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- Charlize Theron has been romantically linked to Sean Penn, Stuart Townsend, and Third Eye Blind’s Stephen Jenkins.
- In 2020, Charlize revealed she hadn’t gone on a date in 5 years, as she prioritized her youngsters as an alternative.
- In 2023, Charlize was photographed holding arms with mannequin Alex Dimitrijevic.
From Oscar-winner to motion star, Charlize Theron has remained one of many greatest, baddest, and most breathtaking stars on the silver display screen. The 47-year-old star of Monster, Mad Max: Fury Road, Atomic Blonde, and The Old Guard has loved an unimaginable profession – and a few unimaginable romances, as nicely. Charlize has been concerned with Sean Penn, Stuart Townsend, and Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins.
In May 2023, Charlize was noticed holding arms with a brand new man: mannequin Alex Dimitrijevic. This marked Charlize’s greatest romantic second shortly. “I’ve been on a few dates, but I haven’t dated anybody for over five years,” Charlize advised Drew Barrymore in 2020, per USA Today. Not the sort of sport that we consider. The sort of sport that’s like, ‘My life is really good, so you better be able to bring that and maybe better,’ as a result of I simply gained’t settle for something much less.”
Charlize defined that her excessive bar for potential companions got here after motherhood. She has adopted two kids – one daughter in 2012 and a second in 2015 – and she or he mentioned the expertise modified what she anticipated in courting. “It’s not that it replaces something or that it makes you less interested in something else,” she advised Drew. “I think your priorities are in a place that is of high demand because it’s a lot of work to be a parent. And then part of that is, at the end of the day, I get in bed, and I go, ‘Oh my God, I wouldn’t want this day to be anything different.’”
Charlize additionally mentioned she was not “eager to jump into a relationship” due to her troublesome upbringing and didn’t need to upend her youngsters’ lives. “I am so proud of the fact that my kids live in a home where they feel like they’re safe, and they feel like they’re never gonna have to walk on eggshells, and they’re never gonna have to come down and worry about how their day is gonna go.”
As it seems this new man handed the check, get to find out about him and Charlize’s previous romances.
Alex Dimitrijevic
Charlize and Alex Dimitrijevic precipitated a stir in mid-May 2023 when they went for a stroll in Los Angeles. The two walked hand-in-hand via the Los Feliz neighborhood, inflicting hypothesis of a potential romance between them. When Daily Mail revealed the pictures of their lunch date, not a lot was identified about Alex, besides that he was a mannequin repped by NEXT MODELS.
His itemizing with the company mentioned he was 6’3″ and had a 42-inch chest and 34-inch waist. The AlexanderDimitrijevic.com web site showcased a few of his modeling work and linked to a deactivated Instagram account. It additionally linked to a LinkedIn account that listed him because the Design Director for Malbon Golf, the co-founder of undrtone sport, and the Design Director for Short Par 4. The LinkedIn account additionally acknowledged that he went to UC Santa Barbara for Sociology.
Sean Penn
The “five-year” courting hiatus that Charlize spoke about in 2020? That began after she cut up from Sean Penn in June 2015.
In 2020, Charlize clarified a false impression about her relationship with the controversial actor. When showing on The Howard Stern Show, the host urged that She “almost got married” to Penn. “What? That’s not true. No. I did not ‘almost get married to Sean.’ That’s such bulls—t,” she mentioned, “We dated. That was literally all we did. It was a relationship, for sure. We were definitely exclusive, but it was for barely a year. We never moved in. I was never going to marry him. It was nothing like that.”
“I never wanted to get married. That’s never been something that’s important to me. On the lives of my children, I’ve never been lonely. I’ve never felt alone,” she added. Charlize did say that her life, at that second, “doesn’t allow a lot of room for something like [dating] to happen. But in saying that, there’s not this thing that drives me [to have a romantic relationship].”
“I enjoy being set up on dates, but I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to live with somebody again,” she added. “To be totally frank, they might have to buy the house next to me. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to deal with that ever again, I’m too old for that s—t.”
Stuart Townsend
Charlize’s longest relationship was with Irish actor Stuart Townsend. The two met on the set of 2002’s Trapped. “We sat beside each other, and I honestly really didn’t take that much notice, maybe because we were working,” he mentioned of their first read-through in a 2004 interview with Irish America (h/t InFashion). “All I remember is Charlize had a dog with her and I remember thinking, “Oh, there’s the mad lady with the dog!’”
Later that night time, Charlize dressed up for dinner with Stuart and the director, and Townsend’s jaw was left on the ground. “When she glams up it’s ridiculous,” he continued. “She can look so hot. She’s a goddess, man, a total goddess. That night we had so much fun. I was just smitten after that.”
Charlize mentioned she wasn’t taken by Stuart at first. “He had all the criteria for somebody who wasn’t going to be anything serious,” she advised Marie Claire. “He lived over there [in England]; I lived over here. So we were very honest with each other: ‘I think you’re hot, I think you’re nice, I think you’re smart. We can go on dates. What do you think?’ And then, things happened.”
The two had been collectively for eight years, earlier than rumors of a breakup began to stir round 2010. In 2011, Charlize mentioned she’d beforehand taken a break from performing to make things better with Stuart. “It was sinking, and I had to give it a fight,” she mentioned, per InFashion. “I really wanted to try and make it work. That was the priority. I wouldn’t do it any different way.”
It’s unclear what precipitated the breakup. In 2017, she advised Howard Stern that her “heart was married” to Townsend. She would additionally inform Vogue that what they’d was “more than love.”
Stephan Jenkins
Charlize had a “tumultuous three-year relationship” with Stephan Jenkins, per SF Gate. The couple dated from 1998 to 2001. When requested in 2003 if his band’s new album, Out of the Vein, had any songs impressed by Charlize, Stephan mentioned, “Yes. Um…no, I think that…[pause] I think she was definitely a…[long pause] Um, what’s the word…[longer pause] I think that’s a good answer: Yes.” (per People).