Celebs Who Are Way Too Affectionate In Public
Although the expectations for normal behavior tend to get stretched for celebrities, when it comes to extreme PDA, they're held to the same "No thanks" standard as the rest of us. And we're not talking about a famous married couple who shares a tasteful smooch on the red carpet, but should that ever include gratuitous groping and and a view of their tongues from tip to tonsils? No. No not it should not. But for some star couples, that passion within burned too bright to contain. Here are some celebs who are way too affectionate in public.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Kanye West has not only declared his love for Kim in multiple songs, but he also rented out a major league baseball stadium to propose to her. So it's no surprise these two are at the top of the list of celebrities who PDA and DGAF.
On top of their countless social media selfies that could double as french kissing tutorials, West makes it a point to feel up on Kardashian's prodigious booty anytime more than a few cameras are pointed at it. One of the best examples was the 2015 Grammys, where Yeezy got two handfuls of the famous fanny while they made out right on the red carpet. So romantic! And don't forget about the time Kanye seemed to be inspecting Kim's butt like it was a car he was checking for dents. But their craziest PDA moment had to be the entire video for Kanye's song, "Bound 2." If you don't remember that one, it's where he and Kim basically have sex on a motorcycle in front of a CGI sunset, plus some weird stuff with horses that nobody understood. You can check it out below if you're into that sort of thing.
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson
Jessica Simpson was famously adamant about saving herself for marriage before she wed her first husband, Nick Lachey. And then there was drama on their reality show, Newlyweds, over how much sex they actually had once they were husband and wife, according to Cosmopolitan. But somewhere along the way a switch got flipped, because Simpson's marriage to former NFL player, Eric Johnson, has basically been a free-for-all in terms of inviting the public into their bedroom. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Yes, Simpson and Johnson do their share of public making out, but their true PDA overshare exists whenever Simpson opens her famously unfiltered mouth to repeatedly dish out far too many details about their adult adventures. When talking to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show (via The Huffington Post) about how little pregnancy slowed them down, Simpson said, "I am definitely feeling 'intimate.' I'm kind of unstoppable at the moment! ... Like the big 'O' is like the biggest 'O' ever." She added, "He's always ready. He's always ready!"
And now that that's something you know about Eric Johnson, you also want to know he's into role-playing too, right? Well, the whole world knows it now thanks to Simpson's Instagram (via E! News). There have been many loved-up overshares, but the glaringly obvious one has to be their half-naked Fifty Shades of Grey inspired photoshoot that she hashtagged #FIFTYSHADESOFJOHNSON. More like #FIFTYSHADESOFTMI.
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian started off their relationship when they each cheated on their spouses with each other on the set of Northern Lights, an accusation they both denied until Rimes came clean to Shape (via People). They were even caught having each other's faces for an appetizer at a restaurant in March 2009, which is a bit problematic since Cibrian didn't file for divorce from Brandi Glanville until August 2009. Rimes took until December of the same year to file for her split from Dean Sheremet.
And instead of taking that inauspicious start and quietly going about their business, they basically cranked the PDA to 11 the second the legal paperwork was in. They were infamously snapped pawing all over each other in front of Cibrian's son while on vacation in Mexico. And from there it was open season on the shady lovebirds public affection. Red carpets, walking through an airport, and even strolls on the beach all got a heaping dose of "Ew, get a room." But the most questionable times have to be when they lip wrestle at Cibrian's son's soccer games. That has to be worthy of a yellow card at least, right?
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton
Obviously they're no longer together, but that doesn't mean the way they hung all over each other and tongue wrestled on the red carpet has faded from memory. Though Thornton was actually the bigger star when they married, his pairing with Jolie was always viewed with a healthy dose of "Him?" And while that may or may not be fair, it didn't stop anyone from getting skeeved out by watching an unquestionably attractive young women publicly get her groove on with a dude who looks like a creepy gas station attendant.
And they didn't just show their love with public make outs, they also told everyone just how often they were getting it on off-camera. In an interview with The Guardian, Thornton revealed he wore Jolie's pink underwear pretty regularly. "I don't think it's strange at all. I wear them to the set some days. I like having her close to me, you know?" he said.
And of course, there was the time he told MTV, "We f***** in the car on the way here," while Jolie attacked his face with her own. But in a surprise twist, Thornton actually wasn't the kinkier of the two. Jolie once told ABC News that knife play was a big part of her early sexual development. "I didn't ever feel enough. I didn't feel close enough to another person, I didn't feel alive enough. ... Nothing ever felt real and honest enough. And so because I had knives around ... early on in my first sexual relationship, I got knives out and had a night where we attacked each other. It didn't hurt, it was cold, and it felt so primitive and it felt so honest," she said. Sounds hot!
Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed
Outspoken KISS co-frontman, Gene Simmons, is very open about his past love life. According to The Sun, he claims to have slept with 4,800 women and had "the Polaroids to prove it." And while we don't want any more info on how or why such a cache of photographs would exist, it is kind of intriguing to know how his wife, actress Shannon Tweed, handled that information. "But most of them were burned. Shannon and I got together with them and we had a ritual," Simmons said. And that seems to have done the trick, because Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed are one of the most publicly affectionate couples on this list.
Never missing a chance to plant one on his beloved in front of a throng of paparazzi, Simmons also generally takes the opportunity to show off one of his other claims to fame: his insanely giant tongue. The 2012 premiere of Haywire is probably the best example of this, as shown above, when Simmons' snakelike tongue crept out of his face and onto Tweed's in what we can only assume would be something out of Indiana Jones' nightmares. According to Hollyscoop (via Ultimate Classic Rock), when asked about keeping the spark alive at the same event, Simmons said, "Romance is interesting. But somebody much more prolific than I am put it better ... she should be a Madonna in the kitchen and a w***e in the bedroom." We wonder who originally said that. Shakespeare, maybe? Sounds just like him.
Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin
As was the case with afew Hollywood cuoples, part of the gross-out factor here deals with the couple's sizable age difference. In the case of Billy Bangelina (nailed it), it was 20 years. Alec Baldwin and his young, yoga instructor wife, Hilaria Baldwin, have them beat by five years. The amorous duo share plenty of smooching snaps on Hilaria's Instagram, but they also never hesitate to steam up a red carpet with some public passion.
One of their more infamous make out sessions was during The Cannes Film Festival in 2013 when Alec carried his then-pregnant wife around the red carpet, at one point lifting her dress in the general direction of the entire press corps. Whoops! But it's obvious their love fest isn't just for show. In their brief, less than five year marriage at the time of this writing, they've already had three kids, Carmen, Rafael, and Leonardo, so yes, obviously they're starting a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cover band. Anyway, what we're saying is as much as it may seem like Alec is putting up a weird front that he can still hang with his decades younger wife, he's got the growing family tree to prove it.
Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison
File this one under 'ditto,' because here we go again with a much older man giving off the impression that he's got something to prove by giving his way younger lover the "under the bleachers" treatment every time the cameras roll. Doug Hutchison is the actor best known for his reprehensible role as a straight-up weasel in The Green Mile. In real life, he seemingly echoed those character traits when he started dating Courtney Stodden. She was 16-years-old at the time and Hutchison was 51. Yup. At one point Hutchison defended the controversial marriage during an E! News (via The Daily Mail) interview in which the Lolita-like pair canoodled to the point of nausea. "He insisted their initial communication, through email and texts, was 'very innocent and open — there was nothing inappropriate about it whatsoever. There were no sexual innuendos, there was nothing until we began to fall for each other,' he added. 'We started using the L-word and confessing to one another we were having feelings for each other.'" Wasn't there a whole show called To Catch A Predator based on exactly this scenario?
Anyway, Hutchison and Stodden would go on to become the provocateurs of the highest order. One of their favorite tricks was staging outlandish photo shoots, and trying to pawn them off as candid despite the fact that they almost always included Stodden in a bikini, full makeup, and heels and falling all over Hutchison. And although this fevered love somehow didn't make it in the long run, they left some lasting memories. The craziest one being Christmas 2011 when Hutchison, dressed as Saint Nick, and Stodden, dressed as Stripper Claus, basically humped each other in the woods while a photographer snapped away. There was word Santa added an "I Can't Even" column to his Naughty or Nice list that year.
Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa
Amber Rose has so little time for critics of her sexuality, she started an entire movement called SlutWalk, which sounds insane, but is actually an initiative "geared towards raising awareness about sexual injustice and gender inequality," which also seeks to "impact and uplift while shifting the paradigm of rape culture." So, she's not about to be shamed for showing a little love on the red carpet, which she's done with all of her famous exes, including Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, and most recently as of this writing, Val Chmerkovskiy.
She and ex-husband Khalifa even stirred up some major drama at The Grammys in 2017 when they locked lips once more even though they claim to still be keeping things platonic. And though that kiss paled in comparison to the above shot when they were still married and apparently decided to turn the 2011 MTV VMAs red carpet into Game 7 of the tonsil hockey Stanley Cup, the internet still freaked out. Rose cooled things off on her Instagram (via TooFab) writing, in part, "Wiz and I are family and we will be family for the rest of our lives for Sebastian. We've been through hell and back so a kiss on the lips for a photo and a night out of fun is not a big deal for either of us, we are in a great place but we are very much still divorced and not together." So basically she's going to be doing PDA with whoever she wants for whatever reason she wants, and we're all just going to have to deal with that.
Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh
After Kelsey Grammer's contentious divorce from Real Housewife of Beverly Hills star, Camille Grammer, played out in almost real time, you would think his next relationship would have been kept on the DL for a little while. And you would have thought wrong, because Grammer has been mauling the face of his new wife, Kayte Walsh, literally since their first date. "We walked through Hyde Park and the snow started to fall. Moments later we had our first kiss and we've been together since," the Frasier star told GMA (via The Daily Mail). So they got their start making out in public. They also got their start while Grammer was still married to Camille when he met Walsh on a flight to London, on which she was working.
Grammer and Walsh are a lot like Cibrian and Rimes that way, and they're a lot like them also in the respect that no matter what they're doing, they almost always pause to swap spit for the photogs where a nice smile and wave would have done just fine. Waiting for your bags at JFK airport? Time for Frenching! Enjoying a coconut drink in the ocean? Not without a smooch! But the most egregious time the Cheers alum went hard at his wife's pie-hole in public was by the pool in Miami where it looked like her face was a juicy steak and he hadn't eaten in a week. Gross.
David Hasselhoff and Hayley Roberts
We saved the best for last and that's because if there was going to be a celebrity so full of passion on this list that he couldn't help but let it overflow in public, it was going to be The Hoff. The Baywatch heartthrob and German musical sensation is so prone to outrageous displays of romance that he actually started proposing to his girlfriend, Hayley Roberts, who is 30 years his junior, multiple times the year they started dating. And while that didn't work for a long time, he finally got her to agree to marry him five years later.
So what was the thing that finally convinced her? Maybe it's the way The Hoff always seems to approach Roberts' face like he's a python unhinging his jaw to swallow a whole chicken, like in the photo above. Or maybe it has something to do with this revelation he made to The Sun in 2015. "I take a lot of amino acids and the funny thing about aminos is that if you take the right amount it gets your blood flowing — the same as Viagra. But that's one problem I don't have — if anything, I am trying to find an anti-Viagra pill because my girlfriend keeps saying, 'Why is it that you want it every day?' And I'm like, 'Because I find it takes the edge off things.'" Some guys can't contain their desire, and truly, rightfully, should they have to? The answer is, of course, no, but we wouldn't mind if The Hoff gave it the old college try.