This is so sweet I have a toothache. In the constant swirl of random teenage celebrities, I usually find myself grossed out, cringing with the total ridiculousness of these young Hollywood couplings. Couples of yore like Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston, or even recently split Joe Jonas and Camilla Belle I find rather unpleasant. But this latest one made me smile. Dakota Fanning, age 15, might be dating Freddie Highmore, the 17 year old English actor who famously got to work with Johnny Depp twice – in Finding Neverland and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It’s an age-appropriate coupling, in my mind (when I was 15, I “dated” or “hung out” with 17 year old boys). I don’t think it’s some huge age difference, especially considering Freddie looks all of 12 years old still. And Dakota looks young for her age too, considering another Hollywood 15-year-old is Ali “Smoker’s Rasp” Lohan:

If you thought Selena Gomez and Taylor Lautner were a match made in tween heaven, think again.

Full-blown thespians Dakota Fanning and Freddie Highmore reportedly had a dinner date in Beverly Hills Saturday night. Squee!

At 15, the increasingly adorable Dakota has already gone toe-to-toe with the likes of Sean Penn, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise and, oh yeah, Robert Pattinson(!) in the upcoming Twilight sequel.

Lest you forgot, Freddie, 17, has a résumé no less impressive, serving as Johnny Depp’s pint-size protégé in both Finding Neverland and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Seriously, can you say power couple?

[From E! Online]

A dinner date is a big deal for that age group. I wonder if they went dutch, or if he paid? Dakota makes more money than Freddie, but it’s not like he’s a B-List young Hollywood kid. Who knows? He could even be the next R-Pattz. Well… with less sparkles. Less train wreck hair. But Freddie has cute little dimples, so that counts for something. Sigh… memories of my teenage years. If I could go back and do it all again from the age of 15 years old… nope, I still wouldn’t do it. I hated my teenage years. That being said, if I got to go on a dinner date with a cutie like Freddie when I was 15 years old, I would have been all over it. Even though, back then, my heart belonged jointly to John Malkovich and Eddie Vedder. Swoon.

Freddie Highmore is shown on 6/29/09 and 7/23/09. Dakota Fanning is shown on 1/29/09 and 2/2/09. Credit: WENN.com. Dakota is also shown on the set of the Joan Jett movie, The Runaways, on 7/22/09. Credit: Fame Pictures

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