People <\/em>got it right for once.<\/p>\nFor some time now, he\u2019s been dating fellow actor Alba Baptista. It looks like they first met a couple of years ago, while both filming in Europe.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, he and the Warrior Nun<\/em> star married in a secret ceremony. They have been remarkably private.<\/p>\nAnd not without reason. This week, the newlyweds have received a deluge of shaming <\/em>over their age gap.<\/p>\n<\/noscript>Chris Evans played Steve Rogers in the MCU. Alba Baptista is internationally beloved for her role as Ava Silva in the Warrior Nun franchise. In September of 2023, these two married in secret. (Instagram)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nChris Evans and Alba Baptista married on Saturday, September 9. The groom invited fellow MCU actors Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, and even Jeremy Renner for some reason.<\/p>\n
The understated ceremony went down near the hunky actor\u2019s home outside of Boston.<\/p>\n
Apparently, guests signed NDAs. It sounds like someone may have spilled anyway.<\/p>\nChris Evans attends the \u201cThe Gray Man\u201d Netflix Special Screening at Zoopalast on July 18, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nObviously, initial reactions included a lot of joy at the couple\u2019s nuptials.<\/p>\n
And the equally obvious lamentations that these two absolute knockouts are off the market. (They\u2019ve been dating for a while, folks) Most people were joking, or at least half-joking. Because most people never had a shot.<\/p>\n
However, the Avengers <\/em>alum and Warrior Nun<\/em> star were also the targets of some very sincere hostility. Why? Because of their respective ages. And the span of years between those ages.<\/p>\nAlba Baptista and Chris Evans are one of the hottest couples on the planet, yet they only occasionally make headlines for their personal lives. That\u2019s impressive! (Instagram)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nChris Evans entered the world in 1981. The Hollywood hunk is 42 years old.<\/p>\n
Alba Baptista, born in Portugal to a Portuguese and Brazilian parent, is younger. She is 16 years younger, having been born in 1997.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s be perfectly clear: Alba is a grown adult woman. In addition to being 26, she had an established Portuguese-language career before making her English-language debut starring in Warrior Nun<\/em>.<\/p>\nChris Evans attends Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Gray Man\u201d Los Angeles Premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre on July 13, 2022. (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThey met in 2021 (according to internet sleuths; like we said, Chris and Alba have been very quiet). The two were both filming projects in Europe at that time.<\/p>\n
So no one\u2019s accusing Chris of, like, grooming her when she was a minor so that he could announce their relationship on her 18th birthday.<\/p>\n
(That\u2019s a gross people that real people, even famous people, have done. And worse)<\/p>\nChris Evans sure looks dashing in blue. He should get some awards for fashion. (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSimply put, a lot of people are sick and tired of famous actors \u2014 even the super hot ones \u2014 who constantly date and marry much, much younger women.<\/p>\n
And, as is so often the case, some nuance gets lost along the way.<\/p>\n
So instead of \u201chmmm, what is drawing these men to date these super-young adult women?\u201d people turn it into a sort of orthodoxy, where age gaps are inherently bad. But \u2026 are they?<\/p>\nChris Evans attends CW3PR presents Gold Meets Golden at Equinox Sports Club on February 21, 2015. (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nObviously, some more extreme age gaps will always raise questions. What does a rich 60-year-old have in common with a 23-year-old waitress? Well, they\u2019d both enjoy her moving into his mansion, if likely for different reasons.<\/p>\n
That said \u2026 Chris is a widely desired actor. And Alba isn\u2019t desperate or struggling to make rent on a one-bedroom close enough to the bus stop to make it to work. So what exploitation could there be?<\/p>\n
More significantly, this is not some sort of pattern for Chris. He\u2019s not Leonardo DiCaprio and he\u2019s not Scott Disick. Sometimes, two adults meet \u2014 especially two working in the same field. And sometimes they even fall in love.<\/p>\nChris Evans attends \u201cThe Gray Man\u201d Special Screening at BFI Southbank on July 19, 2022 (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSo maybe the Age Gap Police should close this file and move on to a more pressing case. (Or, put another way: ACAB means Age Gap Police, too<\/em>)<\/p>\nWe are of course not suggesting that people are \u201cnot allowed\u201d to feel uncomfortable. Sometimes, folks have personal experiences with moderate age gaps like this one. Trauma and heartbreak can influence our perspectives on many things.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s valid. What\u2019s not <\/em>valid is trying to publicly shame two adults who met normally, dated normally, and married. Personally disliking something does not make it inherently immoral. Sometimes, feelings are just feelings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As most people are already aware, Chris Evans is one of the sexiest men alive. And not only because People got it right for once. For some time now, he\u2019s been dating fellow actor Alba Baptista. It looks like they first met a couple of years ago, while both filming in Europe. Over the weekend, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0912_chrisevans_albabaptista_01-822x1024.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1409581265-683x1024.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0912_chrisevans_albabaptista_02-822x1024.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1408575394-1024x683.jpg\")
![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chris-evans-at-2017-oscars.jpg\")
![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chris-evans-fights-white-supremacist-becomes-national-hero-775x1024.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1409746352-737x1024.jpg\")