# 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:** 6
**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 26, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/101 "2021-08-26T03:51:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I just found out that John Corbett and Bo Derek have been married since December of last year. John Corbett May 9, 1961 Bo Derek November 20, 1956 I would have guessed a bigger age difference. Debi Thomas is not really a big celeb but some may remember her from the Olympic Games. Oh, okay, I had a total crush on her. > Now, she’s here. Thomas, a former orthopedic surgeon who doesn’t have health insurance, declared bankruptcy in 2014 and hasn’t brought in a steady paycheck in years. She’s twice divorced, and her medical license, which she was in danger of losing anyhow, expired around the time she went broke. She hasn’t seen her family in years. She instead inveighs against shadowy authorities in the nomenclature of conspiracy theorists — “the powers that be”; “corporate media”; “brainwashing” — and composes opinion pieces for the local newspaper that carry headlines such as “Pain, No Gain” and “Driven to Insanity.” > **[Debi Thomas' fall from grace](https://www.tampabay.com/sports/olympics/debi-thomas-fall-from-grace/2267041/)** > > RICHLANDS, Va. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/102 "2021-08-26T06:56:34Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Debi Thomas is not really a big celeb but some may remember her from the Olympic Games. Oh, okay, I had a total crush on her. What does this have to do with having a seemingly mismatched partner? (And the article’s from 2016) ---
**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 26, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/103 "2021-08-26T11:29:53Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > What does this have to do with having a seemingly mismatched partner? (And the article’s from 2016) A woman who was driven, becoming both a world class figure skater and a surgeon, ends up in a trailer with a guy who completed one year of community college. What is your concern about 2016? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/104 "2021-08-26T13:20:54Z")
Sorry, I missed the connection there. ---
**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 26, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/105 "2021-08-26T13:42:20Z")
_Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat_ Those whom God wishes to destroy, He first deprives of reason ---
**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 26, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/106 "2021-08-26T14:20:33Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Debi Thomas is not really a big celeb but some may remember her from the Olympic Games. Oh, okay, I had a total crush on her. Debi Thomas’s first husband, whom she married just after the '88 Calgary Games, was one of my high school classmates. They met while they were both studying medicine, though they did not remain married for long. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/107 "2021-08-26T14:36:45Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Maybe he’s hung like a mule. Seriously, a face and a personality like his, I’m guessing that when he unzips his fly two hooved legs and a large head that brays jumps out. Pete Davidson was the inspiration for the popular phrase “[Big Dick Energy](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/big-dick-energy).” One couple that really surprised me when I read they were together was **Aidy Bryant** and **Connor O’Malley**. I don’t know why it surprised me so much - probably because Connor writes and plays the annoyingist of annoying man-children in almost everything he does. I couldn’t imagine any grown, professional woman wanting to be around that all the time. But my brain has since reconciled that he is just playing parts, and they are both comedic writers and actors and of course it works. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/108 "2021-08-26T15:01:56Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Pete Davidson was the inspiration for the popular phrase “[Big Dick Energy](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/big-dick-energy).” I never knew that…! I know some of his humor is ok, but some of it didn’t seem to merit the wild applause. Any criticism of him anywhere on the internet always seem to pull in accounts from women to defend him. I always wondered why they were all so eager to jump on the… bandwagon. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/109 "2021-08-27T22:40:47Z")
Proper british actress Vanessa Redgrave, married “Django” rough italian Franco Nero in 2006. Quite late in their lives. Cute i think! [Franco](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626259/mediaviewer/rm1029473536/) [Vanessa](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000603/mediaviewer/rm1830433536/) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/110 "2021-08-28T23:21:20Z")
Suzanne Pleshette, quite the looker in her day, was at one time married to movie pretty boy Troy Donahue. After another marriage in the interim, she married Tom Poston. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/111 "2021-08-30T10:32:58Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > she married Tom Poston. “He makes me laugh” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/112 "2021-09-20T04:32:30Z")
He was so so good looking. back in the 60’s, when they starred in ‘Camelot’ together, his Lancelot to her Guinevere. 😍 They had a child together about that time. Got married decades later! ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/113 "2021-09-20T06:30:08Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I also think Gilda Radner was fine looking. She was too skinny, but I don’t know if that was because of her cancer. More likely it was because of her bulimia. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/114 "2021-09-20T16:10:24Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > One couple that really surprised me when I read they were together was **Aidy Bryant** and **Connor O’Malley**. Just an aside about Aidy Bryant: I admire her integrity and self-respect. A while back, I read an interview with her in Entertainment Weekly\*, where she talked about scripts she’d been offered, all of which she had turned down because of the premises. A guy falls in love with her, but only because a witch put a spell on him. A guy falls in love with her, but only because she put a spell on him. A guy asks her out on a bet or a dare and they fall in love anyway. A guy has to marry her to claim an inheritance and they fall in love anyway. See the pattern? She stated that if she **never** has a lead role in a movie, it would be preferable to being in any of those. And funnily enough, that was at least two years ago, and AFAIK, no movies fitting those descriptions have been made. \*Which is now monthly, but it’s still a good magazine. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/115 "2021-09-20T17:58:51Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > It is good news, in a way. Since he doesn’t seem to be with anyone for a long period of time, maybe size _doesn’t_ matter to women. The thing is, Davidson seems able to charm ANYONE, romantically or not. He’s on SNL because Lorne Michaels loves him, not because he has much in the way of talent; he isn’t much of a comedic talent at all, isn’t much of a comedy writer, and had little track record prior to SNL. He’s one of the worst standups I’ve ever seen who got a Netflix special, maybe the very worst. He’s not unusually handsome and has no other talent (e.g. he’s not a musician or an athlete.) He didn’t get famous by being a successful social media influencer. He must be, in person, the most likeable human alive, because there’s no other explanation for his success. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/116 "2021-09-20T19:08:59Z")
Years ago, my roommate saw Bob Crane with his wife and blurted out, “He married the secretary!” Turned out it was Sigrid Valdis, who played Helga on most of _Hogan’s Heroes._ ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/117 "2021-09-20T19:23:39Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > He must be, in person, the most likeable human alive, because there’s no other explanation for his success. He must be more likeable than Jesus. I read his Wiki page back when this thread started and he’s got his share of baggage and apparently talks about it non stop. I did get a chuckle out of him saying for the first time in X years he was drug free. His version of drug free meant except for medical and recreational weed. In that case, I’ve been alcohol free for decades! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/119 "2021-09-20T23:04:53Z")
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton. She’s a little older than him too. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/120 "2021-09-21T00:44:01Z")
So, which one are you suggesting is the ugly spouse? ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213/121 "2021-09-21T13:43:48Z")
Shelton is not much to look at but I am a guy so maybe women like him . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-have-a-surprising-spouse-or-girl-boyfriend/949213.md?page=7)