Anthony Anderson was 33 when he told 17-year-old Lindsay Lohan that “some men like them young” and included himself in that group during the December 16, 2003, broadcast of The Sharon Osbourne Show. He was filling in for Osbourne; Lohan was there to promote Freaky Friday, which came out on DVD that day.
The conversation included questions about Lohan’s dating life after she said she’d moved in with her friend Raven-Symoné. Anderson asked which men would be joining them at their new home.
Lohan answered, “No one. I don’t have a boyfriend.” Anderson then announced to the audience that she was single and looking.
During that same broadcast, Lohan told him, “I’m illegal, for people that are old.” Anderson’s remark about liking them young followed. The exchange put her age into the conversation explicitly: she was 17, and he was 16 years older.
The interview circulated again in July 2025, while Lohan was promoting Freakier Friday ahead of its August 8, 2025, theatrical release. The X account @notcapnamerica posted the clip on July 24. These were remarks from the 2003 broadcast, resurfacing more than 21 years later.
On July 25, 2025, Anderson’s spokesperson defended the exchange in a statement: “This interview was clearly intended as comedy.” The spokesperson added, “He regrets if the humor was in poor taste and maintains the utmost respect for Lindsay.”
The statement also said, “Any implication to the contrary is both inaccurate and potentially defamatory.”
As of late July 2025, Lohan hadn’t addressed the resurfaced remarks. Her comments quoted here were her answers during the December 16, 2003, interview.