37 Celebrities Who Aren’t Married to Celebrities
While the stars on our list may have made their name in front of the camera, it’s those standing behind who caught their eye.
Christian Bale and Sibi Blazic
Married for more than 20 years, Bale met his now wife, Sibi Blazic, while the Chicago- born model was working as a personal assistant to actress Winona Ryder. Following their introduction by Ryder, Bale and Blazic hit it off, with Bale even stating their relationship had completely changed his deeply skeptical view of marriage.
Meryl Streep and Don Gummers
Married for nearly half a century, Streep met now husband Don Gummers mere weeks after the passing of her partner of nearly 3 years, actor John Cazale. Just 6 months after her introduction to Gummer, Streep married the award-winning sculptor in the fall of 1978. The couple have 4 children together, including 3 daughters, all of whom are actresses.
George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin
Though now a bonafide celebrity in her own right, Clooney and Alamuddin were first introduced in 2013 through mutual friends, initially bonding over their shared advocacy for the return of the Elgin Marbles to their native Greece from the British Museum.
Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond
After joining Chicago’s famed Second City improvisational troupe, Fey met pianist Jeff Richmond. Following their 2001 nuptials, Richmond would go on to work with Fey as a composer for her widely acclaimed show 30 Rock. The couple have 2 daughters together, Alice and Penelope, and reside in New York City’s Upper West Side.
George Lucas and Mellody Hobson
The Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator first met Ariel Investments president and Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson in 2006 at a business conference both were attending. The couple married at Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch in June 2013 and welcomed their daughter, Everest, via surrogate later that same year.
Ken Jeong and Tran Jeong
After moving to Los Angeles in the late 1990s, Ken and Tran Jeong practiced medicine in the greater LA area for several years before Ken’s break into the entertainment industry with his role in The Hangover. Ken credits Tran for encouraging his desire to leave his career in medicine to pursue his comedic ambitions, despite his relatively belated break into Hollywood.
Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshawe
After maintaining a friendship for more than a decade, Redmayne and Bagshawe became romantically involved in 2012 following a trip to Florence, Italy together. The pair met as teenagers at a local fashion show for charity after Redmayne and some fellow Eton College classmates were invited to assist in the event. The couple married in December 2014 at Babington House in Somerset, England and welcomed their first child, a daughter, in June 2016.
Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh
In late 2010, Grammer announced his engagement to flight attendant Kayte Walsh, daughter of English football player Alan Walsh. Walsh, 25 years Grammer’s junior, is the acclaimed actor’s 4th marriage. The couple wed at The Plaza Hotel on February 25, 2011, 3 weeks after the dissolution of his 3rd marriage, and share 3 children.
Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer
Since tying the knot back in 2018, Schumer now shares a son, Gene David, with chef Chris Fisher. In her 2019 Netflix special, Schumer revealed Fisher had been recently diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. Schumer has stated in numerous interviews since that the diagnosis has been a boon for the couple, going so far as to describe the diagnosis as Fisher’s superpower.
James Corden and Julia Carey
The Late Late Show with James Corden’s eponymous host met now wife Julia Carey during a 2009 Save the Children charity event. Following their 2010 engagement in the Maldives, the couple married at Babington House in late 2012. Corden and Carey share 3 children and reside predominantly in Los Angeles but continue to maintain homes in both Berkshire and London in the UK.
Kenaue Reeves and Alexandra Grant
Following their meeting at a 2009 dinner party, Reeves and American visual artist Alexandra Grant bonded almost immediately over their shared interest in the arts, later collaborating on 2 books together. Almost a decade after their initial introduction, Reeves and Grant would go public with their relationship in November of 2019. Though only revealing their relationship to the public in late 2019, the couple has reportedly been together for several years prior to their public debut, kept under wraps likely due to Reeve’s reticence to open his romantic relationships for public consumption and speculation.
Paul Rudd and Julie Yaegar
America’s darling Paul Rudd first met now wife Julie Yaegar in his publicist’s office where she was working at the time. The couple later married in 2003 and reside in New York City with their 2 children, Jack and Darby. Yaeger and Rudd also co-own and operate a candy store, Samuel’s Sweet Shop, in upstate New York where the couple own a second home.
Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni
The Sex and the City actress met education activist Christine Marinoni in 2001 while lending her support to an education initiative organized by Marinoni to reduce class sizes in New York City public schools. Nixon and Marinoni have been married for nearly a decade, tying the knot in May 2012 after New York City’s passing of the Marriage Equality Act. Prior to her relationship with Marinoni, Nixon had only been romantically involved with men and ostensibly identified as straight.
Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney
Lawrence married art gallerist Cooke Maroney in an intimate ceremony in Rhode Island in late 2019. The Manhattan-based gallerist and Lawrence were introduced through Lawrence’s best friend and reportedly immediately hit it off. While much of their relationship remains shielded from the public eye, the couple welcomed their first child together in February of this year and reside in New York City’s East Village.
Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin
Law enforcement officer Brendan McLoughlin met Lambert while she was performing on Good Morning America and he’d been stationed nearby. The couple wed in January of 2019, upon which Lambert became stepmother to McLoughlin’s child from a previous relationship. Coincidentally, Lambert’s parents are also involved in law enforcement, owning and operating Lambert & Lambert, a detective agency they formed together.
Seth Meyers and Alexi Ashe
Married in 2013, Meyer and Ashe were first introduced in 2008 while both were attending actor Chris Kattan’s wedding to his now ex-wife Sunshine Deia Tutt. Ashe, an accomplished human rights attorney, frequently undertakes pro bono cases for New York-based non-profit Sanctuary for Families, an organization dedicated to aid for victims of domestic abuse. The couple share 3 children with their youngest, Adelaide, being born just last year.
Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen
While rehearsing for her hosting spot on Saturday Night Live, actress Drew Barrymore introduced Fallon to her longtime friend and Flower Films cofounder, Nancy Juvonen in early 2005. Juvonen and Fallon hit it off right away but solidified their relationship on the set of the Flower Films production Fever Pitch, which Fallon starred in as the love interest of Barrymore’s character. Following their 2007 engagement, the couple wed in December of that same year on business magnate Richard Branson’s privately owned Necker Island in the Caribbean Sea.
Lisa Kudrow and Michel Stern
When Kudrow met French advertising executive Michel Stern in the 1980s, she was immediately drawn to him. However, at the time of their meeting, Stern was dating Kudrow’s roommate. Stern and Kudrow’s roommate eventually broke up a few months later, but it wasn’t until 6 years later that Kudrow and Stern would reconnect at her birthday party. Just a week after the first season of Friends had wrapped, the couple wed on May 27, 1995. When Kudrow became pregnant with the couple’s son Julian in 1998, writers of the hit sit-com worked Kudrow’s pregnancy into the script of the show by Phoebe acting as a surrogate mother for triplets to her younger half brother in the show’s 4th season.
Wanda Sykes and Alex Niedbalski
The Chris Rock Show writer met now wife Alex Niedbalski while on a ferry to New York’s Fire Island, a Long Island gay village first popularized in the early 1970s. The couple married in October 2008, one month before Sykes publicly came out while speaking in opposition to California’s widely controversial Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. Sykes and Niedbalski, an interior designer by profession, welcomed a set of twins, Lucas and Olivia, in 2009.
Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney
Emmy-nominated comedy writer Molly McNearney first met Kimmel in 2003 after being hired as a writer at the show’s genesis. However, the late-night host didn’t make a fantastic first impression on McNearney, reportedly referring to her habit of competing in triathlons as a waste of time. McNearney now serves as the co-head writer on Kimmel’s late-night show and has written for Kimmel’s hosting gigs like The Academy Awards and The White House Correspondant’s Dinner. The comedic duo share 2 children, a son and a daughter born in 2017 and 2014 respectively. The couple’s son, William, was born with a rare heart defect that necessitated almost immediate surgery with the procedure taking place when he was just 3 days old. Luckily, the surgery was a success and impelled Kimmel to discuss the topic on his show and advocate for universal healthcare.
Patrick Dempsey and Jillian Fink
Dempsey married his second wife, hair stylist and makeup artist Jillian Fink, on July 31, 1999. Prior to Fink, Dempsey had married his manager, Rochelle Parker, in 1987 when he was only 21 years-old and Parker was 48. In 2015, Fink would file for divorce from Dempsey citing “irreconcilable differences” and the couple would remain estranged for nearly a year. Thankfully, the couple reunited in May 2016 and would later call off their divorce in November of that same year.
Vince Vaughn and Kyla Weber
Shortly after ending his brief relationship with his The Breakup co-star Jennifer Anniston, Vaughn was introduced to Canadian realtor Kyla Weber through a mutual friend at a wedding. After getting engaged on Valentine’s Day 2009, Vaughn and Weber made it official at a Lake Forest, Illinois ceremony in early 2010. Since tying the knot the couple has had 2 children together, Locklyn and Vernon, ages 11 and 8 respectively.
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth
Briefly after ending her relationship with actor Jake Gyllenhaal, the Academy Award-winning actress met talent agent Jim Toth at a party after he’d spotted a belligerently intoxicated man hitting on Witherspoon and decided to intervene. The couple became engaged in December 2010 followed shortly by a private ceremony at Witherspoon’s Ojai, California ranch in March of the following year. The couple welcomed their first child together, Tennessee, in September 2012.
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
Celebrating 14 years of marriage just last month, Alba first fell for director’s assistant Cash Warren during filming of the 2005 film Fantastic Four. Alba, the most recent appointee to Yahoo’s board of trustees, got engaged to Warren in late 2007, roughly 3 years after first meeting on set. The pair wed in a lowkey Beverly Hills courthouse wedding back in 2009 and share 3 children.
Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millipied
Whilst filming her Academy Award-winning performance as Nina in Black Swan, Portman met French choreographer and ballet dancer Benjamin Millipied. The couple wed in a Jewish ceremony at a private home in Big Sur, California in late summer 2012 and now share 2 children. Millipied and Portman have continued to work together professionally with Millipied serving as a choreographer on her 2018 film Vox Lux.
Gal Gadot and Jaron Varsano
Gadot and Varsano were first introduced in 2006 through a mutual friend at a party in the Israeli desert. Varsano, an Israeli real estate agent, told the Wonder Woman actress they’d be married someday on only their second date and just 2 years later, they would be. Gadot gave birth to their first daughter, Alma, in 2008 and welcomed their second, Maya, in 2017.
Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich
Moore began her relationship with director Bart Freundlich while on set filming the 1997 movie The Myth of Fingerprints. The couple wed in a private ceremony in New York City’s Greenwich Village in August 2003, a year after welcoming their second child, Liv, in April 2002.
Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso
In 2003, Barroso was working as a bartender in Miami when she first met the A-list actor. The pair connected immediately over their shared prioritization of their children’s lives and wellbeing above their careers and social lives. Following their 2005 wedding, Damon became stepfather to Barroso’s daughter Alexia before welcoming 3 biological children with Barroso in the following years.
Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman
After meeting jewelry designer and producer Adam Shulman at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2008, Hathaway knew her and Shulman were meant to wed one day. Hathaway’s feelings would be sweetly vindicated in September 2012 when the couple tied the knot in Big Sur, California. The couple welcomed their second son, Jack, in November 2019.
Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn
At just 11 years old, Sheeran would meet future wife Cherry Seaborn when both were attending the same secondary school. The couple would rekindle their relationship after reuniting in New York City sometime in 2015 and would tie the knot in January 2018. Sheeran and Seaborn announced the birth of their second child, a daughter, on May 19, 2022.
Chris O’Donnell and Caroline Fentress
After meeting in their shared apartment building in the early 90s, NCIS star Chris O’Donnell would later marry school teacher Caroline Fentress in 1997. Married for nearly 25 years, the couple share 5 children together and reside in Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman
Nearly 30 years ago, Banks and Handelman met on the pair’s first day at the University of Pennsylvania in September 1992. The couple share 2 sons born via surrogacy and even started a production company, Brownstone Productions, together in 2002 that would later go on to produce all three movies in the Pitch Perfect franchise as well as 2019’s Charlie’s Angels. To wed Handelman, Banks underwent portions of conversion to Judaism and studied the faith under rabbis.
Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery
After a chance meeting at a Los Angeles grocery store in 2003, Pompeo and Ivery discovered they’d grown up just 10 miles away from one another in Boston, Massachusetts. Before pivoting to the fashion industry, Ivery had an illustrious career as a record producer and songwriter, even being credited as a writer on Rihanna’s hit song Cheers (Drink to That) in 2011. Pompeo and Ivery wed at New York City Hall in a ceremony officiated by then mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2007. Since tying the knot, the couple has welcomed 2 daughters, Stella and Sienna, and a son, Eli.
Kevin Jonas and Danielle Deleasa
Jonas and Deleasa met in a chance encounter while each was on vacation in the Bahamas with their respective families. Deleasa, working at the time as a hairdresser, initially didn’t take Jonas’s pursuits seriously since each lived on separate coasts of the United States. However, Jonas wouldn’t be rebuffed and eventually popped the question to Deleasa in 2009. From 2012 to early 2013 the couple even starred in their own reality show, Married to Jonas, which ran for 2 seasons on E!. The couple also share two daughters, Alena and Valentina, born in 2014 and 2016 respectively.
John Stewart and Tracey McShane
The Daily Show host almost blew his chance with McShane after losing her phone number following their blind date in 1997. Thankfully, Stewart was able to track down McShane’s digits through a production assistant she was rooming with at the time and able to ask her out for a second date. After 4 years of dating, Stewart popped the question to McShane, a self-proclaimed crossword enthusiast, with a puzzle of his own with the help of New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz. The couple share a son, Nathan, and a daughter, Maggie, they conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 2004 and 2006.
Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley
Since their 1989 Las Vegas wedding, Bon Jovi and Hurley have welcomed three sons (Jesse, Jacob, and Romeo) and a daughter (Stephanie). The couple met while both were in highschool and Bon Jovi had been trying to cheat on an exam by copying off Hurley. At the time, Hurley was dating a friend of Bon Jovi’s and the couple wouldn’t begin their romantic relationship until both were in their 20s.
Jason Schwartzman and Brady Cunningham
Art and design director Brady Cunningham married the Rushmore actor in California’s San Fernando Valley on July 11, 2009. Cunningham, co-owner of the LA-based brand TENOVERSIX, shares 2 daughters, Una and Marlowe, with the actor.
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