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Valentine\u2019s Day is fast approaching, and while the celebrity world is often full of drama, scandals, affairs, and heartbreak, there are still some couples who prove that true love exists, with stories worthy of a Hollywood movie. Here are some of the most wholesome:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The two ended up locking eyes across the parking lot once Colman left the store, but Ra\u00fal and his friend left before Colman was able to approach them. The star recalled during a 2024 appearance on The Graham Norton Show<\/i><\/a>: “I get off the phone. They walk off down the street, but he keeps looking back, and I wave, but he just keeps going, and then I’m just dumbfounded, and I end up in a Blockbuster across the street.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Unable to get the encounter off his mind, self-proclaimed \u201chopeless romantic\u201d Colman decided to check out the Missed Connections section of Craiglist three days later, and on the second page, he saw an ad about himself from the mysterious stranger.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Colman had no doubt that the listing was about him because it described his haircut and the location to a T. In an even bigger twist of fate, Ra\u00fal had only posted the ad two hours before Colman got the urge to look.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Three days later, the two arranged to meet, and when they were still together at 4 a.m. the following morning, Colman realized it was serious. He shared: “I thought he was asleep \u2014 4:00 in the morning. I couldn’t sleep, and I said: ‘I think I love you and you’re about to change my life.’ And we’ve been together for almost 19 years.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Suffice to say, he was right. Colman and Ra\u00fal have now been together for more than 20 years, and married in 2014. You can watch Colman recount their meet-cute in full below:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2.<\/span><\/p>\n Jay Leno<\/a> was around 25 years old when he first met his wife, Mavis Leno, at a local comedy club in 1976, with the two getting married four years later, in 1980. And while their story might be somewhat of a tearjerker, the unwavering commitment and devotion is still a pretty great example of true love.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In 2024, it was disclosed that Mavis had been diagnosed with an advanced form of dementia, and that Jay had been granted a conservatorship<\/a> over their joint estate. He has also become Mavis\u2019s primary caregiver amid her diagnosis, and recently opened up about their new way of life. For reference, Jay is now 75 years old, and Mavis is 79, and they will have been married for 46 years this November.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Discussing their day-to-day life, Jay shared his gratitude that he is able to afford a carer for when he is out of the house, adding that he always cooks Mavis and himself dinner once he comes home from work. He shared: \u201cMaking my wife laugh is still one of my primary things, and you figure out how to do it. The other night, we\u2019re lying in bed, and Mavis says, it\u2019s like 2 o\u2019clock, and she says: \u2018Honey, I love you.\u2019 I said: \u2018You\u2019re having a nightmare, go back to bed,\u2019 and she thought that was the funniest thing, she just couldn\u2019t stop laughing. To me, that\u2019s what\u2019s fun: \u2018Oh, I got a laugh out,\u2019 I enjoy that. I try to come up with stupid jokes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jay also shared his relief that Mavis still recognizes him, and added that he tries to protect her from being exposed to \u201cdepressing\u201d things on TV, including the news. He said: \u201cMy thing is just to try to keep her mood constantly up and lively.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n When asked what his \u201cbiggest surprise\u201d has been as a caregiver, he said: \u201cProbably how much I enjoy it. Changing somebody is not the most romantic thing you can do, but you realize it doesn\u2019t get more intimate than that if you still care for the person. I just find myself going: \u2018OK, this is not that bad,\u2019 and I enjoy going home. I don\u2019t take the long way home and arrive late; I get home as soon as I can and I enjoy taking care of her and trying to come up with things she likes and things to make her laugh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 3.<\/span><\/p>\n Matt Damon<\/a> was an Oscar-winning Hollywood A-lister when he walked into a Miami bar back in 2003 and met Luciana Barroso<\/a>, a divorced single mom, who was working as a bartender.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Recalling the moment he first saw his now-wife, Matt said during a 2011 appearance<\/a> on The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/i><\/a>: \u201cI literally saw her across a crowded room, literally. Eight years and four kids later, that’s my life. I don’t know how else our paths would’ve crossed if that didn’t happen.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Matt started to get hounded by fans in the bar, and he sought refuge behind it \u2014 where Luciana quickly put him to work. In a rare interview with Vogue Australia<\/a>, she recalled: \u201cHe had started getting recognized and asked for pictures and autographs, and then it got kind of aggressive because people are drinking and stuff. So he came and hid behind the bar\u2026[wanting to] just hang out back there and have a drink. He says: ‘Oh, I saw you and I really wanted to talk to you.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n But Luciana didn\u2019t have the time to be chatted up by a Hollywood star, instead telling him: \u201cYou can\u2019t just be standing there!\u201d Before long, Matt was making drinks and \u201cmade a ton of money in tips that night\u201d because \u201ceveryone wanted to go and see him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBy the end of the night, he invited me to go out with his friends,” Luciana said. “But I was like: ‘I can’t, I have a four-year-old daughter, I’m not going anywhere’ \u2026 and that was one of the things he loved, that I had a daughter.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Luciana\u2019s young daughter didn\u2019t deter then-32-year-old Matt in the slightest, and he and Luciana started dating \u2014 working around her childcare arrangements. They got married in 2005, and have welcomed three more daughters together, who often join him on the red carpet<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Reflecting on dating an A-list celebrity, Luciana said: \u201cWhen you meet somebody that you have a connection with, that’s just the person that you have a connection with, all the other stuff \u2014 the movie-star part \u2014 wasn’t really a factor. It was just Matt, to me he’s just Matt.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 4.<\/span><\/p>\n And speaking of celebrities falling in love with \u201cnormies,\u201d when hairstylist Jillian Fink saw a booking at her salon, Delux, under the name of established TV actor \u201cPatrick Dempsey<\/a>\u201d back in 1994, she immediately wrote it off as a joke. So, when Patrick actually walked in for a haircut, she was pleasantly surprised. Per People<\/a>, Jillian recalled: \u201cI was shocked, but at the same time, I was happy because he was so cute.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In true \u201cslow burn\u201d Hollywood rom-com fashion, both Patrick and Jillian were in relationships with other people at the time, but over the course of three years \u2014 and regular haircuts \u2014 Patrick eventually invited her over for a homemade meal at his place. It went so well, Jillian moved in just three months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The couple got married in an intimate farmhouse wedding on a family property in Maine in 1999, and now share three children. However, it hasn\u2019t always been smooth sailing, with the pair being open about almost splitting for good in 2015 after their relationship hit a bump in the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In fact, Jillian even filed for divorce<\/a> at the time, but they ultimately managed to repair their marriage through couples therapy. Speaking to People<\/a> in the years since, Patrick said: \u201cI wasn’t prepared to give up on her and she wasn’t either. We both wanted to fight for it.\u201d Thankfully, the pair have been happily together ever since!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 5.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, TV host Steve Harvey<\/a> first met his now-wife, Marjorie Bridges, when she interrupted his comedy set by walking in late way back in 1990. But rather than be irritated by Marjorie\u2019s disruption, Steve appeared to immediately fall in love.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Speaking during a 2018 appearance on The Steve Harvey Show<\/i><\/a>, Marjorie recalled: \u201cI was late, and I thought he was gonna give me the business because he got real quiet. He was just staring at me. I thought I was going to become part of the show. He finally realized: \u2018Oh, I gotta say something.’ He was, like: ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I don’t know who this is, but I’m gonna marry her.'”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n As with Patrick and Jillian, both Steve and Marjorie were unfortunately with other people at the time, and they eventually lost touch. But after Steve found himself single in 2005, he decided to reunite with Marjorie at the suggestion of his bodyguard. Recalling the moment that they reconnected to People<\/a> in 2016, he said: \u201cIt was like being reborn. I messed up so many times in my life. She made all the difference. When you’re happy at home, you can make a lot of things happen.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The pair finally wed in June 2007, and Steve later adopted Marjorie\u2019s three children, while she is stepmom to his four kids from his previous marriages. You can watch them recounting their love story in full below:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 6.<\/span><\/p>\n As previously mentioned, the celebrity world is often dogged with affairs and scandals \u2014 and Shania Twain<\/a> found this out the hard way when her husband of 15 years, Robert Lange, aka \u201cMutt,\u201d cheated on her with her married best friend<\/a>, Marie-Anne Thi\u00e9baud.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Shania was understandably devastated by this betrayal, with she and Mutt marrying in 1993. She learned of his affair with her \u201cconfidante\u201d Marie-Anne in 2008 and they immediately separated \u2014 finalizing their divorce two years later. It\u2019s worth noting that Shania did not publicly share the details of what happened in her marriage until 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n And if you\u2019re wondering why such a heartbreaking story has earned a place on this list, it\u2019s for the happy ending \u2014 and surprise plot twist \u2014 that came afterward. You see, amid the drama, Shania ended up falling for Marie-Anne\u2019s husband, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Thi\u00e9baud, who had also suffered the pain of Marie-Anne and Mutt\u2019s affair.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The two seemingly bonded over their horrific shared experience, and all\u2019s well that ends well as Shania and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric have been happily married since 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 7.<\/span><\/p>\n British actor Carey Mulligan<\/a> and American-born British singer Marcus Mumford<\/a> are another celebrity couple who reconnected after years apart, and their adorable meet-cute goes all the way back to their childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The pair have previously revealed that they first met at a Christian youth summer camp when she was 12 years old and he was 10, with Carey recalling during a 2023 appearance<\/a> on the Smartless<\/i><\/a> podcast: \u201cI wrote in my diary that he was the nicest, kindest person I\u2019d ever met, and I gave him 9 1\/2 out of 10. I also wrote in my diary that he definitely wasn\u2019t boyfriend material. Not that I\u2019d ever had a boyfriend at that time. But I decided that he was not it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Carey and Marcus remained pen pals for a few years after their meeting, but eventually lost touch. Then, they briefly found each other again on Facebook\u2026 Only to lose touch again when they both deactivated their accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Finally, in 2011, Carey and Marcus were brought back into each other\u2019s lives when they both worked on the movie Inside Llewyn Davis<\/i>, and this time around, they weren\u2019t going to let each other slip away again. In fact, Carey admitted that she joked to Marcus that they \u201cprobably should get married\u201d after \u201cdestiny\u201d brought them into each other\u2019s lives so many times, and they ended up doing exactly that.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Marcus proposed later that same year, and the two wed in April 2012. They have since welcomed three children together, and very much appear to be living happily ever after.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 8.<\/span><\/p>\n Actor Riz Ahmed<\/a> and his author wife Fatima Farheen Mirza have the kind of meet-cute that hopeless romantics dream of, with the two first crossing paths when they fought over a plug socket in a New York City cafe in 2018 \u2014 just before his career skyrocketed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Both Riz and Fatima had gone to the cafe to write, with Riz explaining during a 2021 appearance<\/a> on The Tonight Show<\/i>: \u201cWe just both sat down at the same table in a cafe, where we both turned up to write. We were both jostling over the same laptop plug points, like a very modern way of meeting.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n At the time, Riz was preparing for his role in Sound of Metal<\/i>, which ultimately earned him his first Oscar nomination, with Riz saying of his fateful meeting with Fatima: \u201cIt’s weirdly one of the many things about preparing for this role that was so special. It just brought a lot of goodness into my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The pair started dating soon after their meeting, and got engaged and married during COVID-19 lockdown. Riz opened up about his \u201ccorny\u201d proposal during an appearance<\/a> on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/i>, where he revealed that they had a picnic in their local park before he made his move via a game of Scrabble. He shared: \u201cSo we were actually playing Scrabble and I did that corny thing where I stole all the correct letters up and spelled out ‘Will you marry me?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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