After Page Six announced Peter Cookâs engagement, he re-confirmed everything on his Instagram: he is indeed engaged to a 21-year-old college student named Alba Jancou. Peter Cook is 60 years old, heâs been married and divorced twice and both his ex-wives said that he has a âthingâ for very young women. Like, 18-21-year-olds. Peter and Alba have been dating for a year, apparently, although they met a few years back. She is the same age as his daughter Sailor. Sailor and Alba even look sort of similar too, although I think Sailor is prettier.
Anyway, Cook has been confirming the engagement to every outlet, because heâs super-proud of the fact that he âlandedâ a 21-year-old. He told People Mag that âwe are very happy.â To Page Six, he said that he and Alba are âsoulmates.â People Mag also confirmed some details about Albaâs life – she is/was a student at Tulane, she also attended âa prestigious English private boarding schoolâ called Millfield. Her parents are art gallery owners Tanya Bonakdar, 53, and Marc Jancou, 51 (note the ages). The Jancous own galleries in New York, Switzerland and London. So⌠sheâs got family money and family connections to the rich, powerful and artistic.
As for what Peterâs family thinks about all of this⌠apparently, his daughter is fine with it?
After Sailor Brinkley-Cookâs heroic sub-in on Dancing with the Stars for her mom Christie Brinkley, who broke her arm during rehearsals, it was clear that the two have a very close mother-daughter relationship. And sources say Sailor, 21, is also tight with her father, Hamptons-based architect Peter Cook, 60, who recently got engaged to his 21-year-old fiancĂŠe, Alba Jancou.
âDespite the bitter breakup between Peter and Christie, Sailor has a very close relationship with her dad,â a source close to the situation tells PEOPLE. âShe always raves about him. But she has not said a word to anybody about his personal life or the new girlfriend,â the source continues.
What do you think? I bet Sailor probably does adore her dad, but⌠I bet sheâs not super-jazzed about her dad dating someone her age. While Sailor has raved about her dad on Instagram in the past, I donât see any comments or posts on her page congratulating her dad. She didnât comment on his engagement IG either. Huh.
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She looks so trashy.
just was typing the same. She looks so cheap and trashy
Itâs the hair. To me that platinum blonde with roots is ugly on anyone.
I was kinda conflicted if it was ok to say it, but yup, trashy.
Also- are dark roots a thing now?
Yeah, I felt kind of bitchy… but hey, at least she can actually improve her image with very little effort. She has the resources, however lacking in taste.
The roots, the nails, the cleavage, the eyebrows….not good.
Thank you!!! If she has so much money, why doesn’t she look better? Surely, she can afford a better dye job! And for the love of all that’s holy, put on a decent bra.
I had to go back for another look. Ooooooo, youâre right. Not good at all.
you can tell this one is slopppppy.
a couple years of too much rose, tanning and bleaching… ooof.
This is what college girls look like now. The richer ones carry real Chanel as opposed to Rebecca Minkoff but…this is what they all look like.
I dunno, my daughter is in college and neither she nor her friends look anything like that. Theyâre up on all the trends, but they look cute and young, not hard and trashy.
I teach at a public university in the Pacific Northwest, and basically no one looks like that. (Of course if they did dress that way they would freeze to death.) They mostly look as though they rode their bikes to school and are going hiking, or else to their work-study job, after class, which is often the case.
As a wealthy white girl… She should be able to get makeup that matches her skintone.
I spent a semester at an american uni and no one looked like this. Most kids looked like they had just rolled out of bed. Granted, this was a decade ago.
she does look very…um…basic?
like, you could plop her down at a Dairy Queen in Alabama and she’d fit right in. her outfits, the hair, the garish make up, the too long fake nails…all of it.
scrub off the make up and put back the natural hair color and voila – you have Mayim Bialik.
She gives me Jamie Lynn Spears vibes.
She DOES look like Mayim Bialik!
IDK, nothing makes me feel so old and non-wealthy than seeing the shitshow of what the young and wealthy consider attractive.
Yes. Basic and the big T. Trash.
Lol, Iâm in Alabama and even we donât look that damn trashy, how dare you!! đ
Literally my first thought. The crop top. The chest tattoo, The wannabe Chanel bag.The nails. The overcaked makeup. The black eyebrows and bleached here. She is a literally all the current trends mixed in to one and he is WAY TOO OLD.
Imagine being either of them. . .and thinking *you* were the one who got lucky in this deal. It’s a bridge too far for me. Bless their hearts.
Not a fan of calling people trashy on basis of looks, but she sure doesn’t look like the globally educated bohemian daughter of artists. I wonder if her young-ish parents have always wanted an older sibling?
She also needs something to hold the girls up in the tank top photo. She’s too young for a saggy chest.
That young woman is never smiling in her pictures with him….
Just goes to show, money can’t buy nice eyebrows.
Sadly itâs easy to get a better shape.
Or a decent dye job.
But it can! I’m living proof.
She needs to burn that hideous purse.
Pepto bismol purse!
she Definitely got her boobs done, so why did she neglect her chin?
Ouch, that’s a harsh comment. Her body, her choice.
It IS harsh, but just to play devil’s advocate. . . when someone is obviously pursuing the fake sex doll look, people do kind of lose respect, you know?
it’s smart to quietly anticipate it.
WTF? not cool
she loves older men, especially jay leno
There’s nothing wrong with her chin. We complain when everyone gets the same plastic surgery face, and then complain when they don’t.
Her choice of brows, hair color, nails, etc? Go for it. But natural features shouldn’t be criticized.
Lucy –
ITA about not criticizing natural features. But that boob job looks really uncomfortable, so one wonders where she draws the line at cosmetic surgery.
What could this young woman see in this old man? If she does not need the money then she could obviously find somebody closer to her age. Does she have a thing for old guys?
Maybe this is just a stepping stone to getting on Real Housewives? She already has the look down.
Of course the engagement ring photo has to have her boobs in the frame. Classy.
I scrolled back up to look at that. My eyes were fixed on how the photo captures her entire hand and hardly any of his. I assumed it was to hide any of his age spots.
The hands donât lie about age.
maybe he flatters her & she’s falling for it . . .
maybe there is genuine compatibility there . . .
maybe he reminds her of her father (sorry, weird, i know) & there’s some subconscious zing thing happening. . .
idk
I wanted to say all of these things myself. On paper, she should look like one of the Swedish princesses. In reality, her look is…jarring.
Thatâs it! Very well put, Margie.
I live in Scottsdale, I was just in Miami, this young lady looks very normal for what I see in both places.
She’s 21 and making a perhaps unwise decision, but in the Kardashian age I’m a little surprised by the negativity aimed at her appearance. Feels nasty as opposed to Celebitchy.
Heylee:
Yeah, when I lived in SoCal, this kind of look was the norm. I often associated it with pathologically low self-esteem, though. I don’t blame young women for that. Being raised in a culture that pressures them into valuing only their physical appearance. But it’s a curious aesthetic choice for someone who seems to have been raised with a broader perspective than those narrow communities, and who doesn’t seem to have the need to hustle for wealth. (I guess one could argue that the Kardashians didn’t need to hustle for wealth either; they certainly had enough money to attend college and build professional skills, but one could argue they also endured intense psychological abuse as children that stripped them of any sense of their own value).
Im looking at her, Iâm reading her familyâs bio, and Iâm getting…low key trump supporters. Rude? Maybe! But Iâm getting that instinct!
You have Trump-dar.
The things that get normalized in dysfunctional families are hard to comprehend unless youâve experienced it first hand.
I know itâs very popular but I dislike the talon nail look.
I don’t have strong feelings about the talon nail look, but it certainly doesn’t scream “I work on a computer all day.”
Are there any pictures where they aren’t drinking cocktails?
if they weren’t drinking they probably would realize how stupid and wrong this is.
well, SHE might.
*SNORT* !!
Hahahahahaha yes she is wearing some overpriced Roseâ goggles
I do like her ring and that was a sweet message he wrote. This guy has a bad record
But maybe like Michael Douglas heâs gotten too old too old to mess around. As for her maybe sheâs had bad experiences with guys in their twenties or has socialized around old folks in her life.
As someone who read Gastby, Peter, that quote does not mean what you think it does.
lol, I know right? Who thinks âromanticâ and âFitzgeraldâ go together?
It wouldn’t surprise me if Alba said that she loved The Great Gastby….with Leo DiCaprio.
Something tells me she is not into literature. Just a feeling.
Dude just spelled his own doom. *goes to copy for future use when they divorce*
YES! I was like… ummm Fitzgerald is not who you want to be quoting here, my dude. But LOL.
Well, she definitely doesn’t look like she came from money…and I’ll just leave it at that.
She looks like an oligarch’s daughter to me. Money, but not old money, or even new legitimate money.
I was trying to remember for what other reason I didn’t like this guy. Then I remember a story Alexa Ray Joel told once about going to a party or a friend’s house as a teen/young adult in the Hamptons and her ride home didn’t work out so she called the house to ask to get picked up, and he answered and told her angrily she wasn’t getting a ride, she better walk home. And so there she was, walking the dark roads home, almost getting killed as cars sped by her. Garbage.
Millfield, I think this is the school attended by Elizabeth Taylor’s oldest son when she & Richard Burton lived in London on their yacht and at The Dorchester Hotel.
Bleh. All these âromanticâ photos, as if itâs his first go on the roundabout… I get that itâs probably for her benefit, but heâs a creepy twat, and sheâs likely needy.
She’s 21? Huh.
Poor stupid girl. Bless her heart.
Perhaps she will do better with her second husband.
Awesome
That is an optimistic way to look at it Ariel. He is not her disastrous first husband, he is just the next ex. Maybe the second guy will e less creepy at least. This guy has a very strong grooming vibe and clearly likes his ladies young and easy to control.
This comment. *chefs kiss*
Prob it will be verb mean for me to say this but her face looks like itâs been just pasted on her body in every single pic đŽ
Ps: he is gross!
Narcissistic/predator/misogynistic . Christie you dodged a bullet.
This is gross in so many levels and there is a clear power imbalance in this relationship regardless of her financial status and we are going all in … on her looks.
Well, to be fair, he does look like a bloated lobster.
She has chosen a very specific look. It’s revealing, actually.
Fair point, though. There is some cruelty here.
Welp that explains why heâs marrying blonde female Jay Leno.
Whomp Whomp ~
I know. All that money and THAT’S the face she chose?
There was never a doubt that she came from money
I would like to see those ledgers because no parent would think that this is the best their 21 year old daughter can do.
Oh, to be a fly on the Hamptons set wall.
The article makes it sound like something out of those old historical novels where the attractive young daughters were married off to rich, elderly suitors to maintain the familyâs flagging wealth lol. It just makes the appeal on her part even more baffling if she has the resources to do better.
Whatâs the end game here? She has money. Reality show maybe?
HAHAHAHAHAHA! âBlonde…..sure she isâ đ
My instant thought was reality show for her as well – she has Love Island contestant written all over her.
Plus why would anyone call their child Scotland – Alba is Scottish gaelic for Scotland.
Alba is very old gaelic name and popular in Spain and Ireland and some version in Scandinavia. My daughter is called Albha. Alba means morning star,dawn.
I know plenty of Albas
Alba means dawn in Italian and it’s a beautiful name.
I canât imagine her parents are happy. Ugh!!
So if she does not need his money…wth is she doing with that old, icky dude?
Bad mistake. I feel sorry for her and “poor, stupid girl” nails it on the head. Regrets will follow, I feel sure.
If she was my daughter..I would be weeping openly for days. No, no, no.
She doesn’t have money. Her parents do. Perhaps she had a taste of being “poor” (ie. left home and now has to actually pay bills) and doesn’t like having to work for money? Marrying a semi-celebrity with lots of cash could be quite attractive to her! đ They’re both vapid social climbers. May they live happily ever after!!!
Who plasters their social media handle over their engagement photos, oh yeah, stupidly young people.
Peter is a idiot.
It’s funny how we are thrashing this young woman for her fashion sense… And assuming lots of things about her.
Her parents are super respected gallerists when while I am surprised to see how their daughter is so removed from their own aesthetic, it wouldn’t occur to me to have digs at her when obviously the person at fault is mostly the older, narcissistic man.
Btw, she looks exactly like her mum but a sort of Miami version.
Poor girl, someone needs to talk her out of this and also introduce her to some good make up artists and hairdressers
Youth and bad decisions sometimes go hand in hand. He used to be a nice looking guy, but character and behavior are the true tests.
I would be interested in what her parents think about having a son-in-law a decade older than they are. Their daughter is 21 and preparing to marry a guy who is months away from Social Security retirement benefit eligibility. Money and publicity surely cannot gloss over that.
“Their daughter is 21 and preparing to marry a guy who is months away from Social Security retirement benefit eligibility.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!! This is so true.
Bless you Christin. Bless you.
I was about to type that at least he could advise his in-laws on Medicare within a few years.
Fun memory here â He was a catalog model back in the late 1970s/early 1980s. He and Lori L (of college scandal infamy) were always in the JCP catalogs when I was a kid. He would have been in his 20s then.
Maybe he can explain what a catalog was and show her the pics, as he was sunny good looking in his polyester shorts.
Ok so she’s not a gold digger then? Her family might have money but that doesn’t mean SHE has money. Does she work? Her own bank account may be empty, who knows.
I just don’t see what’s in it for her. He’s a 60 yr-old, twice divorced, serial cheater and ephebophile. She’s young and wealthy. Is he her gateway to the Hamptons set? Her ticket to notoriety? 21 year old “men” can be absolute idiots but Cook is horrible. I’m curious to see how this plays out for both of them and my hope is that karma bites him in the arse.
His thumb looks like a penis..
That outfit with the crop top and the hot pants, thatâs what sheâs wearing in the Hamptons?
Also, you can see her tattoos below her boobs in the crop top.
Boy, did this dude downgrade…
He’s actually not terrible looking for 60, but constantly hanging around teenagers makes him look that much older in comparison. Not a good look.
I’m thinking this young girl has hardly any experience with guys and this one came along and bowled her over with attention. SHe has let Peter call all the shots. Sad because I think he has massive problems and will probably hurt her emotionally some day.
If the only thing you can say about someone you intend to marry is âshe went to a schoolâ maybe reconsider. Itâs so disgusting when men interfere with young lives like this. Let her grow up, for the love of god.
@wellsie, well put. It is interference. She might genuinely believe right now that it is all consensual and her choice but in years to come she may well feel she was taken advantage of and or didnât really know what she was signing up for. He knows full well what it means to be 21, 31, 41, 51 and soon enough, 61 and all the perspective the years in between provide. She does not and cannot have that same advantage to help her make the same decisions. The imbalance is clear.
Why isnât anyone mentioning he was also unfaithful with a teenage girl while married to Christie? I can only imagine how he explains that one away.
All that aside, I wish this girl the very best in life.
Shocker!
Im sorry but she looks like Ruth Buzzi (comedian from the 1970’s)
To me she looks like Brooke Hogan.
OMG! a blonde ruth buzzi
It takes a lot of money to look that cheap!đ this whole thing is gross.
lol, if you come from money and you still marry an old man either you’re not as rich as we think or she must really love him. Congrats to her. I hope during her marriage she learns to blend her makeup and that you must change your foundation with the season as you lighten and darken.
She looks a lot like the women I see in my area of Florida. They seem to think the blonder and tanner and thinner, the better. And they love to wear these tennis skirts. I think the dark tan and roots make her look trashy. But w as dark as her natural hair color is, she will always have roots. And with platinum blonde, it’s more noticeable. If she wasn’t so blonde, you wouldn’t notice them as much.
“Super proud that he landed a 21 year-old.” Oh my, aren’t YOU an intellectual giant. Oink.
If she really does truly love him or has some personal issues that she’s working out on him, what happens when she ages out of the “Peter Cook Experience” and he trades her in for another 19 year old?
He wants the $$$
Imagine once being married to a bombshell like Christy Brinkley and then downgrading to this trashbag. I find this young woman hard to look at, and I can’t say it’s just her physical appearance or the fact her betrothed was already 40 when she was born…
Ahh love.
BetsyD Iâm glad Iâm not the only one who was reminded of Ruth Buzzi lol
Yikes at the comments on her looks , god forbid someone isnât perfect looking . She looks totally normal to me . Yâall are so catty.
O don’t think it’s her actual prettiness, but her fashion and styling. It’s not what I’d expect from a cultured rich person to wear those outfits and accessories, to have that “look”. It screams “look at me”in a sort of cheap way.
Catty is definitely the right word. It’s time to retire ‘trash’ as a label for women. It definitely doesn’t scream ‘not brainwashed by patriarchy’. Put it in the same box to the right with ‘so gay’.
This is definitely the look you go for if you are trying to rebel from you artistic worldly parents!!!
ehh… not going to drag her over her trashy clothing
she is 21 yo, probably experimenting and dumb
finding style is not that easy for everyone
but her dating and engage to that old man tho?
euw…
bless her heart
When I look at these two all I can see are insecurities.
They find in each other what they are missing in themselves.
This looks like a starter marriage. He get’s some freshly killed (if albeit poorly packed) meat and she gets the notoriety she has been craving.
I’m giving this three years tops from engagement => marriage => separation => mudslinging via publicists => divorce => soundbites from Sailor