Celebrity | Meg Ryan Meg Ryan Dating John Mellencamp And it's been going on, quietly, for seven weeks By John Johnson Posted Jan 4, 2011 1:44 PM CST Copied Actress Meg Ryan attends the opening night of The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, in New York, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) Two big names have the gossip world aflutter: Meg Ryan and the newly single John Mellencamp have been quietly dating for weeks, reports People. The two—she's 49, 10 years his junior—have been spotted hanging out on Martha's Vineyard and in New York's SoHo neighborhood. "I thought that was her husband because they seemed comfortable and familiar with each other, just like an old married couple," one observer tells the magazine, which notes that the two got together after Mellencamp and his wife separated. Read These Next Guests find summit document on hotel printer. This is why you never rappel down a waterfall alone. Analysis: Trump's flip lets Putin carry on. Sudden, intense cloudbursts leave at least 300 dead. Report an error