Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki attended the People’s Choice Awards with his girlfriend, Alaina Meyer, on Sunday. Johnny has had a few high profile relationships like Sara Gilbert, Kaley Cuoco and Kelli Garner, whom he dated for four years. The last relationship we really knew about was Ariella Nicole, but they haven’t been seen together since 2016. Johnny and Aliana went social media official in September but took things to the next level by going Red Carpet official. Alaina is… a model? Maybe she’s a social media influencer, going off her Instagram feed. She’s young at just 21 years old so it’s possible she hasn’t settled on a career path. Her age also puts her 22 years younger than Johnny.
Johnny Galecki and Alaina Meyer are red carpet goals.
The Big Bang Theory star and his 21-year-old girlfriend made their red carpet debut at the 2018 People’s Choice Awards. Alaina wore a long-sleeve little black dress, with dangling gold earrings and a sassy red lip. By her side was Johnny in a navy blue suit and maroon button-up.
And it appears the stars started dating long before they let the world in on their romance in Sept. In photos on their respective Instagram, the pair have been traveling and spending quite a bit of time together on the set of the Big Bang Theory.
Although I know only a bit about Johnny, I have always felt he was a good guy. I was really impressed when he responded on The View about why he’s never addressed the rumors on his sexuality, “I’ve never really addressed those rumors because I figured, ‘Why defend yourself against something that is not offensive’?” I also judged the fact that he was able to maintain good relationships with exes as a sign that he had it together as a person. So now that he has joined the ranks of people dating partners half their age, does it change my opinion of him? Eh, not too much. Alaina is young and Johnny is loaded so this could be a textbook Sugar Daddy situation. But with a quick glance at her Instagram, she looks fun and since Johnny also seems fun, maybe they’re just having fun together for now. On a superficial note, I love that Johnny has no problem with a partner who’s taller than him. I’ve always had a low-grade crush on him and I think it’s his confidence that really does it for me.
It was killing me trying to figure out who Alaina looks like but then it hit me, a glam Felicity Jones. In some shots, she’s a cross between Felicity and Danielle Campbell. Either way, they’re a cute couple.
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“I’ve never really addressed those rumors because I figured, ‘Why defend yourself against something that is not offensive’?”
THAT! That right there! Why don’t people get that?
As for the girlfriend, eh, she’s over 21. Age differences don’t bother me once both parties are over 21ish. Now if she was 18…
She looks almost exactly like Elizabeth from The Blacklist. The actor’s real name escapes me at the moment.
I think she looks like Dakota Johnson.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead vibes for me.
Still gross. That is all.
This! The power imbalance in this relationship is enormous. He has all of the money and all of the years of experience and wisdom.
I don’t care if he said something nice on a talk show years ago. Aziz Ansari and Louis CK have said nice things. I pay attention to what men do and he’s dating someone with very little relationship experience and seemingly no job and no money other than what her parents or partner gives her.
I picked up on something about him a long time ago, I think because I am such a BBT fan. He doesn’t commit and he only dates very beautiful women, who are way out of his league if he weren’t amazingly wealthy. I always figured he was the one who ended it with Cuoco too. Dating women half his age was absolutely inevitable for him given his track record, the minute he hit the age where it worked mathematically. He will never date a woman anywhere near his age again, book it.
Comparing a 21-year-old woman consensually sleeping with/dating whoever she wants to women who experienced a colleague non-consensually masturbating in front of them and later trying to silence them about it or a woman whose date wasn’t taking ‘no’ for an answer seems a lot grosser than the age-gap between these two, honestly. A woman choosing to make sexual decisions not everyone is on board with isn’t the same a woman being victimized by a sexual predator.
Him being “a nice guy” doesn’t make it less creepy.
Just another cliche. Mid-life hits, get a 20yo to wear around town.
Agreed. He strikes me as immature. Maybe they’re an emotional age match?
Of course it’s gross. Why can’t people just deal with their age? And why is it almost always that men want young girls?
It is becoming more popular for older women/younger men relationships. I actually know a lot of those in real life but for some reason you don’t see as many in hollywood.
Absolutely repulsive, especially when he’s old enough to be her father.
Look, I’m a single woman roughly Johnny’s age. He’s doing what most single men my age do, which is date way below his age. I have seen this pattern repeated over and over in the single scene.
I personally have a rule for dating: if you are young enough to be my child I will NOT do it. That’s gross. I cannot imagine being my age and trying to date a 21 year old. A, they look like actual children to me and b, I have absolutely nothing in common with a 21 year old.
Yes Johnny, judging you big time for this. So gross.
I think “half your age +7” is a solid rule. Keep ’em around 28, Johnny.
Men look for different things in partners than women do so obviously your criteria will not match theirs. To most women, having things in common to talk about is important because we value conversation. Me don’t, they prefer to “do” things together. Usually of the physical type: camping, Sky diving, skiing, sexing etc. Changing what they desire in a partner is as easy as women being asked to change their own criteria.
“Me[n]… prefer to “do” things together. Usually of the physical type: camping, Sky diving, skiing, sexing etc.”
Because no woman over 40 ever wants to do those things, what with their aging, creaking bones that men over 40 just magically don’t have, eh? GTFO with that thinking.
” I love that Johnny has no problem with a partner who’s taller than him.”
Well I mean… good thing? He’s 5’5″ … a good chunk of women in Hollywood are that tall or taller. I have no problem with short men – but it’s in his best interest to be okay with the height.
But beyond that – major sideye to the age difference. Idgaf if he seems like a ‘nice’ guy. There’s something wrong when you’re finding something in common with someone half your age in a way that isn’t mentor or brotherly, or whatever platonic thing you can think of.
I totally agree with this.
What does it say about a man in his forties that is relating to a women who is 21?!?
An uncle of mine met his wife when he was in his early forties and she was twenty one or so. In his case, he came from a big family and the father died so the two eldest forged some documents and went out and worked from the ages of 15 and 13 and made sure everybody else got to keep going to school. When they were all raised, so to speak, he started looking and met someone. They are still married 32 years later with kids. Sometimes this stuff is on the level.
YES to everything you said. I’ll be 40 in December and I seriously cannot imagine dating someone that young. And as I’ve said many times, I don’t typically get too judgey re: age differences because my BF is 8 years younger than me and my SIL is 10 years younger than my big brother.
But the thing for me isn’t the number of years per se. If she was 30 and he was 50 I’d still side-eye a bit but at least at 30 years old, one tends to have a level of maturity that a twenty year old does not. Plus, twenty-somethings just LOOK like teens to me. IDK. Guess that means I’m officially old *sobs*.
Yes, exactly. I don’t have the same kind of shade for someone who’s managed to live a bit of their life before ending up in a relationship like this. I mean – I’m 28. My 20’s have been a HUGE change to my life when it comes to fully realizing what I want, and what I’m not going to put up with. The increase in confidence alone is so important. At 21 I was pretty mature in a relative sort of way – I was a lot more mature than most of the people I went to school with. But certainly not mature when compared to the average 30 year old or 40 year old, etc.
Kitten, I feel the exact same way. I turned 42 last month and the idea of dating a 21-22 year old boy (man? Can I call a 22 year old a man? LOL) just does not compute. I struggle to think what we could have in common, let alone how immature he might still be, how different our goals in life might be, and so on. My max age difference is generally 5-7 years either way, but that’s my personal preference.
I’ve recently had someone heavily pursue me and they are 15 years younger. He wants a serious lets stay together forever attachment. He is also in his twenties. Honestly for me it is too big of an age difference and I can’t get past it. I would never judge another woman for it but it is too big of an age difference for me.
Yeah, agree, plus while a 20-24ish year old may seem more mature, they still have a lot of living to do and experience to gain. It’s such a transition age. I was a moron in those years, but I thought I knew everything lol.
I side-eye anyone who is dating someone they are old enough to be a parent to. That’s all I’ve got. lol
“And it appears THE STARS started dating…” LOL
So the original run of the show Roseanne ended in May 1997, and she was born in that year.
Things that make you go hmmm.
No still ick and yeah it lowers my opinion of him.
Lowers it big time.
Totally lowers my opinion as well. And he looks like a hobbit.
They’re so in love we can’t judge. Ah, maybe a little! If Johnny was a plumber or a regular Joe, do you really think he’d have a 21 year old “woman” on his arm, other than his daughter perhaps. They do what they do when they can do it. Such is life.
+1
Plumbers actually can make a lot of money $100,000 plus a year if they are successful.
Maybe? I mean, I guess it depends on where they’re working. My husband has his journeyman license as a plumber – if he had gone up North and worked somewhere he could easily be making CAD 40/hr – and the more remote you get the more money you get.
But the typical plumber isn’t getting 100k+ a year.
They are both consenting adults. I see no problem. They look very happy to me. Good for them!
None of my business long as they are both consenting adults.
Agreed.
My kid is 24. If she brought home a 43/46 year old guy, I’d hit the ceiling.
I know, right? But at the same time I know I wouldn’t be able to stop it. Tough spot to be in.
She reminds me a bit of Dakota Johnson.
Just from watching the Big Bang Theory, he always struck me a little immature and a young soul.
Its not surprising he would date young.
She’s of legal age and can date who she wants so…meh
Hasn’t Sara Gilbert pretty much always been openly gay? When did they date?
They dated when they were teens and Sara has said that’s when she realized she was gay. She’s only been publically out for 8ish years.
Geez I’ve heard horrible things about him as a boyfriend. Mostly booze related.
He always looked coked out in photos. (Even red carpet and ones he posts himself.) Sweaty, bloated, sloppy.
His co-stars all speak very highly of him, so apparently he keeps it together at work, but man. I’m shocked we haven’t heard more about substance abuse issues.
They’re a very close cast, and all seem to be good people especially for Hollywood. The four original cast members, even gave up a portion of their salaries to the two later arrivals. My point is I don’t think this group would throw him under the bus even if he was a problem at work. They don’t get enough credit for how they’ve worked together all these years. Just my opinion.
He doesn’t look like he takes care of himself. Very unhealthy looking.
Men really love young flesh because i cannot imagine dating a 21 year old no matter how physically attractive he was. But I’m sure this particularly funny looking old man will say they have lots in common and she is an “old soul” lolol
To be fair, he probably wines and dines her and whisks her off on fantastic trips. Something most men her age cant provide.
It is not so much the age difference but the power imbalance that gives me the creeps in scenarios like this. You never see these elderly perverts dating a 21 year old with their own money or fame or power—it’s alwahs some anonymous “model”.
What should really bother you is that her parents are probably overjoyed that she landed such a “catch”.
Because a wealthy 21 year old doesn’t need a sugar daddy. Only gold diggers and those who hope to advance their careers are interested in these older rich men. That’s why I don’t side eye these relationships. There isn’t a power inbalance, they are mutually using each other.
Yes ma’am. Agreed. I always say a fair exchange is no robbery. She wants old, influential and rich and he wants young, nubile and pretty. #fairtrade…. #thoughnotorganic 😁 To each his own.
Calling her a model is being super generous. She is probably still figuring out her career as you said. I don’t think it’s a very healthy choice for her to be dating a man twice her age at 21, if she were 35/40 I would feel different about the 20+ year age gap. I didn’t make very good choices at 21 either so I don’t begrudge her. Hopefully, for her sake, he doesn’t abuse the power in this relationship. I have dated a man twice my age, not fun at all.
Ups his dork factor by a power of 10. He could have Arietta Adams on his arm and it still wouldn’t make him cool.
It’s so weird with these May/December romances.
On one hand, I don’t know how a regular 40 yr old would have in common with a 21-yr old? Sugar daddy ofc comes to mind as well as daddy issues.
On the other hand, he was single, he didn’t leave his wife or gf to hook up with someone half his age. Plus it’s Hollywood so his maturity level and thirst for fame might be on par with hers. He doesn’t seem like the type to be super fame hungry though, I haven’t seen a lot of dirt or anything on him really? I don’t watch the show though, so please correct me if I’m wrong. So maybe in this case they do gel, and there’s nothing too nefarious ie as in controlling about him.
As for her, maybe she likes the attention from someone who may be a bit more stable than guys her age, doesn’t bed hop (that we know of) and can maybe also boost her profile a bit.
If they are both willing then why not? As I said neither of them have left spouses or kids so it’s fine despite the age difference. A lot of ppl hook up, a lot of ppl have huge gaps with their partners, don’t have control or other issues, are genuinely happy & seem to last forever, so yeah, not judging over much in this particular case especially since they aren’t getting married in a rush.
She looks like a cross between Kate Walsh and Selma Blair to me.
I don’t mean to sound like a bitch, but to me she doesn’t look 21. Yeah there’s only so much in common when he’s twice yr age
Men who date younger women do it to empower themselves. Low dick energy right there!
Just a little thought: she wasn’t even BORN when he was 21! When she was 14, he was 36! She 18 – him FORTY. Ew!!
He wants so date someone who doesn’t challenge him, that makes him feel Superior and smart and whatever the fuck. Super gross