In case you haven’t heard, Miley Cyrus has been hooking up with Cody Simpson ever since she broke up with Liam Hemsworth, which is something of a dream come true of ol’ Cody as he’s been crushing on her since he was a young 9-year-old lad.
It’s been public, excessively gratuitous, occasionally problematic, and has kicked up this very interesting question among the GOAT team: is it cute or creepy when a celebrity like Miley Cyrus hooks up with their childhood crush?
Miley and Cody’s fast and furious hook-up is far from the first time a celeb has hooked up with their childhood crush and it is generally been okay for the most part. They’re both young, good-looking, and are in the same industry so it’s not too overly surprising, even if it reeks of textbook post-breakup behaviour.
The same can be said of couples like Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner (who owned posters of The Jonas Brothers back in the day), and Justin and Hailey Bieber (who apparently crushed on him pretty hard back in the day).
They’re all young people who are just going through the rollercoaster that is love and life. We’ve all done stupid stuff when it comes to getting the attention of the person we’re crushing on, it just so happens all the aforementioned celebs are doing it in the public eye.
It’s when we get to childhood crush couples who have a large age difference where things start to tick over from cute to creepy.
There’s no denying that Jason Momoa really loves his wife (and childhood crush) Lisa Bonet, but things get slightly weird when you take into account their 12-year age difference and his quite intense declarations of love and being a bit of a “stalker.” It’s roughly the same story for Liam Payne and Cheryl Cole, both of whom have a kid together and hooked up after she judged him on The X-Factor.
By the time we get to a 40-something Leonardo DiCaprio and his multitude of 25-or-younger supermodel girlfriends, and whatever went on between Katie Holmes and her childhood crush Tom Cruise, things are firmly in weird and creepy territory.
Besides the big age difference, it’s hard not to think that the older celebrity is taking advantage of the younger person’s childhood crush on them in order to get them into something resembling a relationship.
Maybe I’m being a bit cynical about this whole thing about celebrities hooking up with their childhood crush. Maybe the excitement people get from seeing something like this happen is because it’s literally a dream come true.
99.9 percent of the time, hooking up with some celebrity you’ve had the hots for since you were a teen is nothing more than a fantasy you carry (sometimes obsessively) in your head. When it actually does happen, it’s just wild because it’s something no one expected.
But hey, love (or lust) can begin from the most unexpected places. Sometimes it’s at first sight and other times it can be in the form of someone staring at the many posters of their crush for hours every day.
At the end of the day, Cody Simpson, Miley Cyrus, Jason Momoa, Katie Holmes and all the aforementioned celebrities are adults who can make their own choices. If they’re happy with their decisions, then who are we to judge?