# Celebrities with the lowest key, most mundane private lives. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337 "2008-12-02T14:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/61 "2008-12-04T06:25:29Z")
Okay, you know either me or Faithfool was gonna… Alice Cooper has been married thirty-plus years, totally faithfully as far as anyone knows, and has three kids. NO drama. He’s also been clean and sober for over a quater centuary. One of his daughters,Calico, is in his show regularly and is beginning a movie career. His wife, Sheryl, first met him as one of his dancers on the Welcome To My Nightmare tour. This summer I had the pleasure of seeing all three of them plus their youngest girl, Sonora, onstage in Vancouver. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/62 "2008-12-04T07:07:52Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > \*\*William H. Macy \*\*and **Felicity Huffman** come to mind. Married since 1997 w/ two daughters. Oh, yes. Filliam H. Muffman. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/63 "2008-12-04T13:30:06Z")
Stephen & Tabitha King. She was stood by him through poverty, parenthood, fame, drug & alcohol abuse, and the horrible accident that almost killed him. If that’s not love, what is? ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/64 "2008-12-04T17:21:30Z")
> [@The\_Punkyova](#): > > I remember when Bette Midler got married and had a baby. She was on all the talk shows, discussing it. There were pictures and everything! She said that she wanted to name the little girl “Fifi Trixiebelle,” like some other rock star had done. Her husband said that when she was 50 and a CPA she would not appreciate FiFi Trixibelle, so they gave her a more mundane name. I believe the other rock star was Bob Geldof. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/65 "2008-12-04T17:35:55Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Wasn’t it Harrison Ford who had a deal with the photogs about his kids? As long as they didn’t take pictures of his kids, he would give them whatever shots they wanted of himself. > > I don’t think anyone saw a photo of his kids until after they turned 18. Harrison Ford had 2 sons in his first marriage that were born in the late 60s…so if you mean them two this is true probably, I don’t know because I was an infant when they turned 18. He also had 2 children in his second marriage and they were born in 1987 and 1991, and while it was sort of rare I remember seeing photos of them as children. So partially right, it was definitely no selling kid pics to OK Magazine going on. But I know I’ve seen them in People and maybe Entertainment Weekly back in the late 90s early 00s when I read those mags a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/66 "2008-12-04T17:44:49Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Have you read anything about Sissy Spacek counter to what people here have heard? Is she something other than the wholesome farm girl we hear about? Well, she did once kick a Shih Tzu puppy down a flight of stairs for giving her the eye. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/67 "2008-12-04T17:49:36Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Meryl Streep is on the cover of _Entertainment Weekly_ this week (the issue of December 5, 2008). So at least occasionally she does get major publicity, even now. > > What the OP said was “I have never heard [Bette Midler’s] name associated with anyone of either sex.” No mention was made of a time frame. No mention was made of whether the news was mundane. Back a few years ago, there was a lot of entertainment news about Bette Midler. So why isn’t there any now? Because she’s too old. Remember, to most entertainment reporters, anyone over 30 is a little boring. Yeah, they occasionally mention such people, but it’s clear that consider them over the hill. Anyone over 40 is dead as far as they are concerned. When they have articles about someone like Meryl Streep, it’s a career retrospective. They’re gasping in awe that somehow she hasn’t died. I understand your larger point, and agree with it. I just wanted to point out that Brad Pitt is 45. I was reading a People for the first time in a while, and I’d say the majority of their subjects are over 30, and a whole bunch are over 40. ETA: I think a lot of the exposure has to do with their proximity to the places where large numbers of Paparazzi tend to hang out. Primarily LA. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/68 "2008-12-04T18:14:54Z")
I’ve read that Daniel Day-Lewis spends his long stretches between movies working quietly as a shoemaker in some Irish village somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/69 "2008-12-04T20:23:16Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > [Here ya go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEEue80pNvM) > > No charge. Oh, jeez. I’m sitting in for the receptionist during her lunch, and that just made me laugh loud enough to make the accountant come out of her burrow. Now, I don’t have sound on this machine, but who needs sound with hair like that? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/70 "2008-12-04T20:43:58Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, she did once kick a Shih Tzu puppy down a flight of stairs for giving her the eye. …and once shot a man for snoring too loud! Hard to find any celebrity who lives a lower-key life than Kate Bush. She’s not well known in the US, but very well-known in the UK, Europe and most of the rest of the world. She only toured once. Before Princess Diana, she was the most photographed woman in England. Her most recent album came out after a 13 year absence from the public and she did no TV interviews, a handful of interviews for newspapers and magazines and only one live interview, in her home, for BBC radio DJ Mark Radcliffe who had a running “Bush-O-Meter” measuring how long he had been trying to get her to appear on his show. She lives in a house with her son and a man who she may or may not be married to. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/71 "2008-12-05T00:46:39Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I’ve read that Daniel Day-Lewis spends his long stretches between movies working quietly as a shoemaker in some Irish village somewhere. You know, when I first opened this thread the other day this was the first thing I thought of, but the more I thought about it… that’s not mundane, that’s way cool! ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/72 "2008-12-05T01:50:45Z")
Dustin Hoffman. I can’t remember the last time I read or heard anything personal about him. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/73 "2008-12-05T01:58:32Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > Okay, you know either me or Faithfool was gonna… > > Alice Cooper has been married thirty-plus years, totally faithfully as far as anyone knows, and has three kids. NO drama. He’s also been clean and sober for over a quater centuary. Alice admits that, even now, he has a very addictive personality. He’s now as addicted to golf as he once was to drugs- the difference being, his current addiction gets him out in the fresh air, and gets him some exercise. Better a somewhat healthy obsession than one that can kill you. A few years back, a reporter noted to Jon Bon Jovi that he’d been married for 25 years to his high school sweetheart, and suggested Jon must be the only rock star to do that. “No,” he replied, “There’s Bono, too. So you see, I’m not even the only rock star whose name begins with ‘Bon,’ am I?” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/74 "2008-12-05T03:43:57Z")
Diogenes the Cynic writes: \> I’ve read that Daniel Day-Lewis spends his long stretches between movies \> working quietly as a shoemaker in some Irish village somewhere. It was in Florence, Italy, not in Ireland. He didn’t do it in stretches between movies. He did it in one five-year stretch. He gave up acting for a while in the late 1990’s and didn’t come back to it until five years later. During that five-year period, he worked as a shoemaker in Florence. He’s back to acting now. > **[Daniel Day-Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis)** > > Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor. Often described as one of the preeminent actors in the history of cinema, he received numerous accolades throughout his career which spanned over four decades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama. > Born and raised in London, Day-Lewis excelled on stage at the National Yo... ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/75 "2008-12-05T06:09:55Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Diogenes the Cynic writes: > > \> I’ve read that Daniel Day-Lewis spends his long stretches between movies > \> working quietly as a shoemaker in some Irish village somewhere. > > It was in Florence, Italy, not in Ireland. He didn’t do it in stretches between movies. He did it in one five-year stretch. He gave up acting for a while in the late 1990’s and didn’t come back to it until five years later. During that five-year period, he worked as a shoemaker in Florence. He’s back to acting now. Must pay somewhat better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/76 "2008-12-05T13:01:51Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > A few years back, a reporter noted to Jon Bon Jovi that he’d been married for 25 years to his high school sweetheart, and suggested Jon must be the only rock star to do that. “No,” he replied, “There’s Bono, too. So you see, I’m not even the only rock star whose name begins with ‘Bon,’ am I?” If you think about, rock star marriages only really come in two flavors. The “it’s over before you know it due to the cheating/drugging/ass hole behavior” or it lasts 20/30/40 years. There’s almost no in between. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/77 "2008-12-05T13:18:29Z")
Ron Howard is extremely low key. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/78 "2008-12-05T13:28:04Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Ryan Giggs comes to mind. One of Manchester United’s most important players for well over a decade, yet when he got married, even the [official club news](http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid=%7BB4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70%7D&newsid=469415) consisted of only three sentences. (Compare that to people he’s played alongside…such as Beckham…) Ryan Giggs used to live very close to me until recently. His house was pretty modest for what I’d have expected a Premiership footballer to have. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/79 "2008-12-05T14:17:55Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Tom Hanks. Know he’s married to Rita Wilson, see them at the occasional premiere or awards show together, other than that – blessed silence. Until he decided to share that he cheated on his first wife with Rita Wilson, which puts him in the Paul Newman camp for me. I went to the Dartmouth tribute to Laura Linney and she was one who remains very out of the spotlight. Of course at the event she was gushing about the wonderful man she is engaged to. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337/80 "2008-12-05T15:53:28Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > If you think about, rock star marriages only really come in two flavors. The “it’s over before you know it due to the cheating/drugging/ass hole behavior” or it lasts 20/30/40 years. > > There’s almost no in between. Snoop Dogg has been married to the same woman for like 15 years, and has kids that he seems to do well with from the limited footage I’ve seen. However, I’m sure there’s lots of shenanigans, the wife has to be willing to put up with a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-the-lowest-key-most-mundane-private-lives/475337.md?page=5)