{"id":2381843,"date":"2026-04-20T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2381843"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:17:26","slug":"the-celebrities-who-fell-in-love-with-their-bodyguards-and-how-long-it-lasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-celebrities-who-fell-in-love-with-their-bodyguards-and-how-long-it-lasted\/","title":{"rendered":"The celebrities who fell in love with their bodyguards (and how long it lasted)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In fiction, we simply can\u2019t get enough of steamy affairs between female celebrities and their hunky protectors<\/a>, whether it\u2019s Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner in 1992\u2019s The Bodyguard or Keeley Hawes<\/a> (playing the home secretary) and Richard Madden in the 2018 BBC drama Bodyguard. Astonishingly, though, this isn\u2019t just an overheated Hollywood trope: it happens in real life, too.<\/p>\n

Holly Valance<\/a>, the former Neighbours actress and pop singer, has become the latest star to get romantically involved with her bodyguard. Following her divorce from property magnate and Reform treasurer Nick Candy in June last year, after 13 years of marriage, Grant Gale (who was hired to protect Candy, Valance and their two children) now appears to have taken on additional duties.<\/p>\n

Singer Britney Spears is also rumoured to have become close to a former bodyguard, while actress Jennifer Lopez\u2019s first husband (of just 11 months), Ojani Noa, reportedly worked in a security capacity. There was speculation in the late 1970s about Princess Anne\u2019s closeness with her bodyguard Sergeant Peter Cross, too \u2013 a rumour dramatised in the fourth season of The Crown.<\/p>\n

But Valance should beware: this is not a dynamic that typically results in a happy ever after. While the intimate dynamics are clearly alluring, most of these affairs are fraught, messy and incredibly short-lived.<\/p>\n

Princess St\u00e9phanie of Monaco and Daniel Ducruet<\/h2>\n
\"DANIEL<\/span><\/div>\n

In happier times: Princess Stephanie and Daniel Ducruet, in 1996, at the Monaco Red Cross Ball – Sipa\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Royal scandals don\u2019t get more sensational than this one. Princess St\u00e9phanie shocked her family by embarking on an affair with her bodyguard Daniel Ducruet in 1991 \u2013 even though, in a glaring red flag, he was already engaged to another woman and expecting a baby. The Princess and her commoner beau went on to have two children, Louis and Pauline, out of wedlock, before Prince Rainier finally relented and allowed them to marry. But it all ended in tears. Just 14 months after tying the knot, Ducruet was caught cheating with glamour model Muriel \u201cFili\u201d Mol-Houteman, aka Miss Bare Breasts of Belgium 1995.<\/p>\n

Together for:<\/strong> Four years; married for one year<\/p>\n

Pamela Anderson and Dan Hayhurst<\/h2>\n
\"Pamela<\/span><\/div>\n

Pamela Anderson cosies up to her then-husband Dan Hayhurst during a TV appearance on Loose Women, in February 2021 – ITV\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The former Baywatch and Playboy star is no stranger to a salacious image, but eyebrows shot up when she and her new husband, bodyguard Dan Hayhurst, appeared on Loose Women while in bed together. \u201cWe haven\u2019t left [our bed] since Christmas Eve,\u201d giggled Anderson, referring to their secret wedding ceremony in 2020 on Vancouver Island, following a whirlwind Covid lockdown romance. Inevitably, however, the marriage fell apart a year later, with Anderson later admitting to The Sunday Times that it had been a \u201cstupid\u201d decision and a \u201cdisaster\u201d. She even, she claimed, had to pay Hayhurst to leave.<\/p>\n

Together for:<\/strong> 16 months; married for one year<\/p>\n

Heidi Klum and Martin Kirsten<\/h2>\n
\"Model<\/span><\/div>\n

Before they split: Heidi Klum and Martin Kirsten strolling through Los Angeles in April 2013 – 2013 Star Max<\/p>\n

In 2012, following her divorce from musician Seal, supermodel Klum began dating the family\u2019s then bodyguard. In an interview with Katie Couric, Klum said they had \u201cjust got to know each other from a completely different side\u201d. She added: \u201cI trust him with my children\u2019s life.\u201d Klum reportedly lavished gifts on her new paramour, even buying his mother a house in his native South Africa, before the relationship quickly soured. A source reportedly told RadarOnline that he was \u201csick of being a househusband\u201d. The pair split after 16 months.<\/p>\n

Together for:<\/strong> 16 months<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian and Shengo Deane<\/h2>\n
\"Kim<\/span><\/div>\n

Australian bodyguard Shengo Deane and Kim Kardashian shared a dinner date (and duvet) on the show before Deane\u2019s visa ran out – James D Morgan\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Keen viewers of the Kardashians\u2019 reality TV series (and its spin-off Kourtney and Kim Take New York) soon spotted a handsome new addition to the cast in 2010: Kim\u2019s Australian bodyguard Shengo Deane. They saw a whole lot more of him in one steamy episode where the seemingly loved-up pair went on a dinner date, flirted over a pool game, kissed, and woke up half-naked in bed together. Deane\u2019s furious ex-wife Zuzanna claimed to Star magazine that she and Deane had been \u201chappily married\u201d before he met Kim. But the budding televised romance ended a couple of months later when Deane\u2019s visa ran out, and he could no longer keep up with the Kardashians.<\/p>\n

Together for:<\/strong> A couple of months<\/p>\n

Madonna and Jim Albright<\/h2>\n
\"MADONNA<\/span><\/div>\n

Madonna and Jim Albright allegedly had a \u2018hot and heavy\u2019 affair before things turned toxic – Globe Photos\/Zuma Press\/Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

The queen of pop<\/a> reportedly had a secret and very stormy, three-year fling with Albright when he became her bodyguard in 1991. Two decades later, Albright auctioned off numerous private letters, faxes and phone messages from the singer, in which she addressed him breathlessly with pet names like \u201cBooty Man\u201d. However, according to Andrew Morton\u2019s 2001 Madonna biography, this \u201chot and heavy\u201d affair turned dark. Albright told Morton: \u201cIt was like I was making a pact with the devil.\u201d He claimed Madonna grew jealous and insecure, even though she herself was allegedly unfaithful (the singer has never commented on his allegations).<\/p>\n

Together for:<\/strong> Three years<\/p>\n

Myleene Klass and Graham Quinn<\/h2>\n
\"Party<\/span><\/div>\n

Former Hear\u2019Say bodyguard Graham Quinn walked out on Myleene Klass after just six months of marriage – Alan Davidson\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Singer and presenter Klass met Quinn when he became a bodyguard for her pop group, Hear\u2019Say, in 2001. The pair had two daughters and married in 2011, but Quinn walked out just six months later and the couple divorced in 2013 on the grounds of his \u201cunreasonable behaviour\u201d. Last year Klass claimed on the podcast We Need To Talk that, before the wedding, she had caught Quinn in a compromising position with another female celebrity \u2013 during Klass\u2019s birthday party, no less. She is said to have felt blind-sided by the speedy end to her marriage, telling The Mail on Sunday: \u201cI hadn\u2019t even got my wedding dress back from the cleaners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Together for:<\/strong> 12 years; married for 18 months<\/p>\n

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