Scarlett Johansson Is Half Sean Penn's Age; Thoughts?

By Nicki Gostin Posted Mar 15th 2011 12:16AM

Pop-Ed: Like a lot of people, I clicked on the item about Sean Penn and Scarlett Johansson recently sharing an intimate dinner at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. The meal comes on the heels of their kinda-weird brief jaunt to Mexico together (they spent less than a day there).

As I read it I thought things like, "Wow she's moving on from her split from hubby Ryan Reynolds, and I guess things really are kaput between Sean and Robin Wright."

The 'Iron Man 2' star separated from Ryan Reynolds in December. The pair was wed in September 2008. Penn and Wright married in 1996 and after a couple of breakups and reconciliations divorced last year. They have two children, daughter Dylan and son Hopper.

And then suddenly I thought, wait a minute, just how old are these budding lovebirds, anyway? Much to my dismay, Penn turns 51 this August, and Johansson turned 26 in November. That's a nearly 25-year age gap between them.

Let's put it this way: Johansson is only six years older than Dylan, Penn's daughter with Wright.

We all know that if the sexes were reversed the tabloids would be screaming headlines with words like cougar and boy toy. When Madonna dates one of her increasingly younger boyfriends, the press always finds out how old the young man's mother is and compares her age to Madonna's. (Ironically Madonna and Sean Penn were married for four years in the '80s.)

Am I being a prude by thinking it's just a tad skeevy that Penn is dating someone literally half his age? Could it just be noted that there is a quarter of a century age difference between the two?

I'm hoping that this is a fling and the two of them find partners closer to their age. Wouldn't it be great to see Penn holding hands with someone his own age or dare I say it, a couple of years older? I think that would be a really radical thing for the famously liberal firebrand actor to do.

Tags: Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn

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Tuesday 15 March

By Karen

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Yeah, cuz he's gonna potentially croak in like...10 years...use your rain, scarlett

By mickey

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Sean, Harvey Milk is jealous.

By James

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Good God look at her! I mean, wouldn't you?

By SinD

Sean...High Five! Alright!Woooooooooo!Atta boy! Way to go ! Woooooohoooo!

By OfAlaska

When James Woods was asked at 52 why he was marrying a totally hot 18-year old, he looked at the reporter and said: "Hey, you would if you could." That was fifteen years ago and they're still together, and nobody has said s**t since!!!

By joe

I don't see how it is anyones business who someone else dates or marries.

By TED

i think age doesn't mean a thing as long as the two of them respect and love one other. SEAN PENN I THINK SHE COULD DO BETTER THOUGH

By Ebba

You go Scarlett! Sean Penn in way hot!!

By Nicole

Uh, no he's not. He's creepy and weird.

By jim

what a LUCKY LUCKY man !!!!

Tuesday 22 March

By PennsPervertedPenisPopsPreteens

And what a very unfortunate girl...talk about "damaged goods"...Penn is the poster child for mental illness.

By George Sidoti

Slow newsday!...Japan is under a horrific period in time, Northern Africa is in turmoil, the Middle East is on fire with governments fighting rebels, there are drug wars stemming from Mexico and further south, there are wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world economy is causing people to lose jobs and homes, HIV is endemic in Africa...

And, now we have another catastrophic issue in the making: the age difference betwen Sean Penn and Scarlett Johannson... How ridiculous is this article!

By jeff

yeah well maybe if our ignorant and naive country would worry about it's own citizens and not africa's, the middle east's, and mexico's so much we wouldn't have half the problems we have. our nation needs to keep it's big nose out of other's business.

By Trisha

Ummmm, helloooo? This is Pop Eater, a celebrity gossip column, NOT News Week, silly!!!!

I am with Trisha, if you want news go to CNN, not Popeater. Do you get upset when you don't get milk out of your juice carton too?

By penn is flightier than the sword

I don't care if Sean Penn is against conservatives. But he just has a history of being an angry jerk.

By R

Why should it matter, the writer sounds angry. Love knows no age if in fact that's what it is because they said they were just friends.

Tuesday 03 May

By Mike

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You mean Lust knows no age!

By ajschrod

Depp must be a super-good guy to attract the beautiful Scarlett--it certainly can't be his looks! Speaking of looks, could any red-blooded American guy imagine anything better than waking up next to her? Ohmygosh, to be a fly on THAT wall!

By o_O

DEPP?... The picture didn't work for you? or, you can't read? or, were you just being funny...???

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