The internet was quick to believe the rumours.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2203000161.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones – Arrivals” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Sometimes a rumour snowballs so much that it\u2019s hard to decipher where it even started. As is the case when a recent story about Sofia Vergara having a summer romance with former NFL star Tom Brady turned into Brady calling Vergara \u2018too old to date\u2019, which ultimately led to Brady\u2019s rep dismissing the whole thing as nonsense.<\/p>\n It started earlier this month when Vergara shared a photo of her and Brady having dinner together with musician J Balvin on the A-list\u2019s favourite place to holiday \u2013 a luxury superyacht. Naturally, Kendall Jenner, Ricky Martin and Real Housewives star Jenna Lyons were also on board.<\/p>\n Since Vergara and her ex-husband-of-seven years, Joe Manganiello, announced their divorce in 2023, she has become a prime target for romance speculation. Last year, she briefly dated Beverly Hills surgeon Dr Justin Saliman, but things reportedly ended in January, and since then she has been tied to \u2018younger man\u2019 Douglas Chabbott, who she has also been spotted on holiday with, and of course Brady.<\/p>\n As is the formula with Hollywood gossip, the fact Vergara and Brady are both single and have spent time together in Europe this summer was enough to suggest they were dating until an \u2018insider\u2019 dismissed the claims entirely \u2013 with a rather galling reason. \u2018[Brady] sees Sofia as beautiful and his type, but he isn\u2019t going to start a relationship with her,\u2019 the source told the Daily Mail<\/em>, \u2018as she is older and stuck in her ways.\u2019<\/p>\n Where do we begin with unpacking that statement? Firstly, Vergara is 53 and Brady is 47. We\u2019re does not even sure that counts as an age-gap, especially not in Hollywood. Whenever a woman dates a younger man, regardless of the age gap, her age and its assumed implications quickly become the focus of the story. This is, of course, a tired, sexist, double standard when so many relationships \u2013 particularly ones in the public eye \u2013 involve an older man and a (significantly) younger woman. Never is the man in those situations accused of being \u2018older and stuck in his ways\u2019.<\/p>\n Secondly, as evidenced by all these rumours, Vergara has been spending the summer yachting between various luxury European locations with friends and family. It only takes a gentle scroll on her Instagram grid to see that the Griselda<\/em> actress is living her best life \u2013 a life that puts a lot of people in their 20s to shame. She is evidently spending her summer dining out, sunbathing, drinking and partying. Good for her. But it\u2019s hard to understand how any of these pictures scream \u2018older and stuck in her ways\u2019.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Thirdly, the suggestion that someone six years younger might be put off dating Vergara because of her age is a barbed one. It\u2019s hard to imagine said \u2018insider\u2019 isn\u2019t aware that one of the reasons Vergara\u2019s marriage to Manganiello ended in 2023 was because of their age gap, which, for what its worth, was only five years. The two actors parted ways because Manganiello wanted to have children while Vergara, who already has a 28-year-old son from her first relationship with Joe Gonzalez, did not. \u2018My marriage broke up because my husband was younger,\u2019 Vergara admitted herself. \u2018He wanted to have kids, and I didn\u2019t want to be an old mom. I feel it\u2019s not fair to the baby. I respect whoever does it, but that\u2019s not for me anymore.\u2019<\/p>\n Brady already has three children \u2013 two with his ex-wife Gisele Bundchen and one with his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan. Unless the source meant to say, \u2018Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara are not dating because he wants to have more children and knows where she stands on the matter\u2019 \u2013 which would be pretty heavy after one group holiday \u2013 then the suggestion she\u2019s \u2018stuck in her ways\u2019 because she has boundaries is both misogynistic at worst and insensitive at best.<\/p>\n Which takes us to where the snowball has landed. \u2018Tom never said, nor would he ever say, anything like this,\u2019 his rep told People this week. \u2018It is pure fiction.\u2019 After all that speculation, source-based chatter and social media commentary \u2013 which many were quick to believe \u2013 there was no truth to any of it anyway.<\/p>\n Anyone with even the vaguest interest in celebrity gossip will know that relationship rumours change with the wind. It\u2019s safe to assume Brady was so mortified by the suggestion he wouldn\u2019t date Vergara because of her age that he asked his rep to set the record straight. It\u2019s also a reminder of how easy it is to fabricate a story from thin air. Regrettably, this is nothing new, but it\u2019s still something we should all be more mindful of moving forward. 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