Sean Penn, 59, and Leila George, 28, hold hands as they are seen out for FIRST TIME since wedding

Sean Penn and his Leila George were glimpsed out and about this Saturday in their first public sighting since their wedding.

The 59-year-old actor and his new 28-year-old wife were spotted holding hands at he airport in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Both of them made sure to take the precaution of wearing masks as they surfaced amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

Rumors circulated at the beginning of this month that Sean and Leila had secretly tied the knot after four years of dating.

News of the wedding spread when they received congratulations on Instagram from Josh Brolin, as well as from movie producer Mike Medavoy’s wife Irena.

A few days later Sean went on Late Night With Seth Meyers and showed off his gold wedding band, confirming that he has married for a third time.

‘We did a COVID wedding. By that I mean it was a county commissioner on Zoom, and we were at the house,’ Sean revealed.

‘My two children and her brother, and we did it that way,’ said Sean, who won an Academy Award in a biopic of Harvey Milk. 

Sean has a daughter called Dylan, who is a year older than her new stepmother, and a son called Hopper, who is two years younger than Leila.

Upon hearing Sean’s explanation of his latest wedding Seth cracked: ‘Having had a very large wedding, that actually sounds pretty nice and low stress.’

‘Let’s say there are socially liberating factors under COVID,’ quipped Sean, whose nonprofit CORE has helped set up coronavirus testing sites.

Leila comes from a showbiz family – her mother is actress Greta Scacchi and her father is actor Vincent D’Onofrio, who is just one year older than her new husband.

Sean has been married twice before, to Madonna from 1985 until 1989 and to Robin Wright, the mother of his two children, from 1996 to 2010.

‘There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don’t feel I’ve ever had that,’ he said in 2012.

Sean told Esquire: ‘I have been the only one that was unaware of the fraud in a few of these circumstances blindly. When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and you go, What the f*** was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?’

‘Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.’