51-Year-Old Actor And 16-Year-Old Bride Give Totally Not At All Creepy Interview To GMA

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by Jon Bershad | 4:19 pm, July 15th, 2011

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How about we send you off into the weekend with a bit of true love, a little something beautiful to warm your hearts? Well, we’re not sure we have that. What we do have is some video of Doug Hutchison and Courtney Stodden whose marriage last May led to a big Internet uproar (and a pretty great Anderson Cooper segment). The reason people were so upset; he’s 51 and she’s 16.

The newlyweds gave their first interview to Good Morning America and it’s everything you’d imagine and more.

This is one of those videos where I don’t want to ruin the surprise of you watching it yourself (also, to be honest, I couldn’t get through the whole thing), so here’s a quick rundown of the fun stuff I learned:

The couple met after Stodden signed up for an acting class run by Hutchison (most famous for a villainous role in the movie The Green Mile).
Their courtship happened online, all under the watchful gaze of Stodden’s mother who condoned the whole thing.
There are 39 states where a 16-year-old, with written parental permission, can marry a 51-year-old (For those keeping score at home, that’s 33 more states than allow consenting gay adults to get married! Yay!)
Stodden is a devout Christian which is why there was no physical intimacy between the two till they were married. That and it’s mostly illegal.
Despite rumors, Stodden has not had any plastic surgery. Hutchison explains that “her plastic surgeon was God.” That guy?! I wouldn’t recommend him. He totally botched my nose.

Anyway, I’ll leave the rest of the fun for you to discover. You can watch the video from ABC below:

(h/t BuzzFeed who also edited a short snippet into the most hilariously disturbing thing you’ll see all day)

abc, Courtney Stodden, Doug Hutchison, Good Morning America, True Love

Cecelia

And when Jon “athan Swift” Bershad says “totally not creepy”, savvy folks know that it’s really…really… eh… creepy…

Shades of Dorthy Stratton… ick…
A.R.

stupid shit
Nature Freak

I am sure they have lots in common (sarc).
WTF?
I will not even watch the video.
My question is if Doug Hutchison is older than his mother in law.
Nature Freak

Here is a question, is Doug Hutchison older than his mother in law?

Sorry.
2012freedom

Nature Freak said:
Here is a question, is Doug Hutchison older than his mother in law?

One would assume so since he is older than his father in law.
flagringo

it’s nobody’s business but theirs and their family’s……I don’t think she “needs” college, she’s got a great ‘closing technique’, she’ll get anything she wants!
TfT

I just love how George Stephanapolus participates in these interviews….he does this and then thinks he can be a serious jorno? that and making fun of her “christianity” and so forth. this is the same guy who stood with Slick as he played hide the cigar with an intern! Uhhuh…stay classy George.

And what is this I heard, ABC verified a birth certificate…thats a first for them, isn’t it? (snicker).
TrgdyAnn

Ok, Kreepy,Kreepy, and STILL Kreepy. Courtney’s Mum & Dad are ‘PIMPS’ simple as that. They sold their daughter for fame, and a christian girl?????…..Ummmm, guess I got this knot on my head from falling off the turnip truck,…..LOL
Nature Freak

2012freedom said:
One would assume so since he is older than his father in law.

Crazy!
Wow!
It’s legal in TN, what can I say.
I wonder if this marriage will last?
Maybe they are truly soulmates .It is their business.
I still find it a little creepy.
Cecelia

TfT said:
I just love how George Stephanapolus participates in these interviews….he does this and then thinks he can be a serious jorno? that and making fun of her “christianity” and so forth. this is the same guy who stood with Slick as he played hide the cigar with an intern! Uhhuh…stay classy George.

Good point.

Were Stodden to say she’s a Christian, but far be from her to make harsh judgments about abortion, sex before marriage, adultery, homosexuality… culminating in a “your myth is as good as my myth….Jesus would be all for government entitlement programs”, she’d be an emancipated 16 year old bride who was reminiscent of those girls/women who settled the old west with spirit and moxy.

Or at least… a Nabokov heroine…
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

Calling Chris Hanson! Where is he when you need him…?

And while they addressed this in the video, I couldn’t hep but think her parents were pimping our selling her out, so she could cash in on his *fame and fortune*.

She is one year away from his ass being thrown in jail. This is gross. Blech.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

(assuming 16 is legal, which from watching the video, I guess 16 is not legal unless you are married… so, yea… gross. Sure makes me think he is a pedophile.)
GoneFishing

nope; Its still creepy…
lonestar77

I gotta confess; these stories about true love make me a little teary eyed.
Paleoconservatarian

sarainitaly said:
Calling Chris Hanson! Where is he when you need him…?

And while they addressed this in the video, I couldn’t hep but think her parents were pimping our selling her out, so she could cash in on his *fame and fortune*.

She is one year away from his ass being thrown in jail. This is gross. Blech.

Having an affair with a much younger woman, I hear.

I must say that there’s much potentially ‘worse’ about this relationship culturally, legal and preformed under the microscope of propriety as it is, than there might be in the case of a 16 year old and her 19 year old boyfriend who simply live their lives and relate as normal people are want to do. The latter couple, with arbitrary sentencing laws, will be torn apart with the man branded for life as a predator – the former will get a reality television show and slaps on the back.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tom-Bennett/660327155 Tom Bennett

Apparently he’s as stupid as his character in the ‘Green Mile’.
Dem4Ever

She’s a little bit too old for me, but hey to each his own…lol
ElCapitanAmerica

How does a 16 year old manage to look like a 38 year old woman?

There’s something seriously wrong here, look at her facial expressions at 4:46-4:57, what is happening to her there?!?!
CAINtheBULL

EWWWWWWW!!!!!!!! Hope people search for her music. It’s awful.
LOGICandREASON

?
Pokerdude777

Any man, 21 or 61 that wouldn’t jump at the chance to do what he did needs to spend there time trying to get gay marraige legalized in the 33 more states that don’t allow gay marraige because they are for sure gay. Oh and nothing creepy at all about a man prefering a dry hairy ass than a God made juicy vagina, not creepy at all about that. *gag*
White Ninja

ElCapitanAmerica said:
How does a 16 year old manage to look like a 38 year old woman?

There’s something seriously wrong here, look at her facial expressions at 4:46-4:57, what is happening to her there?!?!

Right?? I’m pretty sure I found her doppleganger though. http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/what-not-to-wear-denise.html
winning

Some advice to young guys from a washed up guy in his mid 50′s. When you’re in high school, go after the really skinny chicks with little tits. They will blossom into the most beautiful women. Chicks like the one featured here will be a fat assed skank by age 30, and those bags of silicone will be hanging around her waist. Don’t just take my word for it, ask anyone past about 30 and they’ll tell you the same thing.
daldigle

Wow he’s no great shakes and she is a kick in the face
david r

Nice we got the update on this. Good to see you guys at Mediaite aren’t wasting your time.
Nature Freak

winning said:
Some advice to young guys from a washed up guy in his mid 50’s. When you’re in high school, go after the really skinny chicks with little tits. They will blossom into the most beautiful women. Chicks like the one featured here will be a fat assed skank by age 30, and those bags of silicone will be hanging around her waist. Don’t just take my word for it, ask anyone past about 30 and they’ll tell you the same thing.

I have noticed (I am 40) that both the men and women in high school who looked way older for their age, still look way older for their age. This may not be a good thing at this point. Very thin people may have a genetic proclivity to stay thin.

Nature Freak loves all different women. I have a runners body myself but find some BBW’s out there to be drop dead gorgeous. Different body types make the world interesting. Limiting those you love to one “ideal body type” can restrict you. Diversity is good.
stephenpyle

I don’t want to get in the business of judging who is chrisitan or who isn’t, but I’ll just say what we are all thinking: I don’t think Mary Magdalene wore leopard print bra tops as a shirt.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Due to the migration, I don’t know if this has been said, but I noticed the facial expressions that Buzzfeed looped as I was watching the clip. It, along with the way the young lady walks and the way she’s dressed in the kitchen leads me to believe that she is mostly playing a part.

Of course, I don’t care and if that’s what serves them at this time, I say more power to them. I just hope that in between acting and singing lessons, she’s also studying others who have gone down this road and for her sake, the forgettable actor is closer to Rene Angelil than another Paul Snider.
http://www.facebook.com/jeff.vachon Jeff Vachon

I’m 51 years old too and I would never consider even KISSING a 16 year old never mind marrying her. The last time I was with a 16 year old was 1978!
LA is Great

I heard that she got her birth certicicate from the same folks that B Hussein Omarxist did!
http://www.facebook.com/anthony.citrano Anthony Citrano

Yes, this is creepy.

Bad info being tossed around, though: 16 is legal in most states, married or not. It’s the most common age of consent in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#State_laws
http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

Doug..dude.. no friends to bring you back to reality? she is 16, even married to you, you can’t make “those kind of” films with her for a few more years.. it aint legal. You lost all connections.. we all know your other head was thinking, but you have to chew gum for 2 more years before you can cash in. By that time she will be all thru your pocketbook. And what resemblance to a brain will you have left in the other head? dude..cocopuffs and cartoons..think.. you surely are not as stupid as your green mile character..are you?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

You are creepy……..
Joel Shimberg

Clearly, he’s at risk of dying by division: seeing how many times 51 can go into 16.
Anonymous

Amazing how these creeps can inject religion into these “relationships” and it makes it perfectly alright.
rick

can’t wait for the sex tape!
Mark King

Dorothy Stratton’s husband was at least in the general ballpark of her age.

Is it me, or did this girl look completely high during the interview — or was she just practicing a lot of porno lip smacking and Marilyn Monroe cooing? What a train wreck.

Mark S. King
MyFabulousDisease.com
Winstonmart

MHMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
Slyintn

Yeah…right.
Slyintn

Yeah…right.
Not a Joke

Chris Hanson is busy trying to fix his marriage after he got caught having an affair.