Ageism is a thing in Hollywood. However, it doesn't solely pertain to the types of roles that actors receive or when people believe rappers should stop rapping. It applies to the concept of love as well. Some people assume or believe that after a particular age, a love life ends. However, marriage is not only for people in their 20s and 30s and for people who want to have a family.
Love can happen anytime, and after a person has gone through a lot of pain, they can find love again. In short, age does not have to limit a person on multiple levels. For example, Betty White could still find work in her 90s! Some stars like Morgan Freeman didn't make it big until they were older. Here is Tina-Knowles Lawson and nine other stars who proved that finding love is possible at any age.
10 Tina Knowles-Lawson
In 2009, Beyoncé's parents split after 30 years of marriage! According to Huff Post, Matthew Knowles fathered two children while he was still married to Tina Knowles-Lawson. One doesn't have to wonder why she divorced him. In 2015, Tina Knowles-Lawson married actor Richard Lawson and father to actress Bianca Lawson. Around this time, she was sixty-one.
9 Adrienne Banfield-Norris
Here is yet another story that shows that a person can find love again. Banfield-Norris, Jada Pinkett Smith's mother, first married Robsol Pinkett Jr. after becoming pregnant in high school. However, their marriage only lasted a few months because her ex-husband was abusive. Interestingly enough, the Red Table Talk co-star has been a wife four times, with her fourth husband being Rodney Norris. There isn't much information around about who he is or the couple's love story. However, Banfield-Norris does post lovely photos of him on her IG. Banfield-Norris celebrated their 4th wedding anniversary in 2020, meaning that Banfield-Norris was at least 62 or 63 when the two tied the knot.
8 George Takei
The Star Trek actor married his longtime partner Brad Altman when he was 71. The couple has been together since 1985, but Takei didn't come out until twenty years later in 2005! Takei and his husband were one of the first same-sex couples to get a marriage license in California. What's interesting about their marriage is that the couple said "I do" at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, a memorial that hits close to home for Takei. During World War II, his family was forced into an internment camp.
7 RuPaul
According to Vanity Fair, The "Supermodel (You Better Work) singer saw his future husband, George LeBars, at a club in 1994. He saw him dancing passionately and knew that had to be with him. However, the two didn't officially tie the knot until twenty-three years later, when RuPaul was 57. So, what made RuPaul decide to get married after so long? Former President Trump's opposition to nationwide marriage motivated him, among other reasons.
6 Ellen DeGeneres
After same-sex marriage became legalized in the United States in 2008, DeGeneres and former model and actress Portia de Rossi tied the knot. Rossi was only 36 at the time, but DeGeneres was 50. Since 2000, DeGeneres wanted to be with Rossi but didn't dare to tell her because she was not living as an openly gay woman. The two began dating in 2004, and Rossi has been DeGeneres's support system even during the "toxic workplace allegations."
5 Harrison Ford
Although Ford met his third wife eight years before at the Golden Globes Award, it wasn't until 2010 that he married actress, Calista Flockhart. In 2010, the Indiana Jones actor was 67. Although Flockhart is 22 years his junior, she likes how her husband looks in the morning.
4 Paul McCartney
Sadly, McCartney's first wife died from breast cancer in 1998. Then, in 2002, he married former model Heather Mills. However, they divorced in 2008. Their relationship had many highs and lows, leading to a public and explosive court battle. Then, in 2011, at 69, the Beatles superstar married Nancy Shevell. It makes sense that the man behind so many love songs doesn't have trouble finding love. It seems as if three times is the charm.
3 Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt wasn't forty yet when he married Jennifer Aniston. However, when he married Angelina Jolie, he was around 51 years old. According to Us Weekly, the Troy actor doubts that he will get married again. After two divorces and custody battles, one can imagine that a person wouldn't want to get married again.
2 George Clooney
Clooney, like Leonardo DiCaprio, has been considered one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors. Unlike DiCaprio, Clooney has been married. In 1989, Clooney married his first wife, actress Talia Balsam and by 1993, the couple was divorced. Clooney did not get married again until 21 years later, in 2014! He was 53 when he married Amal Clooney.
1 Tina Turner
Like Banfield-Norris, Turner can relate to being in an abusive marriage. From 1962-1978, Turner was married to Ike Turner. The 1993 biopic in which Angela Basset played her, What's Love Got to Do with It, chronicled Turner's tumultuous and verbally and physically abusive marriage with her former late husband. In 2013, she married Erwin Bach, a label executive at the European branch of Turner's record label, EMI.
When Turner's manager Roger Davies got Bach to pick her up from the airport one time, she described how she felt like love at first sight. The two met in 1989, and it took Tina 27 years to marry him, but she didn't feel any pressure to do so. She expressed that if you are internally happy with your partner, you don't need symbols.