I’m judging right along with you.
Sometimes, it just makes me wonder what is wrong with these men that they can’t date women remotely their own age? Is it about physical youth? Because I think most women reach the height of their beauty at around mid thirties. Or is it mental youth? They want someone light and easy and not challenging in the sense that they’re looking for commitment? Or about power? They want someone they can control or impress?
I know I just made about 30 generalizations that don’t apply to everyone, and I’m way past caring for my own sake, but it just gets me. I see all these mature, smart, lovely, funny women in their 30s and 40s who are overlooked for 20 somethings, and it’s a shame.
I agree. In many cultures a woman who is over 30 and single is viewed as a spinster. Many men will look right over women in their 30s and 40s for a woman half his age. It’s okay for dudes to spend their 20s to party, attend graduate school, or focus on their career. But a woman who does the same is pitied that she did not find a man while she was still “young”. And I don’t buy the reproduction argument I’ve heard from guys who say that of course a guy is going to prefer a nubile 20-something over a woman in her 30s. Are we still living in the stone age? Most women in their 30s can still get pregnant, and bonus, they are more mature, more financially secure, more responsible, and and have a better idea of what they want in life. These guys who won’t even look at 30-something and middle age women just seem like douchebags to me.
I will jump in the overgeneralization wagon with you (admitting that certainly some cases will fall out of it). I think in many cases is the necessity to feel special. It is way easier to feel special and important alongside a young woman that is still carving her pathway into adulthood. And control and maybe to go back a bit in time when responsibilities were less.
i just too. and i think you hit the nail on the head – i think it’s often about power and not wanting to be challenged by an equal, and wanting something “easy.” but, the men who are into way younger women aren’t the type that people my age (38) would want to date anyway – by your mid-30s, you want someone who is secure in the own skin and confident, and doesn’t look for an ego boost at every step.
also, i can’t believe that this guy is 40. i was always sleeved out watching him play liz lemon’s bf, he looked so much younger than her.
Even though I think it is a big age difference, at least she is 25 and her brain is fully developed. This relationship is legal and she is a consenting adult woman. Other male actors have been given a pass for dating underage teen girls.
Jerry Seinfeld (34) Shoshanna (17)
Brad Pitt (27) Juliette Lewis (16)
Paul Walker (33) Jasmine (16)
Don Johnson (22) Melanie Griffith (14)
Don’t even get me started on musicians. I work with teen foster girls and many of them date men in their 20s and 30s. These girls are being targeted and victimized and they don’t even realize it. Of course, those men get arrested. In Hollywood these pervs get a pat on the back and a wink.
Right on. And thank you for what you do. I know it’s an incredibly hard job and I have the upmost respect for social workers. Not sure how you do it!
I had no idea of these age differences. Disgusting, and you’re right, when the girl is underage, it’s an entirely different story, or should be.
Thanks Shannon. I am actually a children’s attorney. I represent foster care kids in court, but 50% of what I do is very social worker like. We stay on our clients cases for years and even help them transition into adulthood.
Older men are always swarming around our girl group homes. A teen girls without parents is easy prey. Often times they will recruit them into prostitution. The girls think it is love though.
Thinking back to Pitt and Lewis she looked older so I assumed nothing shady.
And didn’t Griffith speak out about Don and how she didn’t realize she was being victimized by him?
With that said your brain can be fully developed and have the judgement and reasoning skills of a teen girl. Because you have a brain doesn’t always mean you use it.
@Florc, Juliette did not look older. She was with him when she was in Cape Fear. If you watch that movie she looks like she is 13. She looked so young when they hooked up in 1990, and he was almost 30. It is beyond gross.
I agree that there are people of all ages who don’t use their brains. I meant that at least Nina’s brain is fully matured if she chooses to use it. The teen girls I mentioned still had developing brains when they were targeted by much older predatory men.
They weren’t given a pass by everyone. I thought some of those relationships were pretty skeevy at the time, especially the Jerry Seinfeld one.
From my experience, it seems like “not wanting to have to engage with an equal” is a big reason for it, along with having a warped ego and wanting to be able to control someone. Especially with men who are serial underdaters…dating woman (girl) after woman who is a lot younger than them. They trade down when their current child-girlfriend ages up…so it’s not like it was special twu-love with the initial youngun, that the older man had found a special partner he’d be happy to grow old with.
Even though I don’t know any of these people personally, it always pleases me to see celebrities dating closer to their own age group – like Peter Krause and Lauren Graham becoming a couple made me very happy – two smart, funny actors who didn’t feel the need to stalk high-schools or jr colleges to find a date.
This is purely my anecdotal experience, but my husband has a skeevy work friend who is in his mid-40s and is currently dating a 22 year old. She’s 3 years older than his daughter. He also chases younger 20s-aged women a lot.
Knowing him, I would theorize it’s about power and control, and not having to engage with an equal, as well as having a fetish for really young, pretty, teenage-y-looking women. And the girls he dates…do not have a lot of substance or wisdom (because, honestly, who does at age 22?). I lost a lot of respect for him when I realized that he’s never dated a woman over the age of 25 in the 3 years I’ve known him.
THIS completely. I have a male friend (35-years-old) who dates twenty-somethings. He dated a 19-year-old when he was 31.
The reason is because he can’t handle a woman who is his equal. He’s just an incredibly insecure guy who needs to have the “upper hand” in a relationship.
He wants to be the one with the established career, the money, the connections and he also enjoys having a hot piece on his arm-it makes him feel more desirable/virile.
But I am 100% in agreement with you ladies–I’m not afraid to shade that sh*t.
I know someone very well that is in his 30’s. very few years he gets a new girlfriend. He’s the Dazed and Confused MM. He keeps getting older and they stay the same age.
He meets them while dating his then gf who might be turning 22 or so and his jump off is about 19 or 20 when he finds them.
I suspect it’s also a power/control issue since he always molds them into what he wants and they tend to outgrow him in a way.
Do you guys feel that it is different the other way around?
Like my mom met and married my dad when she was thirty four, and he was twenty-one. She had three kids already. And she said that basically, when she met him, she was so sick and tired of douchebags. The last guy that she tried to date before him, was in his fifties (and looked it)–and he didn’t want to see her anymore when he found out that she was in her early thirties (compared to him thinking she was barely old enough to drink). She said that her and my dad used to have these great conversations about what they wanted, etc i.e. she felt secure in getting married (for the first time).
And she said the one thing that she’s never had to tolerate from him is laziness, etc. Like obviously we all have character flaws, etc—and my dad being twenty-one could’ve had the ‘lazy gene’, done nothing but play video games all day after they got married (moved to Guam, where my mom was working in the Navy). She said that it took my dad two weeks to find a job in Guam–with no prior experience beyond being in the Navy–and she said that he was out ALL DAY looking for one.
The women in my life–whenever they date/marry younger people, they don’t tend to be lazy, dumb, eye candy, etc. So I don’t get why men are the exact opposite.
I don’t imagine that I’ll be hit on by very many guys, especially older ones, but dang. I would hope that a guy would like me because I’m me, not because he thinks he can boss me around.
@VC, At least your dad wasn’t a teenager and had finished a stint in the Navy. I am more concerned with older men that date underage girls like Paul Walker or Brad Pitt. Or the numerous teachers you see targeting their underage male students.
I do think that most people that target teens do so because they think it will be easier to impress and control them. I am sure you will find a guy that likes you for you. The controlling ones can’t hide their true nature for long.
@JessMa
I am so…immune to it, it’s really bad. Where I live, you wouldn’t even BELIEVE how many of the young men are on the sexual predator list (six of them live in my tiny town alone), BECAUSE they date underage girls when they’re in their twenties. I don’t understand it. My brother had this one female friend, who was sixteen and dating a twenty-eight year old. A few girls, when we were all fourteen, would date seniors and older.
But I laugh about when my mom talks about age differences. She recently told me that she doesn’t even think that someone in their mid twenties should be talking to me–because there are plenty of women THEIR age. And I kind of agreed, but was thinking about her and my dad—he was a KID when they got married. I know that she would flip out if I married a 34 year old with three kids in three years….haha.
And I didn’t know that about Brad Pitt. I knew that he dated her when she was doing Cape Fear–she was 19 or 20 when the movie came out, but they both looked so baby faced that I didn’t really think much about it (when I saw the video of her being interviewed at the Oscars, and he was standing off to the side). I’m wondering how they don’t get reported for something like that–it’s not hidden. Are the rules different if you are emancipated (I know that Juliette was emancipated when she was 14, and was living on her own and working)???
VC, Juliette was actually 17 when she shot Cape Fear. She hooked up with Brad the year before on a movie called Too Young To Die. Also her emancipation would not protect Brad from statutory rape unless they were married. Emancipation is more for leases, contracts, etc. You still cannot drink, smoke, or have sex with adults. In fact Juliette purchased a car at 15, but couldn’t drive it until she was old enough to get a license.
Why wasn’t he charged? The same reason all the other actors and musicians don’t get charged. It seems like everyone in Hollyweird is above the law. I think Lohan will only go to prison if she kills someone. Though there are celebrities that have actually killed people and didn’t go to prison.
FYI, Brad seemed to have a thing for underage teens about a decade younger. He also dated Shalane McCall when she was 14 and her was 24.
@VC Interesting question, I was just thinking that. My long-term bf are 7 weeks apart in age, yet I’m constantly wishing he was 5 years older. And by older, I mean “more mature.” We’re 33, but I feel like I have a teenaged son sometimes, haha.
I’m always judgy so it’s nothing new for me, so of course, I’m in total agreement. But, we have to remember that Hollywoodverse is a totally different planet that what the rest of us live on. That said, I do think that age matters. Anything in either direction of ten years, you’re in a whole other generation and I think problems will arise eventually, emotionally and then later on, physically as well. Ok people, feel free to judge me!
I make EXACTLY the same assumptions, Men who date consistently date MUCH younger creep me out *side eyes DiCaprio*
Yep.
how can this solely be blamed on that men? are young women forced to marry old guys? no, lots of women LOVE older men and seek them out specifically. why dont you attack them?
I guess because, generally speaking, I see the older person, male or female, as the one who should be more mature. I can see how a very young woman might be dazzled by an older man – I just don’t see what HE sees in HER. That’s what I’m questioning.
I have no problem if the woman is over, say 30. At that point, she should be able to hold her own with any age person. I’m talking about very young women.
To add on to what GNAT said, I can only speak from what I’ve seen with my friend (whom I describe above) but often times it’s a situation where the younger woman is down on her luck and is pulled in by the Knight In Shining Armor fantasy. Sometimes the younger woman is just out of college, dealing with college loan debt, or waitressing and busting her ass to make ends meet, maybe even unemployed and here comes a stable, charming, wealthy older man who pays for everything and treats her like a princess.
Again, I’m only speaking from the dynamic that I’ve seen between my friend and the younger women he dates. These women are usually waitresses, bartenders, or fresh out of college. They haven’t really established an “adult life” yet so the older man provides them with the financial stability and essentially takes care of them. It’s actually kind of Oedipal, not to mention predatory on the part of the older man, who should really know better.
There’s also an issue of a power imbalance in many of these relationships. As Kitten says, many of these girls/women who are the younger half of the couple have not had a chance to establish an adult life yet (still in school, not yet established in a career, limited finances). And the man, being older, may have financial resources, contacts, professional status that automatically puts them in the driver’s seat of the relationship even before emotional maturity is taken into consideration. Not to mention, in most cases I’ve seen, the young woman is not repeatedly seeking out and dating older men, but the older man is shunning women closer to his own age and repeatedly seeking out young girls. And somehow manages to repeatedly find girls who have limited family support (poor or no father figures, no one who can step in and ensure the woman isn’t being taken advantage of) or other factors that make the girls easy “prey” for someone who seems to take a special interest in them.
And just so you know, I don’t think it’s a matter of men vs women. I was just as skeeved out when my female high-school Calculus teacher (in her 30’s) took up with one of my male class mates (17), and my female psychology teacher (also in her thirties) serial dated junior and senior boys…often hosting parties or class field trips for a group of them at her home as I was when the male girls’ basketball/girls’ track coaches at the same high school were busy “wooing” girls on the teams they coached with gifts, special attention, trips, etc, in both cases ending their marriages to date former students.
Because 40 year old single men rarely want commitment or a serious relationship for life. That’s why they go for single 20 year olds. This promises them harmless fun. 30+ year old women are mostly after marriage.
My 35 year old neighbour is single. He’s a man and the entire neighbourhood thinks he’s a spinster. It’s sad that people here are judgemental towards single people, but at least they are judgemental towards both men and women.
I don’t think it’s an issue of being judgmental toward all single people. It’s the 30-40 year olds dating teens, 20-22 year olds who seem to be getting the big side-eye here.
I agree that it is sleazy to see such a big age difference, esp with a divorced father of three and a woman almost young enough that she could have been his daughter.
At the same time I can’t really judge these men who go for younger women because frankly, if I was single, being a woman rapidly approaching 40 and having just hit my sexual prime (believe me I’m feeling it too), I’d definitely try to get me a few h*rny twenty year olds to have fun with, who could keep up with me in bed, in a way few men my own age can. So even though it definitely looks sleazy from the outside I don’t blame these men for doing it. I’d do the same if I wasn’t happily married.
I thought she was older than 25, but I also thought he was a little younger than 40. Knowing both of those now that’s a big age difference, especially when he has kids that are closer to her age than he is!
What’s the issue with the age difference? Age doesn’t always reflect maturity, which can be a huge factor in relationships. I married a man 17 years older than me, with kids, and I’m very happy. We’re soulmates. Stop judging people you don’t even know!
I totally agree, and most people in showbiz tend to grow up a lot quicker than regular teens/twenty somethings.
Goes both ways. More often we’re hearing these days those kids in showbusiness stop maturing at the age they get famous. That’s when they aren’t held accountable as easily from parents because they earn the money.
Yes they work long hours for their ages, but most can’t balance a checkbook drive a car (responsibly), handle their own affairs day to day. They need handlers for more than time management.
You can make the argument she’s matured faster because she’s been on a hit cw show and received a few nickelodeon awards
You can also argue she hasn’t been able to grow and mature for the same reasons.
It’s really down to the idividual and their support system to make sure they do mature and keep their head on straight.
And that can happen! It’s just incredibly hard with so many enabers and leeches out there.
My thinking also. It’s not the James Woods and his 19 year old girlfriend level of skeeze.
Sure. but it’s not because it’s not the worst existing case tha’s it’s ok too!! these big age difference have something quite creepy underlying both partners have issues in general!
Agree here too. My sister is 26 and just married a 40 year old dad. They are great together. She’s always acted 10 years older and he looks and acts 10 years younger. I don’t see the big deal when everyone is a mature adult.
Hello? This is Hollyweird.
I never understand why age is such a thing with people. I also find it funny that men are taken to task for dating much younger women but when women date younger men, other women are all for it “You go girl!”.
That’s because men are predatory.
@ML how can such offensive things be said about an entire gender?
I’ll fix that: men CAN be predatory.
@ML Women are and can be predators too. Just ask Mary Kay Letourneau and Debra Lafave.
As are women.
You’ve heard of a cougar, right?
I will never say, ” you go Grrrl!” It isnt me. Lol Some relationships with a big age difference weren’t seeked out specifically bc he/she is 20 years younger, but bc they are true relationships that work. . .others are stalked out soley because of age. Newly adulted people are Inexperienced and pursued for that reason…that’s life. I think many of the ppl here are talking about the latter, and in those cases…but what of it? The younger party can learn life lessons that everyone gets to learn in their 20s. Watch out for wolves….There’s a big difference between flattery and foundation.
Umm, no. If she were 30 to his 45 I wouldn’t have as big a problem, but since she’s still in her 20’s yeah I’m judge-y. Nina doesn’t date people close to her own age does she?
The age difference bothers me too, but I wonder why is there uproar here, but when Hayden and Klitscho got engaged no one had a problem?
25 and 40? Eh, there’s worse.
She definitely has a type, looks-wise. He and Ian Somerholder could be brothers.
He does too.the woman he cheated on his wife with and got pregnant was a dead ringer for his then wife. Thin brunette sounds generic, but he found his wife’s twin!
A subtle wiff? He’s awful. cheated a lot on his wife. Rumors he gave her an std/sti.
And yea.
StuperStef
Age and previous relationships/children are not what makes people look at this funny.
She falls hard, completely, and fast. He is likely more looking for a good time and some higher profile fun. Not to mention he’s skeevy. If they last over a few months i’ll take back my judgyness. As of now i’m judgy and I think my reasons are less about age and children.
I don’t think their age matters, or the fact that he has kids and is divorced, but he had a side piece and had a surprise baby too, didn’t he? So he just seems sleazy anyway.
She does not have the same baby face to me as Selena Gomez so this doesn’t skeeve me out. But wasn’t there an article on here a few weeks ago about her dating her co-star Michael Constipated face Trevino. Hey if the girl’s just having fun more power to her but this smacks of tabloid wishful thinking to me.
He seems alright. .
I mean at least it’s not James Franco
LOL that should be a new slogan.
Nina must have a really great PR team as she is always supposedly dating someone with very little or no photographic proof of it.
While this story doesn’t seem that hard to believe and it’s quite plausible I have a hard time beleiving it considering the source is Star Magazine.
For the love of GOD, woman! Ian is now a UNEP ambassador and by all accounts the nicest person you’d ever meet. Plus he’s really good to his animals. Why would you keep trading down? To Cyclops? Really? Over Damon Salvatore!
*Throws hands in air*
Yes!!! I LOVE Ian !!
And notice how I didn’t even have to mention the looks. He genuinely seems like the nicest guy. Occasionally verbose to the point where he sounds a bit incoherent but his heart seems to be in the right place for sure!
He was a family guy rather young, and I just think he never had a moment of going crazy like he has been these past few years.
Is it bad that his children names alone is enough to make me like him?
I like James.
As for calling him skeavy. ..I think he’d be a true skeave if he denied that child by his fling. But he is in that child’s life and never denied the boy.
Also, and his wife were separated at the time. Not ideal, but that child is not the reason they split.
Second, 25 and 40? I really don’t see the issue.
Nobody said shit when Brad Pitt ( who was 40) got with Angelina who was in her 20s.
@Too nobody says anything about the fact that he was almost 30 when he dated a very young underage Juliette Lewis. He is the prom king around here, so you can’t point out that he is also a statutory rapist.
He was divorced at the time he fathered a child…for almost a year actually. People tend to skip over that fact when gossiping though.
I promise this is the last time I’ll comment on this article lol, but wasn’t she also seen in a karaoke bar last year with Liam Hemsworth? I remember the internet blowing up over some picture someone creeped of them in ATL, I think.
What a random pairing.
That goldish outfit is the least sexy thing I’ve seen her wear. She is really small framed and has no boobs so flattening then to make it appear to have cleavage is not flattering.
To you maybe. To me she looks stunning in that dress. Just enough cleavage and her perfectly-fine beautiful chest is on decent display. In fact she has one of the best bodies in the industry, IMO.
Oh god…and nina wants a serious career?! or more interested in being in tabloids???
i hear so many women saying “i love older guys” “im really into mature, older men” “guys my age are so immature” and then “why are men with younger women” well because “you like older guys”. its pretty simple and obvious.
none of these women in the west are forced to date men who could be their fathers and men get the blame for it. there are two to blame.
Well, I like older guys. Men my age (27) really are immature and ridiculous. I have always been attracted to older men. So what?
So… you fall exactly into the cliché described by Sarah….
There is not such thing that maturity related to age , there are mature and immature of every age …but if one is willing to describe all man her age as “too immature and ridiculous” to date… maybe one is just trying to find some generalizations to hide some serious daddy issues…
Maybe one tends to jump to conclusions and overgeneralize oneself. I did not state “all men my age”. I said “men my age” which implies the majority, but not everyone. In my experience, the men I know, who are in their 20s, are rather immature. That is my experience. Yours can be different.
Also, I profoundly thank one for one’s rather insightful and mature psychoanalysis, I must get help immediately clearly. Whatever would I do without one’s wise thoughts on the internet!
I’m judging right along with you, Kaiser.
Nina is 25. She is an adult with full ability to give consent. I don’t even know how many dudes I’d slept with by the time I hit 25, but it was more than a couple (oh, my 20s, so delightful).
As far as Marsden, he is painfully beautiful in person, funny, quick, laid back, and without a whiff of skeeze. I can totally see why a PYT would be into it.
I’ve always heard really nice things about him as well. Not that a nice guy can’t also be a cheater re: the rumours of his cheating but it makes me less likely to believe the gossip.
Yeah, I obvs can’t speak to the wife stuff, though he spoke very fondly of his kids and seems to be a good dad.
And seriously, I’m 30, and I would hit it all day long, because the man is just stunning. My friends and I were like, “How can cheekbones like that exist in nature?” That’s why he is famous and we are not 🙂
+10
Dude is shallow. Water sought its own level.
How do you know?
I’m not totally skeeved out. James is hot as hell. I’d jump on that beautiful man any time.
Anyway, in my experience, my husband is 14 years older than I am. I’m 29 and he’s 43. We have a 4 year old together and have been together 7 years. He looked about 30 when we met. So when I met my husband when I was fresh out of college, I was more than ready to be in a relationship with him because we were on the same page about everything. Guys my age or even 4-5 years older still didn’t seem like they were ready for a serious relationship. In James and Nina’s case, I think it could work. She’s been working in tv, around mostly adults, for a long time and seems like she has a good head on her shoulders. If this pairing doesn’t work out, I’m sure we will be talking about her next relationship because she tends to gravitate towards older men.
well, good for you I guess.
He comes across as a really genuine, nice guy. He just filmed a movie here in my town (Hollywood South, New Orleans area) and I met him twice. Very polite, very funny, and talkative with all the locals. I also got to meet Ian as he did a parade down here and then a puppy parade, too!
What was Ian like 😀 I’ve heard he’s always a complete darling, even when he’s not in the mood.
I have seen him out at the bars a couple times (rumor is that his rented place in Atlanta is close to mine, and he parties in the same area my friends and I do). When I’ve seen him, both his group and mine have been drunk, but he’s been totally polite and gracious and smiley.
Indira, he was awesome. Very smart and witty. Very clever. And much easier on the eyes in person than I thought would be. 🙂
Hey, I thought Atlanta was in Hollywood, South! Divergent 2 is currently filming in my office! 🙂
Anyway, yeah, I hung out with him for an entire evening at a dive bar while he was here filming in Atlanta, and he is delightful. Genuine, funny, smart, engaging. I’ve actually met Ian, too, and he seems really nice, though it was just in passing (and he was with Jason Momoa, and we were all drunk).
ETA: Just so y’all don’t think I’m some crazy stalker, he was drinking at the table over from us and after some back and forth banter (during which we pretended we didn’t know who he was, but then a friend blew our cover and a ton of girls came up asking for autographs, about which he was really nice), he asked to join our table. At the end of the night, we all took silly photos together. I have pictures of him biting the top of my head and laughing.
Total stalker, I’m calling it! 🙂
And we can share the Hollywood South moniker, no biggie.
Sunshine, sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing 😀
Well, I just Googled, and Ian Sommerhalder is 35, so she must like ’em a little older. Eh.
Wow. Does this girl have a type… Pretty and kinda smarmy.
The smarminess is more Ian’s character spilling over into real life a little. I’d imagine it’s hard to shake a character like that. He was completely normal when he was on LOST.
I guess I’ve been lucky in that I’ve been with men who actually prefer older women to the point that I was a little bit insecure for being young (for example when I was married to my ex husband). Now that I’m 45 I’m totally secure in who I am and if you don’t like it too bad for you. My second (and younger) husband loves older women and even my mother is dating someone younger than I am at the moment. So I sometimes forget that there are men out there like James Marsden who seemingly prefer much younger women. I do believe that many men (but not all of them) think that if they are with a younger woman it’s like their own fountain of youth. The feel validated that they are still desirable and powerful enough to attract a younger lady. That’s just my theory. But thank goodness for some men who do actually desire a true, mature partner in life.
I love it when magazines claim that two celebrities “couldn’t keep their hands off of each other” or “couldn’t stop kissing each other” but in this day and age, not one person took their phone out and took a picture? Not one picture exists? Seems legit!
Stacy Dash’s new boyfriend is 22 years younger than she is. I think that’s great. And, in doing so, I can’t in good conscience bash James & Nina’s relationship. If they’re adults then let them make their own decisions about whom they choose to date. Until then this is nothing for me to clutch my pearls over.
James tends to ‘see’ younger girls, but considering that he was just in Hawaii with his children and another woman who wasn’t Nina, I doubt that they are dating one another. It could be entirely possible they are *gasp* just friends and the tabloid gossip is just that. Or even if they did hook up, they are both consenting adults, what does it matter?
Why isn’t anybody this outraged about Sam and Aaron Taylor wood?? The double standard on this subject is hilarious
Um, check the archives. Plenty of CB commenters have had much to say about that pairing. They think it’s sketchy as hell and do not approve.
Believe me, we are.
Most of the comments I saw were supportive. Even the article that was written was extremely supportive of them. Wishing them to last a long time. I’m not saying no one disproved but not like this.
Gah, I’ve had a crush on him forever, but that’s gross.
I can’t judge. It’s sad but makes perfect sense.
Bless. He is having a midlife crisis. It’s rather cute that he is a cliché.
….of course not for the wife, but I bet she’s glad to be out of it.