Leonardo DiCaprio and the dating double-standard

There's a vacancy in the actor's under-25 club. Don't all rush at once

Camila Morone got too old for DiCaprio...

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And so it has come to pass. Leonardo DiCaprio’s most recent girlfriend, Camila Morone, has breached her 25th birthday and so the two have parted ways, after five years together. (Yes, your maths is spot on. She was 20 and he was 42 when they started dating. We’ll gloss over the fact that he allegedly first met her when she was 12 and he was a family friend... 😱) 

Ordinarily I wouldn’t bother to give this airtime. I mean, 'Hollywood Actor Dates Much Younger Woman' is hardly news, but there’s a reason the internet is awash with jokes about DiCaprio's under-25 club. He's got form. Despite the fact he's aged some 20 years since ditching model Gisele Bundchen back in 2001, strangely his girlfriends haven't. And because you can find anything on the internet, don't take my word for it, check out this graph!