# Celebrities who have a surprising spouse or girl/boyfriend **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213 "2021-08-20T13:20:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/41 "2021-08-21T01:33:28Z")
Yes, you win. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/42 "2021-08-21T01:35:57Z")
A lot of people are surprised when they find out who married Dax Shepard. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/43 "2021-08-21T01:39:10Z")
I am usually clueless as to which men are attractive to women. Anything below a ten I have no idea about. I caught a few episodes of _The Americans_ and I thought the two leads were not believable as a couple. Matthew Rhys is a good actor but who would believe such a plain looking guy would be married to a beauty like Keri Russell? Apparently Keri Russell would. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/44 "2021-08-21T03:38:20Z")
Well thats odd ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/45 "2021-08-21T03:43:23Z")
Micky Rooney and anyone id say ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/46 "2021-08-21T04:08:13Z")
Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe have always struck me as an odd pairing. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/47 "2021-08-21T04:12:27Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > To me, it was the marriage of an 11 and a 4. Who was who? I would say they were about equal. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/48 "2021-08-21T04:13:30Z")
Elizabeth Taylor’s eighth and final marriage was to Larry Fortensky, a construction worker who was 20 years younger than her, and whom she met while they were both going through rehab at the Betty Ford Center. [![](https://extra-images.akamaized.net/image/c5/1by1/2017/04/14/c57e2020e2265958a9221f9ded8a9f5f_xl.jpg) ](https://extra-images.akamaized.net/image/c5/1by1/2017/04/14/c57e2020e2265958a9221f9ded8a9f5f_xl.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/49 "2021-08-21T04:14:55Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > who married Dax Shepard. Another cute couple. What is wrong with you guys? ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/50 "2021-08-21T04:16:32Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Larry Fortensky, a construction worker How did he afford the Betty Ford Clinic? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/51 "2021-08-21T04:17:51Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > How did he afford the Betty Ford Clinic? His [Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fortensky) says that he was a member of the Teamsters, and that his union-provided medical insurance covered the rehab. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/52 "2021-08-21T04:30:02Z")
Mick Fleetwood boinking Stevie Nicks always gives me the willies! ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/53 "2021-08-21T04:46:52Z")
When I saw Gene Wilder in _Blazing Saddles_, I thought, “How have I missed seeing how attractive this man is? Those blonde curls, those twinkling blue eyes!” He’s not classically handsome, but classically handsome can be dull. (I also lusted in my heart for the undeniably handsome Cleavon Little.) I don’t understand why anyone found Wilder homely. And I wouldn’t mind looking like Gilda Radner. The marriage of James Carville and Mary Matalin has always puzzled me. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/54 "2021-08-21T04:53:23Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Elizabeth Taylor’s eighth and final marriage was to Larry Fortensky, a construction worker who was 20 years younger than her, and whom she met while they were both going through rehab at the Betty Ford Center. Mentioned earlier, although your presentation is better. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/55 "2021-08-21T05:27:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe have always struck me as an odd pairing. Not as odd as Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/56 "2021-08-21T07:30:46Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe have always struck me as an odd pairing. > > Not as odd as Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein. - It’s all relative. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/57 "2021-08-21T12:30:27Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Do I win? > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Do you? This feels like the intro to “Dueling Banjos.” [Holland Taylor (b 1943) and Sarah Paulson (b 1974)](https://www.insider.com/sarah-paulson-and-holland-taylors-relationship-timeline-2020-3) and I still can’t believe she dated Rush Limbaugh. > **[Ex-CNN anchor Daryn Kagan reinvents herself](https://www.ocregister.com/2008/04/14/ex-cnn-anchor-daryn-kagan-reinvents-herself/)** > > In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006. She was brought into an office and told that CNN … ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/58 "2021-08-21T14:31:28Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Mentioned earlier _facepalm_ I skimmed the thread to see if it’d already been mentioned, and missed your entry. My apologies! ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/59 "2021-08-21T14:46:29Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I’m guessing Guilfoyle wanted to marry into importance and fame. It doesn’t matter what political party they were. She could adapt. It happens. People “switch sides” for reasons that aren’t completely political. Or so it would seem – I can’t see into their heads, obviously. See Arianna Huffington. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/60 "2021-08-21T15:01:30Z")
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