{"id":2408083,"date":"2026-05-08T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2408083"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:28:16","slug":"stanley-tucci-says-relationship-with-wife-felicity-blunt-just-sort-of-made-sense-despite-21-year-age-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stanley-tucci-says-relationship-with-wife-felicity-blunt-just-sort-of-made-sense-despite-21-year-age-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Tucci Says Relationship with Wife Felicity Blunt &#8216;Just Sort of Made Sense&#8217; Despite 21-Year Age Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stanley Tucci explained how his relationship with wife Felicity Blunt &#8220;just sort of made sense&#8221; despite a notable age gap on Jenna Bush Hager&#8217;s <em>Open Book<\/em> podcast<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tucci&#8217;s first wife Kate died at 47 in 2009; he and Felicity, Emily Blunt&#8217;s sister, married in 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The couple share two children together, and Tucci credited Felicity with giving his older three children &#8220;a sense of security&#8221; after Kate&#8217;s death<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/stanley-tucci\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Stanley Tucci;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Stanley Tucci&quot;}\">Stanley Tucci<\/a> is opening up about what he loves about his wife <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-emily-blunt-siblings-11880603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Felicity Blunt;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Felicity Blunt&quot;}\">Felicity Blunt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Well, look, I never, I wasn&#8217;t sure that I would ever remarry,&#8221; Tucci, 65, told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jenna-bush-hager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Jenna Bush Hager;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jenna Bush Hager&quot;}\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a> on the Thursday, May 7 episode of her podcast <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6ZDfFL1KdFSyOx3H5gU0Pk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Open Book;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Open Book&quot;}\"><em>Open Book<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> The <em>Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> actor has been married to costar <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/emily-blunt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Emily Blunt;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Emily Blunt&quot;}\">Emily Blunt<\/a>&#8216;s sister since 2012; his first wife <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/stanley-tucci-remembers-late-wife-kate-talks-grief\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Kate Tucci;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kate Tucci&quot;}\">Kate Tucci<\/a>, whom he married in 1995, died of breast cancer at 47 in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I never thought I would have children again. And when I met her, it just sort of made sense even though there is this age gap of 21 years,&#8221; Tucci added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And obviously, I knew her family, or I knew her sister was one of my best friends. And we just hit it off,&#8221; the <em>Hunger Games <\/em>star continued. &#8220;We had a lot in common, even though we had nothing in common. And it just sort of stuck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;But I think she changed my life in the sense that she gave me a sense of security,&#8221; Tucci said. &#8220;She gave <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-stanley-tucci-children-11968535\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:my children;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;my children&quot;}\">my children<\/a> a sense of security, and she&#8217;s fun \u2014 she&#8217;s fun to hang out with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Felicity Blunt and Stanley Tucci on Oct. 28, 2012<br \/>Credit: Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stanley shared his oldest three children \u2014 twins Isabel and Nicolo, 26, and daughter Camilla, 24 \u2014 with Kate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stanley and Felicity first met at the 2006 premiere of the original <em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> movie. They reacquainted themselves when they attended <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/john-krasinski-marries-emily-blunt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Emily's wedding to John Krasinski;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Emily'&quot;}\">Emily&#8217;s wedding to John Krasinski<\/a> in 2010 and began dating shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Felicity, who works as a literary agent in the United Kingdom, and Stanley have since welcomed two children, including son Matteo, 11, and daughter Emilia, 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the podcast conversation, host Hager, 44, said that she thinks &#8220;fun is so underrated, by the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so true. I mean, she&#8217;s really fun, and she&#8217;s incredibly positive, which I am not always,&#8221; Stanley added of Felicity. &#8220;And like you say, she&#8217;s absolutely \u2014 I mean, her mind is incredible. Her capacity to take in information, not just from a book, but from the world and process it and turn it into something else is just extraordinary. She&#8217;s pretty cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Felicity Blunt and Stanley Tucci on Feb. 8, 2012Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo\/FilmMagic\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/J_0RsbUY4S8FuaeL4F7GyA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/a3fccef7ec6bf47011937b692457d575\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Felicity Blunt and Stanley Tucci on Feb. 8, 2012<br \/>Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo\/FilmMagic<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stanley appeared on Hager&#8217;s podcast to discuss his new book <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/stanley-tucci-announces-new-food-memoir-what-i-ate-in-one-year-8658632\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:What I Ate in One Year;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;What I Ate in One Year&quot;}\"><em>What I Ate in One Year<\/em><\/a>, and he credited Felicity with encouraging him to pursue a career path as an author and food &#8220;influencer&#8221; in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It completely changed my life. I mean, I would be sitting here maybe talking to you about a movie I did or something,&#8221; he said on the podcast. &#8220;But, no. Now I&#8217;m sitting here talking to you about a book I wrote, which, you know, spawned a whole bunch of other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I think we were all shocked by the success of it,&#8221; the <em>Julie and Julia <\/em>actor added. &#8220;But what it did was it opened up my world completely, and it was the show, the show that I had done on celebrity.land, that had changed things a bit already. But then, this thing just blew everything. Blew it all up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a 2023 BBC radio interview, Stanley shared that he was at first &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/stanley-tucci-was-afraid-of-21-year-age-gap-with-wife-felicity-7561101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:afraid to get into a relationship and I kept trying to break it off;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;afraid to get into a relationship and I kept trying to break it off&quot;}\">afraid to get into a relationship and I kept trying to break it off<\/a>&#8221; when he and Felicity began dating, in part due to their age difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m 21 years older than she is and I didn&#8217;t want to feel old for the rest of my life! But I knew that this was an incredibly special person,&#8221; he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PEOPLE'&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFelicity has been so incredible taking on a widower and three children whose mother died,&#8221; he added in that BBC radio interview. &#8220;That&#8217;s a huge thing, at a very young age, too. If anybody made things better for all of us, it&#8217;s her. She&#8217;s the one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> is in theaters now, and Stanley&#8217;s book <em>What I Ate in One Year<\/em> is available wherever books are sold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/stanley-tucci-says-life-with-wife-felicity-blunt-just-sort-of-made-sense-11970250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Stanley Tucci explained how his relationship with wife Felicity Blunt &#8220;just sort of made sense&#8221; despite a notable age gap on Jenna Bush Hager&#8217;s Open Book podcast Tucci&#8217;s first wife Kate died at 47 in 2009; he and Felicity, Emily Blunt&#8217;s sister, married in 2012 The couple share two children together, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2408085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[313617,358306,360606,31888,470767,455990,318526],"class_list":["post-2408083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-emily-blunt","tag-felicity","tag-felicity-blunt","tag-jenna-bush-hager","tag-kate-tucci","tag-sense-of-security","tag-stanley-tucci"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stanley-Tucci-Says-Relationship-with-Wife-Felicity-Blunt-Just-Sort.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408086,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408083\/revisions\/2408086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}