Norman Reedus is sex on a stick to many of you. I’m more into clean cut guys (Matt Damon, Joel McHale, Chiwetel Ejiofor) but I can see it if you’re into that kind of dude. For many women, Reedus lost the hot when it recently came out that he was dating a 21 year-old model. The model was 20 when they met. Reedus, 46, has since moved on to dating his former costar, Emily Kinney, who is slightly more age-appropriate at 29. I think of Kinney as much younger than that as I know her as Beth from Walking Dead. It seems wrong to me that Beth and Daryl are together. He was like a father figure to her on the show and she’s so young-looking that Reedus looks like he could be her dad. Apparently it’s on though, and Reedus has been seen supporting Kinney at her music shows. (Her music is pretty bad, from what I’ve seen.)
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“They had a connection early on in the show,” says a source close to the duo, “but the romance developed recently. They’re still pretty guarded about it.”
After Kinney’s character, Beth, was shockingly killed off in 2014, she and Reedus, 46, who plays zombie hunter Daryl, stayed in touch through texts, appearances at fan conventions (the two are scheduled to appear at the Walker Stalker Con event in Orlando, Fla., on June 27 and 28), and at Kinney’s music gigs. Says the source, “He was one of the first to support her at her concerts when she was still on the show.”
Recently, the dad of 15-year-old Mingus (his son with model Helena Christensen) cheered on the singer-songwriter, 29, at her May 21 show in Decatur, Ga. An eyewitness tells Us a few die-hard Dead fans noticed Reedus in the audience and got excited. “For some time everyone wanted two of the most beloved Walking Dead characters to be together, but of course, Beth was killed off,” says the observer.
“She always called him the sweetest guy on the set,” says the first source. When Kinney discovered she’d been written off the show, Reedus was among the first to be in touch, she revealed to Us in December 2014. “Everyone reached out, though I remember Norman texted me—he’s so sweet.”
As US mentions, Reedus has a 15 year-old son from a previous relationship with model Helena Christensen, so he hasn’t always dated women who are over 15 years younger than he is. Also, Kinney is almost out of her 20s. That’s something. That baby face though. Daryl saves Beth from drinking her first peach schnapps, they’re not meant to be together romantically.
Update: Reedus’s rep denied to TMZ that his client is in a romantic relationship with Kinney. TMZ has a photo of the two out together in Georgia and Reedus’s rep says their relationship is “strictly platonic.”
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