14 Celebrity couples and their secretive relationships
Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder
They have been together for more than 20 years and yet, the vast majority of moviegoers continue to ignore the name of the Pretty Woman star’s husband . This is how discreet the actress and the director of photography have been during this time, who met on the set of the film La Mexicana (2001) and have since been the pillars of a family with three children. Roberts has confessed that, since she met her husband, “she hasn’t stopped smiling.”
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They are great figures, but they try to keep their private lives as private as possible. And, although it may seem like a utopia to maintain a high profile in Hollywood and a low one behind closed doors, these 14 cases show that commitment to stardom can be combined with a reserved daily life.
Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse
It was just a year ago when the Twilight actor and the British actress and singer took advantage of a Dior fashion show, the brand of which the performer is the image, to make official a romantic relationship that had generated all kinds of rumors since 2018. A few days ago In the middle of a concert in Mexico, Waterhouse announced her pregnancy, after a week of rumors .
Pattinson, who was engaged to fellow singer FKA Twigs before meeting her current partner, has remained faithful to her characteristic secrecy and has not made any statement regarding the news. The secrecy of the young people is so accentuated that a few days ago a popular British media outlet wondered if they were still together.
Viggo Mortensen and Ariadna Gil
The chemistry they demonstrated in the filming of Alatriste crossed the screen to the point that the actor, who enjoyed international fame for his role in The Lord of the Rings , decided to move away from Hollywood and move to Spain. Since then they have led a simple life in an apartment near Gran Vía , posing together only a couple of times in these fifteen years and appearing oblivious to the frequent parties and meetings that make up the social life of Madrid.
Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky
Lady Gaga and her boyfriend shopping in Malibu
It is paradoxical that with one of the most performative and media-exuberant stars in pop music he is betting on the greatest of introversions when it comes to his intimate life, but his relationship of more than three years with this technological guru proves it. After breaking up with her fiancé Cristian Carino and dismissing rumors that linked her to Bradley Cooper during the filming of A Star Is Born , Gaga surprised everyone by accompanying the young man during Joe Biden’s inauguration as president of the United States. . Graduated in Mathematics and Engineering from Harvard University, Polansky is a Silicon Valley businessman, investor and philanthropist with a fortune valued at $600 million.
Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley
Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley, at the Barbie premiere – Credits: @Axelle/Bauer-Griffin
The Ken of the most admired and successful Barbie of the seventh art is a discreet 33-year-old British man who preferred to put aside his fruitless career as an actor – he played a Slytherin student in several films in the Harry Potter saga – to get behind of the camera. As an assistant director on the film French Suite , he met his future wife – they said ‘yes, I do’ in 2016 – and now, also, a business partner. TogetherThey founded the production company LuckyChap Entertainment, responsible for hits like I, Tonya , Beautiful Revenge or Barbie herself .
Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin
Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin, in one of the few images that the paparazzi got of the couple
Few predicted such a fruitful journey for one of the most high-profile yet discreet couples in Hollywood. After the controversial “conscious separation” from Gwyneth Paltrow, the Coldplay leader began a relationship with the star of 50 Shades of Gray in 2017. They have never posed together on the red carpet, and Dakota does not usually attend the band’s concerts, althoughIt was captured by fans’ cameras during one of the British band’s concerts in Buenos Aires, in November 2022.. According to their closest friends, they prefer to enjoy beach days in their Malibu mansion. Last October,Paltrow herself said of Johnson that he was an “adorable and wonderful” person..
Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant
Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, a silent relationship – Credits: @Gatty Images
The news made headlines around the world due to its unusual nature. After two decades without being known as an official partner, Reeves appeared at a gala organized by Gucci in November 2019 with an unknown artist, eight years younger than him. Thecharismatic couple soon conquered the entire internetand, despite the Matrix actor’s efforts to remain airtight, mutual friends ended up confirming that they had known each other since 2010 – they had collaborated on a book of poems – and that their romantic relationship had been brewing for years. “He is a great inspiration for me,” the illustrator recently stated.
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem at the 2022 Oscars
The couple has preferred to let their work speak for them and the formula has proven successful. Since they had their first kiss on the last day of filming Vicky Cristina Barcelona , a film that would give the Madrid native her first and only Oscar to date,They have forged a relationship marked by discretion; especially, regarding his children Leo and Luna. Reluctant to share photocalls or intimate confessions with the press, it was at the 2022 Goya gala when Bardem put his chronic circumspection aside for a moment and dedicated the best actor award to Penelope, “the woman I love, respect.” , I admire and celebrate every day.”
Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney
“As soon as I met Cooke, I wanted to marry him.” This is how assertive the Oscar winner for The Bright Side of Her Life was when she was asked about the origin of her relationship with this prestigious New York gallery owner. Married and parents of a boy named Cy – in homage to the painter Cy Twombly – their story has overtones of a romantic comedy: after breaking up with director Darren Aronofsky, Lawrence’s best friend arrangeda blind date between them thinking they would be perfect for each other. Clearly he was not wrong.
Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes
No events, no premieres, no award galas. The first and last official image of this couple dates back to 2012, when they presented to the press The Place Where Everything Ends , the film in which they met and which would mean the temporary retirement from cinema for Eva Mendes. While Gosling continued her stellar career in the mecca of cinema, the one named one of the sexiest women in the world in the first decade of the century decided to dedicate herself to raising their two daughters together: Esmeralda, eight years old, and Amanda, of six. Her latest professional venture is a “smart” kitchen sponge company called Skura.
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, a marriage of 26 years – Credits: @David M. Benett
26 years of marriage and four children together glimpsethe fertility of the relationship between what is considered one of the best living actresses and the Australian playwright. Things between them did not start well, as they apparently showed little-disguised animosity in their first meetings at the Sydney drama school. Shortly after, a poker game forced them to put aside their tensions, and within three weeks, Andrew was down on one knee to propose. Faced with such a goddess, impatience is understandable.
Emma Stone and Dave McCary
Like another star of the seventh art like Scarlett Johansson, the Oscar winner for La La Land also found love in the writers’ room of the legendary program Saturday Night Live . McCary wrote one of the sketches starring the performer that ended up giving rise to a crush that still lasts today.After getting married in 2020, a year later her only daughter to date came into the world: Louise Jean. Despite Stone’s successful filmography, the few images we have of them date from her presence as spectators at baseball and basketball games.
Kate Winslet and Edward Abel Smith
Mia Threapleton with Edward Abel Smith and Kate Winslet, during the BAFTA 2023 awards – Credits: @Rowben Lantion
When your billionaire uncle acts as a matchmaker, everything is a little easier. That is the case of this musician, nephew of the founder of the Virgin group Richard Branson, who has been in a reserved marriage with the Oscar-winning protagonist of Titanic for more than a decade . So much so that they did not even inform their respective parents.the celebration of their wedding in 2012and the only witnesses were a couple of friends and the interpreter’s two children, Mia and Joe, the result of two past relationships. A year later, Bear, her third child, would arrive in the world.
Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo
Amy Adams with her partner, Darren Le Gallo
They met in 2001, in an acting class for young aspiring actors. She did well, becoming one of the most respected stars in the industry with as many as six Oscar nominations. He was not so lucky, limiting his career to small supporting roles, but he managed to conquer the woman who would become the woman of his life and the mother of his only daughter, Aviana. Married since 2015, few couples more stable than the one formed by Adams and Le Gallo have walked the streets of Hollywood in recent decades.
