Then And Now: Celeb Couples From The Past To The Present

Marriage is a tough thing, no matter if you’re a celebrity or not. All relationships consist of challenges, and most couples are doing their best to make it work out. When you’re in the public eye, however, everything is heightened.

These lovebirds are known for being vigilant about children’s privacy but have been very public about their relationship with each other. They have been hitched since 2013, and have two daughters, Lincoln and Delta. But, things haven’t always gone smoothly for the couple. 

The backstory behind Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s relationship history is quite vast. In 2007, the “Say Something” singer and the actress first became romantically linked with each other. Even though they did split for a brief period of time in 2011, their wedding ceremony happened in Italy on October 12, 2012. It took place at the famous St. Mark’s Basilica.

John and Chrissy have had two children (Miles, 4, and Luna, 6) since they got married almost a decade ago. And, a third child is apparently on the way. On September 14, 2013, John and Chrissy were wedded to each other. 

Held on August 16, 2008, at their home in Beverly Hills, Ellen and Portia wore Zac Posen for the special ceremony. Although there were rumors swirling around over their split, they saw them in a positive light since the rumors weren’t based on any solid truth. This is likely the case with celebrity romances. 

Sacha and Isla truly seem to be a perfect couple. They are among some of the funniest and most talented stars in Hollywood and have sustained an enduring relationship. The pair met over 20 years ago and have been married for over a decade! 

At a soccer game in 1997, David Beckham and the-then Victoria Adams were first introduced to each other. With their love quickly escalating, David proposed to Victoria within the first year of their meeting with a marquise-shaped diamond ring.

Without a doubt, Freddie and Sarah were the “it” couple of the 1990s. You’d be pleased to know that they are still happily together 20 years later. The actress of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame and the handsome heartthrob of the teen comedy She’s All That met in 1997 on the set of the horror slasher, I Know What You Did Last Summer. 

For the past 20 years, Michael and Catherine Douglas have been married to each other. They first met in August 1998 at the Deauville American Film Festival in France after being introduced by Danny DeVito. On November 18, 2000, they had their wedding at New York’s Plaza Hotel. 

This celebrity couple began dating in 2001, even though they met a year prior. They secretly wed on April 4, 2008. Due to the nature of being in the public eye, there were many cheating allegations pertaining to their relationship. Even Jay-Z admitted to his infidelity in June 2017 but is grateful that Beyoncé forgave him. 

As one of the longest-lasting couples in the music business, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are still together! Both avid fans and lovers of country music, they first met briefly in 1994. They weren’t reunited, however, until 1996 when they went on their joint tour – this was where they truly became close. 

As one of the sweetest meet-cute stories in Hollywood, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos met on the set of All My Children in 1995. With the instant chemistry and sparks flying, and, after Consuelos joined Ripa’s daytime drama as her love interest, they started becoming more intimate. 

In 1994, even though Jada Pinkett Smith actually auditioned for a role in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, she and Will’s relationship was developed off-screen. It was in 1997 that the two tied the knot. After 28 years of marriage, Will and Jada’s two children are also in the limelight: Willow, 21, and Jaden, 23.

After Ted Danson ended his second divorce (which was with Whoopi Goldberg), he and Mary Steenburgen met. The two married each other after meeting two years prior on the set of Pontiac Moon. Ted and Mary secured their marriage on October 7, 1995. 

Elton John and David Furnish met each other in the most unexpected way while at a mutual friend’s dinner party in 1993. With the chemistry off the charts, the two set up their first date the day after the party. 

Because of their combined love for theater, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick met in 1991. They got married in 1997, a year before Parker’s hit HBO series premiered. In the span of their being together for nearly 30 years, they had three children: Tabitha Hodge, James Wilkie, and Marion Elwell. 

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have been married for more than three decades, and their love knows no bounds! They first met each other in the 1970s when Bacon was performing in a play. On June 23, 1988, the two had their first child, Travis. 

In the early 1980s, while starring on the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies, Hanks and Wilson became acquainted with one another. Even though at the time, Samantha Lewes was Hanks’ sweetheart, their relationship went public in 1986. After Hanks and Wilson began dating, the couple married two years later in 1988. 

In 1986, when Oprah Winfrey’s show debuted, she had begun dating Stedman Graham. Miraculously, the pair are still together to this day. They didn’t have any children together for nearly 40 years of marriage, but Graham does have a daughter from another relationship. In 2015, he also became a grandfather. 

Well, this certainly doesn’t happen much anymore! After Curtis discovered Guest in a 1984 magazine, she contacted him about going out. Amazingly, she heard back from him and went out on a date the following day. The two got married in December of that same year.

Russell and Hawn started dating after their prior marriages ended in 1983. It was that very year that they met each other on the set of Swing Shift. Hawn fell in love with Russell after he told her this corny pick-up line: “It looks like you have a great figure.” 

In 1970, Ozzy’s second wife, Sharon, was introduced to the rockstar. Their relationship turned romantic in 1979 when she was only 18 years old. 

Tomlin and Wagner got married in 2013 on New Year’s Eve after being together for more than four decades. Wagner was an actress on the show Desperate Housewives and Tomlin had been in the business since the mid-1960s. Wagner didn’t foresee that same-gender marriage would become legal while she was alive.

The two have been married for 21 years and are also parents to three children. Not much (aside from this) is known about their relationship, though. Iglesias and Kournikova, who is a famous tennis player, met in December 2001 while filming Iglesias’ “Escape” music video. Anna played his love interest.

As Hollywood legends, Vance and Bassett first met while at Yale School of Drama – and that’s where they quickly took a liking to each other. Their success hasn’t only been reflected in their acting careers, but also in the longevity of their marriage. 

While they were acting in a play together in 2000, Offerman and Mullally met. Nick’s appearance wasn’t that cute, as Megan recalls. Despite that statement, they have been married for 17 years. Offerman and Mullally have been collaborators on many projects, including Megan’s sitcom smash hit. 

Having co-starred in a host of projects together, Stiller and Taylor have been married since 2000. They did hit a bumpy road but got through it. Their relationship never definitively ended, and Taylor, 50, and Stiller, 56, shared how they rekindled their marriage after, nearly five years ago, they got separated. 

Jackman and Furness have had one of the most fortunate Hollywood relationships. With an age gap of 13 years, the two Australian actors have been dating since the mid-1990s, which reaffirms that age is truly just a number.

Rob was a competitor on the reality show Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains and subsequently became the Sole Survivor two seasons later on Survivor: Redemption Island. Mariano got engaged to Amber during the season finale and, in 2005, their wedding special aired on CBS. The two have been together ever since that fateful day!

While they were in college, Jackson and Richardson Jackson first met. And, it’s been over four decades since they tied the knot! The couple is serious about staying together and has promised each other to stick with their marriage. 

Since 2009, actors Peter Saarsgard and Maggie Gyllenhaal have been married. They have two children: Gloria, 9, and Ramona, 15. In April 2006, they got engaged and tied the knot in a small chapel in Brindisi, Italy on May 2, 2009.

Matt, 51, and Luciana, 46, have kept their private lives out of the public eye since their 2005 wedding. It’s no surprise that tabloid gossip and rumors destroy many celebrity marriages, but that’s an aspect of fame that’s hardly affected their marriage. Eight years after their first wedding, the pair renewed their vows on St. Lucia, a Caribbean island, in 2013. 

Shortly after meeting on a music video set, rapper Ice-T (Tracy Morrow) and the model, Nicole Natalie Austin, got married in 2005. The couple is the perfect match despite their 20-year age gap. Ice-T and Coco Austin welcomed their daughter into the world in 2015. 

With their original wedding scheduled for September 11, 2001, they had to postpone it to 11 days later. Boreanaz and Bergman have a son, Jaden, and a daughter, Bella, but their story isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. 

For most of Will Ferrell’s career, Viveca Paulin, his wife, has been right by his side. The two first met in an acting class and, in 1995, they dated for a short period of time before separating. Luckily, they found each other again and got married in 2000.

Brad Paisley and Kimberly Paisley-Williams tied the knot at Stauffer Chapel on the Pepperdine University campus on March 15, 2003. The pair has two boys, Jasper Warren, who was born into the world in 2009, and William Huckleberry, born in 2007.

Gummer and Streep first met in 1978 while Streep was grieving the passing of her co-star and then-boyfriend, John Cazale. To make matters worse, she was also evicted from the apartment they had lived in together. Six months later, in September 1978, Gummer and Streep got married in her parent’s garden.

In 1985, while working on the smash hit sitcom Family Ties, Fox, 61, and Pollan, 62, met each other. Although, their relationship actually began when they worked together on the 1988 film Bright Lights, Big City. Their marriage has lasted for 34 years and continues to go on.

Denzel and Pauletta have been married for nearly four decades – a rather rare occurrence in Hollywoodland. The pair have gone through countless ups and downs throughout their almost 40 years of marriage, but continue to remain close. On June 25, 1983, Denzel and Pauletta tied the knot.

During the production of the psychological thriller Gothika is where Robert and Susan first met and Susan produced it. A month later, Robert popped the question to Susan. In 2004, the two appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where they revealed all the details of their engagement. 

In 2010, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively first met on the set of Green Lantern. During that time, they were both in relationships, but, in 2011, they ended those and began dating each other.

Anderson and Rudolph have been an item since 2001. They’ve never revealed to the public how they met and are very private about their lives. Most people assume that the comedy actress and her director husband met on the set of Saturday Night Live. 

It was at a club in 2006 when McConaughey and Alves first met each other. The connection was immediate, according to Matthew. He said, “She showed up, and she moved right to left in front of my eyes across that club.”

In 2004, Prince William and Kate Middleton met when they were both students attending St. Andrews University. Unfortunately, the two broke up in 2007 but got back together a few months later. 

While David was with a mutual friend of theirs in New York, he and Neil had a chance encounter. David was seeing somebody at the time, but he ran into Neil later on and they formed a friendship. 

In 2004, Rogen and Miller met through a mutual friend. The actors have been married since 2011 and seem to be very content with their lives. When they were asked about having children, the two made it clear that they don’t intend to have any. 

Flockhart is 23 years younger than Ford and they met at the 2002 Golden Globes awards show. The two actors dated for a whole eight years before getting hitched. Maybe that’s the trick, considering they’re still together today. 

Nobody should accuse Savannah Brinson of being a golddigger. The interior designer has been with LeBron James, her husband, since high school – which was way before he joined the NBA. 

Davis and Tennon met on the set of City of Angels, a medical drama, in 1999. They’ve been married since 2003 and are still together to this day.

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt first met in 2008, when she was with a mutual friend at a restaurant. Both the actors say they fell in love at first glance. The couple got engaged after less than a year of dating each other and are still happily together. 

Fellow actors, Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, have played a couple recently on God’s Favorite Idiot, a Netflix show. It’s highly certain the reason their on-screen chemistry was so terrific is due to the fact that they’re actually married in real life.

Throughout their relationship, Pink and Carey Hart have gone through a lot. Hart, a professional race car driver, and Pink met at the Summer X Games in 2001 and got engaged in 2005. Although they broke up briefly, they got back together in 2006.

Bardem and Cruz are known for keeping their relationship separate from their public lives, despite them both being notable Hollywood actors. Most people do know that, in 1992, they met on the set of Jamón Jamón, a Spanish comedy/drama.

Famous singer, Alicia Keys, and record producer, Swizz Beatz, have been a couple since 2008. They met when they were teenagers, yet it wasn’t really love at first sight. Alicia has shared her first impression of Beatz, “Everything with him is really over the top. I used to see him and think, ‘He is so annoying.’”

Wow – this relationship has lasted for over 30 years! Tina Turner and Erwin Bach met in 1985. And, in July 2013, the two got married in Switzerland in a civil ceremony. They’ve been together for 27 years.

The relationship between Keely Shaye Brosnan and Pierce Brosnan is an enduring one. In 1994, they met and, then, got married in 2001. On-screen, Pierce has been notorious for his blockbuster films and is also a wonderful father and husband, off-screen.

The late 1980s is when Kudrow and Stern first met, but their relationship started in the early 1990s. Their wedding happened in 1995 and their son, Julian, was born three years later. In 2020, Kudrow and Stern celebrated their 25th anniversary.

At 61, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has created a notable comedy career for herself that spans 30 years. Brad Hall is the man that has stood by her side through it all. The two met at Northwestern University where they were both students.

We know that Amy Adams is a famous actress, but Darren Le Gallo is also quite an aficionado of his craft. He pursued a career in electronic music, starting with Soundcloud. He was awarded a degree in painting from Abilene Christian University in Texas. Regularly, he shares his artwork on the internet.

Kutcher and Kunis first met while acting on That ‘70s Show together. They didn’t start dating until years after that, though. They were both in serious relationships at the time of their meeting, but actually rekindled their spark in 2012 at the 69th Golden Globe Awards.

The couple met at a Reebok gym in Manhattan, New York. Actually, Jessica was already married to Eric Nederlander but they were having issues by the time Jerry came into the picture. At first, she wasn’t too interested in him and then that later changed.

The love story of director and actress Elizabeth Banks and Max Handleman goes all the way back to a college frat party. It was Elizabeth’s first day of college, too. The sparks flew immediately and their romantic relationship never faltered.

Rodger Berman and Rachel Zoe have been together for over 30 years. Zoe, a famous fashion designer, and Berman, an established financier, tied the knot in 1998. 

August 20, 1992, was a fateful day for The Police frontman, Sting, and his wife, Trudie Styler, a film producer, and director. They got married at Camden Registry Office in London, having initially met in the early 1980s. However, Sting was already married to his first wife, Frances Tomelty, a close friend of Trudie’s. 

In 1986, actors Cranston and Dearden met each other while filming the military drama, Airwolf. Their chemistry was undeniable and they felt connected, but they were already with other people at the time. 

Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond’s love story first began in the early 1990s. Fey was taking improv classes while completing her drama degree at the University of Virginia and Richmond had finished his study of music composition and theory at Kent State University. He found a gig as an in-house pianist at Del Close’s ImprovOlympic Theater which is where he met the comedian and actress to be. 

It’s been over two decades since actor and comedian, Joel McHale, and his wife, Sarah Williams, exchanged vows. They first met in 1995 while they were in their early 20s. McHale has publicly shared that before he fell in love with Sarah that he had never been lucky in the romance department. 

Actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly met each other while on the set of 2001’s A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ron Howard. Jennifer was actually in a relationship with actor Josh Charles. She and Bettany became close friends. 

For over two decades, Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford are still going strong. When they first met at her agent’s wedding, Cindy was dating actor Richard Gere, and Rande had a girlfriend. Gerber and Crawford became good friends and only began dating after she and Richard parted ways.

Since 2001, Wahlberg and Durham have been together. They met at a press junket in New York City and the next day had their first official date. Wahlberg knew she was “the one” without any hesitation. In 2003, they welcomed their first child, Ella Rae, and have three other children (Michael, 17, Brendan, 14, and Grace, 13). 

Jackie is a successful model who also dabbles in acting, often appearing in her husband’s projects. Adam Sandler is perhaps one of the most well-known funny guys of the generation, a seasoned comedian and actor, these two were destined to cross paths. They met during Jackie’s first film in 1999, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, despite her only having a small part.

Julia Roberts, quite possibly the ultimate American Sweetheart both on and off the screen, met Danny Moder, a cinematographer on the set of The Mexican in 2000. Since then they have been together for more than 20 years. Based on their story, it is safe to say true love does exist.