{"id":24620,"date":"2025-09-15T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24620\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:52:14","slug":"michael-douglas-panicking-that-catherine-zeta-jones-is-building-a-life-without-him-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24620\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas \u2018Panicking\u2019 That Catherine Zeta-Jones Is \u2018Building a Life Without Him\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After nearly 25 years of marriage, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are leading separate lives, a source tells the National Enquirer.<\/p>\n

Douglas, 80, recently announced that he\u2019s stepping back<\/a> from acting, but his wife \u201chas no intention of slowing down,\u201d says the source. \u201cNow he\u2019s panicking that she\u2019s building a brand-new life that has no place for him in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wednesday actress, 55, is \u201clooking to re-invent her career and is packing her calendar with work\u201d now that their children Dylan, 25, and Carys, 22, are out of the house, says the source, noting that she\u2019s got two new projects coming up.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd she\u2019s looking for more,\u201d adds the source. \u201cShe\u2019s out schmoozing and mingling with people in Hollywood, while Michael is effectively sitting home alone like an old man.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Wall Street star \u201csaid he was going to scale back on work, he didn\u2019t expect Catherine to drop everything and sit by his side, but he did think there would be more date nights,\u201d says the source. \u201cSo it\u2019s difficult for him because she\u2019s coming home excited and giddy over her career while he\u2019s relegated to the easy chair.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zeta-Jones, who recently caught flak for joking about a \u201ccute\u201d 12-year-old who asked for her autograph during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a>, has become \u201cfrustrated\u201d by their age difference, an insider previously told the\u00a0Enquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has become more of a caretaker to him than a wife,\u201d the insider said. \u201cCatherine wants to travel the world and play golf, do more movies and work with interesting people, and Michael can\u2019t keep up with her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly 25 years of marriage, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are leading separate lives, a source tells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6883,156,6884,409,111,139,69,25048,25047],"class_list":["post-24620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-catherine-zeta-jones","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-douglas","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-separate-lives","tag-the-national-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}