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Every romance has a beginning. Whether it's sweet, funny or messy, it's fascinating to learn the story of how people met or got together, or what happened on their first dates. Join Wonderwall.com as we take a look back at how some of our favorite famous current and former couples got together…

In 1983, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell were shooting the WWII-era movie "Swing Shift," in which Kurt played a trumpet player. But his moves needed some work so Goldie suggested they go somewhere and dance to swing music. "The Playboy Club was the only place that had that," Kurt recalled during a 2017 interview on Harry Connick Jr.'s talk show. "So we went to the Playboy Club and I just, immediately, was having a great time with this girl, Goldie… [But] there was no place to dance." They left, Kurt explained, and "we both agreed the night wasn't over yet." He then admitted, "It's one of those stories that kind of sounds like, 'Gee, that was fast.' Well, it was. It happened fast." The next thing they knew, they were at the house Goldie was renovating — which happens to be where daughter Kate Hudson now lives. "We eventually found our way upstairs looking around at imaginary furniture and we were in the imaginary bedroom now and we're realistically having sex when the police walked in," he said, laughing. "We had to break into the place to get in so the next thing I [see] is a flashlight and Goldie and I are like, 'What?' It was bizarre and weird." The cops told them to get a hotel room, which they did. "That was our first date," he added. "It was a lot of fun. I can't believe it was a long time ago."

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A 25-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis was sitting in her living room with "Halloween" co-writer Debra Hill in the spring of 1984 flipping through an issue of Rolling Stone magazine when she saw a photo of British screenwriter, composer and comedy star Christopher Guest. "I'm going to marry that man," she told her friend, recounting the moment in O, the Oprah Magazine years later. Debra told her who he was, that he was in a funny new movie called "This is Spinal Tap," and that she knew his agent. A day later, Jamie Lee "called the agent, gave him my number, and told him to have Chris call me if he was interested. I waited. Chris never called."

That summer, Jamie Lee walked into Hugo's restaurant in West Hollywood to have dinner with friends and saw Chris sitting three tables away. They waved at one another in awkward acknowledgment and he soon left. "The next day, on June 28, the phone rang. On July 2, Chris and I had our first date at Chianti Ristorante on Melrose. And by Aug. 8, when he left to tape a year of 'Saturday Night Live' in New York City, we'd fallen in love," she told the magazine. They got married just a few months later on Dec. 18 at the home of pal Rob Reiner.

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Less than two months after filing to divorce actress Sofia Vergara in July 2023, Joe Manganiello stepped out with a new woman — actress Caitlin O'Connor. Days after the pair were photographed leaving a Gold's Gym in Venice, California, together in September 2023, People magazine revealed how the "True Blood" and "Magic Mike" actor and the beauty got together.

A source told the magazine that Joe and Caitlin met at a small, "unofficial" afterparty for "Winning Time," the HBO drama series about the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in the '80s on which Caitlin plays actress Dyan Cannon.

"The first time they met [was] in the hot tub and they were talking the whole time," the source said, adding that Caitlin and Joe hit it off and in the weeks since have since been "casually seeing each other."

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Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson's four-year marriage might be over — the British actress filed for divorce in October 2023 — but their romance still had a fun beginning: They met at Usher's 40th birthday party in 2018.

"So when I first met my husband, it was kind of… we had a one-night stand," Jodie confessed during an appearance on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" in 2021. "We're in a two-, three-year one-night stand now."

She explained that sparks between her and the "Dawson's Creek" actor first flew at a party. "First of all, I saw him before he saw me and when I saw him, I was like, 'I want that,'" she explained. "And then when he saw me, I just pretended like I didn't see him. He had to yell across the room to me."

She was wearing a T-shirt that had been worn by a character named Detroit in the movie "Sorry to Bother You" and Josh recognized it. "And so he shouts across the room, 'Detroit!' He comes over and he's like, "Hey," and does this really cute, charming thing that he does and just all night — he just basically followed me around the party."

Joshua later said on "Watch What Happens Live" that he knew Jodie was "the one" when "she walked into the room looking like that."

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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters met his fifth wife, Kamilah Chavis — whom he married in October 2021 after five years of dating — when she worked as his driver. "I actually met her at one of my concerts a couple of years ago. She worked in transportation. She was driving the car that was taking me [around]," the rock star told Infobae in 2018, as reported by Page Six, which further reported the couple met at the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. "I was in one place for two weeks and there were many transfers between the hotel and the venue. My security sat in the front with her and they talked, while I stayed in the back. I don't know, something about her attracted me…" He soon made his move. "One day I said 'Excuse me,' and she turned around. [I said], 'Did someone ever tell you that you have beautiful cheekbones?' I saw a little reaction, and that was the beginning."

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Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis was a naval officer — a new lawyer assigned to the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) — when he met his now wife, Florida first lady Casey DeSantis (née Black), at a golf course in 2006. He thought she was looking over at him, but Casey claimed she was just eyeing his bucket of practice golf balls. "I used the balls as a way to start talking to her," Ron admitted in a March 2023 "Piers Morgan Uncensored" interview. "So we started talking, we divvied up the balls and we hit 'em. And then we went out after that and the rest is history, but I think in fact she was looking at the balls. I do think I was wrong!" The politician still marvels at the story of how they met. "Who would have thought that we both would have been there at the same time randomly on some random day in 2006," he said. "I'm just fresh into the Navy and she's a local TV reporter at the time, and we just happened to hit it off." 

Ron said he knew early on that Casey was worth pursuing. "I was like, 'This is different,' and I made sure to court her," he said. "Of course, I got mobilized to Iraq, so we stayed together through all that, but I told myself, 'As soon as I get back from Iraq, I'm popping the question,' and so we ended up doing that." He also revealed how he proposed. "I took her to a nice little resort in Florida and we were out on the balcony, and I had a nice ring, and I just dropped to the knee and asked her," he shared. "She'd let it be known that she was happy and that we were ready to go to the next level, so, I don't think it was a super shock, but it was good to get that one in the win column, and I don't think I could have done any better in life. Not just to have a friend, we have three wonderful kids, she's a great mother, she's a great first lady. She's really the whole package." They married in 2009 at Florida's Walt Disney World Resort.

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"Game of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner was not a fan of Joe Jonas's band before she fell for the singer and married him. "There was this band in the U.K. called Busted. They had a hit called 'Year 3000.' It was amazing, and [my friends and I] were huge Busted fans. Then the Jonas Brothers covered the song and made it massive. And Busted broke up. We thought it was all the Jonas Brothers' fault. So we hated them," she told ELLE magazine in 2020.

Then in 2016, a producer on one of her films who'd once lived next door to the JoBros told her, "You should meet Joe Jonas. I feel like you would really get along with this guy." Shortly after that, "I went to a meeting, and Joe's agent was in the room. And he was like, 'You remind me of one of my clients. I bet you two would really hit it off,'" she recalled.

Later that year, Sophie told ELLE, Joe sent her a DM on Instagram out of the blue — he was going to be in Britain and wanted to meet up. "When I told my friends, they were like, 'That's hilarious. You have to do it! And you have to text us everything he says,'" she said. "I expected him to show up with security and everything. I thought, 'He's gonna be such a d***,'" she told ELLE. "I brought all my guy friends to come with me to meet him, because in the back of my mind I still worried that he could be a catfish — or I don't know what. I just wanted my guy friends with me. I had my rugby boys. I was safe."

They met at a bar in London's Camden area and Joe didn't bring security — just a friend — "and they drank just as hard as the rest of us," Sophie recalled. "I remember the two of us spending only a couple of minutes on the dance floor, and then we just found a space far in the corner and we just talked. We talked for hours and hours and hours. And I was, like, not bored. It wasn't contrived. It wasn't small talk — it was just so easy. And soon we were, like, inseparable. I went on tour with him."

They then got engaged on their one-year anniversary in 2017, wed in 2019 and welcomed two daughters before things went south in 2023 and Joe filed for divorce.

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Hulk Hogan met yoga instructor Sky Daily in early 2022. While out on the town, he sent a drink over to a group of women Sky was with, he revealed while recounting their meet-cute during a speech he made at a friend's wedding, The Los Angeles Times reported. When one of the ladies came over to the wrestling icon to say thank you, he quipped, "Who's the blonde?" Hulk and Sky sat down and talked for a bit before he left, figuring he'd go home to do laundry or something mundane. "And then when I got in my car, there was just bang, bang, bang, bang on the window. It scared the hell out of me, so I put the window down," he continued. Sky's friend "stuck her head in my car," he said, and urged Hulk to call the yoga instructor, adding, "She's a nice girl!" According to Hulk, "It made me think twice about just ghosting and going home and never calling." They soon started dating and got engaged in July 2023.

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"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kyle Richards and husband Mauricio Umansky, the founder and CEO of high-end real estate brokerage The Agency, opened up to The Knot in November 2021 about how they met nearly three decades earlier at a Hollywood nightclub when he mistook her for Demi Moore's sister. "He worked up the courage to come over and say hello, thinking that I was her sister," Kyle recalled. Chimed in her hubby, "I figured if I couldn't get Demi Moore, I could try to get her sister!" The duo then agreed that the real estate mogul "got something way better" with Kyle.

"Other than the fact that she is absolutely gorgeous, she has an amazing soul. She's an amazing person. And quite honestly, the fact that she already had a daughter [Farrah, from her first marriage], it made dating a lot more important," Mauricio explained. "I had to take it much more seriously because I was responsible for a woman with a daughter. I also got insight into the way that she was as a mom and how good of a mom she was. And that gave me insight into the future and what it would look like." Added the mother of four, "The moment we started dating, I just felt like he was the one." 

The long-term couple also dished on their engagement, revealing that Mauricio popped the question at a restaurant in Santa Monica and gave Farrah her own engagement ring because he "had to ask her to marry me too" — and wedding, which they moved up three months so Kyle's dress "would still fit" when she unexpectedly got pregnant with daughter Alexia.

In June 2023, People magazine reported that Kyle and Mauricio separated.

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Prompted by inquiring fans eager to learn more about her romance with ex Al Pacino, actress Beverly D'Angelo took to Instagram in May 2023 to share the story of how they met and what happened after they split. "I lived with Al for seven years and we have two children," the star of the "National Lampoon's Vacation" films began. "In 1996, we were on the same plane going from Los Angeles to New York. He was seated in front of me [and] he said, 'Come up and sit beside me.' And by the time the plane landed, it was on." The following year, the Oscar winner took a big step. "In 1997, he looked me in the eye and said, 'I want you to be the mother of my children,'" Beverly shared, "and although I'd avoided that role my whole life, I was deeply in love and I was 100% in. We did our first round of in vitro in '97 and a few years later, with a lot of effort and the miracles of modern science, this happened," she continued, as photos of their twins, Anton and Olivia, flashed on the screen.

After welcoming their children in 2001, "Yikes, it got complicated," Beverly admitted, adding that "our split was finalized in 2004." But their story didn't end there. "The power of our love for our children was the basis for resolving any conflicts and creating a new history as co-parents, leading individual lives separately but always intertwined as a family," she said. "As for me and Al, it is a unique and profound friendship between two artists that endures to this day, through thick and thin 27 years now of doing it our way."

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"Eight Is Enough" star Willie Aames found his true love in a former childhood fan, Winnie Hung, with whom he had a pen pal relationship for three decades. "Winnie had started sending me letters when she was just a kid. I used to receive thousands of letters a week. I used to pick letters out of the bag and I would read a couple of them and they'd always put their phone number there. … And I was thinking, 'These poor girls. They're never going to get a phone call from somebody.' So I thought, 'I'm going to do it. I'm going to call,'" Willie told People magazine, which shared photos of him with Winnie today, in August 2022. He picked Winnie's letter out of a stack and rang her family's home. They spoke and soon became pen pals. "We never met but chatted on the phone a few times. We'd catch up, lose track, catch up, and lose track," Willie said, explaining that they lost touch for a period during which he struggled with addiction and was even homeless.

After he started his life over at 48 and began working as a cruise director for Oceana, Winnie — who's about 12 years his junior — reached out via social media and they decided to finally meet each other during a cruise stop in Vancouver. "That afternoon, I took one look at her and I knew," Willie told People. They married less than a year later in 2014. "I feel like everything worked out timing-wise, the way it was supposed to be," Winnie — an actress and producer — told People. "I never once, ever in a million years thought he would be the one. It was such an innocent writing back and forth." In 2022, Hallmark aired "Love in the Limelight" starring real-life couple Alexa PenaVega and Carlos PenaVega, which is loosely based on Willie and Winnie's love story.

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Famed former adult film actress and memoir author Jenna Jameson married "Born Lawless" podcast host Jessi Lawless at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas in May 2023 after about five months of dating. The women first connected in 2022 when Jenna started seeing and commenting on Jessi's TokTok posts. "I was crushing on Jessi for a long time because she's quite large on TikTok and I love TikTok. I just scroll at night when I'm trying to calm down, and I just loved her perspective on things, I related to it. So I just started mass commenting her trying to get her attention, and it seemed to have worked," Jenna told People magazine.

But Jessi had a girlfriend at the time and her "moral compass," she said, didn't allow her to act on Jenna's advances. However, after that relationship ended, she responded to Jenna and they started dating in January 2023, they told People. "I knew I would get what I wanted," Jenna added. "She was worth it. But she presented a challenge and I'm very driven when it comes to challenges, so I knew I just had to lie and wait. And she came back around." Jessi never expected that they'd be married just months later. "I was like, maybe she just wants to have some casual encounters," she told People. "But I'm happy that it went to a more serious level, and I've never been so comfortable with anyone."

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"Outer Banks" hunk Chase Stokes and country music singer Kelsea Ballerini's romance was confirmed in January 2023 after they were pictured at a college football game, holding hands in Nashville and sharing PDA at a Los Angeles airport. On a February 2023 episode of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, Kelsea — who divorced country singer Morgan Evans in the summer of 2022 — revealed she and Chase, who split from co-star Madelyn Cline in 2021, started spending time together in December 2022. "I was ready to open back up. I just felt, why not? I've never really dated; I don't know how it works. I'm like, 'Let's just put ourselves out there; let's just vibe.' And it's been fun," she said, explaining that she pursued Chase by sliding into his DMs after they began following each other on Instagram.

"He shoots ['Outer Banks'] in Charleston, and my manager lives there, and he, like, put the bug in my ear. He's like, 'You know who's really cute when you're ready? Chase.' I was like, 'You're so right,'" Kelsea said. "I've never seen the show, but I just knew of him. And so I followed him, and he followed me, and I just swan-dove right on in." Asked what she said in that first message, she admitted she kept it simple: "His handle is '@hichasestokes,' and I said, 'Hi, Chase Stokes.'"

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"Belfast" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan met musician-composer and former actress Amelia Warner in 2010. "I was smitten with her from the start, I really was," he told the Belfast Telegraph in 2015. But in May 2022, the Northern Irish actor shared with The Daily Mail that he could have blown it on their first date thanks to his curious attire: He showed up at her place in Los Angeles wearing a Christmas sweater — in February. "I was worried that she wouldn't remember me. I felt I should make myself memorable," he said. "And I still remember seeing her reaction when she opened the door. I could tell she got the point of me and liked me, even though she probably thought I was a bit weird." They wed in 2013 and have since welcomed three daughters. 

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Miranda Lambert has her Pistol Annies bandmates to thank for introducing her to Brendan McLoughlin, who was an NYPD officer. "I met my husband doing press for the Pistol Annies record, this time last year," the country music star told The New York Times in late October 2019. "Our record came out the day after Halloween, and we [performed on] 'Good Morning America' [on Nov. 2]. My husband was doing security there for the show." Friends and bandmates Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley "saw him and knew I might be ready to hang out with someone," added Miranda, who'd broken up with Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker several months earlier. "They invited him to our show [later that night] behind my back. They plucked him for me… My security guy Tom, he was in on it too. He said to me, 'He's here. And he's pretty.'" Miranda quietly married Brendan in Tennessee less than three months later.

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"Stranger Things" star David Harbour and British pop singer Lily Allen struck many as an unexpected pairing when they took their romance public in 2019, a little more than a year before they tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2020. In July 2022, the world learned how their relationship started: They met on the ultra-exclusive dating app Raya. "I was in London alone, doing 'Black Widow,' on this app, going on dates and stuff. And yeah, I started texting with her, she was in Italy at the time — we got together, went on a date at the Wolseley [restaurant in London], and it was, you know, she's f****** unbelievable," David told GQ Hype in July 2002.

They fell for each other hard and fast. "She claims to have fallen in love at first sight with me — I mean, who wouldn't?" he quipped before sharing when he fell in love with her. "I remember the exact moment. It was our third date. I was just in this phase where I was like, I'm just going to be brutally honest about everything, because why lie? And I told her something about my life, about my beliefs…" he said, adding, "It would take a really extraordinary person to be accepting of the things that I said. And I remember thinking: Wow, that's somebody I want to be around."

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Kaley Cuoco said "it was absolutely love at first sight" when she met "Ozark" actor Tom Pelphrey. "We have the same management team. My manager actually took me as her guest to the 'Ozark' [season 4, part 2] premiere [in April 2022] and I met him there. It was like the angels started singing. I was like, 'Hallelujah!' It was very magical. It was perfect," she later gushed to "Extra," adding that she "met Tom at the right moment" after spending some time working on herself following her split from second husband Karl Cook in the summer of 2021. Kaley and Tom fell hard and fast — less than two weeks after meeting, they made their Instagram debut as a couple. A few months later, they announced they were expected a baby.

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In a January 2021 blog post, actress and blogger Eva Amurri opened up about how she met and fell for chef Ian Hock — whom she described as a "unicorn" because he embraced the fact that she has three young children and was recently divorced from soccer analyst Kyle Martino when they started seeing each other. They met at Ian's restaurant while she was dining with a friend who went to high school with him in New York City. Eva and the chef had "an immediate connection and spark," she wrote, adding that she "thought he was cute and easy to talk to." They followed each other on Instagram and "created a really special friendship" while discovering how much they have in common. After about a month of chatting online, they finally went on their first date. "I felt SO close to him, and so safe with him, and it was an old-fashioned courtship in a lot of ways," Eva wrote. "I'll be honest, whenever I had dated in the past, things had gotten physical pretty quickly (if not immediately) and so this style was completely new for me. And PERFECT. I highly recommend it. We went at my pace, and I truly believe that to this day, we have an extremely deep connection because of it." Ian proposed in 2023.

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Carrie Underwood has one of her band members to thank for her marriage to former professional hockey player Mike Fisher. The retired NHL star was hoping for an introduction to the country music singer at the Grand Ole Opry and asked a friend who knew her bass player, Mark Childers, for help. But Mark was protective and declined. "[Mike] wanted to meet Carrie [backstage] at the Opry and I didn't allow it," Mark said on "The Howard Stern Show" in May 2023, noting that the athlete "kept trying." A year later, Mike finally came face-to-face with Carrie at a meet and greet in his native Canada in October 2008. "We talked on the phone for a few months before we went out on our first date," Carrie told Howard, explaining that the slow burn "was good — it kind of laid some foundation."

Their first date finally came in December 2008. "It was New Year's Eve and there was a team party and I actually invited myself," Carrie said, explaining that Mike "moved very slow. I was like, 'You know, New Year's Eve is coming up. Are you doing anything?' He's like, 'There's a team party.' I said, 'Do you need a date?'" They shared their first kiss that night and married in 2010. 

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Actress-singer Vanessa Hudgens and professional baseball player Cole Tucker went public with their romance in late 2020. Months later, the "High School Musical" alum revealed the "very random" way she met the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop and outfielder. "Me and Cole met on a Zoom meditation group," she told "Entertainment Tonight" in April 2021. "Very random … Zoom, you've got to love it." A few weeks later during an appearance on "The Drew Barrymore Show," Vanessa shared what happened next. "I get on the Zoom, and I'm like, 'Who is that?' I found him, and we started talking," she said, explaining that she made that happen by making the first move herself. "I think I still have that stigma that the man is supposed to do that initial step. If I want something or someone, I'm going after them," the "High School Musical" alum said. "I fully just slid into his DMs and was like, 'Hey, it was nice to meet you.' So I think there is no shame in making the first move. Why wait for someone else to give you what you want?" 

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Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus proposed to Firerose in August 2022 following his divorce from wife Tish Cyrus, but he actually met the Australian singer-songwriter 12 years earlier. The "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Old Town Road" hitmaker shared the story with People magazine, explaining that he saw his future fiancée — who's several decades his junior — for the first time when he took his dog, Tex, outside while working on the Disney Channel series "Hannah Montana" with daughter Miley Cyrus. "There's a couple old pine trees on the [studio] lot that look like Tennessee. Tex and I would go out there in the middle of the day and he'd take care of his business and we'd stretch and I'd think how much I missed Tennessee. On that given day, Firerose came out of the front door. There was almost a moment of, I don't know, recognition. I was like, 'This girl's a star,'" Billy Ray explained.

Firerose — who was at the lot for an audition she didn't get and doesn't remember now — walked over to see his dog and they started chatting. Billy Ray offered to introduce her to some people who worked on "Hannah Montana" and let her watch the cast rehearse, thinking "it might lead to a role or just another contact at Disney. And so, off me and her and Tex went back to the studio and I think she met a lot of the cast and met the producers, writers. And, in some ways, well, in a lot of ways, we became friends." They stayed in touch through the years and during the pandemic became songwriting partners and — as his marriage to Tish ended for good — far more.

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Millie Bobby Brown started dating Jake Bongiovi — the son of rock star Jon Bon Jovi — in 2021 when they were in their late teens. "We met on Instagram," the "Stranger Things" and "Enola Holmes" actress revealed in a Wired Autocomplete Interview in November 2022, explaining, "we were friends for a bit, and then, what can I say?"

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"Dallas" star Patrick Duffy had been widowed for three years — his wife of more than four decades, ballet dancer Carlyn Rosser, succumbed to cancer in 2017 — when he unexpectedly fell for "Happy Days" actress Linda Purl. They'd met years earlier but lost touch and ended up on the same group text during the coronavirus pandemic. "I was married for almost 45 years, I wasn't looking for it. I didn't feel I needed it. And then fate just [stepped in] and changed the perspective," Patrick told "Extra" in 2020. "We started texting and then FaceTiming and then Zooming — we did a two-to-three-hour Zoom every single night. At the end of … two and a half months, we were both feeling a lot different than just casual friendship. So I packed up my car, I drove 20 hours, I was on her doorstep, I asked permission if I could kiss her — and we've been together ever since."

In a January 2022 joint appearance on Britain's "This Morning," Linda acknowledged, "I don't think it would have happened otherwise because in our normal lives pre-pandemic we wouldn't have had three hours to Zoom, but we did." Added Patrick, "I wasn't looking for [love], but it found me." Later that year, Patrick gushed to People magazine about how he and Linda — who was previously married four times, including to Desi Arnaz Jr. — "seamlessly" work as a team. "Our lifestyles make us very compatible in almost every conceivable way. In the kitchen, the way we cook, the way we clean, the way we function together as individuals," he said. "I'm really proud of both of us in the fact that nothing gets in the way of our relationship or our ability to function in the world because we are in fact in love with each other."

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Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom — who popped the question with a flower-shaped engagement ring on Valentine's Day in 2019 — were brought together by an In-N-Out burger. Katy shared the story of their meet-cute on the Feb. 25, 2019, episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." "In-N-Out plays a big role in my life. We bonded over an In-N-Out burger about three years [ago] at the [2016] Golden Globes," Katy explained. (They're pictured on that fateful night.) "He stole one off of my table — I was sitting with Denzel Washington. He took it and I was like, 'Wait! Who — oh, you're so hot. Fine, take it.' And then I saw him at a party [later that night] and I was like, 'How are those onions resting on your molars?' He's like, 'I like you.' And then, you know, cut to…" Katy said, holding up her engagement ring. In 2020, they welcomed their first child together, daughter Daisy Dove.

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In November 2021, music star Adele opened up about how she got together with boyfriend Rich Paul, a sports agent who works with some of the biggest names in the NBA, in 2021 in the wake of her divorce from Simon Konecki. "I met him at a birthday party, we were on the dance floor," she told Oprah Winfrey on the CBS special "Adele One Night Only." "And then we met a couple years later. We went out for dinner, which he says was a business meeting, and I'm like, 'A business meeting about what?' And then it was the first time we hung out on our own. Without friends. And I think that was a natural way that people would meet each other in real life."

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Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly (real name: Colson Baker) — who got engaged in January 2022 — have let people think they met while filming the 2021 movie "Midnight in the Switchgrass" in 2020, but they actually met a few years earlier at a GQ party in Los Angeles, they told the magazine in 2021. (She was still married to actor Brian Austin Green at the time.) "This weird thing happened. We didn't see each other," she said, asking MGK, "Do you remember [seeing] my face?" to which he replied, "That's what's crazy. I don't. I don't remember your face." She doesn't remember seeing his either. "I just remember this tall, blonde, ghostly creature and I looked up and I was like, 'You smell like weed.' He looked down at me and he was like, 'I am weed.' Then, I swear to God, he disappeared like a ninja in a smoke bomb." When they reunited on the set of their movie, sparks flew, and they soon became a couple as she moved on from her marriage. The musician-actor told GQ that for their first real date, he picked Megan up in a 1974 Cadillac convertible. They listened to Ella Fitzgerald songs and he drove her to the edge of a canyon where his friend had set the mood, prepping the spot with roses and a picnic. They then drove down Sunset Boulevard to the Roxy Theatre, a music venue. But it was closed, so "we went to the roof and played pop punk [music] and made out," MGK told GQ.

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When actor Kal Penn publicly came out as a gay man in an interview with People magazine that hit the internet on Oct. 31, 2021, to promote his new book "You Can't Be Serious," he revealed his engagement to his boyfriend of 11 years at the time, Josh. In his book, the "Harold and Kumar" franchise star detailed their first date, which took place when the "House" and "Designated Survivor" actor was taking a hiatus from Hollywood to work in then-President Barack Obama's administration in Washington, D.C. Kal explained that he was shocked when Josh arrived at his apartment with an 18-pack of Coors Light and switched the TV to watch NASCAR. "I thought, 'This obviously is not going to work out. I have one day off from the White House and this dude is unironically watching cars go around and make left turns?" He was shocked when it worked out, adding, "Next thing you know, it's been a couple months and we're watching NASCAR every Sunday. I'm like, 'What is happening?'"

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Oscar winner Taika Waititi and his wife since 2022, pop singer Rita Ora, have a "Twilight" star to thank for introducing them. "We've actually known each other for years, before we got together [romantically in 2021]," the Marvel filmmaker, writer and actor said on the BBC Two series "Louis Theroux Interviews" in November 2022. "Everyone thinks we met in Australia last year" — after they were photographed looking cozy. But the truth is that they met years earlier. "You know who brought her to my house? Rob Pattinson. He brought her over," Taika explained, as reported by DailyMail.com. "I was having a little BBQ and we just got chatting, we hit it off, became friends. Then for the next three and a half years we were just good mates." The "Thor: Ragnarok" and "Jojo Rabbit" writer-director added, "We were in different relationships, and every time we hung out, we would just catch up where we left off, and it was a good friendship, and we decided to ruin it all."

Taika said he likes "the fact that we work hard, and we've both got our own jobs and [are] independent, but are also best friends." He acknowledged that though they're from "different parts of the world — she's from Kosovo and I'm from New Zealand," they have similar backgrounds. "We both grew up poor in working-class families, her dad owned pubs and she hung out in pubs a lot when she was a kid and my mum worked in pubs and a lot of my family enjoy being in pubs so I was in pubs a lot as a kid," he shared, adding, "The background of the Maori communities are quite similar to the Kosovan communities, like our sensibilities are quite aligned, I think."

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"Top Gun: Maverick" star Miles Teller and his wife, model Keleigh Sperry, met at a party for the Grammy-winning band the Black Keys in 2013. "We both had mutual friends of the band," Miles told Vogue. "Keleigh had caught my eye early in the night, and we talked. I didn't think it went well, but after a few more attempts, I got her to dance with me, and a week later, we went on a date. After we met, I knew she was the one." Added Keleigh, "He was so charming and charismatic. I adored him from the first moment we met." After four years of dating, he proposed while on safari in South Africa and they wed in 2019. 

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Michael Caine and Shakira Baksh have been happily married since 1973. Their epic love story started one night in 1971 when the English acting legend was watching TV at home with a buddy. A Maxwell House coffee advertisement set in Brazil came on — and Shakira, a model, was in it. "I saw this lady on the television in a commercial and fell in love instantly," Michael confessed on "The Jonathan Ross Show" in 2018. "I thought, 'That's the woman for me,' and I said to my mate, 'We're going to Brazil in the morning. We're going to find her.'"

The same night, they went to their local disco (it was the '70s, after all) where a mutual friend who worked in advertising joined them. When Michael mentioned the woman and his travel plans, the guy blew Michael's mind: "We make that commercial," he told the actor, who also shared the story on Andrew Denton's "Interview" show in Australia in 2019. The guy then informed Michael that Shakira wasn't Brazilian but of Indian descent (she was born in British Guiana) and told him, "She's not in Brazil, she's in Fulham Road," which was barely a mile from Michael's place.

He got Shakira's number and "I phoned her 11 times, 10 of which she wouldn't go out with me," he said. "The last one she decided to go out with me… We went out and fell in love instantly and have never parted since."

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Nicolas Cage fell for the woman who became his fifth wife while he was visiting her native country sometime in 2019. "We met in Japan and I thought she was stunning when I met her. We had a lot in common," Nic told "ET" in July 2021. "She likes animals too, so I asked her, 'Do you have any pets?' And she said, 'Yes, I have flying squirrels.' She had two sugar gliders… I thought, 'That's it. This could work out.'" He proposed in 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. "She left New York [where she was visiting me] and went back to [her hometown of] Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I haven't seen her for six months [due to pandemic restrictions]," he explained on brother Marc "The Cope" Coppola's Q104.3 radio show in August 2020. "We were really happy together … so I finally just said, 'Look, I wanna marry you,' and we got engaged on FaceTime. And I got her a black diamond engagement ring — 'cause her favorite color is black, she wanted the black gold and the black diamond, so I found it and customized it and personalized it. I actually sent it to her via FedEx." The couple wed in Las Vegas in February 2021.

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Alexandra Daddario is an actress known for her work in projects like "The White Lotus," the "Percy Jackson" franchise and the "Baywatch" movie. Andrew Form is a producer known for his work on projects like "A Quiet Place," "The Purge" and "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" (as well as his first marriage to actress Jordana Brewster). But Alexandra and Andrew didn't connect through Hollywood — in fact, they met like many people: on the street. It happened during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic when he was in New York City on a layover, waiting for a connecting flight to Europe. "I was waiting for my co-op to approve me so I was sleeping on an acquaintance's couch and would take frequent walks," Alexandra told Vogue. "He was also on a walk, and we passed each other downtown. He turned back and said 'hi' just as I was turning around to glance back at him. I laughed and said 'hi,' and then we both laughed about how we were the only two people on what is normally an incredibly busy street, and he asked if he could take me to dinner."

He had to catch his flight the following morning but said he'd be back in town in a few weeks. "I said 'OK' [to having dinner] against my better judgment," Alexandra joked. "Nowadays, you're supposed to meet people on dating apps!" Upon his return to NYC, they met for that first date at the Greenwich Hotel, where Andrew was staying. "It was peak COVID and because he was a guest — one of three in the whole hotel — we had our first date by the fire in their downstairs living room," Alexandra recalled. "I brought my dog, and she wandered into the kitchen at one point, and we didn't notice. Someone came out holding her and said, 'Is this your dog?'" They got engaged in 2021 and married in New Orleans in June 2022.

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"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice met the man she's described as her "soulmate" while she was visiting the Jersey Shore, she revealed in a February 2021 interview with "Extra." "I was walking and that's how I met him, exercising," she told host Billy Bush of how things started between her and Luis Ruelas, whom she started seeing in the fall of 2020 nearly a year after her split from husband Joe Giudice. "He ran past me with no shirt on, and I was like, 'Oh, who is that?' … He ran past me that week a few times. One morning he was packing his car to leave to go back home and that's how we met."

After they finally got to talking, Luis handed over his business cards to Teresa and her married girlfriend. He then drove off — but soon circled back. "He said, 'Teresa, my son wanted to know why I didn't ask for your number.' I said, 'I have your business card, I will text you.' My girlfriend took my phone and was like, 'I'm texting him right now.'" Teresa said they ended up talking "for hours" later that night. The couple got engaged in 2021 and married in 2022.

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Kim Kardashian told host Amanda Hirsch on her "Not Skinny But Not Fat" podcast that she'd met Pete Davidson before — in 2019, Kim, third husband Kanye West, Timothee Chalamet and Pete all attended Kid Cudi's birthday dinner — and they almost exchanged numbers at the Met Gala in September 2021 when they briefly chatted about her upcoming October 2021 hosting gig on Pete's show, "Saturday Night Live." But things turned awkward. "He was like, 'Take my number if you need anything.' And I had gloves on [that were attached to my Balenciaga ensemble] and I couldn't get in my phone with the gloves, and I was like, 'Oh I have gloves! And I can't — and he was like, 'All right, cool,' and walked away," she remembered.

A month later, they saw each other again at a dress rehearsal for an "SNL" sketch where he played Aladdin and she was Princess Jasmine. When they kissed in the sketch, "it was just a vibe," Kim said on the June 1 episode of "The Kardashians." "And I was like … maybe I just need to try something different. But Pete does not come to my afterparty. Everyone was at my afterparty. He does not give me the time of day." She kept thinking about it, and "a few days later," she explained, "I called the producer at 'SNL' and I was like, 'Hey, do you have Pete's number?' And they were like, 'Yeah.' And I text him. I wasn't even thinking like, 'Oh my god, I'm going to be in a relationship with him.' I was just thinking like, heard about this BDE, need to get out there, like, I need to just like, jump-start my… I was just basically DTF," she confessed.

Later that month, they were spotted riding roller coasters together at a theme park and soon, things got serious. "Pete has got to be literally the best human being I've ever met. Like, [he has] the best heart," Kim said. "People always say like, 'Oh he's so funny and it has to do with how funny he is. That's like, fourth on my list of why I like him." Kim and Pete split in August 2022 after nine months of dating.

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Country superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw met back in the mid-'90s at the Country Radio Seminar's New Faces show, where both were on the bill. They were with other people at the time, and, according to Taste of Country, Tim's then-girlfriend told him that she wasn't sure he should speak to Faith again. That's because the attraction "was immediate," Tim told "The Bobby Bones Show" in 2016. Nothing happened right away, but he eventually went over to Faith's house unannounced with an unusual gift in tow: a bowl of chicken and dumplings. "He had the bowl covered in aluminum foil, and he had a spoon and a fork on top of the bowl," Faith said on the same radio show. "He said, 'I didn't know if you like to eat your dumpling with a spoon or a fork.'" Her reaction? "I was like, 'Bam!'" she said. She opened for Tim on his 1996 tour — and they fell in love, got pregnant and got married the same year.

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"One Tree Hill" alum Jana Kramer met Navy SEAL-turned-private equity portfolio manager Ian Schinelli, at a child's birthday party in October 2021 — six months after ending her nearly six-year marriage to Mike Caussin in the wake of another cheating scandal. "[Ian] is friends with Andrew East, [my friend, Olympic gymnast] Shawn Johnson's husband … they work out together," Jana explained on her Jan. 17, 2022, "Whine Down" podcast. Andrew introduced the pair during his daughter's party (Jana has two kids with ex Mike and Ian has a young daughter from a previous relationship). "I wasn't supposed to be there and [Ian] didn't have his daughter that weekend but his ex let him have [her] for the party," Jana explained of how the stars aligned. "So I go to the party and I see this guy in an orange shirt and I was like, 'Oh man, he is cute, but obviously he's probably married,' and I don't pay much attention to it. But long story short, Andrew came over to me and was like, 'Hey, there's a guy here I want you to meet,' and I'm like, 'We're at a 2-year-old kid's party, what are you doing, please don't try to set me up right now,' and he's like, 'Seriously, he's a really good dude, a Navy SEAL, he's the guy in the orange shirt.'" Jana couldn't believe it. "I was like, 'Shut up! I've been staring at him like this entire time!' And that's how we met and then we just talked and yeah, kind of the rest is history." They split six months later.

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During a 2017 appearance on "The Late Late Show with James Corden," Jason Momoa revealed when he fell for wife Lisa Bonet, how they met and what they did on their first date. "Listen, it was more than [love at first sight]. Ever since I was like 8 years old and I saw her on the TV, I was like, 'Mommy, I want that one,'" he said. "I was like, 'I'm going to stalk you for the rest of my life, and I'm going to get you.' I'm a full-fledged stalker… I didn't tell her that… She was a queen, always." Fast-forward a few decades and the "Game of Thrones" alum finally met the "Cosby Show" star at a jazz club in 2005 — "right place, right time" Jason said. When she introduced herself, Jason turned to a buddy and started squealing. "I had f****** fireworks going off inside, man," he recalled. He was living in a hotel and didn't have a car at the time and "convinced her to take me home," he added. They ended up at Cafe 101. "She ordered a Guinness and that was it. I beyond love Guinness… Then I ordered grits. And the rest is history," he said. They had two kids together and married in 2017. In 2022, they announced their split.

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Zoe Kravitz met "Love" star Karl Glusman at a bar during a night out with mutual friends in 2016, Rolling Stone revealed in a November 2018 cover story on the actress. Karl had long had a thing for the "High Fidelity" star but was too nervous to talk to her. Lucky for him, Zoe saw something in him too that night: She pretended to be on her phone outside the bar so that she could invite Karl back to her place for an afterparty as he left — and they ended up making out. "It was cute!" the "Big Little Lies" actress told Rolling Stone. Karl moved in not long after that and they got engaged in February 2018 and married the following year. But it wasn't meant to last and Zoe filed for divorce in December 2020.

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A few days after "Twilight" franchise star Taylor Lautner proposed to his love of three years, nurse Taylor Dome, in November 2021 (they wed a year later), the actor's sister, Makena Moore, took to Instagram to reveal how the couple met: She introduced them after meeting her future sister-in-law at church! "Not to toot my own horn or anything, but i'm feeling tooty 😉 think I picked out a good one for my brother," she shared. "@taydome the moment I met you at a little church in Nashville, I knew that I had to introduce you to my brother. You two couldn't be more perfect for each other. The way that you guys compliment each other genuinely blows me away. I CANNOT believe that I gain a sister and best friend for life. Cheers to the happy couple." Her big brother replied in the comments, "YOU DID GOOD KID."

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Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth met musician Josh Bryant in 2016 when his band, country-rock group Backroad Anthem, performed at her niece's wedding. They connected again when the band played at her nephew's wedding in 2018 and started dating that August, Vogue reported. After three years of dating, Josh proposed in October 2021.

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Former "The Real Housewives of Orange County" star Meghan King revealed in a wedding-day interview with Brides magazine in October 2021 how she met second husband Cuffe Biden Owens, a Los Angeles-based attorney who's the nephew of President Joe Biden. (The couple, top left and right, is pictured here with Meghan's siblings RJ and Julie). "We connected on a dating app, texted for a day or two, then spent five straight hours on the phone the first time we spoke," Meghan revealed of the start to their whirlwind romance, which — according to Us Weekly — saw them marrying just three weeks later. "By the time that call ended, Cuffe was booked and packed for a flight to St. Louis [where I live] that took off in about eight hours. Within a week, we were back on the East Coast, meeting his family, and starting to plan our future together. We didn't leave each other's side for weeks." The pair wed on Oct. 11, 2021, at Cuffe's childhood home in Pennsylvania and split in December the same year.

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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and NFL quarterback Tom Brady met after being set up by a mutual friend in 2006. Tom had just ended a long romance with Bridget Moynahan — who was newly pregnant with their son Jack at the time — and Gisele had split from Leonardo DiCaprio a year earlier. "This friend told me he knew a girl version of me," Tom told Details in 2009. Gisele added, "And he said to me he'd found a boy version of me." In a September 2021 interview with WSJ Magazine, Tom further revealed that the supermodel sent him to voicemail the first time he called her about getting together. "I think the one phone call that changed my life was my friend Ed, who called me one day and he said, 'I have this girl and I think you should call her,'" recalled the football star. "I ended up calling her and it ended up being the love of my life. … She didn't pick up, actually. I had to leave a voicemail." In 2015, Gisele told British Vogue that it was love at first sight when she finally met Tom. "I knew Tom was the one straightaway," she said. "I could see it in his eyes that he was a man with integrity who believes in the same things I do." They've been married since 2009.

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James Middleton — a businessman who founded the Ella & Co. dog food and Boomf personalized marshmallow brands who happens to be the brother of Britain's Duchess Kate — has one of his dogs to thank for introducing him to the woman who, in September 2021, became his wife. In 2018, James brought Ella, his cocker spaniel who's also a registered therapy dog, with him to the South Kensington Club in London's Chelsea area, where both he and French financial analyst Alizée Thevenet were having meetings. "Ella was lying at my feet under the table; realizing she might want some water, I trusted her to take herself over to the water bowl across the terrace. However, she made a beeline for Alizee," James told The Telegraph in 2021 while speaking about dog training. "Rather embarrassed, I went over to apologize and bring Ella back. But Alizee thought I was the waiter and ordered her drink while continuing to stroke Ella, who at this point was on her back lapping up the attention." He continued, "Little did I know, but I had just met my future wife, all thanks to Ella. If I hadn't trusted Ella, I wouldn't have brought her to the South Kensington Club and she wouldn't have been able to say hi to the woman who became my fiancée. I do believe it was the early stages of training Ella and building our trust and relationship that reaped this unexpected reward."

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski's long romance with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Camille Kostek was sparked at a charity event. "It was November 2013 and we were at a Goodwill event. It was right before Thanksgiving. So we were filling turkey baskets for families who are less fortunate," Camille recalled in an interview on SiriusXM's "This is Happening with Mark Zito and Ryan Sampson" that aired in February 2021, as reported by Fox News. He played for the New England Patriots then, and she was a new cheerleader for the team. "He ripped off his 'Hi, my name is Rob Gronkowski' sticker on his shirt … he had written on the back of it his phone number and then he wrote 'Shhh,' because he knew it was … a secret." Retired tight end Jermaine Wiggins passed her the name tag. "I was a rookie [cheerleader] and I was so scared. I was like, 'Oh no, no, no, I can't take this. I can't take his number.' And then [Jermaine] was like, 'Just take it,' and I was like, 'OK,' and I put it in my pocket," she recalled. "I didn't make it locker room talk. I never spoke about it." Several days later, she FaceTimed Gronk "and I put my phone down and I like, looked away from it. And then he answered it and he didn't look either. I was like, 'Hello.' He was like, 'Who is this? You called me.' And I was like, 'Um, who's this?' I could tell it was his voice and he like, peeked his head over." Camille added, "He had just gotten back from a Texans game so he had like, a suit on and everything. And he was like, 'Hello?' And I was like, 'It's Camille.' And he was beaming. 'He was like, Oh my God, I never thought you'd call me.'" The rest is history!

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Denzel Washington first laid eyes on wife Pauletta on the set of "the first movie I ever did," a TV movie about Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph (he played Wilma's future husband and Pauletta was one of the track stars), he shared on "Live With Kelly and Ryan" in 2018. "I met her then but I didn't meet her then — I saw her then. About a year later, there was a party and she was there, and at that party I had talked about going to see a play. I went to see the play and at intermission, the lights came up and she was sitting [there]. She said she just happened to go see it." They started dating and, as he once told "Access Hollywood," she turned down his first two proposals but accepted his third. Denzel and Pauletta married in 1983 and went on to welcome four kids.

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Former "The Real Housewives of New York City" star Bethenny Frankel started dating producer and real estate developer Paul Bernon — to whom she got engaged in early 2021 — in 2018. How did they hook up? "We met on a dating app," she told People magazine in April 2021. "I was pretty lucky when I walked in and saw him. He had a twinkle. He came as advertised — better than advertised. He overshot the mark."

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On Dec. 31, 2020, "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness revealed on Instagram that he'd quietly married Mark Peacock earlier in the year. A few days later, the hairstylist and grooming expert shared the story of how they fell in love. "We went on a date in London, which turned into more dates whilst I was on comedy tour," JVN wrote alongside an Instagram slideshow documenting their romance, which appears to have sparked in October 2019 while he was performing in Britain. "At the end of that time I was taking my mom, aunt & friends on a mini break to Amsterdam. I wanted @marklondon to come with but, was it a bit intense to ask Mark to come after a couple weeks' worth of dates to come meet my mom & and friends on a mini break? Maybe so, but something about Mark felt different and I'm quite sure he felt the same 🥰 ." Soon, Mark moved from London to the States, "learn[ed] to drive on the left, got married to my soulmate and one true love @jvn and adopted a little Jack Russell called Pablo and entered a family with 4 amazing cats," he wrote on his own Instagram slideshow of memories.

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Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor started their romance after the "Two and a Half Men" alum — who's 32 years older than the "American Horror Story" franchise star — slid into Sarah's DMs! "It's a long story. We met a very, very long time ago. I was with someone else," Sarah explained on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" in January 2019. They eventually reconnected while working on a project at another star's place. "We were doing a thing at Martha Plimpton's house. It was for an organization that she was working with and we were both doing a little PSA for it," Sarah explained. "We sort of breezed by each other and started following each other on Twitter." Some direct messages followed, and that was it. The couple's romance was made public in late 2015.

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Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis met in 2011 at a "Saturday Night Live" afterparty but didn't go out till months later. "I was just learning to be myself. I'd been divorced nine months," she told Marie Claire in 2013. "We were both seeing people but were single. He seemed to really see me, see through the bulls***. He said very few words and couldn't keep eye contact. He was so handsome, and he could dance." But the comedy star didn't make a move — so Olivia finally did. "Over the next six months we kept running into each other. [One night], my best guy friend walked up to him and said, 'This is Olivia's number. Use it,'" she told Allure in 2013. "That was the beginning." But Jason still took his sweet time. "He literally didn't kiss me until the fourth date," Olivia told radio host Howard Stern in 2016. "He finally kissed me and I was completely head over heels." Jason later explained to "All Access" why he waited to plant one on her. "I just had a hunch that the second I kissed her, I wasn't gonna end up ever kissing anyone again, so I had to be careful with it," he said. The couple got engaged in 2012, welcomed two kids and split in 2020.

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Music and TikTok star Jason Derulo and model Jena Frumes met in a pretty typical place — the gym — right before coronavirus lockdowns began in early 2020. "We met at Equinox," the "Savage Love" singer told Page Six in 2021 several months after they started seeing each other. "We both have a similar desire to work out all the time, and I had seen her once there before, and then the second time, I was like, 'Aight. Imma go talk to her,' and the rest is history." Four months after welcoming son together in May 2021, Jason and Jena announced they'd split.

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A lot of people think Adam Brody met Leighton Meester on the set of their 2011 film "The Oranges." But it turns out they connected long before that — though it was hardly romantic. On a March 2021 episode of Anna Faris's "Unqualified" podcast, as reported by Just Jared, Adam explained that he and Leighton met by chance at famed Los Angeles eatery Canter's Deli around 2006 — just before his hit show "The O.C." came to an end and Leighton's big series "Gossip Girl" debuted. "Josh Schwartz produced both shows and literally the first time we met, that whole cast was eating at Canter's and I lived at Canter's for like, my entire 20s. And I was leaving, and he introduced all of us," Adam explained. He and Leighton then "bumped into" each other a few times over the next few years before both were cast in "The Oranges." "We did this movie together. I was seeing someone at the time… So we met kind of through mutual work friends off and on. And then we didn't get together [until] about a year after that movie, when I was single," he said. Still, Adam admitted, "I was very attracted to her from the jump. She's a heavenly creature. I thought she was gorgeous. And even when we did the movie, there was chemistry there, but I was seeing someone." When he became single again, he wasn't sure what to do. "I had no idea whether [Leighton] was a good person or not. And, in fact, kind of assumed she probably wasn't for like the first handful of years that I didn't know her, just because, I don't know, 'Gossip Girl.'" He soon realized he was wrong. "I was like, 'Oh, she's cool.' But I still didn't know, and that continued even to when we first started dating… And come to find out she's literally like Joan of Arc," Adam said. "She is the strongest, best person I know. She is my moral compass and North Star, and I just can't say enough good things about her character. It's crazy." They married in 2014 and now have two kids.

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Chrissy Teigen was a 21-year-old catalog model when she was hired to star in the 2007 music video for John Legend's hit "Stereo." "I walked into John's dressing room to meet him, and he was ironing in his underwear," she told Cosmopolitan in 2014. "I said, 'You do your own ironing?!' He said, 'Of course I do.' I gave him a hug." They talked during the 14-hour shoot — in which they danced together, her in lingerie — and had In-N-Out burgers late-night at his hotel. "I'm not going to lie. We hooked up," she admitted. But she didn't try to get him to commit. He went on tour, and though they talked while he was away, "I let him be himself for a while. The worst thing you can do is try to lock someone like that down early on, then have them think, 'There's so much more out there.' I played it cool for a long time. Never once did I ask, 'What are we?' Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional. I was just happy to be with him." Nevertheless, the pair married in 2013 and now have two kids.

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In the summer of 2006, Matthew McConaughey met the woman who would become the mother of his children — Brazilian model and Muxo handbag designer Camila Alves — when he went to a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard with pal Lance Armstrong. "And I'm not a club guy but this night I was a club guy, right? … Single men having a good time. We had a great day at the beach. It was the summer," he recalled to People magazine. "I was making margaritas at the table and out of the corner of my eye, this sort of aqua-green figure went floating across the frame about 20 feet in front of me. My eye went up and I remember what came out of my mouth. I didn't say 'Who is that?' I went, 'What is that?' As l was trying to get that's attention across the room, I went in my head, 'This is not the kind of woman you call over across the room, McConaughey. Get your a** out of your chair and go get her.' Which I did." Camila later told "Access Hollywood" that she didn't initially recognize him. "The first interaction, I did not know who he was," she said. "At the time he had a really long beard, and he had this rasta hat. He was all covered up, and I didn't really realize who he was." He spoke to her in Spanish and Portuguese and invited her friends to sit with his friends. They went on their first date three nights later, started having kids in 2008 and married in 2012.

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Dancer-actress Jenna Dewan fell for Tony- and Grammy-winning Broadway actor-musician Steve Kazee in 2018 — but it turns out that she actually met him years earlier when she was happily married to Channing Tatum. "I had met Steve years ago in a flash, it must've been five minutes," she told People magazine in October 2019, shortly after revealing that she and Steve were expecting a baby. "I saw him perform in 'Once' on Broadway and I was just totally blown away by his talent. My mom was with me, and we got to go backstage and meet the actors. He just had a cool [energy] about him." And that was that. "Obviously I was married and so we never spoke or saw each other again for six years, but I never forgot the moment. And then six years later, obviously it becomes public knowledge that [Channing and I had] separated and [Steve] contacted me" months later, just as Jenna was, as she puts it, coming "out of my grief tunnel." It started with a phone call that lasted for hours and "it was an instant connection when we met each other," Jenna told People. "There was no way we could avoid it. So in my eyes it was truly, completely meant to be. There was like a lightning bolt behind it." Jenna and Steve welcomed a son in 2020.

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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra got engaged in July 2018 after less than two months of dating and married in December the same year. But the seeds of their romance were sown much earlier. After gushing about Priyanka's beauty and talent to a mutual friend — her "Quantico" co-star Graham Rogers — the pop star sent her a DM on Twitter in September 2016. Priyanka hit Nick back and asked him to text her instead. They finally met in person several months later at the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. More text flirting followed, and they met for a drink a week ahead of the 2017 Met Gala, where both attended as guests of designer Ralph Lauren… but they were so busy, it still took another year for them to actually go on a proper date. They finally made it happen on May 25, 2018. Nick shared details on Instagram a year later. "One year ago today I went to go see Beauty and the Beast at the Hollywood bowl with a group of friends. One of those friends was the woman that would become my best friend, my confidant, my muse, my beautiful wife," he wrote. In January 2022, they became first-time parents when they welcomed a child via surrogate.

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Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine married former Victoria's Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo in 2014. They've since welcomed two daughters: Dusty Rose and Gio Grace. As for how these two lovebirds met? Through a mutual friend! "Adam was looking for a girl for a music video that could do some action stuff, and our friend was like, 'You should meet Behati because she's a total tomboy and down for anything,' so he emailed me asking if I could do it," she told Porter Magazine. "I ended up not doing it, but we kept emailing each other. It was such a natural correspondence that we kind of fell in love over email." A month later, the Namibian beauty flew to Los Angeles for work and met Adam for the first time. "Then he took me for dinner and we talked for hours and had the best time," she continued. "It was love at first sight, it was crazy. We broke up for two months, realized that it was the worst decision, then got back together, got engaged and got married. It was a wild ride!"

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Actress Lily Collins met filmmaker Charlie McDowell while working on the true-crime drama "Gilded Rage" in 2019. Lily acted in the movie while Charlie co-wrote and directed it. During an interview with The Mirror, the "Emily in Paris" actress chatted about their romance and how she knew early on that he was her person. "It was one of those situations where I knew the second I met him that I wanted to be his wife one day. So it was just a matter of when, really," she said of their first meeting. In September 2020, Charlie proposed to the Golden Globe-nominated actress while vacationing in Arizona. They married in 2021.

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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was 35 when he met model Patti Hansen on her 23rd birthday at Studio 54 in 1979. Her close friend, model Shaun Casey, and taken her out but they couldn't get a bottle of champagne after last call. So Shaun went up to Keith — who was a huge star capable of getting whatever he wanted — and "pointed out this blonde beauty dancing with wild hair flying," the rocker wrote in his autobiography, Life, as told in Harper's Bazaar in 2011. Keith got the champagne and Patti thanked him — then she kept dancing. "I didn't see her again for a while, but the vision stayed in my mind," Keith wrote in his book. Nine months later, he saw her again at his 36th birthday party — Mick Jagger's then-partner, model Jerry Hall, had invited her — and that was it. Keith wooed Patti with mix tapes he covered in collages featuring photos of Patti from magazines, Polaroids and messages written in his blood. "That was his method of communication," Patti told the magazine. "I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything."

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On an April 2020 episode of SiriusXM's "The Jess Cagle Show," Joe Manganiello dished on meeting his wife, Sofia Vergara, at the 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner, which she attended with her then-fiancé, Nick Loeb. "She was wearing this dress that looked great on her, and I just could not take my eyes off of her," recalled the actor, adding that he and his brother "just kind of followed her around" during the star-studded event. Later in the evening, Sofia's "Modern Family" co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson told the "True Blood" actor that his "friend Sofia" wanted "to come over and say hi" because she was a "big fan" of his work. "I said, 'Oh, your friend Sofia whose fiancé is also at this party?'" recalled Joe. "I didn't know what [Jesse] was up to. I was like, 'Is he gonna get me into a fight in my tuxedo here? What is going on?'" Ultimately, Joe and Sofia met and exchanged "pleasantries." Just three weeks later, Sofia announced that she and Nick were calling it quits. Joe immediately "hit up Jesse Tyler Ferguson" and said, "I don't know what kind of emotional state she's in, but tell her I want to take her out." Jesse gave Joe's phone number to Sofia, who was shooting "Hot Pursuit" in New Orleans at the time, and the rest is history! "I said, 'I'm coming to New Orleans. If you're not available, I'm just gonna do some sightseeing, but I'm gonna be there and if you're free I can take you out,'" Joe dished. "She said, 'You're crazy.' I said, 'I'll see you next week.'" Within a year and a half of their first meeting, they'd started dating, gotten engaged and tied the knot.

In the summer of 2023, Joe and Sofia announced plans to divorce.

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"Cobra Kai" star Ralph Macchio became a household name after he played teenaged martial artist Daniel LaRusso in 1984's "The Karate Kid" at 22. But he was already well-acquainted with the love of his life by that point: He met now-wife Phyllis Fierro, a nurse practitioner, at a cousin's birthday party in his grandmother's basement when he was 15. "This is 1970 or whatever, so this is Cheez Doodles, 7Up, Tootsie Rolls, probably the Ruffles with onion dip," he told People magazine in a 2021 interview. "She was a friend of my cousin, and we just smiled and talked and danced a little. Probably the Hustle!" They married in 1987 and later welcomed two kids.

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Oscar winner Emma Stone met her now-husband, Dave McCary, when she hosted "Saturday Night Live" in December 2016 and he directed her in a hilarious sketch — a fake commercial called "Wells for Boys." A source told Page Six that Dave returned to the place they met to pop the question in late 2019. "Dave proposed at the offices where they first met at 30 Rock," NBC's headquarters in Rockefeller Center in New York City, the source explained. "No one was there and by all accounts, it was very romantic." The couple quietly married in 2020 and welcomed a daughter in 2021.

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During a joint interview with WSJ Magazine that hit the Internet in July 2020, Miranda Kerr and her husband, Evan Spiegel, dished on how they first met at a 2014 Louis Vuitton event in New York City — and how the supermodel made the first move with the Snapchat co-founder. The duo were seated next to each other at the party, and Miranda started chatting him up. Eventually, they exchanged numbers — but then he abruptly left. When the former Victoria's Secret Angel still hadn't heard from Evan after a month passed, she hit him up. "I thought I had no chance [with her], so I wasn't going to waste my time," he explained.

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Katie Couric met the man who would become her second husband in 2012. "I was single again and I asked a friend of mine, Molly, whose husband is a trauma surgeon, if her husband knew any other doctors because I thought I'd like to go out with a doctor," the veteran journalist told People TV's "The Jess Cagle Interview" in 2018. "And so she thought about it and she said, 'We don't really know a doctor, but we do know this banker named John Molner.' And I said, 'Does he have a pulse?'" He failed to call so Katie bugged her friend about him and eventually, he phoned her and they set up a date. "He finally asked me out, we met at a restaurant and what can I say? He had me at hello." Katie married John in 2014.

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During a 2012 appearance on "Conan," John Krasinski revealed he found Emily Blunt to be "incredibly intimidating" and that he was "scared out of my mind" to ask her out on a date because he just didn't think he was good enough for her. After she agreed to go out with him, "I decided I'm gonna really hit the gas and bring her to a gun range," John explained. "I think that I was so sure that I would never end up with her because she'd be like, 'This is ridiculous, I can have anyone, not you,' that I was like, 'I'm going to blow it right away,' and then that way you don't feel bad." He admitted he also "yelped" the first time he fired a gun on the date! In 2018, Emily told People magazine that she was at a restaurant having lunch with a friend when it all kicked off for her. "[My friend and I] were discussing how much I was enjoying being single. And then [my friend] goes, 'Oh, my God, there's my friend John.' And that was it. We were engaged within 10 months, but I think we probably knew before that." They married in 2010 and now have two daughters.

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In his 2020 memoir "A Very Punchable Face," Colin Jost revealed that he first met Scarlett Johansson when she hosted "Saturday Night Live" for the first time in 2006 while he was serving as a writer on the sketch-comedy series: "She claims that she remembers thinking I was 'cute' but I know what I looked like and that's not the word I would have used. ('Shaggy' would have been more generous. 'Slovenly' would have been more accurate)," he wrote. "I remember her being beautiful, smart, sweet and intimidatingly sophisticated," he continued. "And she had a grace and a smile that I've still never seen in any other human." They finally started dating after Scarlett hosted "SNL" for the fifth time in 2017. Colin and Scarlett married in 2020.

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Elton John met husband David Furnish when he was least expecting it. "In 1993 I went back to my house in Windsor [England] for a while. I wanted meet new people so I rang up a friend in London and said, 'Could you please rattle some new people together for dinner here Saturday?'" Elton told Parade in 2010. Canada-born David, then an advertising executive on the London board of Ogilvy & Mather, was one of those new people who attended. "I was attracted to David immediately. He was very well-dressed, very shy. The next night we had dinner," Elton added. "After it, we consummated our relationship. We fell in love very quickly."

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On "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" in 2017, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys dished on how they first met and later fell in love on the set of "The Americans." Said the Welsh actor, "We actually met a very long, long time ago, and I very drunkenly asked her for her number when she was a young, single slip of a thing. So I sort of knew then when I was 26 [circa 2000]. … It was in a parking lot [after a kickball party]. Very romantic. And she asked me to open a beer." Matthew added that his attraction to Keri was rekindled when they started working together: "It took a while," he said as she laughed. Keri chimed in, "Basically we did all the readings together and all the things and then after a heavy dose of a fight training, all sweaty at a lunch, he said, 'You know we've met before,' and I said, 'No, we haven't.' And he said, 'Yeah, we met before, like 10 years ago.'" Said Matthew to Keri, "I left you a drunken message, and you were like, 'Oh, I'm shocked that I didn't call you back.'" Recalled the actress, "As soon as he said that, I knew exactly what he was [talking about], and I said, 'Of course, I remember that.'" Joked the actor, "'You were that buffoon that wouldn't stop calling!'" After ending her marriage to carpenter Shane Deary, Keri and Matthew got together in 2013 and welcomed son Sam in 2016.

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Actor Riz Ahmed revealed on a January 2021 episode of "The Tonight Show" how he met his wife, "A Place for Us" novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza. They encountered each other "so randomly" in a New York City restaurant while he was prepping for his role in the 2020 drama "Sound of Metal," Riz explained. "We both sat down at the same table in a cafe where we both turned up to write. We were both, like, jostling over the same laptop plug point — like a very modern way of meeting — and we struck up a friendship and then we reconnected down the line." 

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Justin Bieber and wife Hailey Bieber met back in 2009 when she was 13 and he was 15 after her uncle, Alec Baldwin, got her family tickets to see the singer perform on "Today." "I was never a superfan, of him or of anyone," the former Hailey Baldwin told Vogue in 2019. "It was never that crazed, screaming thing. I didn't think about it in any kind of way except for the fact that he was cute. Everybody had a crush on him. But for the first few years we had a weird age gap." Hailey's dad, actor Stephen Baldwin, and Justin's mom, Pattie Mallette — both born-again Christians — became friends after that "Today" show concert. (Hailey later revealed that Stephen invited Pattie and Justin to have dinner with their family and go bowling the next day.) It was years later that Justin and Hailey got close after they saw each other at Hillsong church services in New York City. "One day Justin walked into Hillsong and was like, 'Hey, you got older.' I was like, 'Yeah, what's up?" Hailey told Vogue. They ended up dating briefly in 2015 and 2016 and rekindled things three years later — this time for good. During a February 2020 appearance on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon," Hailey revealed what sparked them to reconnect. "Last time I was [on this show], we did this little party trick where I opened a Corona bottle with my teeth," Hailey explained. "The next morning — after the interview had aired — I got a certain phone call from a certain someone and it was a little like, 'Hey, how are you? I saw you on 'Jimmy Fallon' last night. You were looking really good. I loved that trick that you did, I had no idea that you can do that. It was so cool.' Cut to, I'm now married to that certain someone." Hailey officially became Mrs. Bieber when they eloped in September 2018 and they celebrated their love again with a formal religious wedding in September 2019.

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According to Idris Elba, it was "love at first sight" when he met his current wife, model Sabrina Dhowre Elba, while filming 2017's "The Mountain Between Us" in Vancouver. "I went out on my only day off, true story, it was a Sunday night… went to this party, and there she was," he recalled on "The View." "I went to a party called Slow Jam Sunday… and there she was. The rest is history." The couple tied the knot in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2019.

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Everyone knows that Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis met when they co-starred as teen couple Kelso and Jackie on "That '70s Show" in the late '90s. (Ashton was even Mila's first kiss!) But how did the now-husband and wife actually get together romantically many years later? Mila shared the story with Marc Maron on a 2018 episode of his podcast. Around 2012, she unknowingly saw her old co-star in a new light when they attended an award show. "I was looking around and there was a really beautiful man from the back. I was literally like, 'Oh, he's kinda hot.' … And then he turned around, and I was like, 'Oh, my God, it's Kutch.' I thought it was the weirdest thing that I was checking this guy out, and it was someone that I had known forever." They saw each other at a party, Ashton told Howard Stern in 2017, and a "pretty mutual" attraction developed. "It was kind of obvious that things were happening," he said. They started hooking up — neither wanted a relationship — and life imitated art. "I did a movie called 'Friends With Benefits.' He did a movie that was very similar, 'No Strings Attached,'" Mila told Marc. "We lived our movies out where we were like, 'Let's just hook up. Let's have fun. We're both single. We both trust each other. Everything's great.' None of us wanted tension. OK, great. We hooked up for three months. And just like our movies, one of us caught feelings." They got engaged and had their first child in 2014 and got married in 2015.

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During an interview with W magazine that debuted online in February 2019, Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin dished on how they met and fell in love: "He slid into my DMs," said the Victoria's Secret model. "She followed me, so I was like, 'I guess I'll give her something.' And I slid into her DMs," chimed in the former child star. "I was like, 'Hey, I don't know if you're in New York for very long, but we should hang out if you want to. Here's my number.' And she didn't message me for six months." Explained Barbara, "I took my time. I knew I wasn't in a good mindset at the time, and maybe deep inside I knew that it could be something more." Added Dylan, "I'm not one to chase. If I get left on read after putting out my number, f*** that. I'm crying internally, but outwardly… So I ended up booking a movie and going to China for a six-month shoot. My manager was with me and asked, 'Dylan, is there anything you wish you had wrapped up before you left?' … And for the first time in six months, Barbara popped in my head, and I thought, I wish I had time to take this girl on a date. Ten minutes later, Barbara texts me for the first time in six months." She then joined him in China, where she was supposed to have a gig — even though it got canceled.

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Speculation that Chris Pratt was dating Katherine Schwarzenegger kicked off in June 2018 when they were spotted having a picnic together on Father's Day. Almost a year later, they got married at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California. (They welcomed their first child in 2020.) So how did they meet? "We met at church!" the Christian actor told "Extra" in July 2019. "There's a lot of kismet, a lot of connections, but that is where we met."

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It was love at first sight for these two! "I just saw him from behind. It was 6:30 in the morning, I was on a flight to New York," Zoe Saldana told USA Today in 2015 of meeting artist husband Marco Perego. "And I can't even describe to you, it was a vibration. He turned in that moment, because he felt the vibration as well. I know people don't believe in it; I didn't believe in it. … It was enough that I felt it. And that was it." The couple have been married since 2013 and have three kids together.

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Natalie Portman found love on the set of 2010's "Black Swan" after falling for Benjamin Millepied, a French dancer who choreographed the film. At the 2017 Vulture Festival, Natalie was asked whether she was more excited about earning an Academy Award for her starring performance in the movie or meeting her spouse on the project. "Yeah. The husband more," she responded. "It was really special and making it was really wonderful and so fun. It was really incredible." The couple married in 2012 and share two children, son Aleph and daughter Amalia.

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It wasn't mutual love at first sight for Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, who announced their separation in mid-2020 after nearly a decade of marriage. The "Beverly Hills, 90210" actor revealed in a 2019 interview on Barstool Sports' "KFC Radio" podcast that he initially turned down Megan after she showed interest. "She was doing 'Hope and Faith' at the time here in New York with Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford, and I came and did an episode of it," he explained of their first encounter. "I met Megan on that, and she was really young [just 17]. And I was like, 'This isn't this. This can't f****** happen. This isn't going to happen, no way.' And so I left and she was just really persistent — and thank God." After Brian repeatedly "kept pushing her away early on," he explained, Megan — who's 13 years his junior and pursued him after she turned 18 — told him she was going to date other people. "That's when I realized I was, like, 'I must be really into this situation … the thought of that kills me.' And … we've been together now for 15 years."

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During a March 2019 CNN town hall, Cory Booker detailed how he first met actress Rosario Dawson at a political fundraiser for Ben Jealous, who ran for governor of Maryland in 2018. "She didn't give me the time of day," he admitted, adding that when they met for the second time, it was "one of those really awkward experiences." Explained the former presidential hopeful, "I'm a United States senator, and I had to get up the courage to walk up to her and ask her for her phone number. And [public speaking] doesn't make me nervous, but that made me nervous." During a late-2019 appearance on "The Wendy Williams Show," he revealed that their second meeting took place at a party thrown by comedian Sarah Silverman. "I have a lot of confidence in a lot of areas, but I tell you, I did not feel confidence when I asked for her phone number," he said. "I walked up to her. It was the end of the party. We had already talked a little bit and people were drifting out, but she and I were kind of lingering. I walked up to her, and I said, 'Well, how would I contact you if I wanted to get in touch with you?' And she goes, 'Oh, you're asking for my phone number.' … This was a shy moment for me definitely, but [Rosario] was merciful and gave me her phone number." The duo have remained friends since ending their romantic relationship in 2021.

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Actress, author and comedy star Ali Wentworth and ABC chief political correspondent and "Good Morning America" co-anchor George Stephanopoulos went out after a mutual pal suggested they might be a good match. "I was living in Los Angeles, I was single… and I had a birthday party, all girls, and everyone said, 'You know, you have to start dating, Ali.' And I said, 'You know what, I live in L.A., it's either agents or actors — I'm not interested," she told Jimmy Fallon on his late-night show in 2017. "And one of them said, 'You should go out with my old boyfriend, [former White House Communications Director] George Stephanopoulos.' And I said, 'No, thank you. Not interested. Not my type.' I grew up in politics in [Washington] D.C., like, no. When is Matthew Perry getting out of rehab? That's who I want… or Hugh Grant." But a few weeks later, since she had plans to go to New York anyway, Ali figured why not. "I thought it'll be a good dinner party story: 'My date with George Stephanopoulos.' So I called him up." They agreed to meet for lunch at Barney's. Ali joked that she didn't shower or shave her legs but made sure she'd read The New York Times that day because she assumed George would want to exchange "smart talk." "We both ordered the crab salad and I'm telling you, by the end of lunch, done. We were engaged two months later, married six months later." They now have two daughters.

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"Downton Abbey" star Allen Leech met actress wife Jessica Blair Herman in the most Hollywood of ways: He saw her dancing at Entertainment Weekly's annual Screen Actors Guild Awards party in 2016. Three years later, they were married. "I approached Jessica, who at the time — I think you were dancing with the girls from 'Orange Is the New Black' — and I saw you dancing," the Irish actor told PeopleTV as Jessica looked on. "A friend of mine, Tom, we were about to leave the party and being Irish and having two rubber arms, he said, 'Do you want one more drink?' And I said, 'Yeah, OK,' went in, ordered, turned around, saw this vision in a velvet dress and said, 'Tommy, I'm going to dance with that girl.'"

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Mandy Moore and Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith met over social media. "I took a picture of [his band's] album and posted it on Instagram. Somehow, Taylor saw it and sent a note to me. We started emailing back and forth, then we went on a date and the rest is history. Thanks Instagram, for helping me meet my fiancé," the "This Is Us" actress told People magazine in October 2017 — a month after Taylor proposed. "We spent hours FaceTiming each other. We fell in love before we'd even really held hands or kissed or anything," she added. "It was great… I feel incredibly understood and supported. I feel incredibly lucky to have somebody who is like, 'I got your back.' I found the right person and I feel like we can handle anything together." They married in 2018.

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Beyonce had previously revealed that she met husband JAY-Z, who's 12 years her senior, when she was 18 and started dating him when she was 19, but how, exactly, they got to know one another — let alone where they went on their first date — was a secret… until Jay rapped about it on their 2018 joint album, "Everything is Love." Producers Cool and Dre told Rolling Stone, "I remember the night he pulled us into his studio and played it for us, he was like, 'No one knows the story of how we met. This was the first time I'm ever telling this story,'" Dre recalled. Us Weekly reported that on the track "713" — the numbers are the area code for Bey's native Houston — Jay reveals he met his future wife at MTV's March 2000 Spring Break festivities in Cancun Mexico, and that they were seated next to one another on the flight home. A few years later, they had their first date at Nobu. "We played it cool at the pool of the Cancun, VMA / Confidence you exude make the fools stay away / Me, I played my room, let the fools have they say / Fate had me sittin' next to you on the plane / And I knew straight away," he raps. "The next time we would speak was like two years away / You had a man, you shut it down until you two had a break / I bet that dude rued the day / You kept me up on the phone while you were away / You came back, I let you set the date, Nobu on the plate / I brought my dude to play it cool, my first foolish mistake."

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"The Avengers" and "How I Met Your Mother" star Cobie Smulders failed to make an impression the first time she met her husband, "Saturday Night Live" alum Taran Killam. "We met [when] he taped a pilot of a television show with a really good friend of mine, and I went up to him — very boldly — 'cause he was really good and I wanted to, you know, give him that compliment, and I said, 'You were really great on the show, and nice to meet you — I'm Paul's friend.' And he does not remember meeting me," Cobie recalled during a January 2019 appearance on "Busy Tonight." "[I] made zero impression on my now-husband of like 14 years. … I was also with somebody [at the time]. I was not looking for romance. I was just being a kind person." Ultimately, the duo connected later when they attended a mutual friend's 30th birthday party and bonded over being 22 while everyone else was "old and gross."

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"Jane the Virgin" star Gina Rodriguez met her husband, actor and Muay Thai fighter Joe LoCicero, at work in 2016. "I met [him] on the set of 'Jane.' So 'Jane' gave me a lot of things — not only an amazing life and a dream come true, but they gave me my love, the love of my life," she said on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" in January 2019. "So he came onto 'Jane.' He was playing Don Quixote, the stripper. … He came on as a stripper that my mother hired for my bachelorette party and Jane is, like, super-against it and super-terrified and just, like, doesn't know what to do with all that. But Gina does! I was like, 'Hey, hold on one second there.' But actually it was a little different. I met him like six months later in the boxing gym after we shot together, and it was the boxing gym that brought it together."

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Following a painful 2015 split from her husband of 26 years, manager Narvel Blackstock, country music queen Reba McEntire "was not looking" for love. "Not even interested," she told People magazine in April 2019. But out of the blue, she found it where she least expected it: Wyoming. Reba went on a vacation tour of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in August 2017, and that's when she met retired oil geologist-turned-wildlife photographer Anthony "Skeeter" Lasuzzo, a friend of her buddy Kix Brooks of country duo Brooks & Dunn. ("Skeeter's the brother of one of my oldest friend's wives," Kix later revealed on "The Blair Garner Show.") The widower showed Reba's group the best spots for animal sightings and "we just had the best time," Reba told People. "And so two nights later, we all went out to dinner, and he bought my dinner." When she returned to Wyoming two months later, Skeeter asked her out. "I was there almost a week and we spent every day together," she said. In May 2019, however, they decided to go their separate ways, though have remained friends.

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During an interview with DailyMailTV that hit the Internet in July 2019, former "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Phaedra Parks revealed how she and her ex-husband, Apollo Nida, first met back in 1995: He saw her driving on an Atlanta highway and flagged her down. "He saw me, flagged me down, we met and he followed me home and walked up to my doorstep and said, 'Hey, I want you to be my girlfriend,'" she recalled, adding that at the time, her ex "was extremely nice, always very generous, just a really good guy." Phaedra met a later love, "The Haves and the Have Nots" actor Medina Islam, on Raya, an exclusive dating app for the rich and famous.

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In March 2019, Chance the Rapper revealed on Twitter that he met his wife, Kirsten Corley, in 2003 when he was just 9 years old and his mom dragged him to an office party where Kirsten — whom he described as "the prettiest girl" he'd seen in his "almost-a-decade of life on Earth" — and two friends performed a choreographed dance routine to Destiny's Child's "Independent Women." Chance's dad then encouraged him to perform a dance routine of his own, but he refused because it "wasn't the time or place." Wrote Chance, "I knew I was gonna marry that girl. And I [didn't] wanna jump the gun." He then described their marriage as "destiny."

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Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson's whirlwind romance in the summer of 2018 might have ended in a broken engagement that fall, but that doesn't make the former couple's meet cute any less remarkable. Both appeared on "Saturday Night Live" for the first time on the Season 40 opener — her as the musical guest, him as a new cast member. But they didn't meet then. That happened in March 2016 when Ariana came back to host and started meeting with "SNL" cast members and writers — including Pete. "I was just, like, listening to him pitch me ideas and stuff and I was like, 'Oh my god.' I just thought he was super-dope," Ariana told the "Zach Sang Show" years later, adding that she grew more intrigued after spotting Pete's Harry Potter-themed tattoos while she was rehearsing her monologue. After their initial meeting, she told a friend (who confirms her story is true), "I'm going to marry him." Time went by. "We didn't even talk for years — we weren't even friends or anything," she explained. Fast-forward to May 7, 2018. Ariana's manager, Scooter Braun encouraged Pete to go hang out with the "Thank U, Next" singer at her New York City apartment after the Met Gala let out that night. "I was f—ing sh—ing my pants," Pete — who was in sweats and a T-shirt while the pop star was still all dressed up after having attended the fashion benefit — told Howard Stern, explaining that they played "Quiplash" with some of her friends when he arrived. When Ariana's pals left, "I literally was like, 'Hi, can I kiss you, please?'" Pete told Howard. A month later, they were engaged.

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For Stephen Colbert, meeting his wife, Evelyn McGee, was all about being in the right place at the right time. When he saw her, he thought, "Her. That's your wife. You're going to marry her," he told his audience on the "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in 2016 during a Q&A, Entertainment Weekly reported. And he did — in 1993. Here's how it happened: The comedy star was visiting his family in Charleston, South Carolina, after coming home to have a hard think after a girlfriend he'd been dating for several years told him she waited to either get married or break up. He decided to move on after the ultimatum, which meant he had time to kill while back home, so he went to see the musical "Hydrogen Jukebox" at a theater there and couldn't take his eyes off a woman in a black linen dress. While in line for food at the afterparty, he told himself, "You will kick yourself for the rest of your life if you do not turn around and say hello to her." They looked at one another — and realized they knew each other from childhood, as they'd gone to different schools in the same area. After talking for a few hours, Stephen worried she was "just being nice to me because our families know each other. She doesn't really like me." He turned away to give her an out, which turned into "the most harrowing minute of my life." Evie stayed. "She was still there when I turned about, smiling at me," he told his audience, "and now we're married."

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During a 2016 appearance on "The Jonathan Ross Show," Michael Douglas retold the awkward story of what happened when he met wife Catherine Zeta-Jones for the very first time in 1998. "I was over at the Deauville Film Festival and I saw that [the] next night of the festival, Catherine was going to be there with 'Zorro,'" he recalled, adding that he asked his publicist to find out if he could have a drink with the Welsh beauty. She agreed and they briefly met in a bar, but Catherine had to go off and do more work that evening so Michael asked her, "'By chance will you come back if you want to have a nightcap?'" he said. When she returned, he delivered the most cringe-worthy line ever. "She came back after her work and we sat there for a little while and I said to her after about half an hour, 'You know, I'm going to be the father of your children.' It sounded good and she said, 'I've heard a lot about you and I've seen a lot about you and I think it's time that I said goodnight.' And so I thought, 'I totally blew it… I've got to get some roses to her." He did, and she forgave him. They married in 2000.

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Sarah Jessica Parker met husband Matthew Broderick in November 1991 after she'd ended a long romance with Robert Downey Jr. The "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" star had become friends with her older brothers, Pippin and Toby, when he directed a play for the Naked Angels Theater Company, in which they were involved, so they introduced her. "My memory is that literally months passed when I didn't ask her for a date," Matthew told The New York Times. "Your memory is correct," SJP told him, then informed the NYT reporter that Matthew finally did call on Feb. 1, 1992. "He left a very charming, very self-effacing message on the machine. You know, 'Hi, it's Matthew Broderick.' You had to use your last name." Quipped Matthew: "I had to give her my credits." They had their first date at New York City's Cornelia Street Cafe, married in 1997 and went on to welcome three kids.

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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott don't remember exactly where they first met, but their first date — which she says wasn't even really a first date, but more of a hang that went well, GQ reported in July 2018 — was at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. "Coachella was one of the stops on his tour," Kylie told GQ. "So he said, 'I'm going back on tour — what do we want to do about this?' Because we obviously liked each other. And I was like, 'I guess I'm going with you.' I really jumped on the [tour] bus. And then we rode off into the sunset. I did the whole tour with him." That tour is where they really got to know one another and, it seems clear now, where she got pregnant with their daughter, Stormi, who was born in February 2018. "We had a lot of downtime. It was organic. And we would just go to these random cities," Kylie explained. "We got to not be who we really were. Like, if we were in L.A., I feel like it would've been way different. Everything happened for a reason. We weren't going out as 'Kylie and Trav.' We would just be in Cleveland, walking the street for hours. We would go on walks, and no one would bother us." The pair split in 2019 but reconnected romantically in 2021. In February 2022, they welcomed son Wolf.

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After announcing their engagement in November 2017, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed they were set up by a mutual friend — they've refused to name her but it's believed to be Violet von Westenholz, a member of Harry's friend circle who reportedly met Meghan though her work doing public relations for Ralph Lauren — in London in July 2016. "We met once and then twice — back-to-back, two dates," he told the BBC. "And then it was I think about three, maybe four weeks later that I managed to persuade her to come and join me in Botswana. And we camped out with each other under the stars… she came and joined me for five days out there, which was absolutely fantastic. So then we were really by ourselves. Which I think… was crucial to me to make sure we had a chance to get to know each other." Meghan said that though she knew who Harry was, of course, she didn't know much about him. "The only thing that I had asked her when she said that she wanted to set us up, was… 'Well is he nice?' [We] met for a drink and then I think very quickly into that we said, 'Well, what are we doing tomorrow? We should meet again.'" Harry wasn't familiar with Meghan's acting work when they were introduced. "I'd never watched 'Suits,' I'd never heard of Meghan before. And I was beautifully surprised when I walked into that room and saw her. There she was, sitting there. I was like, "Okay, well, I'm really going to have to up my game!'" They married in May 2018.