A little bit strange relationships

odyssey06

This has to be the soundtrack for this thread...

Lorelli!

Not really strange I suppose but I wouldn't have put them together, Courtney Love/Steve Coogan and Davina McCall/Eric Clapton.

polydactyl

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf

Surely that's the least strange relationship on this thread? Similar family, same career, similar interests?

philstar

michael jackson and pricilla presley

jojofizzio

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Bernie Ecclestone and Fabiana Flosi, nearly 50 years younger than him and about a foot taller.

He must have a great personality, it could never be the fact that he's worth about 3 billion surely?

:D:D

Arghus

Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell - forty year age gap. The ones with the massive age gaps always make me say WTF?

Pwindedd

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

What's wrong?

There's something very off about Fry. He marries a man half his age who looks like a teenage emo.

He also penned a play called Latin! which celebrated "the love of a man for a 13-year-old boy".

Did you not enjoy the play? I've not seen it myself.

dd972

I think mutual pact is a better way of putting it than hook up or relationship, especially where there's money or mutual interests involved, it's odd how the higher echelons of SoCoDu don't trawl Coppers or some nightclub in Blanch looking for their life partners.

PuppyMcPupFace

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie surely??

Canis Lupus

jojofizzio wrote: »

SHE is 16????:eek::eek:

She was when they started some sort of a relationship according to the speed reading I did on wiki (he apparently didn't know at the time). She's 23 now but yeah... she's got a distinctive....look...

pablo128

Van Morrison and Michelle Rocca.

eviltwin

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

What's wrong?

There's something very off about Fry. He marries a man half his age who looks like a teenage emo.

He also penned a play called Latin! which celebrated "the love of a man for a 13-year-old boy".

And yet plenty of straight men hook up with young ones and no one bats an eyelid.

eviltwin

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Bill Wyman and Mandy Smith. He was 47 and she was 13 when they started seeing each other

How did he get away with that

eviltwin

Brad Pitt and Sinitta

Irish Guitarist

There were jokes going around about Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones for years. There may be an age gap but she's clearly an adult.

Stephen Frys husband on the other hand looks like a child. I don't think I've heard a single joke about them. No one wants to be accused of sounding homophobic for saying this looks creepy as fuck.



I also suspect the likes of Mock The Week, Have I got News For You and all the other BBC panel shows wouldn't allow anything to be said about him out of fear of him quitting. They're exactly the kind of programs that have been making jokes about Michael Douglas being a pervert for years.

WinnyThePoo

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

There were jokes going around about Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones for years. There may be an age gap but she's clearly an adult.

Stephen Frys husband on the other hand looks like a child. I don't think I've heard a single joke about them. No one wants to be accused of sounding homophobic for saying this looks creepy as fuck.



I also suspect the likes of Mock The Week, Have I got News For You and all the other BBC panel shows wouldn't allow anything to be said about him out of fear of him quitting. They're exactly the kind of programs that have been making jokes about Michael Douglas being a pervert for years.

His husband is 30. Build a bridge and get over it.

Jesus Wept

bobbyss wrote: »

Amanda Holden / Les Dennis
Trump / His wife

Can't think of any more at the moment. What explains these unlikely hook ups?

What's wrong with Les.

Rubberlegs

eviltwin wrote: »

Brad Pitt and Sinitta

Simon Cowell and Sinitta

TerrorFirmer

WinnyThePoo wrote: »

His husband is 30. Build a bridge and get over it.

Exactly. You'd think it was 18 and 78 the way people are going on.

ArnoldJRimmer

eviltwin wrote: »

How did he get away with that

Exactly. They claimed at the time that they had no sexual relationship until she was legal, and married when she was 18. She has since admitted that they did so when she was 14. What a creep

Robsweezie

eviltwin wrote: »

And yet plenty of straight men hook up with young ones and no one bats an eyelid.

yes, but theres that ''double whammy discrimination'' they have to face.

not only are they gay, but theres an age gap between them. these are two things society can have a problem with, so theres an extra burden in gaining acceptance,if they're looking for it.

maudgonner

eviltwin wrote: »

And yet plenty of straight men hook up with young ones and no one bats an eyelid.

Most of this thread is about straight men hooking up with much younger women.

Loon E. Tick

maudgonner wrote: »

Most of this thread is about straight men hooking up with much younger women.

There was a thread about that recently and it didn't end so well.

I think the greater the disparity between lots of different variables in a relationship leads people to instinctively make value judgements. Where there is a wide gap between age, looks, education, social status, socioeconomic background, finances etc In general people tend to be drawn towards the status quo and couples falling outside of what's considered a normal range tend to come under more scrutiny simply because they stand out more but there's probably no magic formula to determine if certain relationships will endure more than others.

Spanish Eyes

maudgonner wrote: »

Most of this thread is about straight men hooking up with much younger women.

But what about the opposite situation?

Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte for example. But I have no idea if one or other or both of them is gay or straight. I have my thoughts though. Maybe it's a "beard" thing, look it up on Urban Dictionary. :P

Guy:Incognito

Jesus Wept wrote: »

What's wrong with Les.

That one fell in to the "she could do much better" category:)

Charles and Diana

Spanish Eyes

Bill and Hil

Gwynplaine

Robbie Williams and the wife.

Brian?

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Fry really is a disgusting man. He's a grotesquely overweight 60 year old who married a dude who looks like a waifish street urchin. Creepy as hell, but Fry seems to get a free pass as he's somehow seen as a national treasure.

Fry is disgusting why?

2 consenting adults marry. Shock horror!!!

eviltwin

maudgonner wrote: »

Most of this thread is about straight men hooking up with much younger women.

But they don't get personally attacked by that poster the way Fry did.

Son0vagun

Brendan O'Connor & Anne Doyle, brief but Strange.

RhubarbCrumble

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

That one fell in to the "she could do much better" category:)

She ah, 'did' Neil Morrissey instead aka Tony from Men Behaving Badly.

PuppyMcPupFace

Me and Jamie Dornan.

A girl can dream eh ??

odyssey06

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

She ah, 'did' Neil Morrissey instead aka Tony from Men Behaving Badly.

Aka the voice of Bob the Builder... the thought of anyone involved in children's tv or film voiceovers in an intimate relationship... weird!

If only the Eric Cantona - Leslie Ash rumour was true, we could have had a nice Men Behaving Badly double!

Irish Guitarist

WinnyThePoo wrote: »

His husband is 30. Build a bridge and get over it.

I know what age his husband is. What I said is it looks creepy.

I don't need to get over anything. I don't give a shite about Stephen Fry. My point is the 'comedians' that appear on these BBC panel shows have been taking cheap shots at Michael Douglas and calling him a pervert for years but they would never say that about Stephen Fry even though there's a similar age gap. I've never seen anyone rushing to the defence of Michael Douglas either.

Pintman Paddy Losty

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I know what age his husband is. What I said is it looks creepy.

I don't need to get over anything. I don't give a shite about Stephen Fry. My point is the 'comedians' that appear on these BBC panel shows have been taking cheap shots at Michael Douglas and calling him a pervert for years but they would never say that about Stephen Fry even though there's a similar age gap. I've never seen anyone rushing to the defence of Michael Douglas either.

It's not only that. It looks creepy because it's clear Fry is a bit of a creep.

He wrote a play celebrating the love of a teacher for a 13 year old student. In the play the teacher elopes to Morrocco and takes the child with him to contunue their sexual relationship.

He decided to make a joke about paedophila at the BAFTAS.

He has been heavily critical of operation Yew Tree which is an investigation in to BBC pedos claiming that half of the allegations made by victims were false.

He also decided that on the night the whole extent of Jimmy Saviles crimes were revealed to go with a 'joke' reciting a limerick on QI that went as follows:

"There was a young chaplain from King's
Who talked about God and such things;
But his real desire
Was a boy in the choir
With a bottom like jelly on springs."

So it's not really too surprising that people raise an eyebrow when they see his spouse is a very boyish looking man 30 years his junior.



But God forbid anyone point it out, much less make a joke about it, as you've rightly noticed.

PuppyMcPupFace

Oh the old "gay=paedophile" nonsense.

Haven't heard that rubbish in a while.

Pintman Paddy Losty

PuppyMcPupFace wrote: »

Oh the old "gay=paedophile" nonsense.

Haven't heard that rubbish in a while.

I never said that.

However Fry seems to have a fairly warped view on the topic.

PuppyMcPupFace

Apologies if you didn't mean that but so many say that and it's horrible to read.

AnGaelach

PuppyMcPupFace wrote: »

Apologies if you didn't mean that but so many say that and it's horrible to read.

It's all the worse when you read it even when it wasn't wrote, isn't it?

odyssey06

PuppyMcPupFace wrote: »

Oh the old "gay=paedophile" nonsense.

Haven't heard that rubbish in a while.

It would be just as big a mistake to assume A equals B... as it would to assume A means impossible to be B though.

In this case its probably more of an ephebian thing though.

Its creepy... cos the guy is 30 and styled like a teenager. In an alternate universe where Fry was straight and with a 30yo woman styled like a teenager it would still be creepy.

quickbeam

I always thought Sandra Bullock and Jesse James were a weird one.

Her - clean-cut, girl-next-door, American's sweetheart actor.
Him - tatooed, twice divorced, one ex-wife porn star.

Didn't think it'd last. But surprised at it ever happening in the first place.

El Tarangu

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte for example. But I have no idea if one or other or both of them is gay or straight. I have my thoughts though. Maybe it's a "beard" thing, look it up on Urban Dictionary. :P

You would think that if either of them were trying to hide their sexuality, they would have chosen a less conspicuous partner than someone 30 years older/younger than them.
_____


I always found Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson an unlikely pairing. More power to them.

professore

Conspectus wrote: »

Doug Hutchison( of The Green Mile fame) and Courtney Stodden

Holy sh1t .... he looks closer to 16 than she does!!!!! EDIT: Just saw she is 23 in the pic ... still, she looks like 40 year old a trans man

professore

Robsweezie wrote: »

yes, but theres that ''double whammy discrimination'' they have to face.

not only are they gay, but theres an age gap between them. these are two things society can have a problem with, so theres an extra burden in gaining acceptance,if they're looking for it.

I don't think "society" has a problem with it. "Society" voted for gay marriage and there are lots of pride marches that pass without incident. I think some idiots have a problem with it. I thought the way people were talking he was a schoolboy or something. He's a 30 year old man FFS.

Macron getting together with his wife when he was 16 and she 39 and his teacher, Jimmy Saville et al or the countless singers and actors "dating" underage girls back in the 70s ... now THAT'S CREEPY .....

professore

Heard this one on a podcast recently .... will never hear Stairway to Heaven in quite the same way again ....

Jimmy Page Dated a 14-year-old Girl While He Was in Led Zeppelin

THE BACKSTORY: Lori Maddox was a part of the Los Angeles groupie scene beginning in the early 1970s. According to Maddox, Page became infatuated with her and had a roadie bring Maddox up to his suite at the L.A. Hyatt House. "[He was] wearing this hat over his eyes and holding a cane," she remembered. "He looked just like a gangster. It was magnificent." The pair went on to have a torrid affair over the next few years.

THE TRUTH: Maddox was, amazingly, just 14 when she met Page, though Page did what he could to keep the relationship hidden. Even in the swingin' Seventies this kind of thing could put you in jail. But with no TMZ or Us Weekly, Page got away with it. He eventually dumped Maddox for the of-legal-age Bebe Buell.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-10-wildest-led-zeppelin-legends-fact-checked-20121121/jimmy-page-dated-a-14-year-old-girl-while-he-was-in-led-zeppelin-19691231

fryup

here's a another few that spring to mind....

Bishop Casey and Annie Murphy

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Charlie Haughey and Terri Keane

Wibbs

professore wrote: »

Heard this one on a podcast recently .... will never hear Stairway to Heaven in quite the same way again ....

Jimmy Page Dated a 14-year-old Girl While He Was in Led Zeppelin

THE BACKSTORY: Lori Maddox was a part of the Los Angeles groupie scene beginning in the early 1970s. According to Maddox, Page became infatuated with her and had a roadie bring Maddox up to his suite at the L.A. Hyatt House. "[He was] wearing this hat over his eyes and holding a cane," she remembered. "He looked just like a gangster. It was magnificent." The pair went on to have a torrid affair over the next few years.

THE TRUTH: Maddox was, amazingly, just 14 when she met Page, though Page did what he could to keep the relationship hidden. Even in the swingin' Seventies this kind of thing could put you in jail. But with no TMZ or Us Weekly, Page got away with it. He eventually dumped Maddox for the of-legal-age Bebe Buell.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-10-wildest-led-zeppelin-legends-fact-checked-20121121/jimmy-page-dated-a-14-year-old-girl-while-he-was-in-led-zeppelin-19691231

Yeah, Jimmy Page was a creepy old bastard back then and to this day. That he wasn't hauled over the coals for having sex with girls barely in their teens is a head scratcher for me. That his peers don't seem to have ostracised him for what they surely knew what was going on says much. David Bowie was another with an eye for pubescent girls.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

yep, they were all at it back then...little wonder that Jimmy Savile got away with it

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