# Amber Tamblyn, 28, to marry David Cross, 47 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091 "2011-08-17T23:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/21 "2011-08-18T02:08:24Z")
Meh. This one just barely violates the half-your-age-plus-seven-years rule. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/22 "2011-08-18T02:21:04Z")
Another good-looking actress marrying a complete asshole. What else is new? ---
**Author:** ![punch\_line\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/23 "2011-08-18T03:12:16Z")
I never understood why an age difference has to be a thing, so long as there are two consenting (and lucid) adults involved. Sure, I wouldn’t recommend 18-year-olds marrying 50-year-olds, but that’s because I personally don’t think 18-year-olds should be marrying anybody. It’s usually practical issues that derail May-December romances, but as has been pointed out, this girl is pushing thirty and both parties have established adult lives and careers, so who cares? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/24 "2011-08-18T03:42:16Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > The age difference doesn’t bother me at all but it just seems so random; like someone picked two celebrities out of a hat. Congrats to them both. I couldn’t put my finger on why I thought this was weird, but this is definitely why. Amber Tamblyn and David Cross strike me as two people who’s circles would never cross. How did they not only get together, but stayed together long enough to get married? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/25 "2011-08-18T03:51:10Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Another good-looking actress marrying a complete asshole. What else is new? Other than the actress part, this comment could be about **Girl Wonder** and me. The first time she met me, she thought I was a complete and total asshole. And she was right. FWIW, I’m 38. **Girl Wonder** just turned 26. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/26 "2011-08-18T03:58:42Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > I couldn’t put my finger on why I thought this was weird, but this is definitely why. Amber Tamblyn and David Cross strike me as two people who’s circles would never cross. How did they not only get together, but stayed together long enough to get married? I know. I’ve been trying hard to think of anything they might have been in together, but I’m coming up empty, so I’m guessing they met through other actor(s) they know in common. Maybe she’s friends with Keri Russell and met him that way? ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/27 "2011-08-18T04:04:15Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I know. I’ve been trying hard to think of anything they might have been in together, but I’m coming up empty, so I’m guessing they met through other actor(s) they know in common. Maybe she’s friends with Keri Russell and met him that way? They met on an airplane. I believe flying to Louisiana. Not to work together. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/28 "2011-08-18T05:15:20Z")
IIRC they were on the same episode of “Celebrity Poker” several years ago. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/29 "2011-08-18T12:50:24Z")
I didn’t know what an Amber Tamblyn was, so I had to look her up (awesome name, by the way). Turns out I’ve never seen anything she has appeared in. I do have to give her props for this comment from her IMDB page, though: > [@](#): > > “The idea that someone like Britney Spears is a role model for teenage girls is kind of sad and horrifying. Britney is the epitome of a non-artist. She has nothing to offer but her T&A”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/30 "2011-08-18T13:25:32Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > If you think this age/gender spread is worthy of comment, can you even begin to imagine the brouhaha that would ensue if a 28-yr-old _male_ married a 47-yr-old _female_? Never mind if the male were the more attractive member of that pair. If I’m doing the math right, 32-yr-old Ralph Fiennes apparently started getting it on with a 50-yr-old Francesca Annis when she was playing his fine-looking mother in HAMLET; [here’s](http://www.film.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/22787339-22787341-large.jpg) a picture of the couple, who apparently made it work for eleven years. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/31 "2011-08-18T13:33:34Z")
^ i guess they both share a common interest of making public denouncements of celebrities they don’t like, or agree with in an unbearably condescending manner. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/32 "2011-08-18T13:54:47Z")
Joan of Arcadia is marrying Tobias Funke. I think I need to lay down. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/33 "2011-08-18T18:51:10Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > If you think this age/gender spread is worthy of comment, can you even begin to imagine the brouhaha that would ensue if a 28-yr-old _male_ married a 47-yr-old _female_? Never mind if the male were the more attractive member of that pair. What’s the age spread on Ashton & Demi? (not trying to be an ass, serious question) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/34 "2011-08-18T19:08:03Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > What’s the age spread on Ashton & Demi? (not trying to be an ass, serious question) 27 and 43 at the time of the marriage, I think. There may be some small errors in there because I didn’t account for what month they were married in. (That’s who I inscrutably linked to upthread.) ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/35 "2011-08-18T19:08:29Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > What’s the age spread on Ashton & Demi? (not trying to be an ass, serious question) Post 18 says 16 years. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14151155&postcount=18](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14151155&postcount=18) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/36 "2011-08-19T06:19:58Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > If I’m doing the math right, 32-yr-old Ralph Fiennes apparently started getting it on with a 50-yr-old Francesca Annis when she was playing his fine-looking mother in HAMLET; [here’s](http://www.film.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/22787339-22787341-large.jpg) a picture of the couple, who apparently made it work for eleven years. He actually left his wife (ER’s Rachel Kingston) who’s the same age he is for Annis. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/37 "2011-08-19T06:45:08Z")
I think you mean _Alex_ Kingston. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/38 "2011-08-19T09:51:14Z")
Is the problem that she’s 28 (plenty old enough, IMO) or that she still looks like she’s 16? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/39 "2011-08-19T12:02:59Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Is the problem that she’s 28 (plenty old enough, IMO) or that she still looks like she’s 16? The problem is that David Cross is a weirdo and imagining him in any kind of a relationship pings my :dubious: meter. But a relationship with the 28-year old girl from the Traveling Pants movies is just weirder. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091/40 "2011-08-19T14:21:56Z")
The age difference doesn’t faze me at all. Here’s what makes it feel creepy: David Cross is creepy. Like, professionally. Perhaps _only_ professionally, he may well be a delightful human being IRL, but I simply can’t visualize it. It doesn’t help that Amber Tamblyn’s living is made portraying wide-eyed naivete, although I don’t imagine that any 28 year old woman actually lives her real life being as adorably innocent as Amber Tamblyn always looks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amber-tamblyn-28-to-marry-david-cross-47/593091.md?page=3)