Many stars have now publicly blasted Leonardo Dicaprio over his ’25 rule’ after he was linked with 19-year-old model Eden Polani.

But the actor, 48, denied they are dating amid furious backlash over their 29-year age gap.

Twitter has gone wild with the news because Eden is so young that her high school education was interrupted by the Covid pandemi. And moreover, she was not even born when Titanic was released back in 1998 – 25 years ago.

Here, MailOnline takes a look at the stars, such as Katherine Ryan, Miriam Margoyles and Dionne Warwick, who have slammed Leo for the recent controversy.

 

 

Katherine Ryan

After the news broke about the actor, who has a penchant for dating women under 25, Katherine posted a series of bemused tweets about him.

When one fan asked the comedian what the ‘crime‘ was because Leo and Eden are both adults, she replied: ‘No crime just a creepy pattern.’

It came after she quote-tweeted a post which said: ‘Not enough people are talking about Leonardo DiCaprio who is almost 50- and ‘getting close’ to a 19 year old teenage girl’ and replied: ‘This is literally all I’ve talked about for SEVEN YEARS.’

She also wrote ‘uh huh’ in response to a separate tweet which read: ‘the power dynamic of his age, his wealth, and his fame over a 19 year old girl is actually repulsive.’

The star also quipped: ‘This year, Titanic became too old for Leonardo DiCaprio to be in it’ after author Caitlin Moran wrote: I feel like he has Titantic trauma.

‘He’s dating women like he’s still the age he was when he shot it, and he’s ALWAYS on holiday on a yacht. Dude needs some EMDR.’

 

Unimpressed: Katherine took to Twitter to agree with a number of tweets about Leo and his penchant for younger women

Miriam Margoyles 

The 81-year-old, who starred with DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet, made her feelings known about the Titanic star’s habit of dating women under 25.

She claimed he was ‘very stupid’ for only dating younger women and added: ‘But maybe it’s something else besides age. Maybe at that age they want to start having children.’

Miriam previously discussed working alongside Leonardo in the 1996 Baz Luhrmann adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

She announced on This Morning: ‘He was a bit smelly because it was very hot in Mexico and young boys don’t make themselves fragrant, they don’t wash all the bits!’

 

Megyn Kelly  

Conservative pundit Megyn Kelly called Leo ‘bloated’ and criticised his penchant for dating younger women in a rant on her podcast The Megyn Kelly Show.

‘He is now dating a teenager, literally a teenager,’ she fumed. ‘He’s just going to keep banging teenagers [for] the rest of his life.’

She continued: ‘He’s in the news every week for how he won’t date anybody past age 25. If he does, it makes news… And now he’s actually gone down to a teenager!’

Taking things further, Megyn criticised the Titanic star’s appearance and said he was ‘ageing worse than Madonna’.

‘He is bloated – you could tell this guy partied a little bit too much,’ she sniped. ‘He’s got the big, bloated look. Step away from the booze.’

 

Ulrika Jonsson 

Ulrika Jonsson weighed in on the controversy surrounding the love life of Leonardo by touching on the topic in her weekly column for The Sun.

The presenter, 55, revealed this week that the age gap between the Titanic star and his rumoured model flame is ‘sickening’ – adding that it ‘gives me the creeps’.

Stepping in to the debate, Ulrika slammed the Hollywood actor and even dubbed the rumours ‘sickening’

Comparing it to her own experience, the TV personality questioned: ‘Why would I want to be with a man so young?’

Taking to the controversial column, she penned: ‘I know I’m not the only one who finds Leonardo DiCaprio’s pursuit of much younger women not just distasteful but also sickening.

‘While I understand the glitz and glamour of a Hollywood star must be irresistible, it’s unfathomable that someone so young could consider spending her formative adult years with a man who is old enough to be her father.

She concluded: ‘The idea that I might date or, God forbid, be in a relationship with an 18 to 19-year-old man does not only feel wrong and counterintuitive, but just a step too far. I’m afraid it gives me the creeps.’

 

Dionne Warwick

Iconic singer Dionne, 82, has joined the clan of celebrities, commenting: ‘I just heard about Leonardo DiCaprio’s 25 year rule. His loss. You don’t know what you’re missing.’

His dating patterns once again became a source of mockery for the actor after he and the model-turned-actress Camila Morrone split this summer after more than four years together.

The Daisy Jones And The Six actress had turned 25 in June, and the two reportedly split sometime prior to the news breaking, which led to numerous jokes on social media about Leo’s tendency to split from his girlfriends as they approach that dreaded number.

 

Leonardo was first pictured with Eden at Ebony Riley’s release party for her new EP.

The Oscar winner was spotted seated next to the teen Israeli model as they soaked up the atmosphere.

Seemingly missing from the event was Leo’s current girlfriend Victoria Lamas, who at 23 is 25 years his junior and almost half his age.

It is unclear if he is still with Lamas, as he was apparently last seen in public with the model back in late December.

His more recent yacht outings have been with other women, and he more recently enjoyed a boys’ night out to watch the Los Angeles Lakers .

Lamas was well in line with his past girlfriends, all but one who have apparently been 25 years old or younger, except for the model Gigi Hadid, whom he briefly dated last year.

His latest string of short flings follows his August 2022 breakup with the model-turned-actress Camila Morrone, whom he had been dating for four years.

Leonardo was pictured getting close to Gigi Hadid at a party in New York City in September.

The pairing appeared to be the first time the Oscar winner has ever dated a woman older than 25, and Gigi would also be the first woman he has dated who is a mother.

The star has always hit headlines with his relationships, famously dating model Gisele Bundchen for five years starting when she was 18, to a five-year romance with Bar Refaeli that ended when she turned 25.