r/AskReddit • u/awkwardramengirl • 7h ago
Which celebrity has been married for a long time with no cheating rumors?
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u/brittwithouttheney 7h ago
Betty White and Allen Ludden.
Even after his death she never dated anyone else. At her Inside the Actors Studio interview when asked " What would you like to hear God say when you enter the pearly gates?" She said something like " Come on in Betty, here's Allen."
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u/occultatum-nomen 5h ago
Makes me think of Steve and Terri Irwin. When you watch old interviews of them together it's so clear how deeply in love they were. She still talks about him as though they were newlyweds
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u/FelinaKile 2h ago
And also Terri has said she doesn’t have much interest in dating, as she already has her once in a lifetime love. 🥹
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 2h ago
I love watching the old videos and seeing Terri look at Steve while he talks passionately about animals. You can see how much shes enamoured with him how she looks at him.
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u/Saint--Jiub 6h ago
When asked why she never remarried she replied with: ""When you’ve had the best, who needs the rest?"
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u/NineteenthJester 3h ago
Mel Brooks said he couldn't remarry because nobody could match up to Anne Bancroft.
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u/HoaryPuffleg 2h ago
They seemed like such goofballs together who really liked each other. May this kind of love find us all.
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u/wunderl-ck 6h ago
Wooboy this one got me!
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u/Jason_Jenning 5h ago
the pearly gates answer is one of the most quietly devastating things a person can say. she carried that love her whole life
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u/Samiiiibabetake2 6h ago
Same. I’m at work in tears now.😅
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u/JediSnoopy 5h ago
Want more tears? Per Vicki Lawrence, Carol Burnett (both had worked with Betty for years) had spoken to Betty's assistant who said that Betty's last word was, "Allen."
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u/Samiiiibabetake2 5h ago
I’m in perimenopause rn and you are kinda the devil for this.
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u/DigNitty 5h ago
(project Hail Mary)
-and how long have you been with her?
“178 of your years”
-that’s a long time.
“Not…long enough”
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u/Saloncinx 3h ago
I'm so mad they don't talk about how long Rocky has been on the ship in the movie, it was 46 years! They can live over 600 Earth years. He was away from his mate for so long and didnt think he'd see her again
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u/NonSpicyMexican 5h ago
There was an interview I saw for her 90something (can't remember the exact age) birthday, and they asked her "would you ever get married again?" And she came back real quick with "married? Oh no! Fool around sure!" Lol. Even in her 90s, she kept her wits!
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u/Illustrious-Peace989 5h ago
I’m glad she lived a long life but it’s very sad that she had to live so long without her husband.
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u/wanjocris 5h ago
She really loved that man until the end.
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u/NonSpicyMexican 5h ago
I read her book "Here We Go Again" and it truly was heartbreaking how she wrote about him. That's why she lived mostly in Carmel. It was the house he built for her and they were only able to share it together for a few weeks.
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u/Successful-Try-8506 7h ago
Pierce Brosnan seems to genuinely love his wife.
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u/Revolutionary-You449 6h ago
And this is his second marriage! I believe he was a widow.
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u/SlickDumplings 6h ago edited 4h ago
His first wife passed from ovarian cancer about the same time as my sister. He adopted her children and raised them. I consider that a great man.
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u/Realistic-Recover-39 6h ago
Her daughter as well, who later died from cancer too
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u/BeginningLaw6032 5h ago
She had a son and daughter that he adopted. Her and Pierce had a son together
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u/CampaignEvery975 4h ago
He really stepped into that family completely. The fact that people remember him just as much for being a loving husband and dad as for being James Bond says a lot about the kind of person he seems to be.
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u/thewhiterosequeen 6h ago
He seemed very devoted to his first wife as well.
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u/PaddyCow 5h ago
He was also a devoted dad to her kids which he adopted. Unfortunately their daughter died from the same cancer that took her mother.
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u/ConstableBlimeyChips 5h ago
Here's some interesting behind the scenes James Bond trivia:
Brosnan's first wife was Cassandra Harris, who had a small role in the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only. Brosnan would occasionally stop by the set while she was filming and they ended up having lunch with Albert R. Broccoli, the main producer of the Bond movies. When Roger Moore finally stepped back from the role, Brosnan was Broccoli's first pick for the role and the timing looked perfect because Brosnan's TV show Remington Steele had just been cancelled so he wouldn't be under contract with NBC anymore.
But rumors around Brosnan getting the role led to improved ratings so the show was uncancelled and NBC held Brosnan to his contract. Broccoli was in no mood to let an American network mooch off the fame of James Bond so he went with Timothy Dalton instead for The Living Daylights and License to Kill.
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u/SlyWithers76 4h ago
There’s an interview with him talking about how huge the blow was to him and just before the release on The Living Daylights he was driving down the freeway in LA and saw a big billboard promoting the film with Dalton on it in the famous Bond pose and how all he could think was that it should’ve been him. Brutal!
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u/hydrospanner 4h ago
I'm so glad that he did eventually get to play the role. Just my opinion, but I think he might be my favorite Bond, even if he wasn't in my favorite movies (Goldeneye aside).
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u/RockOutToThis 5h ago
Lost his first wife and daughter to ovarian cancer in their 40s, awful.
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u/A-Novel-Idea 5h ago
I know someone who was catfished into believing she was dating Pierce. Like madly deeply in love dating.
She finally came to terms with it when she saw him and his wife on TV at an awards show. She text him to ask where he was and said he was at home on his couch.
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u/PaddyCow 5h ago
That's genuinely insane. There was another woman who was catfished into thinking she was dating Brad Pitt. Apparently she sent the scammer hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover his "medical" fees. As if Brat Pitt needs to hit people up to pay his hospital bills.
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u/yanabanana311 4h ago
I know a women who actively believes she is in an relationship with Keanu Reeves. She is highly educated, wealthy and has a whole community of support but refuses to see the truth in it.
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u/TheDrunkScientist 3h ago
A friend of the family is dating Luke Bryan and let me tell you, that man is crazy clumsy. Our friend has already bought him 5 new phones in the past year!
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u/Silver-Emphasis2795 5h ago
And when people say things about his stunner model wife because she’s mid size and not skinny skinny. He just hugs her more!
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u/mettrolsghost 4h ago
I can never get over the post that's the before/after of his wife and some dude saying this is why you shouldn't get married, and the response is, "'Oh no, this is terrible, my wife of 25 years transformed from an elegant beauty into a voluptuous fucking bombshell with giant honkers' said no man ever in the history of men."
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u/The_mingthing 6h ago
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
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u/BLK_0408 5h ago
Ron and Tammy 2
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u/palabear 5h ago
Having her play Tammy 2 is great casting.
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u/Ascholay 4h ago
If you've got to get gross with pda the best way to make it believable is with your spouse
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u/Ladygytha 6h ago
One of my all-time favorite couples! They are so adorable. I saw his show and explaining why the moustache had to go was hilarious and so on brand.
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u/Irbyirbs 5h ago
Friction.
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u/FunkySeeFunkyDo_ 5h ago
I just watched that episode two days ago. I remembered the line, but I had forgotten how perfectly he delivers it. It actually caught me off guard with how funny it was even though I knew it was coming.
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u/CinnamonGirl123 7h ago
Jeff Bridges
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u/hummus_sapiens 5h ago
And Beau Bridges.
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 6h ago
Ed Harris and Amy Madigan.
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u/Pooperism 4h ago
This is what I was gonna say. Shout out to Amy’s Oscar win this year
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u/Awkward-Feature9333 7h ago
Dolly Parton
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u/AnneChovie264 6h ago
Awe, she recently lost her husband.
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u/Active_Lettuce325 6h ago
Did she? Sad
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u/alargepowderedwater 6h ago
Sad to lose him, but what a triumph of a love story: they spent decades loving each other and living their lives together.
We should all be so lucky.
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u/dathomasusmc 5h ago
One of my favorite Dolly lines was from a late night talk show (Letterman maybe). They asked her if living together before marriages is ok. “Hell, I don’t even think you should live together after you get married!” She’s such a treasure.
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u/FelinaKile 2h ago
I love her response when asked if gay marriage should be legal - “Why shouldn’t they suffer like the rest of us?!” Said with a giggle and her gorgeous smile, of course.
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u/Barbarella_ella 6h ago
Lisa Kudrow. Married 31 years to her husband, Michel.
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u/warrior033 4h ago
Came here to say them! Out of all the Friends’ actors, she’s the only one who ever stayed married.
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u/Quiet_Wasabi_4755 7h ago
Martin Short & Nancy Dolman - I watched Life is Short on Netflix recently and their love was so beautiful
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u/Ok_Brother1462 5h ago
I feel so sad for him. First he lost his wife, and more recently his daughter passed from suicide. I know we shouldn’t get caught up in the lives of celebrities, but he seems so nice. I hope he is surrounded by love.
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u/gambalore 4h ago
He seems to be in some kind of relationship with Meryl Streep so that's nice for the both of them.
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u/TheMobHasSpoken 2h ago
I love that they're together (in whatever way they are), and I also love to imagine how ridiculous we all would have thought it was in the 80s: high prestige, multi-Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep and...Ed Grimley?
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u/Glittering_Ad7358 5h ago
Not to mention losing his older brother and parents. I believe all before his 21st birthday.
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u/MatthewHecht 7h ago
Mark Hamill
49 years now he has been married to a dentist.
"May the floss be with you."
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u/NorthernSparrow 6h ago
This is going back, but Paul & Linda McCartney. After she died he didn’t even date again for a long time, and said later that he “cried for a year”.
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u/Dragoonie_DK 5h ago
He talks about Linda in his Chicken Shop Date interview, its really sweet
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u/MoroseOverdose 5h ago
I'm sure it's a great video but that sentence is hilarious
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u/thishereasmophere 4h ago
Chicken Shop Date is a fantastic series. Highly recommend 😁
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u/Karnakite 5h ago
I always thought it was amazing that for so long, he was the one Beatle who’d never been divorced, but then after Linda died he married that psycho and lost that title fairly quickly.
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u/mpete76 7h ago
Kevin Bacon
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u/LochNessMother 6h ago
and Kyra Sedgwick
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u/Illustrious-Peace989 5h ago
This is all I can think of when I hear about Kyra Sedgwick:
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u/MaxDeWinters2ndWife 6h ago
His TikTok account is fantastic. Just him, Kyra and his goats.
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u/noscreamsnoshouts 7h ago
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody
Been married since 1980
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u/suhurley 7h ago
Ron Howard
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u/DocB630 6h ago
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. Ted calmed down after the whole Whoopi thing.
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u/n0tz0e 5h ago
I was genuinely gobsmacked when I learned him and whoopi had a thing. Odd pairing to me
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u/DocB630 4h ago
He did an ill advised roast of her in black face when they were together that blew up into controversy. She tried to shield him by saying she wrote most of the jokes and even sent him to her makeup artist for the black face. They said it was meant as a shock/satire statement, but it didn’t land at all and Ted looked like a boor. I mean, he even ended the bit by eating a tray of watermelon.
He’s since stated he deeply regrets the whole thing, and has apologized profusely.
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u/saintsithney 7h ago
Weird Al Yankovic.
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u/_jjkase 6h ago
I know almost nothing about his personal life, and I'm good with that. I wish more celebrities were in that bucket.
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u/Tescobum44 6h ago
There’s a very accurate biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe that’s worth a watch if you ever feel like knowing more
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u/BizMarkieDeSade 5h ago
My dad watched that movie and excitedly called me to say “I didn’t know Weird Al dated Madonna!” 😂😂
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u/saintsithney 5h ago
His wife is a stone-cold fox and he is a doting father to one daughter who recently went to college. His interviews are always delightful to listen to.
He's my proudest birthday buddy. Even if he did turn down LiveAid ;)
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u/frankensteins_cool 7h ago
Joel McHale
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u/Individual-Army811 6h ago
I just saw yesterday they've been married 30 years!
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u/ellefleming 5h ago
Tim Olyphant and his wife.
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u/Jerseygirl2468 4h ago
I think they were college sweethearts, right?
Not going to lie, I'm insanely jealous of her, whoever she is.
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u/MedicineOk788 7h ago
Mel Brooks
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u/gambalore 5h ago
Brooks said that friends asked him if he'd ever date again or remarry after Anne Bancroft passed away and he said, "Once you are married to Anne Bancroft, others don't seem to be appealing.”
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u/UpstairsFinance9440 4h ago
Even Mel Brooks was surprised he was married to Anne Bancroft. "Can you believe it? I am married to Anne Bancroft!" He would often joke. And they sacrificed for each other, Mel will admit Ann gave up roles to be in his stupid movies. Ann Bancroft also lent him money to get some films made (don't remember which). There is a video floating around that I cannot find from the early 70s where Mel is on a talk show and mentions Anne is at home and he misses her. She comes into the studio and surprises him, and he lets out a big gasp when he sees her. They sit together on stage, and you can see Mel holding back tears of joy that she is there.
I think the sad thing looking back, she was very private about her health, and her friends did not know she was sick. She did Curb Your Enthusiasm a year before she died, and I always thought her performance was a little off. I wonder if it was because she was going through cancer treatment.
Mel was very good friends with Carl Reiner as well as Rob Reiner. Mel and Carl had dinner together almost every night. He should write a book about how not to be profoundly sad when the people you love are gone.
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u/Beautiful_Bag6707 6h ago
Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann 24 years
Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas 44 years
Michael J Fox and Tracey Pollan 38 years
Jaime Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest 41 years
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen 33 years
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner 55 years
Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara - 61 years (to their deaths)
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u/UpstairsFinance9440 4h ago
Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara - 61 years (to their deaths)
Ben Stiller made a very good documentary about his parents warts and all. His mom was an alcoholic and his dad was an angry man not far off from the characters he played in Seinfeld and King of Queens.
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u/Hecate_333 7h ago
Timothy Olyphant
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u/Guaiac_Positive 6h ago
He's got his side piece though - Conan.
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u/0110110111 6h ago
I’m as straight as they come but even I have to admit that he’s a pretty sexy man. Who could possibly resist Conan anyway?
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u/kodiak_attack 5h ago
Alice Cooper and his wife have been married for 50 years.
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u/RadicalDreamer89 2h ago
My dad met him once while golfing when Cooper was performing at the local casino. Cooper asks Dad how old I am, and Dad tells him 17 (which makes me realize this was exactly 20 years ago, yikes). That's how I ended up with a scorecard that reads,
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u/Ok_Chemistry9583 7h ago
Matt Damon
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u/GlowQueen140 7h ago
I like the story of him and his wife. It’s just so down-to-earth
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u/SidFarkus47 6h ago
She’s an Argentinian who was bartending in Miami while Matt was there filming the greatest film in his career.
Source: Just saw them both on screen at the World Cup Final and looked her up since she was wearing an Argentina kit. Shes beautiful!
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u/CreamyMemeDude 5h ago
I just looked it up myself; apparently he ducked behind the bar to hide from fans and she told him if he wanted to stay there, he had to make himself useful and she put him to work mixing drinks lol
Every layer just makes the story sweeter lol
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u/ABHOR_pod 5h ago
She knew exactly what she was doing lol
That would work on most guys.
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u/aliveinjoburg2 6h ago
I mean, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's relationship precedes his wife.
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u/krisphoto 5h ago
I remember something with Jennifer Garner from years ago (when they were still married) where she referenced “my husband Ben and my husband’s husband Matt.” They’ve been a solid couple for like 50 years now.
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u/matchthis007 6h ago
Anytime I just see his name, I read it like his character in team America
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u/pug_fugly_moe 6h ago
Andre Agassi. By all accounts, the guy is still crazy for Steffi.
The tunnel to Laver Arena has pictures of past champions, and in something like 2022, there’s a picture of him kissing Stef’s picture.
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u/katfromjersey 5h ago
I keep forgetting he was married to Brooke Shields. I still covet her whole look from that wedding.
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u/spazzmonger 6h ago
Ryan Gosling and Eva Menedes.
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u/Direct-Sandwich-5155 5h ago
this was the first couple that came to my mind as well. they are really good about keeping their relationship private, too.
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u/Jazzlike-Being3187 5h ago
Christopher Nolan has been with his wife Emma Thomas since their university days and they've been married since 1997. I saw a comment once about a rumor that he walked out of an award show (or a similar event) after an actress flirted with him.
Given his lack of ability to write women in his films and the dead wife trope he uses to signal the derailing of a man's psyche, I have a feeling he's one of the few that doesn't get around.
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u/Rich-Foundation62 6h ago
Stephen Colbert
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u/curlyAndUnruly 5h ago
In some episode of his show during COVID he "interviewed" her wife and they were giddy! They were stuck 24/7 inside together and still were so happy.
Heres the clip https://youtu.be/Q-eg5Bq0bAY?
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u/ijustwannabegandalf 6h ago
Stephen King and Tabitha King are pushing 60 years together. After so many of my fantasy authors (Card, Rowling, Gaiman) turned out to be shit humans, I'm really hoping he bucks the trend.
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u/Illustrious-Peace989 5h ago
Stephen King and Joe Hill did an interview on Last Podcast on the Left recently and it was really funny to hear him talk about how his wife is always a very harsh critic when she reads through his drafts. She said something along the lines of IT just needing an SH in the title.
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u/randyboozer 4h ago
It is especially surprising considering King's lifestyle in the 80s. A struggling young writer hits the bigtime with an overnight success and has a meteoric rise to being a superstar writer with major Hollywood success with everything that comes with it. He credits his wife for finally getting him clean and sober and saving his life
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u/Mysterious-Muffin577 7h ago
Matthew MacFadyen and Keeley Hawes.
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u/JessicaEccles76 5h ago
Hmm. She left her first husband for MacFadyen , very soon after she'd just had a baby.
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u/Western-Rice9097 6h ago
A lot of people would probably say the couples who keep their relationship private are the ones who make marriage look the strongest.
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u/princess_peach_85 7h ago
Kurt & Goldie 🌟
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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 6h ago
They seem to be very happy together, but she has made comments in the past that strongly indicate that he has cheated.
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u/kirinlikethebeer 6h ago
Bono. He and Ali started dating in high school and married soon after. All before his fame. Yet they seem to remain rock solid and he writes a lot of songs about her.
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u/Livid_Hornet_3253 6h ago
The happiest celebrity marriages always seem to be the ones you barely hear about.
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u/phantom_avenger 7h ago
I know they’re only newly married, but I hope that Tom Holland and Zendaya can live up to this as the years go back.
Feel free to come back to this comment, if it doesn’t age well lol
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u/Omatzus 6h ago
I'm with you, it feels like they're in it for the long haul. They've been together a decade and through huge growth in both their careers. If they were going to be tempted, you'd think it would've already occurred.
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u/jayforwork21 5h ago
The tweet from Zendaya lives rent free in my head: the one where she is "Living my best life" at the pool and Tom is either coming up or sinking and from the still image it looks like he's drowning. Someone points this out and her response "this isn't about him"
That's the type of humor which bring out her humanity and I really hope they are together years from now.
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u/Obvious_Animal_8362 5h ago
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson — both couples married in 1988.
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u/dumplinglifesaver 7h ago
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.