Victor and Sharon, Young & Restless
It was more than enough of a shock when the Black Knight kissed his frequent daughter-in-law. But then he went and married sons Nick and Adam’s former wife. Twice. (Read Eric Braeden’s take on the storyline.)
May/December Affairs: Age Was Nothin’ But a Number for These Soap Couples
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Johnny and Olivia, General Hospital
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI A word to the wise: Never threaten Dante’s mom with a good time. ’Cause even if the aforementioned good time is young enough to be her son’s peer, she’ll jump right on it. And nope, we don’t blame her a bit.
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Steffy and Bill, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI Before they were over and done, they were hot and heavy. And — sorry, Finn — Steffy could one day end up reconnecting with her father’s archenemy. (Read what Jacqueline MacInnes Wood has said.)
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Nicole and Victor, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: Jesse Grant/JPI Neither of them ever having known when to leave well enough alone, these two went from friends to marrieds to the bitterest kind of enemies. But where there’s that much hatred, you can bet that there was also that much passion.
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Bill and Hayley, Beyond the Gates
Image Credit: CBS screenshot For a hot minute, having a child bride put the spring back into the attorney’s step. But it soon was revealed that where the baby-faced schemer really wanted to walk him was into an early grave!
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Erica and Ryan, All My Children
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection To this day, we’re still bewildered as to how these two wound up being paired. Maybe they finally noticed just how gorgeous one another was? Or maybe they were just the last characters in Pine Valley who had yet to sleep together?
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Derek and Katherine, Young & Restless
Image Credit: CBS/Getty Images The Duchess saw a glorious future for herself and her favorite hairdresser… if only he hadn’t been tangled in the tresses of trampy Jill, who wielded her relative youth like a weapon that the older woman didn’t possess.
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Monica and Ned, General Hospital
Image Credit: ABC Ironically, the most eyebrow-raising thing about the doctor making hay with her studly young tennis pro (then Kurt McKinney) wasn’t their age difference but the fact that he turned out to be her nephew!
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Taylor and Rick, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI When the shrink (then Hunter Tylo) took herself a boy toy, it was hella hot. That is, if you discount the fact that he had previously dated one of her daughters and subsequently pursued the other!
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Eve and J.J., Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Although the Salem hellcat only seduced daughter Paige’s boyfriend to break them up, both she and the younger man she undressed with more than her eyes seemed to enjoy their playtime. Well, until Paige found out, anyway.
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Joey and Dorian, One Life to Live
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images (3) The femme fatale may have set out to corrupt the beefy collegian only to stick it to his mother, her nemesis Viki. But what resulted was a short-lived romance that was far sweeter than it was bitter.
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J.T. and Colleen, Young & Restless
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI Let’s be real: When Traci’s daughter finally got her more mature crush — who, fine, wasn’t that much older than her — to see her as more than a pal, it was a victory for us all.
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Tony and Carly, General Hospital
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images (2) Playing doctor with wife Bobbie’s vengeful daughter (then Sarah Joy Brown) was the beginning of the end for Port Charles’ most upstanding fella. But we assume that it was fun while it lasted?
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Brooke and Eric, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Jesse Grant/JPI When the patriarch of the Forrester family married his second wife, she wasn’t just young enough to be his son’s girlfriend, she… uh… she actually had been his son’s girlfriend. And would be again and again and again.
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Sheila and Eric, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection What a coincidence! The silver fox’s third wife was also young enough to be mistaken for his daughter. Are we beginning to see a pattern forming here? Spoiler alert: We are.
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Eric and Quinn, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI The designer has actual kids who are older than the stunning jeweler on whose finger he slipped a wedding band. Heck, he’s probably owned that suit for longer than she’s been alive!
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Eric and Donna, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI One of these men is the blonde bombshell’s current husband; the other, her father. So what are we thinking? Does Donna have daddy issues or Eric, daughter issues?
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Kate and Nicholas, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Their affair may not have stood the test of time, but if you remember how scorchin’ these two were together, you’ll no doubt agree that it was one for the, ahem, ages.
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Seneca and Kimberly, Ryan’s Hope
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images The doctor quickly came to regret marrying an aspiring actress who was young enough to be his daughter. Anytime he sent the teenager to her room, it was… um… his room, too.
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Victor and Nikki, Young & Restless
Image Credit: CBS The power player was so aware of the age difference between himself and the stripper of his dreams that he tried to push her away. All these decades later, you can see how that worked out!
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Sonny and Emily, General Hospital
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI, Doug Piburn/JPI Love is love is love, sure. But you had to feel for Jason when his BFF started knocking boots with his baby sister with an emphasis on the “baby.” Boundaries, man. Boundaries.
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Sally and Clarke, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection He’d always be her Bucky Boy. And she’d always hold a special place in his heart. But as for the rest of his body… eh, he’d have been happier giving that to someone more his own age.
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Carly and Victor, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: NBCUniversal/Getty Images The heart wants what the heart wants. And in the ruthless tycoon’s case, it gets what it wants, albeit temporarily. Victor was so intent on marrying son Bo’s would-be fiancée that he tricked her into believing that it was what Junior wanted.
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David and Dorian, One Life to Live
Image Credit: George De Sota/JPI It wasn’t the years that separated this much-missed supercouple but the fact that they were both such born liars that they kept mucking up the true love that they’d found in one another’s arms.
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Tyra and Devon, Young & Restless
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI It was tawdry enough that Neil’s son was paying, ahem, lip service to “Aunt Tyra.” But she was also making time with his dad. Who at the time was married. To be clear, to someone who was not Tyra.
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Sonny and Karen, General Hospital
Image Credit: ABC Their affair wasn’t just illicit, it was illegal. The future “good mobster” plied the high-school student with drugs, got her to strip at his club and then tucked her into bed. His bed. (Recall just how skeevy Sonny’s introduction was.)
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Thomas and Amber, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI In retrospect, we shouldn’t have been surprised that the scheme queen would work her wiles on someone she could’ve been babysitting. She did carry on with Rick Forrester when she was his nanny!
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Kate and Jake, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Even when she was struck blind, she knew what a stud muffin she had on her hands. She didn’t need to be able to see feel that his pecs were, to paraphrase Seinfeld, real and spectacular.
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Michael and Rae, Ryan’s Hope
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images The newspaper publisher knew better than to risk making headlines herself by hooking up with her buff assistant. But… well… did we mention how buff he was?
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Jill and John, Young & Restless
Image Credit: CBS/Getty Images The Jabot Cosmetics founder already had three kids when he married the scheming manicurist (then Deborah Adair) who could easily has passed for a fourth.
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Brooke and Oliver, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI In fairness, thanks to the impenatrable masks, Hope’s mom didn’t know that she was schtupping her daughter’s boyfriend at her graduation party and not husband Ridge. But yeah, that happened.
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Deacon and Brooke, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI On the flipside, the inspiration for Brooke’s Bedroom did know when she shagged daughter Bridget’s husband that she was… how to put this… shagging her daughter’s husband.
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Andre and Dani, Beyond the Gates
Image Credit: CBS screenshot A rebound romance with a younger man was just the thing to get the supermodel over her divorce. And a rebound marriage to the aforementioned younger man? Hey, if the good times are rolling, why stop ’em!
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Henry and Barbara, As the World Turns
Image Credit: George De Sota/JPI The designer wasn’t just kicking up her heels with the younger man — although as you can see, she did that, too. She found in him the love, understanding and laughs that had so often eluded her in life.
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Sean and Jill, Young & Restless
Image Credit: CBS/Getty Images The tech whiz didn’t waste any time calculating the age difference between himself and the cougar who sunk her claws into his back. He just leaned into their fling and said, “Yup, this computes.”
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Mac and Rachel, Another World
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection As evidenced by their long and happy marriage, the Corys may have been perfect for one another. But there’s no way that he ever got her pop-culture references. (Or vice-versa!)
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Jackie and Owen, Bold & Beautiful
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI We dare ya. Name any May/December couple that had more fun with their age difference than these two. The photo shoots alone… phew! They made the most of every moment and made our day while they were doing so.
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Victoria and Kyle, Young & Restless
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Sparks flew when the business rivals became sparring partners. Now the question is, will their fiery fling burn out or prove to have lit what The Bangles would have called an eternal flame?
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Julie and Bob, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images If the Andersons don’t look happy, it’s with good reason. The older/younger pair only married after Julie’s husband was killed while working for Bob’s manufacturing company. He and his then-wife endeavored to support her… until he left his misses for her!
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Ava and Morgan, General Hospital
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Talk about a fatal attraction! The feelings that erupted between Kiki’s mother and significant other were realer than real. But so were the devastating consequences of their involvement.
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Nikki and Arturo, Young & Restless
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI It was wild enough when Victor’s on-again/off-again wife started rolling in the hay with Cole, who wound up marrying her daughter Victoria. But during Nikki’s open-marriage phase with Victor, she hit the sheets with stepgranddaughter Abby’s lover!
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Adam and Dixie, All My Children
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The “ick” factor was nosebleed high when the tycoon seduced Palmer’s gullible niece. And having learned nothing from the debacle, he went on to hook up with one woman half his age (Gloria) after another (Annie).
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Willow and Drew, General Hospital
Image Credit: ABC screenshot The only thing that kept Port Charles from buzzing about the age difference between these illicit lovers was the fact that he was also sleeping with his nephew’s wife. Tacky, yes. But they did have their fans. (Read their take here.)
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Hilary and Neil, Young & Restless
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI The Genoa City exec learned the hard way that it’s no mean feat to date, much less marry, someone young enough to be your daughter-in-law. Soon enough, that’s exactly what Devon’s lost love became to his dad!
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Emily and Casey, As the World Turns
Image Credit: ©George De Sota/jpistudios.com It’s probably for the best that this May/December affair was over in a matter of months. Emily was never going to get any work done with Casey using her desk as a sexy, sexy jungle gym.
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Sabrina and Victor, Young & Restless
Image Credit: Brian Lowe/JPI She was so much younger than he was that she was pals with his literal daughter. Nevertheless, Cupid took aim, and she became the business whiz’s umpteenth wife.
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Nate and Stephanie, Young & Restless
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI It remains to be seen whether or not Genoa City Memorial’s chief of staff is working so hard to get the former surgeon back into the O.R. because she hopes that they’ll eventually, ahem, play doctor.
