This has GOT to be the creepiest celebrity romance

[LynneSin]

SHE: Half of one of the most famous celebrity twins in show-business. She's 26 but looks like she's 15
HE: the Half-Brother of the King of France. He's 42 looking like he's turning 50 anyday soon.

It just looks like some creepy old man hitting on his daughter's best friend. I think I saw that movie it was 'American Beauty'

[OriginalGeek]

1. That's pretty creepy but is it THIS creepy?

He is 51 and was an actor on Lost and she was actually 16 when they got married.

http://technorati.com/entertainment/celebrity/article/51-year-old-lost-star-doug1/

This week "country" singer Courtney Stodden married actor Doug Hutchison in Las Vegas. The happy couple signed their marriage certificate with the ages of 16 and 51 respectively. Hutchison played Dharma flunky Horace Goodspeed on Lost and Eugene Victor Tooms, the liver-eating guy from The X-files. Stodden was a contestant in the Miss Teen Washington USA pageant and was also signed to Hutchison’s production company called Dark Water. One has to wonder what age group she was assigned to or was she merely there for summer camp.

[Spike89]

2. That is creepier, but doesn't look as creepy

51-16 is such an epic mismatch--nevermind that any 16-year-old with any adult is essentially child molestation in my view. 42-26 is almost 20 years closer in age and of course a 26-year-old is a woman who can make her own choices.

All that said, the first picture looks much more like the pedophile/creepy uncle image than the second where he looks younger and she looks older than their real ages.

[OriginalGeek]

7. Fair points

I wonder if half king was one of those guys that kept checking the Olsen Twins countdown clock....(That is an Olsen twin right?)

[LynneSin]

4. She's going to have serious spinal issues with that arch

Yes she has boobs but really must you make every pose about your big fake ones?

[Jersey Devil]

5. But that does sort of add a consistency about it, doesn't it?

I don't know if she needed her parents' permission to marry at 16 but since she obviously got their permission to get a boob job before she was 16 how could anyone be surprised?

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Yes. Yes, you must.

[BlueMan Votes]

12. this is the couple i assumed the op was referring to...

doug hutchison is probably best known for his role as the sadistic little shit of a prison guard in 'the green mile'.

and i say more power to him...i'd definitely hit that. twice.

[HERVEPA]

30. Hit that. Lovely way to talk about a woman.

[Flaxbee]

17. I gotta agree, the Doug/Courtney one just is yucky... But in photos, lil'miss Olson is about half

the size of Sarkozy -- she's TINY and looks like his daughter.

Doug and Courtney just look ... desperate.

[nolabear]

23. True Confession. I watched this pair on "Couples Therapy". You don't know the half of it.

The girl--and I do mean "girl"--got them thrown out of the reality TV dwelling because the others couldn't deal with the fact that she didn't wear clothes. Seldom in anything larger than a bikini. Her personality is a mess, like a highly sexualized adolescent with a taste for power's would be ("You can't make me wear clothes. I stand up for all my fans who won't be bullied. They see me as a role model, heeheeheepoutyface.&quot I feel sorry for the child, but she needs to get rid of the man and grow up.

He's just pathetic. Glommed on and babytalking. Combining their names to "Dourtney".

Needless to say, I'm fascinated. LOL!

[Arugula Latte]

3. Speaking of creepy ...

Okay, whatever it was, it's unlikely it was a "romance," though.

[OriginalGeek]

6. I liked her better

when she was with Buster

[Enrique]

8. i didn't know there was a King of France

am I the only one?

[alarimer]

9. No. That was my only thought.

I thought they beheaded the last one.

Maybe he's a pretender to the throne.

[geardaddy]

36. Yeah, me too.

[cliffordu]

11. I'm 61 and my girlfriend is 40.

[Spike89]

13. It isn't all about the age gap

21 years, as I'm sure you are more aware than me, is significant, but relative age is the real issue. Being 20+ years older than your girlfriend when you're in your 30s should send you to jail. Any relationship between adults is exactly that, between them. However, if they are celebrities and she looks like a child and he looks like an old man, people are going to make wisecracks. There doesn't have to be an age difference really...if any celebrity couple seems mismatched (Julia Roberts-Lyle Lovett; Ted Danson-Whoopi; Seal-Heidi Klum) people will be all over it. Doesn't mean there is anything inherently wrong with the relationship.

[OriginalGeek]

21. Rock on with your bad self!

Unless you started dating when you were 30.

I'll never try to get in between an older person and his/her adult significant other. I don't begrudge you that one bit.

but a 16 year old should be dating goofy high-schoolers. Not weird old men. On the other hand, he'll likely be dead 15~20 years and she'll still be young enough to date a normal person.


I think I am being overly judgmental but there it is.

[GeorgeGist]

32. I'm 61 and my daughter is 40.

[Kennah]

33. Unless you're dating her, that's not creepy.

[cliffordu]

34. Well......

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. One of the best marriages that I've seen in my life was in the Army. He was 23 and she was 46...

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... with EIGHT children, two of them older than he was. Four of them -- ranging in
age from 11-18, still lived with this couple.
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They had been married for 2 years when I met them and they were one of the most
loving compatible couples I've ever known. She was not a cougar in any way, but a
plump, fairly unremarkable-looking German woman who was vivacious, fascinating
and a sweetheart. He didn't seem to have an Oedipus complex -- he seemed an
equal partner rather than a "son".
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My ex (we were married when I knew this couple and the four of us played a LOT of
cards together) was two weeks younger than I. Most of my serious relationships were
with women my age -- with a few up to 15 years older.

When I was in college, I was around 30 (a late bloomer) and my best friend was one
of my English professors (edit to add: who was in her 60's). We had a fantastic VERY
close platonic relationship for about 2 years or more when I realized that I was
becoming attracted to her and saw in her a physical attractiveness that I hadn't seen
before.
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I'm pretty sure it was reciprocal and the difference in our ages weren't the least bit of
a factor, but I think it was one of those situations where neither of us wanted to risk
our rich friendship if we had been reading this wrong. So, though the sexual energy
was at times almost palpable to the point of awkwardness, we never acted on it.
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Dumbhead, MiddleFingerMom. Dumb ol' head.
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There are actually TWO women in my life (the other was my age and we had a
committed relationship for 5 years) who I consider "the one that got away".
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If anyone had thought this was creepy, I would have simply known that they were
literally clueless. It happens... and sometimes without troubling psychological "issues".
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[Denninmi]

15. Sorry to be so stupid ...

... Who are these people? Who is the woman?

[riderinthestorm]

26. Its in the OP. She's one of the Olsen twins and he's the half brother

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to the king of France.

The Olsen twins were on Full House which they spun off into a series of tween movies and then a fashion empire. The twins are legitimately, through a lot of hard work (and perhaps some parental manipulation) serious business figures in the fashion industry. I've heard rumours that they are worth somewhere over $300 million.

I have no idea who the King of France is but that's whats in the OP (did you read the OP?)

[riderinthestorm]

16. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher were about 15/16 yrs different in ages I believe

Honestly, I don't think it matters once you get into your mid 20s. You are fully an adult by then.

Which one of the Olsen twins is this? I believe one of them is fairly troubled - has been in rehab and has an eating disorder (?). If this is THAT twin then maybe a case could be made that she's flirting with a father figure but otherwise, I think a 15/16 yr age difference isn't that much of a problem when you're already well into the second half of your 20s.

[LynneSin]

29. And how's that relationship working out?

And despite their age they actually both looked like adults.

[riderinthestorm]

31. The OP is about how creepy it is for a couple to be 15 - 16 yrs different in age.

I disagreed. That's it.

There are plenty of couples, both celebrity and not, who have that kind of age span (or greater), and they get public acceptance - not the kind of insinuations that the OP is making.

Frankly, if my 26 yr old daughter finds love and happiness with a 42 yr old guy, I would never call it creepy. I'd raise a toast to love and happily ever after. She's a grown woman with plenty of life experience already. Not a child - not even close. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are hardly naifs in the ways of the world....

[demmiblue]

18. Check out this set of pics from BuzzFeed:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/top-7-creepiest-pictures-of-mary-kate-and-her-boyf

[rug]

19. What happened between picture 2 and picture 1?

[skypilot]

37. He looks like...

...Mr.Bean--but creepier--and she just looks like, "Oh fuck, what have I done?"

I give this relationship another five minutes.

[HopeHoops]

20. I have absolutely no idea who either of them are. Is that good?

[whistler162]

22. Well there was this guy who was 75 and his bride was 25

had two kids before his death in 2004.

Guys name was Tony Randall. Second marriage for him.

If it works for them or if it doesn't it really isn't any of our business.

[Orrex]

24. Almost as creepy as Dennis Kucinich and his young wife.

[riderinthestorm]

27. 31 years for Dennis Kucinich but that's not supposed to be mentioned because we mustn't slam him

Shush! He's a progressive icon!

Honestly, for me, RUN towards happiness. If the couple are mature adults, its none of our business.

[Orrex]

28. I concur 100%

I couldn't care less if the two people differ by decades, as long as they're both consenting, happy and of legal age.

I only mentioned Dennis because it seemed relevant to the thread. Also, when he was campaigning for Pres, I pointed out that a Republican with a decades-younger wife would be excoriated, but no one seemed to mind Kooch robbing the cradle.

Curious...

[vaberella]

25. yeah...it's a bit Paedophilic, but he's French.

Meh....

[geardaddy]

35. King of France?

Is that a prosthetic head?