![]() More worrying, though, is the fact that they assumed Schofield’s wife – whom he has been married to for over two decades, now – was his mother. It’s worth pointing out that Schofield is 55 – and that many children believe it’s more plausible for him to be married to 36-year-old Willoughby rather than, y’know, a woman closer to his own age. “Yes, it’s Phillip’s mother,” echoed their cousin, also perched on the sofa alongside them. “No,” replied his sister, with a roll of her eyes. “That lady is Holly Willoughby?” asked one little lad, confused. Reacting to a clip in which Phillip Schofield and his wife, Stephanie, head out on a South African safari together, the children were immediately confused: after all, they already knew Schofield’s ‘wife’ from watching ITV’s This Morning. Not only is this grossly unfair, but it’s also hugely damaging to our society as a whole.Īs I explained previously, Channel 4’s Gogglesprogs recently saw the show’s children sit down to watch an episode of Schofield’s South African Adventure. ![]() In fact, research compiled from figures taken from the main UK broadcasters found that just 18% of presenters over 50 are women (look at this damning list of news anchors who were replaced by younger women, if you don’t believe us). And the same is true of the small screen, too. Sally Field played Tom Hanks’ love interest in Punchline and just six years later, was his “mom” in Forrest Gump. In Riding In Cars With Boys, Adam Garcia played Drew Barrymore’s on-screen son – even though he’s actually two years older than her. Winona Ryder played a mother to Zachary Quinto, an actor just under six years her junior, in Star Trek. In the film Alexander, we saw Angelina Jolie play Colin Farrell’s mother, despite the fact she’s only one year older than him. Think about it: there really aren’t any grey-haired women under the age of 50 in the public eye – so where are the women who are genetically wired to go grey early? I know they must be out there, but I imagine that they, like myself (confession time: I got my first grey hair at 17), feel that they have to dye their hair because… well, because that’s what women do.Īnd that much is made plain by the images that Hollywood repeatedly shoves down our throats: in 2015, a US study analysed the age difference between on-screen couples in films from the past 30 years, and found that some leading men are up to 15 years older than their female love interests or co-stars.Īs I’ve pointed out before, the most depressing part of this statistic is that so little has changed in three decades. Our culture tells us that youth and beauty are mutually exclusive, and any sign of age on a woman is… well, is unacceptable, in some way. Hollywood’s toxic beauty standards have a lot to answer for, don’t they? ![]() They are cute and fine and are not even the subject of this tweet, our collective sexist ageism is!” She later added: “People are taking this as me saying something bad about Keanu and this woman, to which I must scream: PLEASE LEARN BASIC READING COMPREHENSION. The gushing praise prompted Alanna Bennett to tweet: “I love Keanu and agree that who he’s dating is refreshing and age appropriate but lol that Hollywood’s conditioned us to see a 55yo man and a 46yo woman as the same age.” You can read her response here.) Others still, excited by Reeves’ choice of partner, insisted that they found it “incredibly refreshing” that he’d chosen someone “his own age”. (Mirren later had the perfect response to the comparisons, proving that she has no time for any ageist nonsense. Some compared Grant to Helen Mirren, adding that they originally had mistaken the pair for each other because, we can only guess, both are women with grey hair. Still one more added spitefully: “I hope he finds someone younger so he can have children.”Īnd yet another said: “Good to see he’s happy, but she looks older than his mom.” “She looks like his mother,” said one, as another disgusting troll quipped that “men age like wine, women age like milk.” ![]() Despite the fact that she is nine years younger than the actor. ![]() Because Grant is “too old” for Reeves, apparently. Well, apparently this one is, judging by the slew of hateful comments that have poured in online. After all, why on earth would the couple have anything to hide? A relationship isn’t a crime, is it? The couple walked the red carpet together at the LACMA Art + Film Gala and posed for “dozens of photos in front of the international press, proving they had nothing to hide” – which is, if I may say so, very interesting phrasing indeed. That girlfriend, if you’re wondering, is artist Alexandra Grant. His first in decades, if the Mail Online’s breathless reportage is to be believed. As reported in Nov 2019: In news that shouldn’t really be news (but we’ll take it, because anything that isn’t Brexit-related is fine by us at this point), Keanu Reeves has a girlfriend. ![]()
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