Sean Penn confirms rumors he married Leila George in a âCOVID weddingâ

Seann Penn confirmed Monday that he indeed tied the knot recently, getting the gossip quickly out of the way so he could talk about his COVID-19 response efforts on Mondayâs edition of âLate Night With Seth Meyers.â
With the wave of a hand â and a gold wedding band â the Oscar-winning actor confirmed weekend reports that he and actress Leila George, who share a three-decade age gap, were married last Thursday.
âWe did a COVID wedding,â Penn told Meyers. âBy that I mean it was a county commissioner on Zoom and we were at the house [with] my two children and her brother, and we did it that way.â
Meyers, who himself had a large wedding, noted that the small gathering must have been ânice and low-stress.â
âLetâs say there are socially liberating factors under COVID,â Penn agreed.
Penn, 59, and George, 28, the daughter of actors Vincent D'Onofrio and Greta Scacchi, made their relationship red-carpet-official in 2016 and have posted about each other on social media since.
This is Georgeâs first marriage and Pennâs third. The âMilkâ and âI Am Samâ star was previously wed to Madonna for four years and Robin Wright for nearly 14 years. He and Wright have two children together: Dylan, 29, and Hopper, 26. Penn also was linked to actress-producer Charlize Theron until 2015.
The remainder of Mondayâs late-night interview was devoted to Pennâs disaster-response nonprofit, Community Organized Relief Effort (formerly J/P Haitian Relief Organization) and its pivot to testing in the COVID-19 pandemic. They also briefly discussed Pennâs guest stint on âArrested Developmentâ and plans for a reunion of the âFast Times at Ridgemont Highâ cast.
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Meyers said he found Penn âbetter-humoredâ during their interview and apologized to the actor for his very serious impersonation of him on âSaturday Night Liveâ â an apology that Penn promptly rejected because he thought the roast was spot-on.
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