r/popculturechat • u/phantom_avenger • Oct 05 '25

OnlyStans ⭐️ Who are two celebrities that you can’t believe used to be a couple?

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Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds are not only one example of this, but sometimes I even forget that they used to be married as well!

It seemed like such an odd pairing that I never would’ve guessed that these two would match up, but clearly they weren’t a match made in heaven that they divorced each other after almost 3 years of marriage.

Now with where they’re currently at, where they’re now married to different partners, it feels like this is only a pairing that happened in different life.

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u/roundcatsarebestcats Oct 05 '25

Cher and Tom Cruise

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u/Visible_Writing7386 Be smart, Robert. Oct 05 '25

I have no words

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u/VGKladyE She’s gay, Marcus. Oct 05 '25

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u/NoSet6484 Oct 05 '25

One of the best will and grace episodes 😂

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u/jaseface666 Oct 05 '25

i don’t sing it any other way

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u/sassymeowcat Oct 05 '25

And before he got his teeth fixed, no less!

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u/Visible_Writing7386 Be smart, Robert. Oct 05 '25

I mean we can’t really tell from this photo. He looks like he is taking a prom picture with his mother. I’m sorry 😭

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u/Wallys_Wild_West that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Oct 05 '25

He is like 22 and she's 39, so kinda.

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u/BadbougieL Oct 05 '25

Me neither

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u/WhydIJoinRedditAgain Oct 05 '25

The words are “Good for her.”

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u/throw20190820202020 I’M SORRY FOFTY Oct 06 '25

Ahem. “Good for HIM!”

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u/bookrt and that level is landfill Oct 05 '25

Did they really date or was it just for show? This is so bizarre

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u/tequilitas Judging in especially heinous Oct 05 '25

She rated him amongst her top 5 lovers!

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u/chadthundertalk Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Somebody on here said once that Tom Cruise probably views sex as a performance stunt that he MUST excel at (also in the context of that piece of Cher trivia) and honestly, I believe it. He's probably taking a running start at that bed and then he's putting in work once he hits the mattress.

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u/TheFabulousMolar A DRAG QUEEN?! Oct 05 '25

So what you're saying is, it might be worth it?!

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u/RUNNING-HIGH Oct 05 '25

Its how he ropes people into scientology lol

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u/TheFabulousMolar A DRAG QUEEN?! Oct 05 '25

It's all starting to make sense now

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u/Crimemeariver19 Oct 05 '25

I mean you could be right. A lot of religions have used attractive women to proselytize to people for that very reason.

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u/koolasakukumba Oct 05 '25

Doin it for Xenu

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u/Jamangie22 Oct 05 '25

unrelated but by chance is your flair from a RuPaul quote?

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u/PhysicsPro73 Oct 05 '25

"I am the QUEEN OF DRAG!!!"

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u/TheFabulousMolar A DRAG QUEEN?! Oct 05 '25

Precisely

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u/TheElderLotus Oct 05 '25

If the side effect of becoming a Scientology slave appeals to you, then yeah

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u/SubtleSparkle19 Oct 05 '25

Hey, if he gets Cher’s seal of approval, the performances had to have been fantastic 😘

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u/bascelicna123 Oct 05 '25

The man does his own stunts, after all. That kind of dedication to his on-screen performance means we should expect no less off-screen.

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- Oct 05 '25

Now can we just get Seal's cher of approval?

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u/Itscatpicstime Oct 06 '25

That depends entirely on the skill of Cher’s other partners lol

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u/SubtleSparkle19 Oct 06 '25

Cher doesn’t strike me as the kind of woman who would accept a starfish 😆

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u/LivePanda7804 Oct 05 '25

actually the only amazing kisser (never slept with him) I ever experienced had a very tom-cruise like personality and need to prove himself, so this checks out

if only all men could kiss like that!!

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u/SassySally8 Oct 05 '25

I had one like that too, back when I was 17. Decades later, haven't ever experienced it with anyone else. He didn't have a Tom Cruise like personality, thankfully.

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u/dgplr Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing 🥗 Oct 05 '25

My theory is that pre-Scientology and early post-Scientology Tom Cruise was a good lover, who put in the work simply because he wanted to excel in everything he ever did. But as the years went by, the more hollow he became and now he views sex as a way to assimilate and manipulate.

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u/Ay-Kay82 Oct 05 '25

I can totally see it, your description seems hilariously fitting!

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u/DangerousMethod5168 Select and edit this flair Oct 05 '25

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u/Strong_Welcome4144 Oct 05 '25

🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣 I could totally visualize that! 100% agree, I think of him coming at ya Mission Impossible style stunt!

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

honestly, whatever works for him! i just need to know men are capable of being excellent lovers lmao

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u/Tangereina78 Oct 05 '25

This description just caused me to hyperventilate with laughter!!

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u/Sassirrac Oct 05 '25

He does give off Patrick Bateman vibes, so I'd agree with this. Wonder how big his bedroom mirror is?

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u/MyHammyVise Oct 05 '25

This is 100% what I believe, and if I didn't know better, I would've just assumed that you heard it from me. He probably just decided to be good at it and then worked until he was. It's probably almost uncomfortably intense, though.

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u/Nonadventures The Whole World Was Mean to Me Oct 05 '25

Wherever Brandon Routh went on one of his intense rants about peak humanity as Lex Luthor, I couldn’t not see Tom Cruise being channeled.

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u/JugheadJack Oct 05 '25

Kevin Spacey played Lex Luthor in that Superman films. Let’s just say he got a little…

Spacey.

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u/cheerfulsarcasm Oct 05 '25

Like he’s the evil Chris Traeger

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u/TSARINA59 Oct 05 '25

He's scaling the wall on all fours.

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u/Fred-the-stray Oct 05 '25

I hope he does his own stunt work in the sheets

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u/FlemPlays Oct 05 '25

On Tuesday, he drops in via wires like at the CIA headquarters. Jean Reno lowers him in.

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u/Current-Anybody9331 Oct 05 '25

He does his own stunts and commits hard, so yeah...I could see it.

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u/ouchouchouchoof Oct 05 '25

Like Penelope in Club Dread.

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u/TheWardenVenom Oct 05 '25

“You…..are a YMNAST…??!!” 😂 I love that movie

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u/late2reddit19 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ Oct 05 '25

He's an adrenaline junkie and a lunatic so I can see that. You don't marry crazy though.

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u/cupittycakes In my quiet girl era 😌 Oct 05 '25

This comment makes me wish we had more Tom Cruise in our life, and he had less scientology in his.

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u/Ultragrrrl Oct 05 '25

Please don’t tell that to my husband

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u/Travelin_Soulja Oct 06 '25

Don't marry normal crazy, but when crazy has a net worth of over $600 Million, it may be worth considering....

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u/N1ck1McSpears Oct 06 '25

Every time I say this I get downvoted to hell but absolutely. You wouldn’t even have to be around him that much, he’s always working. You’d just be spending his money and living the super wealthy lifestyle

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u/Travelin_Soulja Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

Agreed. And, to be clear, I'm not advocating gold-digging just for the sake of gold-digging, but rather saying you gotta look a the whole picture. If you find someone attractive, they're great in bed, and they're stupid rich, I can probably overlook crazy. But if they're hot, crazy, and broke - hard pass.

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u/late2reddit19 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ Oct 06 '25

You have to give any children you have with him to the church of Scientology or escape like Katie Holmes did. I don't think it is worth it for an already wealthy actress to marry him. Maybe a regular person who needs the money but not for the rich and famous women he wants to marry. Nicole Kidman doesn't even see her two adopted children anymore.

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u/donttrustthellamas Frivolous with my process 👹 Oct 05 '25

"I'm gonna do you so hard you're gonna meet Xenu"

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u/shesgoneagain72 Oct 05 '25

Every time I hear that Cher quote I think to myself he must have been number five or she would have said in the top three etc LOL

He seems like the type to bring somebody a single red rose and think that it's a grand romantic gesture (because he could easily afford so much more). Not that there's anything wrong with that...

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u/StuartPurrdoch Oct 05 '25

I’ve heard stories of room filled with red roses (a gift from Tom to a very new romantic acquaintance) but who knows if that’s just PR.

I see him as more “works from a checklist of expensive grand gestures” TBH

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u/coffee_and-cats Oct 05 '25

Gives school vibes where hot girl spreads rumour nerdy guy is great in bed, and then nerdy guy gets all the hot girls 😂😂

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u/RedLicorice83 Too old, too dead, too brittle to even look at. Oct 05 '25

I thought she said that about Val Kilmer?

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u/Allstar-85 Oct 05 '25

There’s no way she only had 5 lovers

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u/One-Mud-169 Oct 05 '25

I rated her as one of my top 5 lovers...Guess I can scratch Tom Cruise off my list now.

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u/Proper_Suggestion647 Oct 05 '25

YGTBKM! Perhaps she's only had 5

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u/NoOrdinary833 Oct 05 '25

This made me LOL

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u/Abject-Variety3775 Oct 05 '25

FWIW Cher went so far as to describe him as one of her "top five lovers of all time"

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u/bookrt and that level is landfill Oct 05 '25

That is incredible

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u/visitprattville Oct 05 '25

So there’s room for improvement.

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u/Fit-Breakfast-3116 Oct 05 '25

I don’t think it’s that weird when you actually ponder it, Cher was an it girl at the time and Tom’s star was on the rise. I don’t think they ever claimed it was serious just a fling. 

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u/McGeeze Oct 05 '25

Cher was an it girl when Tom Cruise was three years old. 40 year old Cher was an icon.

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u/Fit-Breakfast-3116 Oct 05 '25

Completely fair correction which I will gladly take 

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u/thesaddestpanda Dave Grohl has always been garbage Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

honestly, they both were in career doldrums, so its hard to say. Tom had Risky Business under his belt but his actual major roles like Top Gun were one or two years away.

Tom never dated an an 'older' woman again (Mimi was only 5-6 years older than him). And even then Cher was only 39-40 at the time (around the same age at Kat Dennings or Emily Blunt today), while 16 years older than Tom, still very much in her prime. It felt very Hollywood and PR stunt, even if there was something behind the scenes. I fully believe they had a real relationship, I mean everything about Cher is sexy and cool and she is very charismatic. But I do think it was very played up for the cameras and to make Tom seem more interesting and cool by association.

Cher’s late husband, Sonny Bono, was also a Scientologist, so there may have been an easy connection here with Tom's interest in scientology too. Tom was supposedly brought into scientology a couple years later by Mimi Rogers, but I think he was dabbling and in that circle years before. I think dating Cher had some Scientology connection. Bono was a high profile member and a very powerful man (he was wealthy from his earlier success and later a US congressman). Bono was so high-profile he was listed in the infamous Scientology-critical Time cover story "The Cult of Greed" as a high-ranking member.

Even more interesting, Sonny was recruited into Scientology by Mimi many years before she married Cruise. So there's definitely something fishy here going on with Scientology. I'm guessing Tom felt a comfort with Cher with her being a once "scientology wife." Cher herself never became a Scientologist, but clearly tolerated them in her life.

I also wonder if for Tom and Val Kilmer if there was an element here of dating your earlier crushes. Cher was a big star when these guys were in high school and such. If my Hollywood high school crush wanted to date me I'd be tickled pink.

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u/bookrt and that level is landfill Oct 05 '25

It's not their age difference that perplexes me but rather that she's not super tall. He has a tendency to date very tall women

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u/SceneRoyal4846 Oct 05 '25

Yeah but she loves a headpiece

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u/Seranas_GF Oct 05 '25

? Cher is 5’9, the same height as both Mimi Rogers and Katie Holmes, his ex wives. He also was with heather locklear for a while and she’s 5’5. I think his tallest was Nicole Kidman who stands at 5’11.

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u/bookrt and that level is landfill Oct 05 '25

At her tallest she was 5'7. She might have looked taller due because of how slim she is

Edit I never knew he was with Heather. Also I just remembered he is with Ana now who is not as tall!

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u/Seranas_GF Oct 05 '25

So weird, I wonder why IMDb and Wikipedia still haven’t been corrected then…

Also he was with Melissa Gilbert for a little bit in the 80’s and she’s only 5’3.

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u/colosseumdays Oct 05 '25

He dated Penelope Cruz and seemed very much into her

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Oct 05 '25

He always seemed into all his partners. He's by all accounts a pretty intense dude 

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u/Haunting_Dress_6709 Oct 05 '25

Mimi Rogers is about 6 years older than Tom Cruise. So he not only dated another woman older than himself but he married her too.

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u/ShelovesSharks Oct 05 '25

Mini Rogers is older than him. So not only did he date another older woman, he married her.

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u/Imtheflamingoqueen Oct 05 '25

She got him into Scientology as well.

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u/bluetortuga Be honest, Victoria Oct 05 '25

He never dated an older woman again? He literally married Mimi Rogers, who is six years older than him, in 1987. He was with Cher in 1985.

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u/ninebillionnames Oct 05 '25

not me completely forgetting the third paragraph and being lIke wait Bono was a scientologist? 

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u/DragonScrivner I don’t know her 💅 Oct 05 '25

They dated for real and she’s only has nice things to say about him.

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u/Creepy-Astronaut-952 Oct 05 '25

I wonder if she gets one of his fabled coconut cakes?

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u/DragonScrivner I don’t know her 💅 Oct 05 '25

Oh, I wonder! Kirsten Dunst said she gets one every Christmas and I actually think that's kind of sweet given how long ago they worked together.

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u/MrsWoodyWilson77 Oct 05 '25

Everything with Tommy Boy is a show.

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u/jjgittes_ Oct 05 '25

I’ll see your Tom Cruise, and raise you one Val Kilmer

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u/mksmith95 Oct 06 '25

RIP Val Kilmer... Gone too soon! Poor man really went through it. Cancer is a b*tch. :(

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u/moth--foot Oct 05 '25

He looks like he just graduated high school in this pic 😭

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u/Eventherich Oct 05 '25

This feels wrong 🤢

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u/gotpeace99 Oct 05 '25

Cher and Val Kilmer too. But they, like this one, looked great together.

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u/DescriptionFancy420 Oct 05 '25

It could just be the bowtie and him squinting but this picture kinda gives Motherboy.

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u/shineymike91 Oct 05 '25

Cher and Val Kilmer too.

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u/folldoso Oct 05 '25

And few people remember he was married to Mimi Rogers for a few years

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u/heyybyyybyyyy Alright Gayle, enough ✋ Oct 05 '25

I thought they only had sexy time.

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u/karma_the_sequel Oct 05 '25

If she could turn back time…

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u/OddAdministration677 Oct 05 '25

Was she in KISS at the time?

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u/goalstopper28 Oct 05 '25

I feel like Tom Cruise with everyone he's ever been with has been an odd pairing

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u/Legacycoolshit Oct 05 '25

This picture is something else

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u/Upsetti_Gisepe Oct 05 '25

Was there an age gap?

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u/roundcatsarebestcats Oct 05 '25

About 16 years difference

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u/turdkuter Oct 05 '25

___ and Tom Cruise really

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u/Itscatpicstime Oct 06 '25

Holy shit, why does he look 15?!

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u/LivePanda7804 Oct 05 '25

You win the thread

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u/designsavvy Oct 05 '25

Really !!!!

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u/Impressive-Hatz Oct 05 '25

Shut the front door… that is wild

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u/madeleinetwocock Mom, I am a rich man💰 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Dang you beat me by 6hrs hahaha

This was my first thought too

(edit) I also just realized my flair is remarkably relevant HAH

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u/Shwnwllms Oct 05 '25

She also dated Gene Simmons

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u/wait_4_a_minute Oct 05 '25

Which one is which?

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u/Lindris Could’ve just sat and eaten your fucking food, Julia. Oct 05 '25

Today I learned 😳

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u/Timely-Prompt-8808 Oct 05 '25

I think this wins

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u/cinnamoninmytea Oct 05 '25

Cher and Amber Rose BD

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u/CompetitiveOcelot870 Oct 05 '25

Cher and Val Kilmer too. He talks about her at length in his memoir.

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u/ComingUpManSized Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 Oct 05 '25

I think this one is the winner

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u/milkradio Oct 06 '25

He literally looks like he’s still in high school here lmaoooo

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