Much like their main characters in Nobody Wants This, Sara and Erin Foster are sisters who co-host a podcast. It’s called The World’s First Podcast (get it?!?!), has been on the air since 2021, and is mostly just the two gals gabbing, occasionally with other guests. It’s fairly unremarkable, as celebrity (and I use that term loosely here) podcasts go, though like all celebrity podcasts, it occasionally accidentally delivers a bit of goss.
This was the case in the most recent episode, when Sara revealed a tidbit that Erin sounded somewhat taken aback by: Twenty years ago, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber set Sara up with George Clooney, and it went terribly.
“I just remember being like offended that they would set me up with him ‘cause he felt so old at the time,” Sara said, adding that she was 24 at the time (she is 44 now), which would have made George 44. (She also said this happened “like 30 years ago,” but I’m going to chalk that up to exaggeration, not Cindy and Rande getting extremely inappropriate.)
Per People, this is why Sara “didn’t understand relationships with really large age gaps like a ‘19-year-old that’s into a 40-year-old.’” That’s pretty uncontroversial: Teenagers shouldn’t date adults twice their age. And I don’t want to get too deep into age gap discourse, but I feel confident saying that, depending on how large an age gap is, it can probably be awkward (at a minimum) even well into the younger partner’s adulthood. (That being said… ER-era George Clooney??? Sign me up.)
Anyway, I’d like to dive into the second part of what Sara said on the subject, again per People: “She admitted ‘sometimes’ the age gap ‘makes sense.’” And what times might those be? Sara didn’t get into specifics, but you may recall that their dad is music producer David Foster, aged 76, who is married to Katharine McPhee, aged 41. Yes, that’s a 35-year age difference; if we’re exaggerating and rounding up, it’s double the gap between Sara and Mr. Clooney. Katharine and David apparently met on American Idol in 2006 when she was 22; he later played the piano at her first wedding. Then, sometime in 2017 or 2018, things turned romantic, and they got married in 2019.
Sara and Erin have been open about how their dad’s absence from their childhood was difficult, but they’ve since seemed to patch things up. In 2020, they appeared in a feature in People (alongside their dad and their other sister, Jordan Foster) largely fawning over Katharine, but also going on a little bit too much about how “insane” her body is and how all the men in their family (including Jordan’s 2-year-old son??) “ogle” her when she’s in a bikini.
The podcasting duo has clearly come to (weird) terms with their dad’s relationship (as they should; everyone involved is a consenting adult), but it does tickle me that, when speaking off the cuff, Sara’s knee-jerk reaction is still to go “ew” at a multi-decade-age difference.
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