Matt Damon fell for a bartender and Tina O’Brien is engaged to a personal trainer… Meet the celebs dating ‘normal’ people
These ordinary people experienced their own 'meet cute' with the stars
THINK a rom-com type romance is only for the movies? Think again.
These celeb relationships with ‘normals’ will restore your faith in fairytale romance. That’s right, it really could happen to us.
Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso
Luciana, 40, was a bartender when she met future hubbie, and father to their four children, Matt, 45.
In fact, they met when he went drinking with his mates and ended up in the bar she worked in.
They had a modest wedding in a New York registry office in 2005 and renewed their vows on a private beach in St Lucia in 2013.
Peter Andre and Emily MacDonagh
Former pop and reality star Peter, 43, surprised everyone when he started dating trainee doctor Emily, 27, in 2013.
Their daughter Amelia, two, was born on 7th January 2014 and they were married in a lavish ceremony in Exeter’s Mamhead House on 11th July 2015.
Still going strong, the couple are now expecting their second child.
Tina O’Brien and Adam Crofts
The 32-year-old Coronation Street actress - and Fabulous cover star - met personal trainer Adam in a coffee shop in 2011.
They started dating a few weeks later, had a son, Beau, in 2014 and he proposed two months ago in a boutique Manchester hotel.
Sweet!
Lisa Kudrow and Michel Stern
Friends’ very own Phoebe Buffet met Michael, a French advertising executive, when he was dating one of her other friends!
It was six years before Lisa, 52, started dating him but they married in 1995 and, over a decade later, they’re still together and have a son Julian, now 28.
Davina McCall and Matthew Robertson
Original Big Brother presenter Davina, 48, and husband Matthew, 47, are still so loved up with each other that in April 2015 they renewed their wedding vows, 15 years after tying the knot the first time around.
And while Davina is one of the most recognised and adored faces on British telly, Matthew runs an ‘adventure business.’
Floyd Mayweather and Ramarni Ball
Boxer Floyd Mayweather made headlines in February when it was revealed he’s whisked 19-year-old Ramarni Ball off on a holiday of a lifetime.
The 39-year-old American sports star is considered to be one of the greatest fighters of all time and Ramarni, rather modestly, was a sales assistant at New Look who hails from Dudley.
After catching his eye at a fan event, Mayweather took Ramarni on a lavish trip to the US.
It’s since emerged they’re ‘just friends’ – we wonder if there’s room for one more on these envious holidays of theirs…
Christian Bale and Sibi Blazic
Christian, 42, married Sandra (nicknamed Sibi) in 2000, by which time he had gained critical acclaim playing psychotic Patrick Bateman in American Psycho and would go on to win two Oscars and play Batman.
When he met Sibi, 46, she was a make-up artist and personal assistant to Winona Ryder!
Kevin Jonas and Danielle Deleasa
Young hearts around the world broke when the oldest Jonas brother Kevin, 28, announced his engagement to Danielle, 29, a former hairdresser and total non-celeb.
They had met on holiday in the Bahamas during the summer of 2007.
They married in 2009 and have had a reality show on E!, ‘Married to Jonas’.
Denise van Outen and Eddie Boxshall
Introduced through mutual friends in 2014, these two kept their relationship on the lowdown for months before going public.
Eddie, 42, is a successful stockbroker from Denise’s home country of Essex and the two are still as loved up as ever.
He even accompanied the presenter, 41, to Kimberley Walsh’s Barbados wedding in January.