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The 10 Least Famous Spouses of Really Famous Celebrities

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (56)



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Yesterday, Natalie Portman (or her publicist) announced that she was pregnant and engaged to a man whose name already escapes me. I believe it was someone she met while filming Black Swan. It’s my favorite kind of celebrity marriage — the one where no one has ever heard of the other person. It’s great because I’ll probably only ever hear that guy’s name three more times: 1) When they get married; 2) when they have their baby; and 3) when they divorce. I don’t even have to store that name away for pub trivia purposes (or QRANK). There’s no reason to know it.

Here’s 10 other spouse’s names that you can read and quickly forget. Note, too, that in almost all the instances here, the marriages have been lengthy (especially for Hollywood standards). Take note, famous people marrying other famous people. (My favorite is Andrew Upton — that’s the smile of a man who looks like he hit the spouse lottery).


Don Gummer (Meryl Streep)

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Deborra-Lee Furness (Hugh Jackman’s Wife)

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Jackie Sandler (Adam Sandler)

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Max Handelman (Elizabeth Banks)

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Andrew Upton (Cate Blanchett)

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Grace Hightower (Robert DeNiro)

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Pauletta Washington (Denzel Washington)

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Danielle Spencer (Russell Crowe)

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Luciana Barroso (Matt Damon)

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Sibi Blazic (Christian Bale)

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Comments

Andrew Upton's Inner Monologue:

Yeah, my face looks like a half-deflated bag and my hair looks like a chicken died on my head and then a pigeon shit on it, but I'm taking her on the Pink Line Train to O Town on the regular so you can't say SHIT to me, motherfucker.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at December 28, 2010 10:40 AM

I think you just ruined several people's day.

For my partELIZABETH BANKSNOOOOOOOOOOO

Posted by: Ian at December 28, 2010 10:42 AM

TB, added points for using London Underground nomenclature in your post.

Posted by: Ian at December 28, 2010 10:44 AM

I didn't realize that half of these people were married.

Posted by: grace b at December 28, 2010 10:48 AM

I didn't even know Robert Deniro was married.

Posted by: elsie at December 28, 2010 10:50 AM

So that's Aaron Johnson, James McAvoy, and Hugh Jackman having the same taste in spouses.

Posted by: arrrghzi at December 28, 2010 11:06 AM

Good to see fairly ordinary (looking) people have a shot too.

Posted by: , at December 28, 2010 11:12 AM

Dude. Benjamin Millepied. He may not be famous to a bunch a film nerds but to those of us whose cultural experience extends beyond the latest Blu Ray release, he's a big fuckin' deal. A stunning dancer and a seriously exciting up and coming choreographer. He's also hot. And french. Mmmmmm.

Posted by: Beckylooo at December 28, 2010 11:12 AM

*small correction to Andrew Upton's Inner Monologue*

Yeah, my face looks like a half-deflated bag one of the creepy-ass puppets from Genesis' "Land of Confusion" video".

Seriously, look at that thing. Superman, where are you now?

Notes:

1) Did Adam Sandler marry a Jennifer Aniston clone?
2) Deborra is 13 years older than Hugh Jackman. Apparently Cougar>Wolverine.
3) Bale. I got nothing else. Baaaaaale.

Posted by: D-Day at December 28, 2010 11:14 AM

Deniro's got the same taste in women as Ebert, I see.

Posted by: gunnertec at December 28, 2010 11:16 AM

I assume Russell Crowe's wife is too busy ducking for the cameras to catch her.

Posted by: Todd at December 28, 2010 11:19 AM

Does Jackman's wife put a bag on her head when she tans? There's so much contrast between her neck and face it looks photoshopped.

Posted by: Paultera at December 28, 2010 11:20 AM

Oh shit! I only knew Matt Damon and Denzel's wife - but not sure I would have remembered their names if asked earlier..
It's too bad there isn't any info on the marriages, only that they have been lengthy - but how long is that in each case? And who are the spouses?? I guess I'll just have to do some digging on my own.

Posted by: Louise S at December 28, 2010 11:27 AM

Cate Blanchett's husband looks like one of the Gorgs from Fraggle Rock.

Posted by: Doug at December 28, 2010 11:29 AM

I don't think I can comment on DeNiro's picture without inciting a riot or, at the very least, a spirited hubbub.

D-Day NAILED the Andrew Upton look. He's like the Where Are They Now picture in a DC Follies retrospective. Cate must have a Schlubby Brit fetish.

And Meryl Streep is keeping Don Gummer from hitting on drunk 20 year old tourists at tiki bars throughout the Hawaiian Islands, so good for her . . . you know what? He's probably doing that anyway. Keep the dream alive, Gum-Dog!

Posted by: Kballs at December 28, 2010 11:31 AM

Oh Todd, you beat me to it. I was composing that very comment as I scrolled down the comments. I might add that it's hard to get Christian Bale's wife to face the camera as she can't hear the photographers' requests through her ear plugs.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 28, 2010 11:31 AM

Kballs - You're a spirited hubbub.

And that is the most appropos and synchronicitous of all the "you're a ..." comments I have ever taken the opportunity to cheapen this website with.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 28, 2010 11:33 AM

Mrs. Julien, you sound like my inner demons.

Posted by: Kballs at December 28, 2010 11:39 AM

But not the outer ones?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 28, 2010 11:44 AM

Nahhh. I'm not some rich, fancy demon owner. I mean, I own some pretty bad movies and CDs, but I wouldn't call them "demons," per se. Unless you count Happy Feet, which technically belongs to my daughter. So I guess she's the demon owner in the family.

*sniffle*

*single tear*

My little girl. All grown up. She's gonna be so much better than me, I just know it.

Posted by: Kballs at December 28, 2010 11:54 AM

it's crazy these actors are amongst the most famous in the world and who knew they're married.
That wants to say the famous people can have a private life

Posted by: caro at December 28, 2010 11:59 AM

She's gonna be so much better than me, I just know it.

Posted by: Kballs at December 28, 2010 11:54 AM

That's not setting the bar very high, though, is it?*

Just glad this post isn't ostensibly about hot/not-hot celebrity couplings. Those get a might old. Though, I would be interested to know, even if they aren't "celebrities", what the spouses do for a living. Not that they need to do something, per se, I'm just curious if they're homebodies or if they also travel and are rarely at home. It could be the secret to keeping good kids like Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards together!

* I snark because I love.

Posted by: RobP at December 28, 2010 12:26 PM

Oh, and I'm totally jealous of Don Gummer. It's not a cougar thing, purely a Meryl thing.

Posted by: RobP at December 28, 2010 12:27 PM

I knew Adam Sandler would be married to a woman with that look.

Posted by: samantha t at December 28, 2010 12:29 PM

From what I understand, the celebrity marriages where the spouses are not both in The Industry (but both have careers) tend to be stronger and last longer. And it's borne up by similar data by other couples in the same careers - there's an element of competition between the spouses that can be unhealthy.

That said, it's time I came out of the closet. I am Jodie Foster's schlubby middle-aged computer geek husband.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at December 28, 2010 12:43 PM

He's also hot. And french.

Well, yeah, but I do know that's supposed to be capitalized.

Posted by: Jay at December 28, 2010 1:15 PM

Hugh Jackman's wife must get 10,000 evil death stares whenever he's out with him from women thinking "I'm much hotter than she is. What the fuck?!"

And yes, Cate Blanchett married a man who looks like he's got a half-deflated Michellin Man head.

The one I can't get is Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman. Wouldn't that make her Elizabeth Handelman?

All the same, mazel tov! And thank you for not shoving your personal lives into our pop culture consciousness!

Posted by: Fredo at December 28, 2010 1:21 PM

I think Russell Crowe's wife is at least semi-famous in Australia. She is (or was?) an actress. And geez Wolverine, I would have guessed "mom" rather than "wife". Such a disappointment.

Um, idiosynchronic - I highly doubt Jodie Foster has anybody for a husband. Wife, maybe. But husband? No. Schlubby or not.

Posted by: cydeleida at December 28, 2010 1:33 PM

I guess we can finally conclude that Hugh Jackman is gay. I already had my suspicions after seeing him sing and dance at the Academy Awards Show, but now that I've seen a picture of his wife beard, there isn't a doubt left in my mind. No man who could be with literally any woman in the world would select that unless he were secretely gay.

Start mourning now ladies. It's only a matter of time before Alexander Skarsgard comes out, and you don't want to have to suffer it all at once.

Posted by: superasente at December 28, 2010 1:37 PM

Andrew Upton?
I...wow...really..I...wow. Ahhh screw it, what Tracer said. I got nothing.

Posted by: TheBlackMenace at December 28, 2010 1:39 PM

(sorry, but...)

Both Deborra-Lee Furness and Danielle Spencer are popular in Australia.

Posted by: Sara H at December 28, 2010 1:43 PM

I want to say it out loud: It broke my heart to hear that Natalie was pregnant.
I know it's stupid, but I couldn't help feeling like a dumb teenage girl reading about the nsync,bsb's girlfriends and breaking in tears.

Posted by: james at December 28, 2010 2:01 PM

cydeleida, you just caused millions of geeks to cry out in horror.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at December 28, 2010 2:27 PM

Why the fuck is Portman marrying the Human Millipede and carrying a batch of it's hatchlings? Creepy. Kind of ruins the Portman/Kunis fantasy for me now.

As to the tugboat husbands and wives, good on them. Brangelina's perfectly sculptured Hollywood lives make me heave and long for more fugly screw ups in my movies.

Anyone got a picture of Steve Buscemi's other half? I think a reverse version of this list would be good.

Posted by: Jiggles at December 28, 2010 4:02 PM

Jackman's wife was in an Australian show with him, he was an inmate and she was the prison's shrink or something like that. She was the bigger star at the time, and he wasn't nearly as hot as he is today, so technically she was the one slumming.

Posted by: Me at December 28, 2010 4:44 PM

It's only a matter of time before Alexander Skarsgard comes out, and you don't want to have to suffer it all at once.

You shut your piehole, sir. I will not listen to such filthy rumors about the primary occupant of my spank bank. Unless I get video proof. That would be okay.

Posted by: Reba at December 28, 2010 5:03 PM

The Hugh Jackman situation is bumming me out. Is that his mom?

Posted by: Melissa at December 28, 2010 5:04 PM

It's really sad that Adam Sandler's kids look like him and not his wife.

Cate Blanchette's husband looks like a bad version of Bill Murray.

Posted by: GaPeach at December 28, 2010 6:46 PM

There's also Clive Owen and whoever that chick is he's married to. Pretty sure she's not famous.

Posted by: pickled tink at December 28, 2010 7:17 PM

@GaPeach

I would have gone with a full on tragic.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 28, 2010 7:45 PM

I never took Millepied for straight, but then I'm a bad judge of heterosexuality in concert dance. Also, I mean, Portman also dated Devendra Banhart, who I also never took for straight.

Posted by: Jerry at December 28, 2010 7:46 PM

Mrs. Crowe appears to be be traumatized.

Almost as though she were hit in the head by a flying telephone.

That was launched by a boorish prima donna.

Who staggers drunkenly through life.

Best of luck to her.

Posted by: Esther Heyman at December 28, 2010 7:59 PM

Isn't Mrs. Russell Crowe famous in Australia?

And Cillian Murphy, his wife? She is... not famous?

Posted by: kristin at December 29, 2010 12:54 AM

Big Bale fan that I am, I've known long who his wife was. Still, I just saw The Fighter tonight and OMG, was he good.

Posted by: Turtle at December 29, 2010 2:27 AM

I saw Andrew Upton in Sydney Theatre Company. He is a very nice guy. I think Cate have a great husband.

Posted by: Trin at December 29, 2010 2:50 AM

Lottery winners, the lot of them.

Posted by: Pork Bowl at December 29, 2010 6:05 AM

I think it's funny that most women who like Hugh Jackman are probably pretty ugly and overweight, yet on seeing a picture of his normal-looking wife they choose to call him gay. They should be rejoicing in the fact that he might not be completely shallow and their lard-asses have a chance, shouldn't they?

Posted by: CanOfPineapple at December 29, 2010 7:42 AM

Also, if a rich actor wanted a beard, wouldn't he go the Tom Cruise route and pick a gorgeous younger woman, to seem normal and actor-y? Isn't that the point? You're paying them anyway.

Posted by: CanOfPineapple at December 29, 2010 7:44 AM

Luciana and Matt and Denzel and Pauletta all seem to possess the same disdain for the camera. Maybe that is the secret to a successful relationship: hating the same things.

Posted by: JohnnyVonAwesome at December 29, 2010 8:28 AM

Russell Crowe and his wife have been together for many years. She is a singer in Australia, and from all accounts, they have a good marriage and two kids. Crowe often speaks of his devotion to his family. Hugh Jackman has also been married a long time. His wife was more famous than him when they met.

Actors and entertainers, above all, know that beauty is only skin deep. They're in the business of creating illusions for the stage and cameras, helped out by stylists, makeup people etc...

It's reported that when a top actor marries a creative non-acting partner, the marriages are more successful.

Posted by: Mimi at December 29, 2010 9:49 AM

Andrew Upton, Deborah-Lee Furness and Danielle Spencer are all famous in Australia. The former two especially. Upton is an incredible playwright. Not a household name I guess, but anyone who knows anything about Aussie theatre knows of him. Deborah-Lee Furness was more famous than Jackman when they met, and she's starred in some good Aussie films recently (Blessed, Beautiful, Jindabyne).

Posted by: KateMC at December 29, 2010 10:33 AM

Actors and entertainers, above all, know that beauty is only skin deep.

Gay.

Posted by: Kballs at December 29, 2010 10:38 AM

The one you should also include is Clive Owen's wife. She looks like me and got him. How the fuck did that happen?

Posted by: JessicaDwyer at December 29, 2010 1:06 PM

Andrew Upton looks like the lost member of "Jeffster"

Posted by: Even Stevens at December 29, 2010 7:05 PM

The one you should also include is Clive Owen's wife. She looks like me and got him. How the fuck did that happen?

There is hope for me yet: the hope that she will sucked into a time portal, and, after a proper mourning period, I'll be allowed to have a go at him.

Then again, I'll bet someone, somewhere, wished Liam Neeson was single and we see what happened there. I should stop putting negative vibes out into the universe and instead be happy for these married couples.

Right? Please tell me I'm right.

Posted by: annettosaurus rex at January 2, 2011 12:52 AM

and there's Dolly Parton and her husband - I think his name is Carl - but good luck finding pictures of the two of them.
(Now I'm being lazy - Google Images is just a click away - no, that's not it - I have faith that they're never pictured together and looking for facts would be a contradiction of my faith)

Posted by: Pat C. at January 3, 2011 12:17 AM