Hollywood stars who found love with non-celebrities – from Anne Hathaway to Matt Damon

It was an unremarkable day in Music Metropolis when 18-year-old Dolly Parton met Carl Thomas Dean on the laundromat. Not like the worldwide singer, he’s extra of a person of solitude who has stayed out of the limelight. 

”I would come to Nashville with soiled garments. I used to be in such a rush to get right here – and after I would put my garments within the machine, I began walkin’ down the road, simply lookin’ at my new residence, and this man hollered at me, and I waved. Bein’ from the nation, I spoke to all people. And he came visiting and, properly, it was Carl, my husband.” she informed New York Times journal.

Dolly’s meteoric rise quickly put pay to the ‘regular’ begin to their relationship nevertheless it didn’t postpone Carl, as 57 years of marriage show. ”He is all the time been my greatest fan behind the scenes,” Dolly informed reporters on the premiere of her Netflix sequence, Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings. However anyway, he’d by no means come dragging round. I would relatively convey anyone else with me, ? He is by no means jealous of that both.”

Within the early days, Dolly did take Carl to an occasion however he determined that the lifetime of glitz was not for him. ”He went to at least one factor with me early on, once we first married, to a BMI Tune of the Yr (occasion), and he got here out of there taking off his tuxedo, his tie and all that and mentioned, ‘Do not ever ask me to go to a different one among these rattling issues as a result of I ain’t going.’ I by no means requested him and he by no means did,” she recounted on the podcast What Would Dolly Do?

There cannot be many higher tales of opposites attracting!

What would occur in case you served a Hollywood star whereas bartending? Effectively if you’re Luciana Damon, you fall in love and get married. 

Matt Damon was on a break from capturing Caught on You when he and his crew went to the bar for a drink. The 54-year-old informed Ellen that assembly his future spouse was fated: ”I noticed her throughout a crowded room. Eight years and 4 children later, that is my life. I do not know the way else our paths would’ve crossed if that did not occur.”

Luciana recalled the occasions (much less dramatically) to Vogue Australia: ”Matt’s story is that he noticed me throughout the room and there was a lightweight on me. And I am like, ‘Yeah, it was a nightclub — there have been lights in every single place!”

”He had began getting recognised and requested for footage and autographs, after which it acquired sort of aggressive as a result of individuals are consuming and stuff,” she went on. ”So he got here and hid behind the bar … (desirous to) simply hang around again there and have a drink. He says, ‘Oh, I noticed you and I actually needed to speak to you.”

After he helped her out behind the bar serving drinks, he requested Luciana to go to a different bar together with his associates. Nevertheless the one mum replied: ”’I can not, I’ve a four-year-old daughter, I am not going anyplace’ … and that was one of many issues he liked, that I had a daughter.”’

One of many longest-running {couples} in Hollywood, Julia Roberts met cinematographer husband Danny Moder on the set of The Mexican. 

”I feel that first sort of actual … ‘seismic shift’ was assembly Danny. Getting married to Danny. That was the primary, like, my life won’t ever be the identical in probably the most unimaginable, indescribable approach … He really, to today, to this minute, is simply my favourite human.”

Regardless that Danny just isn’t an actor, the couple have collaborated on inventive initiatives together with The Regular Coronary heart, for which Danny earned an Emmy nomination. Through the years the pair have welcomed three youngsters: Hazel, Phinnaeus, and Henry. 

Grey’s Anatomy heartthrob Patrick Dempsey discovered romance with hair stylist Jillian Fink when he booked an appointment at her salon 30 years in the past. 

When Jillian, 58, noticed the title connected to the reserving she initially assumed it was a joke, so was each shocked and delighted when the lusciously coiffeured star walked in.  ”I used to be shocked. However on the identical time, I used to be pleased as a result of he was so cute,” she informed People.

They married in 1999 and went on to have three youngsters: Talula Fyfe and twins, Darby Gale and Sullivan Patrick. 

In 2015 they cut up and filed for divorce, although rapidly reconciled. Patrick, 58, informed People: ”Jill and I made a decision it was time to work on our points and enhance. We needed to be function fashions for our children like, okay, when you’ve got variations, you may work them out.”

It was love at first sight for Anne when she met actor and jewelry designer Adam Shulman, regardless of her earlier relationship ending in acrimonious circumstances.

”I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life, Anne informed Harper’s Bazaar UK.  I additionally knew that I couldn’t have met him at a worse time.” She wasn’t exaggerating: her ex- boyfriend of 4 years, Italian property designer Raffaello Follieri, had not too long ago pleaded responsible to 14 counts of wire fraud, cash laundering and conspiracy.

Adam proved a much better selection of associate and the pair went on to marry (Adam designed the engagement ring) and have two sons: Jonathan Rosebanks and Jack. Having a ‘regular’  homelife has actually benefited Anne’s profession too. When she performed a home abuse sufferer in Serenity, she informed People: ”I believed I used to be doing an excellent job of preserving myself protected and in my life. After which by the top, it had simply taken over. I am simply actually grateful I had my husband there to remind me the place our life ended and the place she started and serving to to maintain that clear for me.”

After first recognizing Alex on a ferry, Wanda informed The Guardian: ”One thing actually mentioned to me, like, audibly, ‘Wow, that’s what you want, Wanda.” With the assistance of mutual associates, Wanda was put in contact with the French inside designer to debate a possible kitchen remodelling and, as destiny would have it, they actually hit it off. They privately married in 2005, a month earlier than Alex got here out as publically homosexual at a same-sex marriage rally in Las Vegas. 

Regardless of not being an actor, Alex is Wanda’s ‘muse’ for her comedy work, usually mimicking her French-ness. She informed Variety: ”That is simply how I see her. I didn’t do it this within the particular, so she’s like (in a French accent, pretending to carry a cigarette), ‘All people thinks I smoke now! All people’s asking me, ‘Alex, when did you begin smoking?” After I speak like her, I simply occur to do it.”

A rep of Wanda’s informed People that Alex gave delivery to twins Lucas Claude and Olivia Lou in 2009. Whereas preserving their household life personal, Alex posted an image of birthday truffles on Instagram with the caption:  “Guess who’s 12 at the moment?? #proud #mothers  #surreal.”

Hannah Bagshawe first caught Eddie’s eye when the pair had been youngsters and she or he and her classmates placed on a charity trend present at his faculty, Eton School.

A real slowburn, Eddie Redmayne was associates with Hannah for 12 years earlier than romance developed. Their first date was a showstopper with Eddie whisking her off to Florence on a break from filming Les Miserables. He informed the Daily Mail in 2015: ”Earlier than I went, Hannah and I had been on a kind of date – we would been good associates for 12 years – and we had a beautiful night and I all of a sudden mentioned, ‘You do not wish to come to Florence with me subsequent week, do you?’ She mentioned, ‘That is absurd, you do not imply it.’ I mentioned, ‘Sure I do!’ So our first correct date was in Florence. That was three years in the past and we could not be happier.”

Hannah used to work as an vintage supplier which got here in helpful when styling her boyfriend’s pink carpet appears to be like. Eddie, 42, informed People: ”After I exit to premieres and occasions, I’ve to test with my girlfriend that the trousers match the highest. I not too long ago wore a blue swimsuit – and I needed to ask her if it was actually blue relatively than purple. She assured me it was blue. I couldn’t inform the distinction.” The now-married pair have two youngsters: Iris and Luke.

Jennifer Lawrence and artwork gallerist husband Cooke Maroney get pleasure from a very personal relationship  – although true normality is tough to realize when relationship a Hollywood star, significantly on the outset.

”So once I began relationship my now husband, I used to be so embarrassed to convey my (safety guard) when [Cooke] requested me out, Jennifer informed Vanity Fair.  I imply, how mortifying would which have been?”

The 34-year-old star continued: ”So I didn’t, and it made me actually nervous the primary few instances, and it turned out completely high quality. I realised you get extra privateness if….I don’t know if that is even protected to speak about. I’ve safety on a regular basis. Twenty-four hours a day. And a gun!”

The couple went on to have son Cy in 2022, and when requested by Vanity Fair what marriage to Cooke is like, Jennifer mentioned: ”I actually get pleasure from going to the grocery retailer with him. I don’t know why nevertheless it fills me with a number of pleasure.”

”I all the time get one of many cooking magazines, like 15 Minute Wholesome Meals, and he all the time provides me a appear to be, ‘you’re not going to make use of that. When are you going to make that?’ And I say, ‘Sure, I’m. Tuesday!’ And he is all the time proper, and I by no means do.”’