Josh Duhamel, 49, is engaged to a 28-year-old. [Dlisted]
Eddie Vedder has always been an incredible vocalist & we should talk about him more as an iconic frontman. [Gawker]
I’m a little bit surprised that Christina Aguilera is still with that guy. [Just Jared]
Films directed by women are coming out this year! [Pajiba]
Wes Anderson + Benedict Cumberbatch = a twee delight. [LaineyGossip]
Five years later, Emma Stone’s Gucci still isn’t notable. [Go Fug Yourself]
Demi Lovato returned home after another rehab stay. [Towleroad]
Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers were sentenced to life in prison. [Buzzfeed]
Photos from the Euphoria premiere/event last week. [RCFA]
I’m sorry, what happened here?!? [Egotastic]
Videos of the late Bob Saget being a funny mensch. [Seriously OMG]
Josh did say that he wanted to have more children in that Dax podcast. I hope that he doesn’t see her as a human incubator like Chris Pratt does his wife.
Him and Fergie have been divorced for a while. If he was just looking for an incubator I think he would have found one sooner. Fergie offered her congrats so I think they coparent nicely. He doesn’t seem like a giant douche like Pratt is.
He definitely has douchetastic tendencies. About 10 years ago I worked at an airline and he was an unruly, entitled and rude passenger on a flight. The notes on his reservation went viral in the company.
It looks to me like he wanted more kids and Fergie didn’t so that might be the primary reason they’re divorced. I know quite a few couples that did this. Now his comments are a little sus but Fergie’s being supportive about the whole thing so IDK.
@ Fluffybunny : Just another rich old guy going after a beautiful woman young enough to be his daughter. He gets to feel young when he’s not and she gets to feel rich when she’s not, so I guess it’s win/win for them. Sorry for the sarcasm but come on, we all know what is going on here.
He made that gross comment about having to find a new wife “young enough to have kids”. He could have worded it several other ways. I mean, just say you wanted to find somebody who wanted to have children. But, oh no, a woman is merely a carton of fresh eggs first and a human being second.
I am not convinced that he married so young due to wanting kids. If he says he wants more, I believe him as that is not an outlandish thing to want. But as others have said, he could have bio children with women many years older than his new bride. And adoption is also a thing. I think it is just as likely that he said “I need a young wfe to have kids” thinking that it would somehow make him look less pathetic for falling into the the midlife crisis guy dating decades younger.
He definitely sees her that way. Nobody needs a woman to be in her 20s to have babies with. Well and then there’s adoption. Men seem to forget that their juice isn’t of great quality either at his age.
Eddie Vedder always sounds like he’s singing with his jaw wired shut to me.
Every single song of Pearl Jam sounds exactly the same. I really don’t get the hype. There are a lot more lead singers that can blow Eddie right out of the water. The writer of the article must be sucked into the Pearl Jam hype.
I was just saying that same thing to my husband the other night and he thought I was crazy…haha.
Once upon a time, Vedder had one of the most striking voices in rock – not a lot of range, but a lot of tone and an enormous amount of power. If you can, find the isolated vocal track from the original release of Jeremy. A lifetime of heavy smoking has done a number on him. Listening to recent recordings is very different from the Pearl Jam records of old (same with Dave Grohl – the cigarettes are destroying his voice, too and he didn’t have as much to work with).
Eddie Veder always sounds like the angelic yet tortured soul of humanity to me.
Diff’rnt strokes, I guess.
Mom and i got to see Eddie at a solo concert, as well as several with Pearl Jam, and he’s a cool guy. Mom and I actually were among a bunch of people at his Baltimore show that got shifted to the front row as a kind of surprise to his fans – we were in the upper tier. Mom got to shake his hand. He’s cool.
Congrats Josh!
It is kind of surprising that Christina is still with him. They’ve been together since what, 2011? She seems pretty private.
It’s good that Demi gave up their California Sober thing. Maybe this had something to do with it.
She’s 20 years older than his son…and 21 years younger than him. Congrats, I guess.
Eddie is IT for me. Always has been, always will be.
A had a running joke with my best friend that the saddest day of her life was when Eddie Vedder got his hair cut.
He has this really unique ability to hit the same note in two octaves at once. Gorgeous.
Women who are in their 30’s and early 40’s have babies all the time … Maybe congrats? He will be nearly 70 when the bb graduates high school. The thing with age gaps like this is the distance between 50 and 30 feels a lot closer than the distance between 70 and 50, one would imagine (?)
I’m 39 and realized that if I were single, most men my age would think I was too old for them. I hate that women’s perceived worth declines so much as we age.
Idk? I think J.Lo is doing her part to turn this around. I’m optimistic because women are delaying childbirth and marriage more and more to focus on careers and education or are happy staying single. Another remarkable trend I’ve seen in my family and amongst my older friends is the way the power dynamic shifts as men age at about 65-they would often be completely lost without their partners, their anchors-despite what they may have done in their 40s-50s. I think this will only continue to increase as women continue to be equal or better providers overall, not just financially, and have been outpacing men in terms of education for awhile now…
The whole idea of a man being lost without a woman is a trap. They are perfectly capable of whatever it is that needs doing. They’ve just realized that if they pretend like they don’t know how to do something the woman will pick up the slack. So, suddenly she’s responsible for everything and he’s in front of the tv complaining about how hard he works. They can do whatever is needed. They just don’t want to.
I thought that way too in my mid to late 30s. In my mid 40s and divorced, younger men were hitting on me left and right. I was like what?! Now my boyfriend is 41 and I’m about to turn 46. : ) There is life after 40.
I knew a friend of a friend who was 20 years younger than her husband. She was 55 and he was 75. She married him when she was 30. She was always saying how he never wanted to do anything, My friend told her-well you knew how old he was when you married him.
this was my mother/ father-in-law. He was 20 years older and they ended up in very different stages of life pretty quickly into their marriage. She thought she was getting maturity and stability and I think he thought he was getting someone adventurous and energetic.
He was self absorbed and only did his interests and he was embarrassed to be out with her and her friends because she was always drunk and sloppy. She wanted to be more social with her friend group than he did. They had very different ideas of their social lives, spending (she wanted to spend reasonably but he always worried about retirement), she was just starting to grow her career when he was retiring. She felt rushed through those stages because he was impatient to live like a retiree. She passed away from cancer a few years ago but it always looked hard.
There is a great story that I think I read on Behind Closed Ovens back in the day. A fancy tea room style place had a little girl come in with her Dad, who was a kinda grungy looking guy. The dad doted on the daughter and they had an adorable little tea together. After they left, coworkers told the server that they had just waited on Eddie Vedder.
Awwwww!
That’s so sweet. I go to tea with my son and my husband goes along but he doesn’t like tea so I thought it was begrudgingly until my son and I went last month and had to go on a Thursday because I had waited too long to make a weekend reservation, My husband complained about missing it.
Liked EV already and that just upped it!
Josh has always seemed like an entitled jerk. I guess he swept Fergie off her feet. She could have done a lot better and she still can. I don’t know if she’s re-married or dating or what.
My husband loves her. If she was remarried he would have mentioned it to me.
I would hope so!!!!
He does come off like an entitled jerk, to me. The age difference is gross to me, but what do I know. Men never mature at the same rate as women as it is, but that is still quite an age gap. Yuck……🤢
My observations of older men with younger women is this : where he had the money and was more established, it always seemed to me like he was dating younger to get away with more of his sh*t because she was less experienced and tolerate more bad behavior from him. He wanted to be the “boss” in the relationship and did NOT want to be with a woman who was his equal or who would challenge him. I remember being in college with an overseas student (male) who was about to start graduate school. He got a bride from back home who had just finished high school. So I guess he would be able to continue to spout his Marxist theories and she would just do the cooking and say yes dear.
It’s not even the age difference that’s gross to me but the way he’s talking about her. He wanted a young wife because he wants more kids (debatable if that’s the best idea at nearly 50). She’s a person, not a walking uterus.
I don’t know. My husband is 17 years older than I am. I was 28 when we got married. I do think it’s a bit different when the woman (or man) is in their late twenties as opposed to 18 or 19. That might just be me though.
I agree with that. I mean, depending on the person I’ll side-eye it (power structures, etc.), but usually if both parties are over 25 I’m ok with it. Sometimes you just meet your person. *shrug*
I’m 40 and my boyfriend is 66. I was previously married to someone my age. It’s not that different.
Those photos bring to mind the huge disparity of expectations in how men and women present themselves in public, at events: she’s coiffed in a LBD with lace trim and wearing high heels, gold bangles and manicured; he’s in jeans and hiking boots and eating a take out burger/burrito thing.
Nothing about this makes me think “yay for these two crazy kids!” It’s just same ol same ol.
I don’t know. I don’t look at Josh Duhamel at 49 and think geez he’s an old dude 😁. I also don’t look at 28 as ah man how dare that young thing. So with that out the way. I honestly don’t see a problem with any aspect of this. She was clearly searching for something specific and he was as well and they are together, 28 and 49 aren’t that bad on the spectrum of things. That Emma Stone dress is still blah. Good for Christina, I was just listening to “You Lost Me” on repeat the other day and her voice can be so beautifully haunting when she doesn’t overdo it.
She’s a grown up. Grown ups can choose who they want to have relationships with. There used to be taboos about other differences between couples, but age now seems to be the last acceptable one. And calling a man in his 40s ‘old’ begs the question as to how those of us who are actually old should be described. Super old? Mega old? Too old?