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..to find Aaron Taylor Johnson and his wife super creepy?

201 replies

insidenumber9 · 06/05/2024 21:21

Just this really. He was a 16 year old child actor when they met, and she was his director and in her 40s. It’s so sad. Maybe I’m projecting as had a bad relationship with an older man as a teen, but I feel she stole his childhood.

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Oblomov24 · 06/05/2024 21:51

An abuse of power on her part, so grim it makes me cringe.

Bumblebee907 · 06/05/2024 21:54

Barf.

See also: Doug H and Courtney S.

Leo and that woman he dated that he knew since she was a kid.

🤢

Tonkerbea · 06/05/2024 22:04

Ugh, that article made me feel uncomfortable. I'm nudging 40, can't imagine wanting to bear the child of someone fresh out of 6th form.

Leafalotta · 06/05/2024 22:09

Onetiredbeing · 06/05/2024 21:40

Yes I wonder if you would have the same understanding and excuses if it was the other way around? She groomed him. Disgusting woman.

I would, I feel the same about Celine Dion and Sophia Loren. In fact they got a lot more public sympathy and understanding.

PineappleTime · 06/05/2024 22:11

Leafalotta · 06/05/2024 22:09

I would, I feel the same about Celine Dion and Sophia Loren. In fact they got a lot more public sympathy and understanding.

Celine Dion's husband knew her since she was about 12 I think. Utterly vile.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 06/05/2024 22:12

I'm 42 and the thought of looking at a teenager, legally of age, that way makes me feel queasy.

Tattletwat · 06/05/2024 22:14

He's rumoured to be a contender for bond and if that happens, I think their relationship will end up under huge scrutiny do both of them want tham I don't know.

DrJoanAllenby · 06/05/2024 22:15

Actor Paul Walker, at the time of his untimely death, was dating Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell. The actor passed away at the age of 40 and she Jasmine was 23. The two began dating when Walker was 33, which reveals the disturbing fact that Jasmine was only 16 at that time.

Before dating Jasmine, he was in a relationship with Aubrianna Atwell who was only 16 years old at the time and he was 28.

insidenumber9 · 06/05/2024 22:19

Tonkerbea · 06/05/2024 22:04

Ugh, that article made me feel uncomfortable. I'm nudging 40, can't imagine wanting to bear the child of someone fresh out of 6th form.

Yes if she was after my son, I’d want to smack her to be honest. She must be a very selfish woman.

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Flowerpotpearl · 06/05/2024 22:21

Makes me feel ill just looking at the photos. Something seriously wrong with her. Awful.

Tattletwat · 06/05/2024 22:23

DrJoanAllenby · 06/05/2024 22:15

Actor Paul Walker, at the time of his untimely death, was dating Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell. The actor passed away at the age of 40 and she Jasmine was 23. The two began dating when Walker was 33, which reveals the disturbing fact that Jasmine was only 16 at that time.

Before dating Jasmine, he was in a relationship with Aubrianna Atwell who was only 16 years old at the time and he was 28.

Paul Walker gets brushed under carpet because he died but he was pretty much a groomer scumbag, and a really shit actor too he wasn't good.

Lampzade · 06/05/2024 22:23

I am pretty open minded but I think that what she did was terrible tbh.

Lampzade · 06/05/2024 22:24

Tattletwat · 06/05/2024 22:23

Paul Walker gets brushed under carpet because he died but he was pretty much a groomer scumbag, and a really shit actor too he wasn't good.

Exactly

ClipClopperDontStopper · 06/05/2024 22:34

Vincent Cassell was something like 50 to his wife's 19 when they first got together 6 or 7 years ago. It's gross whether the older partner is a man or a woman.

GirlOverboard123 · 06/05/2024 22:36

Leafalotta · 06/05/2024 21:29

It's a bit like Macron. You can say these men were groomed and yes, plenty of people get trapped in relationships where there is grooming and power imbalance. But this couple has been together 15 years, and he is enormously wealthy and successful. He could leave if he wanted to. At some point it becomes a choice, made by a fully formed adult, to stay, and I would say they are far past that point. So I find the way they got together very uncomfortable but I don't find them creepy as a couple now, no.

Perhaps you might not find them creepy as a couple today. But Brigitte Macron will permanently be a creepy person for once being a 40 year old teacher who seduced her 15 year old pupil. And Sam Taylor Johnson will permanently be a creepy person for once being a 42 year old film director who slept with the 18 year old actor she cast in her film. Hopefully you'd agree with that at least.

Pigeonqueen · 06/05/2024 22:40

I think the Celine Dion one is the most shocking one. He was 38, she was 12 and he was her manager. They both swore they didn’t have any sort of romantic / sexual relationship until she was 19 but it’s just so bloody wrong, he was her manager and she was just a child when they met.

OhshutupBrenda · 06/05/2024 22:49

Reminds me of an IG 'influencer' I followed in the past, she was 13 when she met her now H and he was 24, they met when he was helping out on a school trip she was on. It is all ok though as they did not 'officially' get together until she was 15 and he was 26. She married him at 21 and now they have two kids, I cannot fathom how her parents do not see him as a groomer, revolting predator.

HelenaWaiting · 06/05/2024 23:06

Pigeonqueen · 06/05/2024 21:23

Well he wasn’t 16, he was 18/19 and she was 42. But yes it’s pretty odd.

He was born in June 1990 so couldn't possibly have been 19 when they met. Could have been 17, if they met before his birthday, but definitely no older than 18.

Pigeonqueen · 06/05/2024 23:16

HelenaWaiting · 06/05/2024 23:06

He was born in June 1990 so couldn't possibly have been 19 when they met. Could have been 17, if they met before his birthday, but definitely no older than 18.

I think the trotted out line they go with is that she met him during Nowhere Boy which was 2009, and they began a relationship after filming ended (hmmm) which would have made him 19 then.

Longlazyday · 06/05/2024 23:18

And that he pursued her.

OnTheRoll · 06/05/2024 23:23

MariaLuna · 06/05/2024 21:34

she’s not a talented film maker imo.

Well, I enjoyed Back to Black (Amy Winehouse).

I can't get bothered about their relationship. It works for them I guess.

But then I'm with someone who is significantly younger, but in his 30's when we met.

She was also the director of Fifty Shades of Grey, A Million Little Pieces and Gypsy. She is also an OBE. I would say she is very talented and is way more accomplished professionally than him.

AngeloMysterioso · 06/05/2024 23:32

insidenumber9 · 06/05/2024 21:37

It’s not age gap relationships that I’m talking about. It’s more the ages that they met, and I find it selfish that she went with it and had two children so quickly with him.

I can’t help feeling that was calculated- I mean time was running out on her part and she probably wanted to lock him in before he matured enough to know better (see also Cheryl Tweedy Cole Fernandez Versini and Liam from One Direction, although the age gap is way smaller for them).

musicalfrog · 06/05/2024 23:41

So many judgy pants on here. You can't help who you fall in love with. They didn't do anything illegal and you don't have to spend time in the same room with them so.....

BOOTS52PollyPrissyPants · 07/05/2024 00:33

He was very young when they met and had not had a chance to develop mentally or emotionally. Different is someone is in their 20's when they meet as least they are not in their teens which is just weird. It is like he was groomed and same with Macron who was also very young.

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