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"And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together"

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Joan Collins delivers a small masterclass in celebrity candor: the “no generational gap” line isn’t naïveté, it’s strategy. She’s speaking into a culture that treats age-disparate relationships as either scandal or spectacle, and she refuses both scripts. The move is simple: normalize through logistics. Football game, fashion show - concrete, almost mundane examples that drain the situation of salacious mystery. If the relationship is going to be judged, she frames it as a calendar problem, not a moral one.

The subtext is autonomy. Collins isn’t selling a romantic fantasy where two people fuse into one lifestyle; she’s asserting a version of partnership that doesn’t require constant proof-of-love through constant togetherness. “We don’t have to do everything together” pushes back against the public’s demand for performative couplehood, especially the kind older women are pressured into to justify being desired at all. Independence becomes the evidence.

Then she lands the real reassurance: “But we like doing most things together.” It’s a neat rhetorical braid - freedom first, affection second. She doesn’t argue with critics; she sidesteps them by describing a relationship that sounds, frankly, functional. Coming from an actress long associated with glamour and heightened drama, the tone is almost pointedly practical. That contrast is the cultural punchline: the so-called “gap” collapses when you stop treating love as a lifestyle merger and start treating it as a choice two adults keep making.

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Collins, Joan. (n.d.). And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-we-have-not-found-any-generational-gap-at-all-79648/

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Collins, Joan. "And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-we-have-not-found-any-generational-gap-at-all-79648/.

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"And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-we-have-not-found-any-generational-gap-at-all-79648/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Joan Collins (born May 23, 1933) is a Actress from USA.

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