The Top 5 Hollywood Couples With Huge Age Differences Who Make It Work

People love to talk about the love lives of Hollywood celebrities and the scandals that tear them apart. However, how about the celebrities who have stayed together, and the first scandal has been the huge gap in their ages? The ones who are still going strong.

ELLEN DE GENERES AND PORTIA DE ROSSI

There is a 15-year age difference between these ladies, who met in 2001 but did not start dating until 2004. The couple married in August 2008 and have been married for 16 years. Portia told PEOPLE magazine roughly in 2001, not long after, what it was like meeting Ellen.

Portia declared. “I remember thinking she was the coolest, most fascinating, beautiful, funniest person I’d ever met.”

MICHAEL DOUGLAS AND CATHERINE ZETA-JONES

This couple has been married for 25 years with a 24-year age difference. With Michael being older. This couple even have the same birthday. According to PEOPLE, the key to the success of this couple’s marriage is, “open admiration.” also {EOPLE wrote about their Instagram, “Happy Birthday to Michael and to me!! This was us on our birthday 25 years ago!” alongside a black-and-white throwback pic of her husband planting a kiss on her cheek.

Douglas then responded, “To my birthday sister, I love you with all my heart! May your new year be the best! @catherinezetajones ❤️,” in his birthday post.

The couple first met in 1998 at the Deauville Film Festival. They were engaged by 1999. They have 2 children, son Dylan, 24, and daughter Carys, 21.

HARRISON FORD AND CALLISTA FLOCKHART

There is a 20-year age gap between these 2. They have been married for 14 years. According to PEOPLE. “Harrison Ford and his wife Calista Flockhart have been together for 22 years, as the pair started dating in 2002.

The Indiana Jones actor met the Ally McBeal alum at [the]59th Golden Globe Awards in 2002 and though Ford was still married to his second wife Melissa Mathison at the time, she had filed for legal separation in 2001. Their divorce was later finalized in 2004.

Ford and Flockhart would go on to create a quiet life together. He adopted Flockhart’s son Liam, 22, who she had welcomed via adoption in 2001, before having met Ford.

The actor is also father to four other children — Malcolm, 38, and Georgia, 34, who he shares with Mathison, as well as Benjamin, 58, and Willard, 55, whom he shares with his first wife, Mary Marquardt.

SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON AND AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The age difference between this couple is 23 years. They have been married for 14 years. Sam is Older than Aaron, the couple met when Aaron was auditioning for Sam’s directorial debut for Nowhere Boy back in 2008.PEOPLE wrote. “Sparks immediately flew and the pair began dating and were engaged by 2009. And while the pair fell in love effortlessly, they have had to navigate the chatter around their age difference.

‘I guess that interest was more when we got together, which was now 14 years — at the beginning, was quite intense,’ the Back to Black director admitted on BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life.

‘And that sort of fascination, because he’s younger than me, which you know, we couldn’t fathom the fascination … it’s sort of gone away a little bit.’

Aaron and Sam welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Wylda Rae, in 2010 and followed up with another baby girl named Romy Hero in 2012 before they got married that same year.

Aaron is also stepdad to Angelica and Jessie Phoenix, Sam’s older daughters, whom she shares with her ex-husband Jay Jopling.

SARAH PAULSON AND HOLLAND TAYLOR

There is a 30-year age difference with Holland being older. Holland decided to be bold and slid into Paulson’s DM’S on Twitter, now known as X. Paulson admitted to some reservations. She described her worries about their age difference to PEOPLE. She declared, “We have a big generational difference between us, which worries me for her sake. But, you know… what can I do? We do have a wonderful resonance. We are very interested in the same kinds of things, and yet we share big differences.”

There you have 5 happy couples who are showing that their relationships are thriving despite the large gaps in their age differences, which couple surprised you the most? Did you know about any one of these couples? If so which one?

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