They said it was true love when Sean Penn began spending the night at Charlize Theron’s house. I didn’t believe them. They said it was true love when she attended his Haiti fundraiser and he told the crowd that he gave up 60-plus guns for her. I didn’t believe them. They said it was true love when Sean began spending quality time with Jackson Theron, Charlize’s young son. I didn’t believe them (although I was getting closer). But now I believe it’s love: these are photos of Charlize and Sean exiting a nail salon together. The couple that goes to a nail salon together is a couple in love. I don’t even think Sean got a mani. I think he just sat with Charlize as she got a mani-pedi. THAT is love.
So where are Charlize and Sean on the love scale now though? Earlier this week, Radar claimed that Sean is a Changed Man Now and that he and Charlize will definitely marry:
Even though Charlize Theron and Sean Penn have only been dating a few months, the Academy award-winning actors are already talking about getting married, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
“Sean is head over heels in love with Charlize, and her son Jackson. He is a totally different person around Charlize, she brings out the gentle and fun side that not many people have seen of Sean. To see this previously surly grown man, romping around Charlize’s backyard with Jackson, with a smile on his face would amaze Sean’s detractors. Charlize is getting Sean to not take himself to seriously,” a source close to the couple told Radar.
“The two began talking about marriage in the last few weeks, after Sean moved into Charlize’s house. She has never wanted to get married, but seeing how Sean interacts with Jackson, she is having a change of heart. For the longest time, Charlize thought it was just going to be her and Jackson, and she was ok with that. For her to now be talking about getting married is a huge departure for Charlize.”
The couple have known each other for “over a decade, and have always been friends, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that things are getting serious so fast,” the insider added.
It was only three weeks ago that Sean and Charlize made their first public appearance together at a fundraiser for his charity.
Previously, the twosome was spotted together in Hawaii and they were seen out on a movie date in Hollywood. Penn even introduced Theron to his mom, Eileen Ryan Penn, who sat with them.
Sean is “in a very good place right now. He has been single for awhile after his divorce with Robin Wright. People didn’t realize how hard he took that divorce,” the source added.
“He felt like a really big failure, he never wanted to be divorced. Charlize is truly the light in his life. He is even talking about adopting Jackson if they get married!”
I genuinely think most of this is just tabloid nonsense. I remember how the tabloids went overboard when Sean was dating Scarlett Johansson too, and there are shades of that hysteria here as well. I guess this is a different situation because Charlize is a bit closer in age, and because she has a small child. It does feel more serious than the ScarJo thing, but still… they’ve basically been together for six weeks, tops. Enough with the marriage talk.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Well, when you’re at that age—past your twenties–I think that you should both know what you will and won’t accept in a relationship, how to put your own selfishness aside (even little things like not putting your socks in the dirty clothes, when you know it irritates the other person) and compromise……..by all means date, do whatever you want—but at a certain point, you should both be able to tell if you can make it with this person, I think.
I’m just more worried if Sean Penn is still ragey and abusive–it doesn’t seem like he’s changed…
They are at an age where they should be able to discern what they want. His past behavior seems such a red flag that would warrant slowing down. Most anyone can act angelic for a few weeks – especially actors!
VC, my first husband was abusive, and for the first two years he was absolutely loving and charming. There were little signs, but he honestly seemed completely in love with me. He was an alcoholic, and after we married, the alcoholism started to surface and intensify, and so did the abuse, very gradually, begin until I was living in a nightmare. To your point, I was in my early twenties when we met, so I ignored the small signs that I wouldn’t today, but I still think you need time to see someone’s true colors.
You use past tense when telling us about your first husband, so I take it you got out of the situation. Congrats! No one deserves abuse, and I hope you have found peace and happiness since. 🙂
Thank you so much, yes, it was quite a long time ago. I have been happily married to my best friend for 17 years. I am truly blessed.
Am glad you’ve been out of the situation (sorry that you got there in the first place, though). I was involved with an abusive man for 1.5 years, and the first several months he was supersweet. It’s all the same cycle, isn’t it? :). We even got engaged, but I was lucky to stop (and we were already in the wedding process).
I never heard that he abused Robin. They were married for years and years. He still had a temper, but I never, after the Madonna incident, heard of a violent incident.
As recently as November, he violently attacked a fan who had the temerity to take Penn’s picture. Whether or not I think the person should have attempted to get a photo, Penn’s reaction is completely unacceptable. There are scores of incidents like this in his past.
http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/20/sean-penn-flips-fan-st-regis-san-francisco-video-yells/
Yes, maybe Penn going to the nail salon with his girlfriend is not as much an indication of true love but more an indication of his desire for true control.
@ mia girl: Good point.
When my mom was young, she was living in Italy and engaged to an Italian guy. The minute she went from being ‘the girlfriend’, to being the mother of his child/future wife–he completely changed. First, he was the one who wanted to have a baby, but then when she got pregnant, he started freaking out at her, saying he wasn’t ready. And she was going to retire from the Navy and start working in this shop of one of his friends (because she spoke English)—until she realized that if she worked there, then it was just another way for him to know what she was doing at ALL times.
@mia, hear hear.
Um.. how about “infatuation”? 😀
If they are talking marraige this early it’s in reaction to Robin’s engagement. I don’t think Sean’s ego will ever recover from Robin leaving him once and for all after everything he put her through and moving on with a younger man. A marriage would be a colossal nightmare and especially given her family history I think she better run.
Not to mention they bare a resemblance and one happens to be younger… sorry, I’m cynical about him.
You mean to tell me suddenly Sean Penn became something out of Boyfriend Narnia? Kinda like that Fresh New Boyfriend (FNB™) I just apparently lucked out on (minus Penn Angry Glazed Ham shennanigans)
Boyfriend Narnia!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Is where those good awesome sweet guys that call when they say they will, and Um Do Amazing things in bed and love your pets, Come from: Boyfriend Narnia
I always wondered where MrBuckeye came from. Now I know…Husband Narnia.
Charlize beware….very rarely does a leopard change his spots…
Exactly………
He continues to follow behind her looking unkempt and unwashed like a puppy in need of rescue, while she looks pulled together, tall, confident, and in control. The consistent contrast between these two when they’re together is startling.
I noticed that, too. I hope she is in the driver’s seat because he’s shown himself to be quite reckless over the years, but the need to dominate or act dubmissive in a relationship isn’t healthy.
Hype and more hype. Sounds like an attempt to soften his public image. I don’t see this lasting, but maybe they are well suited for one another after all.
I agree re softening his image. I think for a guy who has also been so anti-paparazzi throughout his career, to now be photographed out with Charlize so often is weird. I mean, going to the salon with her? I understand being papped when you’re going for dinner or such, but did he need to accompany her to sit around while she has a pedicure?
This is the weirdest publicity stunt in a long time. Neither of them have EVER been this public with a past relationship.
I’m not sure this is a publicity stunt, but I know for certain that when celebs get papped this often it’s with their knowledge, not to say their consent. Even in LA, there are plenty of places for celebs to go to eat, shop, get a mani-pedi – without anyone photographing them.
Charlize managed to get it on with Ryan Reynolds without getting papped together ever. And he left her apartment and stuff. They know. And they probably staged the beach pictures.
I don’t get why this would be a publicity stunt. They are both established actors. What would they have to gain? I don’t know about Sean Penn, but there are many of pictures of Charlize and ex boyfriend Stuart Townsend engaged in PDA. BTW there are tons of pictures of Robin and Sean and also of Stuart and Charlize.
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/startracks/060515/charlize_theron.jpg
http://www.legossip.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/film-charlize-theron-stuart-townsend.jpg
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Charlize%2BTheron%2BStuart%2BTownsend%2BValentine%2B5H7bSzkOkN4l.jpg
Hey, Charlize, whatcha doing? Where ya going? Can I come, too? I just wanna watch. Don’t leave me. Who’s your cuddly baked ham?
Exactly, I find this kinda pathetic ! Go grab a coffee, do something!
“Who’s your cuddly baked ham”…bwahahahahaha!!!!
Charlize is too cool for school
With her Capri-ish jeans and no purse…
And why is Sean looking like he’s following her around like a lost puppy? Contrary to the interpretation of it being a sign of “love” for a guy to tail you where you go, in my experience that behavior has more to do with a man being possessive, controlling and jealous. He can only trust what his eyes show him. If he’s not with her, he’s probably calling her a 1,000 times or stalking her ass. She looks unamused like he claimed that he coincidentally happened to be on the same block where she was getting a mani-pedi, and to avoid awkwardness Charlize agreed to let him tag along because he said he didn’t mind…and she probably shrugged her shoulders thinking – his funeral. But perhaps it was Charlize’s anticipated “me time” so she did not feel obligated to engage him and that’s why the indifferent, almost agitated blow off body language of Charlize and the pathetic, pouty expression from Sean. Looks like some couple is overdue for a boundaries discussion.
this is the weirdest photo op EVER. I don’t think their faking a relationship, but they’re absolutely doing everything what it takes to be in the gossip sites, EVERYDAY. Celebs know where to go and what to do to not being pap all the time. Look at some of the biggest stars of the moment that NEVER get tabloid time and you’ll get it. Eonline has got the pics of Penn and Theron kissing while waiting stoping on a red light in the car. That is without a doubt a photo op conducted, much probably by Penn publicists, with Theron knowledge of course. Who’s in the business know how it works: when you came out from a a nasty divorce, with drug and prostitute allegations you lost a lot of credibility in the business. Penn since the ugly divorce from Wright has just done mediocre movies and dated gold diggers (that include ScarJo, who’s another type of digger) and he’s raging over Robin Wright’s engagement, who genuinely has moved on with Ben Foster. What i don’t get is why Theron is doing this? maybe she is starting to face the fact that is hard to raise a kid as a single mother? needed of a man? desperate for a man? heap, she must be desperate to date an ugly a** inside and outside.
A nasty divorce? I don’t know what your definition of a nasty divorce is, but this divorce was handled very quietly and without much attention. A nasty divorce is Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Allegations about drugs and prostitutes have only been on blogs and poorly written blind items, so why would a publicist try to rehabilitate a celebs image based on rumors? Penn has lost no credibility in Hollywood. He’s a double Oscar winner,he has nothing left to prove. Celebs get stalked plain and simple. There are celebs that get papped everyday. Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are pretty low key and they get papped all the time with their children. They don’t strike me as people that are calling photogs so it is absolutely possible for celebs to get papped without calling anyone. As for Charlize being a single mother you have no idea wth you’re talking about. Many women have raised children on their own and done a damn good job without a man. A single mother raised the P.O.T.U.S. so you can shut that B.S. down.
There’s something phony here.
Yes! Too fast, too soon, too…..odd…..so unlike them….
He looks awful! So old and dirty. Charlize, how can you handle his wrinkled, smelly and grey haired old balls without throwing up?
Those two must be giddy in love these days. They both are usually so private. I think for both of them they’ve had a huge drought in the being in love department and so having that feeling and excitement is showing. Charlize is 38 and a single mom and hasn’t seemed to have a serious relationship in quite a while. I still remember an actress saying that becoming a very visible star as far as lots of roles and Broadway and being in her late 30s/early 40s was the most lonely she ever felt socially. Not as far as friends but as far as dating or relationships. She was divorced several years earlier. Your are off on different locations all the time and much more famous and are a little older. She said it can be isolating as far as I guess men asking you out, and began to think finding love again may not be in the cards.
Did Robin Wright ever accuse Penn of domestic violence? Some people on this site say often that he is physically abusive toward women, but is that just an assumption based on the past relationship with Madonna? He’s been violent toward men (esp. paparazzi), and there’s lots of reason to think that he was a jerk and bad husband to Robin, but is there any good reason (her word or other evidence) to think that he physically abused her or their children during their long marriage? I’ve certainly never heard or seen it.
Being Robin a classy lady who never respond to the bullish*t Penn has said about her in the media, and a woman who has put her kids before everything, I will probably never hear a word from her mouth. Having said this, is my opinion he was abusive to her if not physically at least verbally.
PS: I do recall a story I think it was Liz Smith’s, and around the internet you can actually find something about Robin, Sean in the early 90′, a street fight in front of the Viper Room, and her face, later, with bruises. It was so early, I think they didn’t had kids yet, or maybe they had already Dylan but Hopper wasn’t born yet, and there wasn’t internet gossip, like now…so it remained a rumor. But if you ask any old school gossip reposter in Hollywood, nobody doubts that Robin Wright was abused by him.
Theron always has great jeans on! That is all I will comment on.
There are new pics of them at the zoo at Dailymail.com
Sigh. A woman with a father who was abusive, and an actor with a police documented abusive past. I hope they’ve moved on, but we will see. And yes, they are getting papped A LOT….this much, and I can’t help but suspect someone is getting called because even though they are big stars they aren’t the typical “tabloid” targets.
True. Very fishy.
But together they are tabloid targets.
Yuck.
Does Sean Penn only have that one outfit? I swear he’s worn the same clothes since they got together, eww. In the last photo it looks like Sean is Charlize’s dad and she’s trying to lose him so he doesn’t embarrass her in front of her friends.
lol!
Gross. She is drop dead gorgeous, successful and independent. She could have her pick of men and this is who she chooses? Stinky, ugly, sweaty, dirty old man Penn? Sick.