I think Kate Beckinsale is extraordinarily pretty. I think she also seems like a pretty cool person overall, like an English rose with a scathing British wit. I would think that she could probably date anyone – she’s everybody’s type, right? She’s 43 years old and society tells us that no one wants any woman over 40, but I would think Kate would be fending off dick with a stick. But no, Kate has been single-ish ever since she split with her ex-husband Len Wiseman. Until now! Kate wants everyone to know that she’s dating someone new: a 21-year-old douche-bro comedian named Matt Rife. They “met through a mutual friend” and they are now “officially boyfriend and girlfriend.” Kate’s entire family likes him too, according to ET. You can see a photo of Rife and Beckinsale kissing here. Here’s a photo of Matt from several months ago…if gonorrhea had a face, it would probably look like this:
Am I being too harsh? I mean, this guy vibes “wannabe dirtbag bro” but he’s not technically bad-looking. Pretty eyes, pretty mouth, presumably a good body. But I just can’t. And I can’t believe Kate Beckinsale would. It’s not about his age, it’s about his vibe and how gross it would be at the age of 43 to date this frat boy type. Hilariously, E! News did a “seven things you need to know about” piece about Matt Rife. Some fun facts: Rife is a “comedian” who worships… Dane Cook. Nope. He’s done appearances on Wild ‘N Out on MTV. Kate Beckinsale is two years older than Rife’s mother. Last thing: he jokes about rape on Twitter.
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— Lil Personal Pack (@TamagotchiPapi) August 7, 2016
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Oh Kate. If you must do the toyboy route, it’s half your age + 7yrs!!!
Exactly. What on earth do they talk about?
You assume that 1) she wants a partner for talking and 2) she is some kind of sophisticate. I mean what do average people talk about now; netflix, Trump, what happened at the gym today….as long as she isnt looking to spend her days discussing how the works of Tolstoy relate to post apartheid South Africa, they’ll be fine.
This isn’t about conversation, because 75% of 21 year old guys are immature a-holes. It’s about d1ck, plain and simple. And yes, if gonorrhea had a face… yeesh.
I have a feeling they don’t talk a whole lot and maybe it’s nothing serious for Kate. It’s gross he looks like a member of N’sync and a walking STD but if this were a not too classy, not too bright, 20 year old insta model with a wealthy, famous, attractive, 45 year old man, nobody would bat an eye. Maybe she’s just having fun.
@Justjj – I would bat an eye. I saw photos of Tommy Lee with that 20-something year old Vine starlet and thought it looked like he was making out with his daughter. It’s gross.
This is a recurrent question that pops in my head when I see similar situations. What kind of conversation would be interesting for both parties?
The dude seems a super douche.
Ikr? Can he even handle the Oxford educated, Russian speaking woman that is Kate Beckinsale? 😉
@labyrinthear: right? She’s no dummy. I can see fooling around-but being boyfriend/girlfriend and introducing him to your friends, family and 18 year old daughter??? Noooooooo.
This guy is about only two or three years older than Kate’s daughter, just no.
Kate Beckinsale has aged a little better than Tommy Lee though? She could easily pass for 30. It just isn’t the same to me as those haggard old man boob at the beach pictures with a 20 year old and is it gross just on principle? I didn’t mean her choice wasnt gross I just mean older men with much younger women is considered so understandable (in general, in sexist ageist society) but if a woman dates a much younger man it’s not? If I’m 40+ and single why not date a long lost boy band looking guy or two?
Why do the grown children’s ages always get commented on when someone dates a younger person? It’s not like they’re in school together. A lot of people become parents in their late teens yet an 18-20 years age difference between a couple doesn’t really raise eyebrows anymore. In THAT scenario it would not be a big deal to be with someone who has a kid older than you. Just wanted to say this since I’ve known more than one couple fitting that description. Like, would the age difference would be less of a big deal if she had her child later in life? No.
I’m saying good for her hooking up with a young guy, but not with this guy. Didn’t her husband leave her for a young woman? It’s like a slap to his face. Though he might object having this guy around his daughter in case it’s serious.
Gross.
yes indeed, it’s not so much the age gap that does it for me, it’s his age period. He’s what three years older than her child. I find this sicken when men do it and it has to apply to her as well.
Blah. He looks like a regular 21 year old in the age of social media and beauty cult. In most cases it passes when you age. Having said that it would be difficult to imagine what a woman like Kate can possibly talk about with this guy and how does that not feel loke mothering someone because he does give the average not such a smart guy vibe
Do you really believe women pick their hook ups based on if they can talk to them?
I doubt she’s *talking* to him😉
🙂
At.All…hey, Look he is Gross in his ouvreur and what he thinks BUT He is PRETTY, plus this is a lady that Like Pretty, so In the Spirit of Kate Hudson and being grown and handling hers??… I really don’t care.. However BEWARE Young Guys on IG and Twitter with F*ckboy Haircuts and Wildin out Roasting experience WILL.COME.FOR.YOU.AND.PUT.YALLS.BUSINESS. OUT the Minute is Over or he feels Butthurt
@QQ-yes, do you want your life spilled on social media??? She’s seems relatively private-that could be really embarrassing. Especially for her daughter.
The older I become I look at this young people and have zero attraction toward them. They look like “kids”. Pudgy round faces, few blemishs or life lines. They look smooth, too young and like kids. Don’t get it at all.
“If gonorrhea had a face…”
OMG, Kaiser. PLEASE write a book.
OMG, Kaiser. PLEASE write a book.
second this.
I cackled at that one. 🙂
ditto!
I agree.
same here, im stil lmao XD
This embarrasses me on her behalf. Does he tell her rape jokes? Does he live in an apartment with 3 other guys, a dog, and lots of dirty clothes? I can see it as a post-divorce fling, but I wouldn’t advertise it.
This should have been a one-time hook-up in the back alley of a club in London and she should have forgotten about him 10 minutes later.
Agreed 100%. Getting some young D might be fun but I’d definitely keep it a secret.
Oh good god, just no! Has she lost her mind?
All signs point to YES.
All the nopes.
You go girl!
I hope we will see more of that. Women are just as much attracted to young men as men are attracte to younger women. Its natural and if you can get a hot 21 year old why would she be with a 40 year old geezer?
Bad enough he jokes about rape but its not like his character matters in this. I highly doubt they talked more than five sentences.Or ever will lol.
Get it Kate!
Yes. What the world needs now is more shallowness. It’s our only hope.
There have always been and will always be shallow people. The best you can hope for is that the social rules that shame women but praise men for their shallowness are eliminated.
You sound so sex negative. Our society is not the 30s anymore.
Its great seeing women embrace their sexuality. Its no different from mens, women desire novelty even more than men and are easier bored by monogamy. And guess what: Women are visual! Hooking up is the new normal and in a feminist society in the future we will see more and more of that. Nothing sexier than a succesful indenpendent woman not settling for some old dude.
Yikes QueenB. You need to love yourself better.
Queen B – how did you come by this cheap “soft-pr0n novel” mentality? Picking up a dumb-as-f*ck frat boy who makes rape jokes online is bottom-feeding. Hooking up is all well and good but at least have some standards. And “settling for some old dude” is at the other extreme. There’s loads of middle-ground men who may be younger but at least have a little class and some smarts. This dude looks and acts like she just dragged him out of a cheap surfer bar.
The 1950s called, y’all have to be sent back.
This is why women can never move forward, sheesh.
I wouldn’t say 40 is geezer.
Haha..yeah I was all for the comment until I got to that part then it was like *record scratch*.
Right? I am 46 and while sure, I’m not 21, I am also not turning in to dust as I type either. We all wonder why Courtney Cox and Nicole Kidman etc mess with their beautiful faces— well maybe it is because many people think 40 is ancient.
The not-yet-40-year-old women here need to remember that one day they will be 40.
Well, barring any catastrophic health problem, accident, etc.
You seem to presume that the only way for a woman to express her sexuality is by sleeping with a vapid 21 year old. I don’t know this guy and more power to her if she’s into that but there are plenty of women who are attracted to more than just youth.
I’m 54 and have yet to meet any of my female contemporaries who want to date someone who is in their 20’s. Some of my friends are 40 and divorced and the lowest age they say the’d go for is early to mid-30’s. My friends who are over 50 say they wouldn’t want to date anyone under 40.
Sex doesn’t stop after 40 or 50, but to think 40 and 50-something year old women are pining to get with a 21 year old – no. At least no one I personally know. Most of us have kids that age.
“Its natural and if you can get a hot 21 year old why would she be with a 40 year old geezer?”
He’s not hot though.
Hot or not, it’s a matter of taste.
“Its natural and if you can get a hot 21 year old why would she be with a 40 year old geezer?”
40 is now considered geezer territory? Frankly, I would rather be with 40 year old geezer who knows what to do in bed than be with a 21 year old who believes what he sees in porn is good sex.
Good looks can turn on too and believe me: men in their 40ies might have been married with the same woman their last 15 years and have done 15 years what works for one woman!
She doesn’t want to talk! If K.B. is so smart as everyone here is suggesting (I really haven’t followed her very much..), she might be one of us who just takes what she wants!!!! GOOD FOR HER! Young men are much fun in bed!
@ Queen B: Nah. I’m not sex negative. I’m just not blase about sex. I find meeting new people quite nerve racking and I take it to heart if someone I’m attracted to isn’t interested. So I’m not wired to just casually bounce from one prospective hook up to the next. To do that I’d have to go through life maintaining a level of detachment and I don’t want to go through life being detached.
Hooking up is completely fine. But introducing him to your friends and 18 year old daughter? Being boyfriend/girlfriend? Ew. No way.
I just can’t. Even at 36 I could not go anywhere near that guy and not because of social censure or whatever, I loooooved the hookups before I got together with my husband. This dude just looks like a childish dickhead and my time could be better spent with someone sexy AND non-irritating.
He just looks like such a scuzzbucket in that first pic. Drunken one night stand material, not bf material.
I just finished watching 3rd season of Jane the Virgin and SPOILERS!!
it reminds me of Jane’s fling with Fabian the vapid telenovela star. He’s hot but dumb as a bag of rocks, which made him more appealing to Jane, because she didn’t want a relationship, just casual sex, so there was no risk of falling in love with him. I think the fact that this guy is a douchebro might be appealing to Kate for the same reason – which 43-year old dreams of starting a serious relationship with a 21-year old? She wants him for sex and the fact that he’s a “scuzzbucket” will make it easier to just dump him after some pleasant times.
Hit it if you must, Kate, then QUIT it!
Kate, I much preferred you with Don Draper than this piece of douchecake.
She was never with Jon Hamm. Are you thinking Michael Sheen? (Who 100% yes, is the most attractive guy she has been with).
There were rumours last week that she might be hooking up with Jon Hamm. Though, I don’t think anything was confirmed, so your statement is still factual. Just thought maybe you were interested… 🙂
Yes! If you want to go the douche route, at least pick a man and not some frat-boy! Ewwww.
I follow her on Instagram and whilst she is very funny, she also is extremely thirsty. She posts a lot of selfies where her face is pretty much always the same – three quarters visible, open mouth, soft focus – and adds a funny caption. Also quite a bit of bikini/underwear/tight clothing. Fair enough and all, great that she is feeling herself, but it is all to say that I’m not surprised she hooked up with someone so much younger.
I still think she’s great. And her relationships with her daughter/ex/Sarah Silverman are goals.
I got that vibe too! It’s weird because she’s enormously funny, and her captions are always so daffy and irreverent, but ultimately she does post like a ton of pouty selfies. I mean, you do you and all, but I always find it jarring when 40+ people do that stuff.
And now this — she could do better in a ton of areas.
The age difference does not bother me. Its the type. When I used to have a type, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, it was the opposite of this type. Cute and athletic, but intellectual, professor type. Married him!
I loved the story reported when her daughter with Michael Sheen got accepted at her dream school!!
Yes exactly. The age difference is a bit much for me but his persona is even more embarrassing. He by no means represents all hot 21 year olds. Let’s hope.
Agreed. The age difference is almost a deal breaker on it’s own, but that douche bro persona is the world’s biggest turn off.
She could do so much better. I think she’s gorgeous with a great wit and personality, how are there not better options for her???
So, to each his own….right? If this is what she wants, whatever. But if she were MY friend, sister, etc, id be all over her like giiiiiirrrrrlllll wtf are you thinking!!! Stop it, right now….just, no! Blech, I just can’t. It isn’t only his age (which I never understand how older women are attracted to guys THAT young, but w/e) it’s his whole vibe, demeanor, just ew….not. for. me.
That’s the 21 year old she chose? That’s not what I was expecting. Huh.
She is twice his age but she looks younger and gorgeous though. I say, let them have fun. We all know those relationships do not last, so enjoy Kate! Live the moment.
Other than youth nostalgia and stamina (I presume), hard to see what this dude brings to the table.
Stamina aside, he reads like a selfish bed partner to me. Ick.
truth
He’s so fugly to me. Ugh.
I absolutely loved her father but I just can’t seem to warm to her. Anyway, I’m sure she knows what she is doing.
So embarrassing that her team confirmed she’s dating this dude. This should have been fling not someone you proudly announce to the world as your new boyfriend. Kate, do better.
Exactly. I could kinda see if she just had a torrid couple of nights with him…but to go public? WHY?
Yessss it’s like getting Papp’d doing Walk of Shame after a one night stand, and then sending a press release that you’re very excited about this new potential relationship 🙁 So cringey, this one needed to stay on the DL!
Ewww.
I am going with my set response: He must have a really big dick.
maybe he’s the son of a plastic surgeon and she’s only in it for the discounts
Ha! She has been looking a little too filler-faced lately. Both her and Charlize Theron.
Thank you! I was wondering if I was the only person who noticed how plasticky she looks. She looked completely different in her first film Much Ado About Nothing.
…why 2 pieces on exactly the same subject…madonna n kate…at least provide a story featuring Madame Macron for some balance…
I’ve never been into hook-up culture. It’s just not how I’m wired. But I will defend any woman who is: it’s her personal choice and none of anyone’s business. But here, the article states that they’re dating, not hooking up? It says, “Official boyfriend and girlfriend.” So, that sounds like more than just sex. In which case, she’s willingly dating a douche who makes rape jokes. That’s gross.
You said everything.
+1
Mmmm hmmm!
Honestly, I PROBABLY should not say anything to defend this guy—because MANY items point to him being a douche. But I don’t find that rape joke particularly offensive. Ok, yes, rape is not funny. I am not saying I laughed at the joke. And in general, joking about rape makes me uncomfortable. Nothing makes rape funny. But in a way, his joke was more social commentary on the mess our country is in. He was pointing out that famous/rich people get away with rape. But I read that as him agreeing with the RIGHT side– that it shouldn’t BE that way. I think often comedy can be about tough subjects and not be poking fun of the horror, but more pointing out how ludicrous it is that these horrors exist. All that said, he DOES reek of douche-bro, so that makes it tougher for that comment to swallow, coming from someone who seems like a dick.
I see that, and I agree that humor should push boundaries. I just don’t think Twitter is conducive to getting across the nuances of satire or sarcasm that can be made clear in a face-to-face interaction. So, the joke was inappropriate to me. Plus, it just wasn’t funny, which is the real crime.
I agree with you Pamela
Everything about his guy screams douche. Why the hell would you go public with this hookup? Even Justin Beiber would be better than this guy LOL.
She’s never come across as that bright to me, just a pretty face. Who knows, maybe she’s just trying the douche-bro route since she got with Michael Sheen when she was fairly young and Len Wiseman immediately after that union ended.
I just turned 37 and the thought of being with a 21 year old just gives me dry heaves! Now 27 on the other hand…. lol.
She studied French and Russian Literature at Oxford, so she isn’t just a pretty face. Makes this all the more perplexing..
Exactly. Hook up? Sure. Introduce him as your boyfriend? NOOOOOOO.
I haven’t dated someone older than me since my twenties. I always date younger. That being said, my BF is 8 years younger than me (30) and I think that’s my threshold at this stage. I could never imagine dating a 21-year-old, but to each her own!
You go, Kitten!
He reminds me of Vanilla Ice. This union is gross, sorry.
My 43 year old co-worker is dating a 27 year doctor who is still on his internship. He may be an adult and a professional but he acts like a kid when he is in a jealous fit. I can’t imagine this Beckinsale-Chet Haze wannabe union being serious.
I once saw him in one of those tv game shows/contests. He went up against Zendaya. At one point he was all over her, touching her face and she was like “excuse the f*ck outta me?”
EDIT: Reread the article. It was Wild ‘N Out!
Is she going through a midlife crisis or something? Who would want to date a 21 year old manboy at that point in life?
I thought she’d do younger but like late 20s early 30s man with his own money and insanely hot but mature looks and a body equally as hot as her. You’re STELLAR Kate! Don’t date frat brahs that probably are texting other chicks on the side, eyeing your gfs and only cares about getting his in bed. Ugh
Kate Beckinsale is a very beautiful woman and she looks great at age 43. As matter of a fact, heck she looks better than me and I am younger than she is. She can date any man she wants and age is not a factor. However, this GUY?….. REALLY?
He is a frat boy comedian, which means he is immature. Kate you can do better than him…..
If you were dating someone who is sexy like Jon Hamm , whether young or old. I would tell you to get him and keep him. But this is guy is a no no in my books…. but he is good for a “plaything”. Hell, she should get Madonna’s boyfriend, I would except that.
I follow Kate on IG and her daugher, Lily in/or heading to college. I wonder if this is just her for the first time doing her own thing and dating. Back to back long term relationships and now your only child moving out of the house, hell yeah.
And this will not last. I have confidence that in a few months time she will get bored and when he calls her, she will go ‘New phone, who dis’.
If I were a 21 year old guy who had a chance to date Beckinsale I would jump at it. He, however, looks totally douche.
Ewwww. No Kate. No.
Beckinsale is so overrated here. She may very well be nice and she’s certainly ( conventionally) attractive but I don’t find her interesting. Her movie career is pretty mediocre and I mean she left Michael Sheen for a more brawny Hollywood comic book director so I doubt she’s looking for intellectual stimulation.
Eh, her relationship with Sheen was dead in the water. She wanted to get married and Micheal was not having it. She then went into a relationship with someone who wanted to get married and Michael is still doing to long term thing. They have both openly talked about it so there is no villian in that break up.
She’d been with sheen for like a decade it wasn’t news to her that he doesn’t believe in marriage. If she was that bothered by it why have a child with him? Also if your relationship is dead in the water finish it before you start up with someone else. It’s just messy when you don’t. Even though sheen is fine with it now he was hurt at the time according to what was reported.
Finally I did not say there was a villain I don’t think in those terms. i just don’t see her as someone who would date someone very high brow based on her recent choice of partners and movie career. So I don’t know why people are surprised.
I sort of thought she got with the director because it might be better for her career, not because he was brawny. In some ways, I thought she made the right calculation if looking for roles was a primary driver.
He looks like a prettier, more delicate Charlie Pugh.
The first time I saw Kate B was in Much Ado About Nothing. I thought she was one of the most aesthetically gifted women I’ve ever seen. She is still beautiful but her new bf looks like bad news. She can do better.
He’s trash. Anyone remember this last summer, when a bunch of his offensive old tweets (n word, etc) surfaced? I bet he’d like you to forget.
See of all of his tweets: https://twitter.com/magic_madozo/status/762118195708690432/photo/1
No one has heard of this guy until now (who do you think leaked this?). So, no. No one remembers any of those tweets.
Being rather presumptuous by saying “no one,” don’t you think? Clearly I remembered the coverage of those tweets, as does Celebitchy, as they mentioned the tweets in this post too.
He sounds like a racist person with mental health issues.
Personally I’m done with training wheels. I dont get it.
He looks like someone Paris Hilton would date in her heyday.
HA, spot on!
Whenever a 40 something year old woman snags a guy in his early twenties, he’s rarely a cute guy in his early 20s.
Sam Taylor-Johnson is probably the only 40 something year old I can think of who snagged herself a decent looking 20 year old.
J-Lo and Casper Smart. Kate Beckinsale and this guy. What is happening? Makes Nick Jonas to his Kate Hudson seem tolerable.
He looks ftm.
What’s the point in dating a younger guy if he’s unattractive? Come on. Get a jason momoa or roman reigns, that what I’d do.
I don’t get the point either.
This is … puzzling. I think she’s one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen, but anytime someone dates someone almost the same age as their children there is a side-eye, especially if the partner in question is still what could reasonably be considered “school age.” I work in a University setting and see and advise dozens of 19-21 year old young men every day and they are, almost to a man, let’s face it, still boys, no matter what their physicality may depict. Some are more together than others, of course, but I’ve never met even one I’d even consider dating, and I’m a tad younger than (though nowhere near as hot as) Kate, and my children are all well removed from that age range so there’s no child-peer ick factor.
And this guy with his stupid rape “jokes” and use of the n-word. Ugh. Do better, Beckinsale!
From a purely fantasy couple standpoint, if she’s gonna go young & hot, how about one of the late 20s/early 30s actors out there? For instance, I saw pics of her and Chris Evans doing something together once and thought, ‘Hmm, now that would be a 🔥 couple.’
Who wants Chris Evans to happen so much? Chris Pine can happen as far as I care.
This seems like nothing but a fling. I wouldn’t read into it too much. It’s not like she’s gonna marry the guy.
he doesn’t do it for me
Ugh. 21 yr old guys are bad enough when you’re 21 yourself. I’m her age and that guy looks barely older than my 14 yr old son. No thank you.
Some women have no idea what they want.
Modification: Some people have no idea what they want. It just seems people feel a vehement anger upon a man for his ways and a patronizing refusal of ‘permission’ when it comes to a woman not making sense in her life choices.
Funny about men not wanting women over 40. At 38 I decided to dedicate myself to working out and eating healthy and at 42 I look and feel better than I ever have. Age is what you make of it.
“if gonorrhea had a face, it would probably look like this” – SCREAMING!
NOPE!
I must clarify though. Go ahead & date young if you want, Kate, but not someone like him.
Major side eye when the person you’re hooking up with, is about the same age as your own child. That must be awkward.
He’s very good looking in the second pic.
if gonorrhea had a face, it would probably look like this = Gold
This is Demi 2.0.
Seriously though… I think it’s incredibly difficult as women when we venture into the 40+ territory. As Kaiser mentioned, society says that we’re no longer desirable and that for all intents and purposes, become invisible. It’s really disheartening and then add to that being in that category and having your partner of 11 years leave you and hook up with a younger woman.
I think we can talk all day long about how she should rise above it, but I think that there may be a small part of her that wants to show that she still has what it takes to get someone younger. Thing is, this guy is an absolute douche canoe. He apparently tweeted and deleted a selfie of himself in front of an old folks home. Whether he tries to make it about his comedy or not, that’s super insensitive to a woman who is already being framed as a serious cougar.
While I would absolutely NOT be attracted to someone that young, I don’t begrudge her for venturing out, esp. because when you think about it, any male who is remotely attractive, single and/or has money is going to be going after a pretty young thing. This to me just exemplifies to an extreme, the utter lack of choices available at 40+.
I’m 38. My husband is 28. If I weren’t married, I’d love a little sweaty fling with some pretty 20-something. Bonus if he’s intelligent. But not a requisite. No judgement from me if all is consensual…