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Vogue
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
I Want What They Have, Friendship Edition: Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you're gawking at it from the outside. In this new column, we'll be examining the celebrity couples—or, occasionally, friend pairs—who give us hope for our own romantic futures as we try to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds If there's one thing that's always been true about me, it's that I love it when guys hang out. Did I express this enjoyment in college by heckling frat boys to 'KISS ALREADY' every time they made the mistake of walking past my gay little friend group on the quad? Absolutely, and I'm trying to tone it down now, as a 31-year-old woman, but I have to admit that I squealed with preadolescent joy when I saw the recent paparazzi photos of Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler gently bro-ing out at a Colorado Rockies vs. Chicago Cubs game. Jeremy Allen White, Austin Butler, David Harbour, and Jason Batema at the Cubs game on Monday. There's so much to love about this outing (peep those very different yet casually complementary baseball caps!), but I think my favorite aspect of the photos is the fact that the strong-jawed hunks at its center—with all due respect to Jason Bateman and David Harbour, who were also there but did not get the cute-little-chapeau memo—are set to co-star in an A24 movie called…wait for it…Enemies. But they're not enemies, they're friends! The jokes write themselves! (Okay, I wrote that one, but the point stands. I'm a devoted scholar of Jeremy Allen White lore, so I can say with confidence that the only thing more charming than his farmer's-market flower addiction is his commitment to the Cubs. (I also happen to like that he still smokes, but that's my own emotional baggage to sort through.) I mean, if you're going to star in two shows about Chicago, you need to walk the walk—and all the better if you have an extremely chiseled male bestie to walk alongside you. Dedicated reporter that I am, I googled 'Austin Butler sports' to see if attending games is a regular thing for the lanky leading man, and found that he discussed his passion for New York-based athletic franchises in an interview with Hero Magazine last year. 'I used to only be a Lakers fan, but now I'm a Lakers and a Knicks fan. After being in New York for so long, I went to so many Knicks games that I became a Knicks fan.' (And yet, he's silent on the Mets vs. Yankees hometown rivalry!) Clearly, if Butler wants to stay in White's good graces—not to mention the inner sanctum of his cool-guy friend group—he's going to need to brush up on his baseball-viewing skills. After all, why not? Like White, he has a great face for hats!
Vogue
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
I Want What They Appear to Have: Monica Barbaro and Andrew Garfield
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you're gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we'll be examining the celebrity couples that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds. Andrew Garfield is one of the few Hollywood men whose dating life I will always take an active, invested, non-horrified interest in; the Social Network star previously dated actor Emma Stone and has described himself as heterosexual when asked, adding, 'I have an openness to any impulses that may arise within me at any time.' (Well, yes! Can leading men have this straight-but-not-narrow energy?) Barbaro, Garfield, Eddie Redmayne, and W magazine's Lynn Hirschberg in January. A few months later, Barbaro and Garfield would attend performances of John Proctor Is the Villain and Oh, Mary! together in New York. Garfield has never remotely been the type to bro-crow on podcasts hosted by sex offenders about all the LA ladies he's spending time with, and for that, I treasure him wholeheartedly—which makes it particularly exciting to me that he's reportedly been dating A Complete Unknown star Monica Barbaro since early 2025. There haven't been a ton of public sightings of the couple yet, and they haven't actually confirmed their relationship (which tracks, given Garfield's famous and hard-won privacy when it comes to his romantic life), but they allegedly linked up after the 2025 Oscars and the Met Gala, and on Monday, May 26, they rang in Memorial Day weekend together in Malibu in the esteemed company of Barbaro's dog Augustus, who was clad in a tasteful yet chic cone. I have a lot of boring, LA-dog-mom questions about how, exactly, a pup navigates the beach while in a cone (wouldn't it get insanely sandy?), but I have to admit that I'm sort of entranced by this notoriously camera-shy and as-yet-un-hard-launched couple making the oh-so-SoCal trek to Malibu together. Personally, I haven't ventured to my usual beach spot since the fires, but I'm glad to know that a) it is technically still possible to hit up Malibu and b) even the most A-list of celebrities are doing it…which must mean it's safe for the rest of us, right? Can Andrew Garfield text me and let me know if the Pacific Coast Highway has reopened? As someone who's lived in LA for five nonconsecutive years (but will always remain an anxious New Yorker at heart, as you can tell from my flurry of questions about dog-health procedure and beach safety), I know there's something extremely special about your first trip out to the beach with your beloved. Obviously, Barbaro and Garfield could have been making surf trips for months without us being any the wiser, but something about their body language makes me think this is their inaugural Malibu trip together. (Also, you can usually trust beachside paparazzi to snap shots of literally anyone even vaguely famous venturing west.) I remember meeting a bunch of my now-partner's friends at Rosie's Dog Beach in Long Beach early on, and I was definitely nervous, but I'm pretty sure I was also as happy as Garfield and Barbaro look, toting their little white dog (in all his cone-wearing glory) down to the water. We love LA, don't we, folks?
Daily Mail
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Revealed: All the stars who have ditched dating younger partners for settling down with an older lover
For avid followers of the showbiz world, nothing can be more gripping than a love story, unlikely or otherwise. And while many celebrity couples have raised an eyebrow or two, some names have also caught the eye for their romances with their older partners. In some cases, such as Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Nick Jonas, age is nothing but a number, with both among the stars who have ditched dating to find love with someone far older than their years. In some cases, it's led to long-term joy and matrimony, with marriage and children on the horizon. However for others, it's proven a struggle with their relationships eventually coming to a sad end. Here are the biggest stars who aimed to find happiness with an older partner... Aaron Taylor Johnson Aaron was in brief relationship with his Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging costar Georgia Groome, reportedly dating for around a year until 2009. But while working on Nowhere Boy that same year, he met his now wife Sam Taylor-Johnson, who is 24 years his senior. There's nothing to suggest there was any crossover. The pair announced their engagement in 2009 after just a few months of dating. The couple have a fiercely private relationship and have previously caused controversy within the public due to their age gap. They have two daughters together, Wylda, 14, and Romy, 13, and Sam also has two older daughters, Angelica, 27, and Jessie, 18, from a previous marriage to art dealer Jay Jopling, who she split from in 2008. Sam has acknowledged that their age difference makes them 'a bit of anomaly' compared to most other couples, but she doesn't understand why it's still a big deal. Asked if their age gap ever shows in terms of different interests or reference points, she told The Guardian's Saturday magazine: 'No, it never does. I mean, it's coming up now because you're asking. 'And it comes up on the outside perspective of people who don't know us, because I guess people will always. 'We're a bit of an anomaly, but it's that thing: after 14 years you just think, surely by now it doesn't really matter?' Tom Kaulitz Tom Kaulitz of band Tokio Hotel was married to Ria Sommerfeld before he started dating Heidi Klum - who is 16 years his senior. The couple had split in 2016 after a year of marriage, but their divorce wasn't finalised until September 2018, six months after he and Heidi started dating. At the time, Tom cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, and at the time insisted it was 'mutual and amicable.' Heidi and Tom went onto tie the knot in February 2019, less than a year after they started dating. The fashion star shares Henry, Johan and Lou with her ex Seal while she had eldest daughter Leni with her ex Flavio Briatore. Last year, the German supermodel gushed over the singer and said their energetic bedroom antics kept her young. She told The Times: 'I have no back or knee pain and I have my husband', before giggling their sex life was 'very good' and insisting she'd found her match in the hunk. Heidi also said how she disliked the term 'toy boy', referring to the younger male partner of an older woman, because she doesn't think their age difference matters. In fact, the America's Got Talent judge admitted she and Tom sometimes joke about their age difference. She said: 'He has to read the menu at dinner or I have to take a photo and zoom in if I forget my reading glasses, but we joke about it.' Nick Jonas While pop star Nick no doubt has an illustrious dating history, one of his more high-profile romances came when he enjoyed a brief fling with model Georgia Fowler. In 2017 it was revealed that the pair were casually dating, and they were pictured leaving his brother Joe's engagement party together. However, the pair's romance appeared to fizzle out soon after, and in May 2018, it was revealed that Nick was dating Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, who is 10 years his senior. At the time Nick was just 25 when he and Priyanka started dating, and the actress herself has previously admitted she tried to 'put a stop' to their relationship due to the age gap. Speaking on the Armchair Expert podcast, Chopra explained: 'I didn't want to engage as much at the time... I was also like 35, Nick was 25.' But then she decided to give the relationship a go years later. The 40-year-old actress started dating pop star in May 2018. The couple married in December 2018 and welcomed daughter Malti Marie in 2022. She recalled: 'I really put a stop to it in a way because I judged the book by the cover. I said, 'I wanna settle down. I have been there and done the fun dating things. was like ready to get serious.'' After first getting a message from Jonas via Twitter back in 2016, they went on to meet in person a year later in 2017 and ended up keeping in touch via text. However, Chopra stated that she was still reluctant to jump into another relationship because she was worried about making the same dating 'mistakes' again. She added: 'I kept making the same mistakes. A lot of the pattern in my relationships was me feeling gaslit because I gave that kind of power to the people that I was with, where I was like, 'You come first.'' However, the actress eventually put her reservations aside and struck up a romance with Jonas in May of 2018 and they have been together ever since. The happy couple revealed that they had become engaged after just a few months of dating. The pair went on to tie the knot during a wedding ceremony that took place in her native India in December of 2018. Jason Mamoa Best known for his role as the rogue DC hero Aquaman, Jason was previously engaged to McLeod's Daughters star Simmone Jade Mackinnon before his rise to fame. The couple were together for six years after meeting on the set of Baywatch, and got engaged in 2004. However, their engagement was called off in 2006 when Jason met actress Lisa Bonet, who is 11 years his senior. Shortly after their split, it was revealed that Lisa was pregnant and several months later in July 2007, she and Jason welcomed their first child together, Lola, 17. At the time, Mackinnon told Confidential that the news of Bonet's pregnancy was a shock, saying: 'Honestly, it's a shock and of course this news has been upsetting. 'But I have moved on and I am very happy.' Jason and Lisa married in 2007, and the star previously shared he had a crush on her long before they met. 'Ever since I was eight years old and I saw her on TV, I was like, 'Mommy, I want that one!'' he said on The Late Late Show. 'I'm like, 'I'm going to stalk you for the rest of my life and I'm going to get you.'' I am a full-fledged stalker. I didn't tell her that until we had two babies - otherwise, I'd be creepy and weird. I've always wanted to meet her. She was a queen, always.' Jason and Lisa went onto have a second child, Nakoa-Wolf, 16, but in 2022 they shared the shock news that they were separating. It wasn't until two years later that Lisa official filed for divorce, and documents revealed that they had allegedly separated back in 2020. Just days later, Jason and Lisa settled their divorce, with the couple agreeing to joint custody of their children. The divorce was listed as 'uncontested' and both stars 'waived the right' to seek or receive spousal support from one another.
Grazia USA
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Grazia USA
From 'Bennifer' to 'DraLo': The Rise & Impact of Celebrity Couple Nicknames
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 26: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are seen on September 26, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images) Celebrity couple nicknames have become a language of their own — compact, catchy, and endlessly memeable. From 'Brangelina' to 'Bennifer' and 'DraLo,' these portmanteaus have taken on a cultural life beyond the couples themselves. We're taking a look at why these nicknames matter — and what they really say about our obsession with famous love stories. The Birth of the Celebrity Couple Nickname While it might feel like a phenomenon born with the rise of the internet, celebrity couple nicknames go back decades. In the 1920s, the Hollywood power couple Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were affectionately referred to as 'Pickfair.' But it wasn't until 'Bennifer' (Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's original early-2000s romance) that the trend really exploded into the pop culture mainstream. From there, the media ran wild: 'Brangelina,' 'TomKat,' 'Kimye' — each one more headline-friendly than the last. The formula was simple, but the influence ran deep. SANTA MONICA, CA – JANUARY 07: Actress Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt inside at the 13th ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 7, 2008 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Chris Polk/WireImage) Why Do We Love Them? These nicknames aren't just linguistic shortcuts — they're branding tools, cultural shorthand, and emotional symbols. According to linguistics experts, name blending gives fans a sense of intimacy and participation in a celebrity's life. It creates a feeling of ownership or insider knowledge. Suddenly, you're not just watching their love story unfold — you're part of it. They also make for great tabloid copy. One name, endless intrigue. And in some cases, these nicknames transcend the couples themselves, becoming a kind of legacy. Case in point: 'Brangelina' is still used even though Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split years ago. The Downside of the Portmanteau But there's a dark side to the nickname game. When couples become brands, they're often held to impossible standards. Public scrutiny intensifies. Personal issues go viral. And when the relationship ends, the label doesn't always go away. Ben Affleck has spoken openly about how the 'Bennifer' media circus impacted his career, noting that the focus on his personal life began to eclipse his work. It's the double-edged sword of celebrity coupling: the spotlight amplifies everything — both good and bad. NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: US actors Jennifer Lopez (L) and boyfriend Ben Affleck (R) arrive at the premiere of Lopez's new film 'Maid in Manhattan' in New York 08 December 2002. AFP PHOTO Doug KANTER (Photo credit should read DOUG KANTER/AFP via Getty Images) The Psychology Behind the Trend So why are we so obsessed with these nicknames? Experts say it's tied to our fascination with love, identity, and narrative. Portmanteaus like 'Bennifer' or 'DraLo' offer a sense of unity — suggesting that two people have become one story. It's romantic, it's convenient, it's viral-ready. But it also speaks to how we process celebrity culture as entertainment. When we label couples, we make them easier to follow, root for, or even critique. In some ways, it's no different from shipping fictional characters — only the stakes are real. Enter: DraLo As reports swirled about Jennifer Lopez's new relationship post-Affleck, the internet quickly dubbed her rumored romance 'DraLo' — a nod to rapper Drake and, of course, her own iconic nickname. Whether a celebrity relationship actually goes the distance or not doesn't change the impact of one's nickname. Once the name catches on, it becomes a part of the celebrity lexicon. It's a reminder that in 2025, even the idea of a relationship is enough to trigger headlines, hashtags, and linguistic fanfare. Final Thoughts Celebrity couple nicknames are more than media fluff — they're cultural snapshots, symbols of connection, and reflections of our collective fascination with love in the limelight. As much as they shape how we talk about stars, they also reveal something about us: our desire to turn romance into narrative, and narrative into something we can all share.
