Talk about a headline that will make you do a DOUBLE TAKE!!
New wave icon Gary Numan has everyone talking after opening up about the very unconventional beginning of his decades-long love story with his longtime wife Gemma. And yes… it is precisely the kind of celebrity confession that sends the internet into detective mode.
Here’s the tea: Gary revealed in a new interview with The times this week that they first crossed paths when he was 22 and Gemma was just 12 (!!!) at a fan meet-and-greet. Yes, you read that right: he was a full-fledged adult at 22, and she was just a 12-year-old girl!
WTF?!?!
But before anyone jumps to conclusions, the romance didn’t start until years later, apparently, after she was an adult… but still barely!
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According to the Cars singer, after that first underage encounter, they went their separate ways for a while and reunited years later when she was 18 and he was 28. They then reportedly eventually started dating after he reached out to offer condolences after her mother’s death.
The singer even joked about how he got her phone number through his fan club, joking:
“That’s how I attracted her, which I think is now illegal.”
Ehhh…
And he’s not the only one supporting this story! Years ago, Gemma gave her own version of events in a completely separate interview with another outlet, and it was… exactly the same! Per We weekly and others, she said at the time:
“I was 11, and it started as a schoolgirl crush – a big crush. You know, when you’re at that age. I first met Gary around my 12th birthday. My dad worked at Warner Broswhich the Beggar’s banquet label to which he belonged, and he arranged for me to meet Gary and have a single signed. I was completely overwhelmed, I couldn’t talk – I cried and I told him I really loved him.
Um… wow.
As wild as the story sounds out of context, the couple has been together for decades now, getting married in 1997 and raising three children together. That’s a pretty remarkable Hollywood survival story in an industry where some marriages barely survive an album cycle! So the proof is in the pudding, we guess?
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Still, social media will do what social media does best: discuss every detail of the timeline. Some fans say this is proof that context matters, while others think the headline alone is enough to raise eyebrows.
What do you think, y’all?? Which one came, are you in?! A romantic destiny… or a story that’s impossible to hear without asking a lot of questions?
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