Howard Stern and Paris Hilton Voted Ideal Older Celeb/Younger Starlet Couple

Date.com's new survey of 2,284 singles nationwide asking: If you could pair an older celebrity with a younger starlet - which would you choose?

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 28, 2005 -- The fact that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are the newest celebrity power couple to hit the red carpet continues to shock the country. With a decade and a half between them, most of us wouldn't have even thought to suggest a date -- let alone a union!

Still, age is never a factor when it comes to true love - as Demi and Ashton proved more than two years ago. And so, in a new survey of 2,284 singles nationwide, Date.com, one of the leading online dating services, asked: If you could pair an older celebrity with a younger starlet - which would you choose?

Both men and women agreed that the ideal Hollywood couple would be the Shock Jock Howard Stern paired with Paris Hilton. Meanwhile, among women, the better a marriage the leading men seem to have, the less likely they were to vote him with a younger woman.

Following are the complete poll results:

                            Women        Men

Howard Stern and Paris Hilton            29.10%        25.55%

Pierce Brosnan and Christina Milian        13.93%        17.62%

Sean Connery and Jessica Alba            13.11%        15.86%

Tony Danza and Natalie Portman        12.30%         9.69%

Antonio Banderas and Hillary Duff        11.89%        10.13%

Michael Douglas and Kate Bosworth        10.66%         6.61%

John Travolta and Lindsay Lohan          9.02%        14.54%

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