Last Friday, I noticed that Henry Cavill had flown into LA ahead of Oscar Weekend with his 19-year-old girlfriend in tow. Tara King must have taken some time off from her studies – she’s a college freshman – to come to LA with Henry, because they flew in together. I theorized that Tara was going to be his date to the Oscars because we already knew that Cavill had been invited to present. But! From what I can tell, Tara did not go to the Oscars with him. When I saw him on the red carpet, he didn’t seem to have a date, although it’s possible that Tara went inside before the red carpet and Cavill just did the carpet alone. In any case, he proudly walked beside her, arm in arm, at the Vanity Fair party.
The last time Cavill came out for Oscar weekend, it was 2013. And he walked the Vanity Fair Oscar party carpet with Gina Carano. The fact that he’s now with a 19-year-old coed just reminds me of how much I liked Henry and Gina as a couple. Anyway… I don’t even know what to say about Henry and Tara anymore. I will give him credit for something: he’s not all Bradley Cooper-esque about the situation. Henry’s not hiding Tara away and acting like it pains him to be photographed with her. Henry is quite proudly showing her off as his official. Eh.
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
can’t believe theres that much of an age gap- looking at the pics she looks about the same age as him?
yea she does NOT look 19 years old.
I said this below, but I think it’s because she reads more “handsome” than “pretty” — closer to Anjelica Huston than Naomi Watts, for example. Her skin is pretty good so it’s not that, it’s just her bone structure and stockier shape.
What an odd comparison. Actually she looks more like Naomi watts too me if you want to compare.
Angelica Houston although no conventional beauty was striking and exotic in her younger years.This girl just looks like any vaguely pretty generic blonde.
Jess, Ineedanap was referensing to the maturity feel you get from look that makes her seem older, so not a ordinarily looks comparison.
I think she’s pretty and looks a bit older, but not dramatically. I’d give her 23-24.
She looks like one the Bush W’s daughters . A lost Bush twin )).
Yeah is she really 19? Also she totally looks like a fish out of water fan girl
They do look the same age to me as well. Actually they look really good together. It amazes me that just last year she was a senior in High School.
i think she looks very much 19. And he looks very much his age. SO they look creepy. lol
What a tool.
Aslo why live in LA when you can live in London?
I don’t think he does live in LA? There was a photo of him at the airport a few days ago when he flew in.
If you’re trying to “make it” or move up a level most actors live in LA for auditioning and especially networking. That’s why many UK stars move to LA. He’s already established so who knows?
I’m trying to be nice today…uhhhh…well, his hair is better.
I like that color on her.
What the hell colour is it?
I don’t know if it’s my phone that’s being weird, but in one picture it looks blood red, the next a sort of mouldy orange.
It’s not your phone. My computer is the same way.
I think it looks weird, but at the same time there’s a lot of actors 11 years older than me (I’m 23) that I’d happily date so I don’t blame her. It’s just something about him I find so skeevy.
Her dress is pretty ugly.
No one is blaming her. People are blaming him as they should.
I’m not blaming her either, I think if they ever break up she will be fine, she will still be young, she can brag to everyone she dated superman and this wont be a problem for her.
I wonder about Henry on the other hand. What is he going to do after this? Certainly not going to date a woman age-appropriate intelligent, because they wouldn’t date a man who dates teenagers. I’d be embarrassed to tell my friends I was dating a thirty something year old man; who’s last serious girlfriend was 19.
But women who care more about bagging a movie star will still want him; and I think that’s all he is going to be left with after this.
And that’s the trick. Every 19-year-old girl would get together with an actor who takes her to the Oscars. He’s the one who should know better.
I keep saying it. The only thing that would not make me dislike him is that if he was gay and she his beard.
Possibly controversial opinion here: When I think about the situation, with him looking proud to stand by her and not hiding her; I don’t view him as predatory and threatening, I see him as being either gay or emotionally imature.
I don’t think he’s gay. I do think he’s either not very bright or just so emotionally stunted that he truly doesn’t realize how creepy it is that a man with as much fame and wealth as he has went into a bar and picked up a college freshman. So he’s either stupid or just a huge douche.
Between this and the 20 year old he has last year….I think I’m just done with him. He’s so unappealing now.
Or maybe he just really likes this girl and is happy to be there with her and showing her off….?
I second that… don’t see what the big deal is.
For some reason his past relationships have being a little weird, except for Gina. It doesn’t bothered me as much as B.Coop’s relationships, now he’s have been straight out weird.
His relationships have been very weird. There were a bunch of pictures of Henry Cavill with gay male friends on the Internet before Superman, but I seem to recall they may have been buried/removed? Anyway, I have a feeling he’s gay- that Kaley Cuoco situation was so painfully transparent and desperate in its transparency.
Agreed. He seems to need a lot of emotional support, but I think we’re all hoping he’d learn to stand on his own? Or be taught? Shouldn’t he have access to the finest resources available?
He’s so beautiful but there is something wrong with him. The obsession with the younger girls makes him so much less attractive to me. He’s just another sad male cliche now with Peter Pan syndrome. Pathetic.
That’s not really fair or accurate
Kaley Cuoco- 30 years old
Gina carano- 33 years old
Ellen Whitaker- 29 years old
His last girlfriend was a 20 year old he met in a bar. This girl was 18 when he met her. So, yes…this is now a pattern.
I’m sorry but I’m over the fangirls bending over backwards to defend this kind of misogyny.
I’m not a fan girl and this isn’t misogyny. I think you are confused about their term. According to my brief Google, Misogyny is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, hostility, male supremacist ideas, belittling of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women. How exactly is this misogyny? I really do not like the theme on this thread that the poor little girl needs people to jump in and defend her against a man. She is 19 and probably perfectly capable of making her own decisions in life. She doesn’t need any of you to jump to her defence. It reminds me so much if the anti-abortion debate. Poor little girls need to be protected from their own rash uninformed decisions, like young women cannot make their own decisions!!
Agree. 19 y.o. is an adult and has to know what she is doing. We have 18 y.o. serving in the army (and dying) , working adult jobs, voting, traveling all over the world and what not. They are 100% responsible for supporting themselves and making sure other people don’t take advantage of them. Also, many are not innocent little snowflakes, and themselves will take advantage of others.
We expect 18 y.o. to be able to hold a job and make a living , provide shelter, food and clothing for themselves and their children (which can be almost an impossible task at time) but we don’t think they can be responsible for their romantic choices?
I actually very much disagree with infantilizing of young adults which is going on the US. They are considered children until they are 18 y.o and are treated with kid gloves and yet as soon as they hit 18 y.o. they are out of the house, out of the support network and are on their own and many of them are completely unprepared for the adult world. To have 18 y.o. ready for life you have to start treating them as an adult at about 13-14 y.o. and demand adult behavior and adult reasoning for their decisions while you can still supervise them for several years.
@Keddie, you are clueless. First off, yeah, I’m well aware of what misogyny is. And I don’t have to look it up on google. Weird that you did though. And yes, the cultural problem of older men targeting younger girls in favor of women their own age is absolutely a product of misogyny so get a clue.
Second, no one is saying she can’t make her own choices. This isn’t on her. He’s the one getting side eyed here. He’s the one in the wrong.
I know what you are saying Kate and in some instances that may be true but I think Farhi has an excellent point. If we trust 18 year olds to vote and serve than we should at least trust them with their romantic decisions too. Even if it turns out to be a mistake it is theirs to live with.
I really don’t think the age difference is that ‘bad’, but I also can’t think of what a 32 year old actor has in common with a 19 year old college student enough to date her and not somebody else more his age and experience…
Again, it’s not “that bad” if she’s 30 and he’s 43. The issue here isn’t the number of years it’s the power imbalance. This girl just started college and left her parents’ home. Henry plays Superman and is a millionaire. There is a massive power issue.
I have no time for people trying to defend this crap. We have a cultural problem with men fetishizing younger women and tossing older women out on their butts. This is a cultural epidemic that stems from patriarchy. It’s all about power. Maybe some of you who are only 23 don’t get yet why this is so unsettling. But wait until you hit 33 and start seeing men your age (I’m Henry’s age) going after college freshmen and see how it makes you feel when people brush it off as “not a big deal.” Sexism and patriarchy is real, Kids. And it stems from stuff like this.
I tend to agree with you in that it’s not about the number of years but the difference in life experiences, emotional maturity, responsibility, etc etc.
When I was 32 I would NEVER have even contemplated dating a 19 year old, but I absolutely would have considered dating a 42-year-old. That never happened but I would have given it a shot for sure.
i don’t think you need to be older to get it. i’m 26, and i always got it. i’m not against age gaps at all, my parents have a age gap, but it very much depends how young the younger person is. anything past 25 is fine, because you’re an adult then, idk why people don’t get the massive difference between a teen and a young woman.
Thanks for saying this.
Amen.
Meant to add that I find it especially creepy in that by the time you’re in your thirties, a 19-year-old looks like a child. I mean, truly. I just cannot fathom finding that attractive…I would feel like a gross creeper.
Agree, Kate and Kitten. Three years ago, he was an adult, about to turn thirty. She was fifteen years old. It’s gross.
I agree. It’s not the age is the life experience. My friends and I had such an issue with one of our friends bringing her 35 yr old to date parties and such on campus. It was so ick
It is an inbalanace and guess what? She will be the one sacrificing school, friends and everything else to keep up. I mean she’s clearly missing school to be at the Oscars. It is a problem and it’s time for Cavill to grow up
This 100%. The differential in power is disgusting here. It’s like a high school teacher dating a student – there is that much difference in their power because he’s a world famous actor and she is missing English Composition freshman class to go to Hollywood with him. Of course, she’s flattered. But he’s such a creep, I can’t even look at him anymore, and I used to think he was the most beautiful man in the world.
Agreed.
@ Alex: My freshman year roommate was dating a 38 YEAR OLD FATHER OF TWO. He was her manager at the grocery store where she worked during her senior year and he left his wife for her. The first weekend he came to the dorm and was hanging out in our room and I was just like, nope. I got a room transfer for “special circumstances.”
I agree that this is not likely a long lasting relationship but what is the big deal? As you said, he is not hiding her or playing coy and pretending she doesn’t exist in interviews. She has likely decided that it would be fun to date a movie star for a little while, travel around the globe with him, make some memories. At some point it will either become serious (doubt it) or it will have run its course and they’ll go their separate way. They both seem happy together, and while I agree that a 35 year old with a 19 year old is a bit ridiculous, he doesn’t strike me as a particularly deep person, so I am not worried about their level of conversation.
Retweet! The last time I checked, anyone over the age of 18 is considered an adult and it doesn’t seem like he is pulling some Tyga-bull$hit. Let them have their fun, they aren’t hurting anyone. Besides, doesn’t anyone remember how much older Prince Charles was than Lady Diana?
Yup. And that worked out so well.
I think they are a cute couple and look happy together. There isn’t that big of an age gap. When I was 18, I dated a 27 year old. It didn’t matter, we were compatible and had fun! People just want something to yell and complain about sometimes.
The point is that a 32 year old who is “compatible” with an 19 year old is off in one way or another. He’s a grown man. She is still a teenager. There’s an imbalance of power if he has normal life experiences and maturity. Why does he feel the need to be with someone who is not his equal in experience and maturity? Often, it reflects his need to have a partner he can control and impress, and he doesn’t feel comfortable without that advantage. If he is truly on her level, he is very immature. Either way, it reflects badly on him.
In your case, the age difference is not quite so awful or hard to understand, imo. I dated a 26 year old when I was 19. He had been in the military and gone back to college so in some ways he was much more mature than I was, but in others he was just another college student at the keg parties and just as immature. I think you change so much between 26 and 32 that you are almost a different person. By 32, I just don’t get what you’re doing hanging around with a teenager.
Maybe he doesn’t feel the “need” to date her. Maybe he just met a girl he likes who liked him back (shock horror) and instead of saying he must be very immature to be compatible with her, maybe she is just very mature for her age?
Based on all the comments of this thread my boyfriend from all those years ago was a total creep. Much older and he was quite wealthy, self-made, ran a number of businesses. Truth is, he was a nice guy who just liked me, he didn’t feel any need to exert power over me! If anything I held the power in that relationship. When it ended amicably, we both moved on. So it was fun, no one was harmed, so why is it such a big deal?? The moral police are just out in force!
@Keddie, “Maybe she’s just very mature for her age.” LOL LOL Again, very happy for you that your situation worked out but everyone here is talking about a larger cultural problem that Cavill is now a part of. What you are doing here is a straw man and you are derailing the argument by trying to paint the people legitimately side eyeing this stuff as “moral police.” Grow up, child. If I didn’t know any better, I would suspect that you are actually Tara or one of her friends, or worse yet, that you are Henry’s PR trolling this board. Let it go.
@Mary Very flattered but I’m actually just a mum up at night feeding my bub with nothing else to do but read up on celeb gossip. Do you think anyone who disagrees with you a child? Or is that just for me? Is that how you try to win an argument?
How can some claim that Cavill must be really immature (maybe he is, I don’t know) but I cannot claim that perhaps she is very mature for her age? It is so laughable that a 19 year old can be mature? I take mild offense to that as someone who was always more mature than her age.
I don’t actually think there is a larger cultural problem with men dating women younger than them. Many men date younger women, and women date older men, although there are many that are the same age. Rarely is there a male partner significantly younger than the female. I think the reason for this is biology/ evolution. Men tend to go for younger mates as young women tend to be more fertile. You can’t fight biology 🙂 And finally I use the term moral police because this is clearly a completely legal situation but people still want to impose their morals on others.
GNAT, I really think he is a fairly shallow and not particularly smart person. I think they are both getting out of this exactly what they want, and it’s not emotional or intellectual companionship. He has sex with a hot young woman. She is dating a star, who happens to be hot (we can debate that, beauty is highly subjective and) and gets a glamorous lifestyle involving five stars travel, VF parties and hanging out with stars dressed in couture. Shallow, for both of them? Sure, but not every relationship is meaningful.
I don’t really think either of them are seeing this as most of us see relationships – you meet, date, it grows into something more, you start talking long term etc.
I am obviously making a ton of assumptions here but what I am seeing is similar to Leo, in the sense that it’s all about having a good time, fairly casually. And I understand what they are both getting out of the relationship. I may not find it admirable, or my style, but I really don’t think it’s as bad as some people on the thread are finding it to be.
I agree, Keddie. I don’t blame anyone for their sexual choices or romantic preference anymore. There is just too much going on that we cant control and if you find someone who floats your boat and your float theirs too! I mean, just enjoy it…. (Talking about consenting adults here, of course)
As some one who dated a 25 yr old from the time I was 17 to 19 I have every right to side eye him. Not everyone is fortunate enough to turn out like you where their experience was “just a bit of fun”. I was in a very manipulative, emotionally, and sexually abusive relationship for the better part of two years. Everything was new to me and I felt special that someone older took interest in me. I was so naive I didn’t even realize how abusive the relationship was until it ended. So I am every bit as entitled to my opinion as you are. And BTW I have never heard of a 19 yr old who just moved out being on the same maturity level as a 30 yr old. Give. Me. A . Break.
That is terrible but you can date a dickhead at any age with any age gap, I dated one much closer to my age when I was in my early 20’s. He was only a couple of years older but he behaved in a terrible manner, very emotionally abusive, manipulation ect. So my point is just because in your particular situation you were younger and the man was older, doesn’t mean that explains the relationship dynamics. There are people of all ages in terribly one-sided relationships.
I used to defend age gaps involving teens…when I thought I was way “mature for my age”.
I wasn’t. Power imbalance plus naivety? Doesn’t work, isnt fair or equal. People defending this are in denial.
Honestly I don’t know why their age difference is such a big deal, he’s 32 not 62, and she is a young woman not an underage girl. I don’t think 12-13 years age gap is quite so crazy, especially since it’s obvious he takes her and the relationship seriously.
P.S. I don’t remember seeing such offence taken when Leo (39) started dating 21 yo. Toni Garrn.
LOL yeah nobody around here ever calls Leo out for dating barely legal VS models. Nope. Never.
Tori was a model with her own money and fame. She wasn’t a kid who had just left her parents’ home. And what are you talking about? Leo’s gross behavior with women is a running joke in Hollywood even among A listers.
12 years age gap is not crazy, but she’s 19. if she were let’s say 23/24 i wouldn’t be side eyeing him.
Totally. On the surface, it might seem arbitrary but the difference in maturity between a 19-year-old college student and a 24-year-old who is presumably living on her own with adult responsibilities is pretty dramatic.
I would side-eye him even if she was 24 and the age difference was 13 years.
Ok, I need to clarify the Leo comment, I meant that nobody objected particulary to that 17 years age gap. I know we all think Leo is gross for changing models every 2 years or so.
And honestly I don’t think a 19 yo college student living on her own has necessarily less responsabilities than a 21 yo model who is probably constantly managed by others.
I don’t know, probably I’m thinking at me at 19 and I don’t feel that if I had dated someone older I would have been in any kind of a submisive position because of it.
It’s gross. She should be on campus, hanging out with her friends, dating guys her own age. He looks like he brought his little sister to the Oscars. And yes, I do think that the Sam Taylor Wood situation is just as gross.
Dating guys her age? I think some people are not giving her enough credit and forgetting what guys her age are like. Most are not dating you for your mind, they want sex on demand and to get drunk. It’s their first time on their own with no parents in the picture and they go overboard having sex with any willing (and sometimes unwilling) co-Ed around. Many of them are smart but immature (women are still more mature than guys at that age).
Compare that to a good looking guy who despite being 32 looks young, handsome and has a super hot body and is at least a bit more mature. Plus he has the time to take you to nice places all over the world and introduce you to famous celebrities. Hmm..from her point of view superman is the clear best choice.
I’m not blaming this young woman at all. She’s too young to know any better as she just started college within the last year. And you are correct. Compared to the idiots she probably sees on campus, I’m sure Henry looks like Prince Charming. Again, this is not HER FAULT. She’s a kid. A lot of young girls in her position would do the same darn thing because she’s FREAKING SUPERMAN. She is not to blame here.
The person who is to blame here and who DOES deserve the side eye and the dress down is Cavill. He’s making a complete ass of himself and if this is truly the kind of maturity that he has—that the woman he relates most to is a 19 year old girl—then he’s really a sad person who needs some help.
On another note: imagine Amy Adams and Gal Gadot having to go to work with this douche and Ben Affleck (douche #2) for the press for this movie at the end of the month. How do the two of them keep a straight face around these losers?
Ew that whole Taylor-Johnson marriage is icky
She looks great! Surprised at how well she is working the orange.
This still skeeves me out although they don’t look that far apart in age. He clearly moisturizes, and I think she is one of those women who is classified more as “handsome” than “pretty”.
She’s very pretty. And when this ends, which it will, I see her having a stint with our fair Harry, his ginger princetasticness. She reminds me of Cressida Bonas. Very his type.
Does he not believe in tailoring? His clothes always fit him so poorly.
god yes- for someone with such a great body he always looks terrible
All I can think of is “He must be so intelligent lol”.
Boy was I ever wrong a year ago when I though he was more then all the other cliches out there.
I am side eyeing the hell out of every fangirl on here bending over backwards to defend this as “not a big deal.” Institutionalized sexism wins because even women have been trained to not think its a “big deal.”
Side eyeing this entire thread.
yeah, it’s just his stans though, if it were any other actor they’d be ripping him apart #doublestandards
I guess the problem to a lot of people is they know couples or maybe are one with this kind of age gap. Now as a person who was part of a large age gap marriage before my husband died, I will say it can be an obstacle to work through, but I had my own career and finished college first. As a lot of people have said it isn’t just the age gap, but the maturity level of a 19 year old college student versus a 32 year old wealthy celebrity. I say yuck, but at least she doesn’t look so young which would make this look worse, but still yuck!!!1
They look good together and happy, she’s even posing which you normally don’t see with the +1. She is very pretty and I love the fact she’s not stick thin waif like. She looks healthy and strong, I like her.
And I’m not a fan girl, in fact I’m not even a girl.
Bradley cooper dating Suki was gross, but this I don’t get the same feeling here, they seem like they are hot for each other and having fun.
You’re not a girl but your screen name is Sarah? Ok then. Sounds to me like either Tara King’s friends or Henry’s PR people have infiltrated this thread.
She is pretty. It’s not super hard to be “pretty” when you are a 19 year old CHILD.
woman?
I mean…ultimately it’s his business who he dates and she’s an adult who can make her own decisions. That being said, I am judging the HELL out of any thirty-something guy who dates a teenager. Sorry not sorry.
This this this.
They’re adults, so that’s whatever. But it’s skeezy as hell, and makes them both look kind of sad.
Well put!! Just curious though how do you think she explains this to her professors?
I agree with you. I’m not in my 30’s – I’m 26 and I feel like a skeevy pervert just thinking that I almost fell for a boy her age not long ago. My friend tried to set me up with this new guy, who started working with us. Through some miscommunication and bad research, she thought he was 24 (he looks like someone in his mid 20’s) and just finished university. I was all for it – 2 years is not that big of a difference and he is very attractive, so I started hanging out with him. All was great – he seemed smart and charming – until I asked him about his age. When he told me he is just a 19-year old intern, I cut it off immediately. Functioning adults have no business in dating teenagers. There’s too much difference in life experiences, maturity, approach to life and goals. I’d date someone 33-year old or if I was 33, someone who is 26, but never a teenager. And I judge people who do.
@Kitten, this. Is it legal? Yeah. Who cares? The fact that it’s “legal” doesn’t make it any less of a side eye. I’m Henry’s age. If one of my male friends brought home a 19 year old college freshman, I would side eye the hell out of him.
I’m questioning every single stan on this thread who is trying to pretend like this is totally normal. It’s not. It doesn’t speak well of who he is. She’s just a kid. It’s not her fault. But him? SIDE EYE UNTIL THE END OF TIME.
@Mary: It seems Hollywood has different rules than the rest of us mortals. I’m sure there are a lot of May December romances out there, but I’d bet a jar of her Bosco that they both have some sort of issues. If my brother in his 30’s brought home a teen, we’d show him no mercy nor would he expect it. I have jeans (real old and tattered!) older than this girl. Go on with your bad self Henry or Superboy.
I’m getting a Tom Cruise vibe here. The way he was with Katie Holmes. Noooooooo.
tbf to cooper, he never hid suki either, he used to take her to events and pose with her. honestly, i’m shocked people are giving him a pass because he’s not hiding her. is it a joke? how does it make it better?
I agree, it just makes him look too dumb to figure out that this is pathetic.
I’m not defending him, just playing devil’s advocate with your question… So here goes.
It’s better because I think ultimately everyone’s “concern” is with the well being and psyche of the young girl, correct? This is all so bad because she’s a young girl and there’s a power imbalance, yes? So, if all the pearl clutching is really and truly in concern for her mental health, the fact that he’s not hiding her is just a sign that he’s not treating her as a secret to be ashamed of. He’s perhaps not acting on the obvious imbalance in power and treating her as his equal, and allowing her to interact with his colleagues and friends and be an active part in his personal and professional life.
I think he’s too old for her, but I also don’t think his mental maturity is very far over 19, so I guess I’m not seeing the big deal. She seems pretty comfortable in her skin for 19. I think she’s handling it all just fine.
Nice looking couple. I’m sure they had a great time.
If she wasn’t in college, the age difference wouldn’t be a thing. The streets of Southern CA are crawling with leggy gorgeous 19 year olds looking for any opportunity to trade on their looks. But one hopes a college student isn’t getting derailed from her promising future over some red carpet cock.
So true unfortunately because many end up wizened and used up by 30. Very few find that golden ticket without the right connections.
Why was he invited to present? Was any of his movies in competition?
He looks so stiff and awkward, he just isn’t sexy despite the face.
You don’t need a film in competition to present at the oscars.
He’s got a movie that’s coming out to promote, that’s as good as any reason for him to be there.
Henry Cavill becomes Superman for real in some ways. He is too good looking that I don’t see any woman that would suit him because where can you find a woman from another planet except maybe Amy Adams. It seems like they have chemistry. Amy does not try to match him instead she compliments him.
My ex-husband never got over his frat boy days, and when we were in our thirties, he fell in love with his assistant who was just out of college and still in her sorority frame of mind. He missed getting drunk every night and being carefree and young(er). He made me feel old and boring at 31 because I didn’t like to stay out until 4:00 a.m. every night getting wasted and then try to go to work in 3 hours. As we got older, our friends started to settle down and drink less, and that didn’t suit him at all, since he was an alcoholic. So he just got younger friends. They were still highly amused by his antics while people his own age were giving him the side-eye. I’m not saying that’s the case here, but a man who’s 32 and dating a teenager is not growing the way he should.
Ugh ever since he became Superman his hotness melted. I loved him in the Tudors, he was one of the main reasons I watched it. But I find him completely unattractive now, he really sounds like he’s 20 the way he talks and acts in interviews so this doesn’t surprise me.
Me too TreadStyle. I thought he was good looking. Then the pics came out with him on the ritualistic coffee runs with that Haley or Caley girl from tv. So staged…..and of course it ended before it began. Now he’s in love with a 19 yr old girl. Tyga gets lambasted, but it’s all fine for him…and yes I know she’s legal, but she’s still a teenager. Where I used to see a good looking guy, I now see an as eccentric. She may be a beard, she may be his true love, but I’m so over him……..I just can’t get the pic of him In the sweater with the huge flower in the center out of my mind….lol
Amen! He’s lost the hot and now just seems creepy. His window of opportunity just closed.
He was smoking hot in his Tudors days but now not one iota of it left. He looks revolting in pants and when he tries to look normal it’s even more off putting.
I can’t with him. He looks like he is built from Legos. Very odd.
“He looks like he is built from Legos.”
Most accurate comment ever 🙂
ha! yes he’s even got a lego head.
there’s something so plastic and fake about him.
Woops..girl only has one boob?
Lol. He is so gay. But this is a great PR move so well done to his people.
I see no problem here. She’s an adult, she looks way older her age (so he’s definitely not after super youthful appearance) and their age difference is the same as Angelina’s and Brad’s. soooo…
@Jean, you are missing the point hard. First off, the fact that she looks “older” than her age isn’t at all relevant. In fact, it’s even more part of the problem because it speaks to the way we tend to overly sexualize younger women who’s bodies make them look older. (See the way teenage girls who go through puberty earlier tend to be fetishized.) Two, Angelina Jolie was not an 18 year old college student who had just moved out of her Daddy’s house when she started dating Brad Pitt! She was a grown woman who had already adopted her child, had her OWN career, own money and own fame. If anything, she had MORE of the power. Are you kidding me with this?
LOL.. and you guys see the age difference as the biggest issue with this pair? 😉
Ken and Barbie.
The hosility in this thread comes from a) fear of being undesirable once a woman gets older and b) irrational dislike of this really attractive man’s dating pattern i.e not able to picture oneself with him.
To me, both are rooted in the sense of self-serving and self-involved attitude.
+1000000000
She’s young, pretty, and doesn’t have any of the baggage that sometimes comes with a woman in their mid 20’s-30’s. They both look like they’re having fun, so why the shade? From all accounts I’ve heard, Henry is a great guy, yet people are treating this like he is a total creeper and she is some naive, virginal fawn who wandered into his evil clutches. I think people just need to unclench about this pairing.
Having said that I’d yet again like to restate for the millionth time that it is so sad that he’s lost his pretty and appears to be losing his hair. 😔
Huh. So the emotional/mental maturity, financial independence, life experience, and all around personal growth and knowledge of these 20s/30s women is now “baggage.” That’s hilarious. Without these things you are a child, and while on her side this is fine–she IS nineteen, pretty, and obviously having fun as any of us would be at that age with that kind of opportunity–men in their 30s being attracted to a girl without this so-called “baggage,” who is an adult in nothing but a number arbitrarily determined by law, is displaying something seriously pathological. No”baggage” = easily manipulated and controlled because you are still very underdeveloped as both an adult and a person. If that’s a plus for him. . . Yuck. You really just kind of proved the point of most of the posters here. As to Deevia, i would agree with you IF the majority of these posters were doing nothing but bashing her or cutting her down. First, you have no way of knowing the ages or genders of anyone on here so that’s a pretty big assumption, but even if so I don’t see jealous cruelty or bullying, I see people with “baggage” being justifiably uncomfortable with what is potentially a harmful situation in their greater wisdom and experience. l really don’t think anyone would be giving this story the attention they have if this girl weren’t obviously putting her education, aka a major component of personal growth, in jeopardy for him. That, to me, is what sets this apart from the standard handsome older wealthy man and hot young starlet/model pairing trope that most people just roll their eyes about and surprises no one. That’s where the outrage is coming from, if you can even call it that. IDK maybe she knows exactly what she’s doing, maybe her reasons for being with him are as gross as people assume his are for being with her, at her age she’s allowed to be immature that way. But – in her obvious immaturity she’s also making decisions that could harm her future for the sake of a clearly unhealthy man who is in a business not known for its relationship longevity. This is even worse if they are just screwing around having fun. You can express concern for the potential mistakes of others, that’s only human, and that’s what I see going on here (for the most part).
You are sure making a lot of assumptions. I think this is creepy because of the imbalance of power and that she is 19, not a 25 year old dating a 38 year old. I have no fear of being undesirable when I get older, as I am already older and very happily married, and think I’m still pretty special. And your second reason makes no sense, nor do your conclusions.
The”b” option made laugh. Just like the “you’re jealous” argument fans give when you criticize their idols.
He looks very… smug.
And that dress is awful on her, she looks like she only has one boob.
Henry, darling, I’ve loved you since your Tudors days. You’re beautiful and lovely. But, your taste in women is suspect. What could you possibly have in common with a 19 year old girl?
Please, dearest, return to your senses.
I’m interested to see what everyone would say if Prince Harry dated and decided to marry a 19 year old, and he’s only 30, right??? I bet it wouldn’t be ok with people then.
No. A man in his 30s has nothing in common with a teenager, unless he’s emotionally stunted.
Lily James is dating Matt Smith and while he is older by only 7 years, he seems to be light years ahead of her intellectually and maturity wise. And peope give her credit for snagging him.
I do think criticism is selective here based on who people like and dislike. And admittedly I can’t stand Lily James.
But Lily James is a 26 year old young woman going on 27, who has finished frontal lobe development and has worked, and been out in the world with a successful career for several years. You might not think Matt Smith is her equal, which is fine, but an age difference of 7 years where they both are in their lives, there is nothing wrong with that. I don’t know many people who would look at that age gap askance. You cannot possibly even compare it to this situation, can you? I understand everything you’ve written and feel the need to defend, but at the end of the day, Matt Smith and Lily James are equals, this college student/drop out who has proven herself to be incredibly immature, is not even on the same page as a multi-millionaire movie star.
Ok, rant over. To be frank, I get the hoopla, but I honestly don’t actually see this as much as a relationship. I’m not excusing it, but they’re not getting married and this looks more like two people maybe hanging out from time to time and have been photographed together so everyone else is jumping to conclusions. Seriously, what else could he have said in that interview about her, he couldn’t have said actually no i’m not in love with her, we’re just hanging out, and we’re friends with benefits, because then he would have looked like a total jerk. It’ll be over with soon enough and then everyone can calm down and stop worrying and stop attacking one another.
I hope she was allowed to stay past bed time.
I completely understand her: if a movie star ever looked at me when I was a 19 years old freshman student with a boring life and zero self esteem, I’d be thrilled.
But… Would I date a 19 ys old boy if I was the over 30s movie star?Only if my years of therapy failed hard.
I think she is very pretty.. Much more so than some of the actresses people here go on and on about being “beautiful”
She looks a lot like Elisabeth Rohm who was on Law and Order (Serena)
How dare you???
Lena Dunham and Rihanna are such beautiful delicate orchids.
It seems artificial
I’d like to think that this guy would have some explosive sex life, but most likely not. He comes off as weirdly asexual.
She is legal. I do not judge. When I was 15-16, I imagined having sex with 30-something year old moviestars myself. And when I was 19, I felt I was READY to date them. It didn’t happen, but when I had started college, I remember feeling like a young and sophisticated grownup who wanted to ‘experiment’ within reason and sense.
Back then Orlando Bloom was huge. I would have gladly dated him if he had found me somewhere! Perhaps this girl is lucky. He doesn’t seem moody, selfish or abusive.
The age gap to me is not the biggest of deals. I mean is it creepy? yeah in a way. I mean this dude likes to hang out in bars filled with teens so I think it says more about him then it does anyone else.
The facts I don’t like about this girl is how shortly after she began dating him she needed people to know and ran off to a tabloid her friend worked at too spill the beans and details of how he came on too her with his “I’m Superman” line. THAT screams creepy too me. Henry dear, Do you even know who Henry Cavill is anymore? Or did that guy die the moment you accepted the roll of Kal El?
If he was so intimidated by her why the hell would he feel the need to brag about being Superman? Or is that literally the only way he can pick up chicks? I mean come on dude your a handsome man, do you really need to be boasting like that? And it’s not the first time he’s ran his mouth off about it either. He likes to take every opportunity to come on too women with that line and when they reject him he flips off and insults them with comments like “that’s ok your tits are too small anyway.”
Gina is likely thanking her lucky stars she dodged this bullet. He’s like a train getting ready to derail and he now has his attention seeking teenager to capture it all on camera and social media that shit LOL SnapChat anyone? hahaha