Beyonce’s Lemonade has made waves online, and her seemingly iron clad relationship with Jay Z is in question which shook us to our cores. Our response is to optimistically count down 15 iconic relationships that might actually end in happily ever after.
Hollywood’s Most Successful Celebrity Relationships
1. Beyonce and Jay Z
The Queen Bey herself, and her King Jay Z have been together for 14 years, an eternity in the world of celebrity relationships. They will always be Music Industry Royalty.
2. Victoria Beckham and David Beckham
Posh and Becks were married in Ireland on July 4, 1999. They have four children together and have quashed the recent rumours of a divorce on the horizon.
“I am blessed to have a wonderful husband and beautiful, healthy, happy children. We always make time for each other as a couple and as a family. David and I have nothing to prove. We love each other, look out for each other and are strong as both partners and parents,” Posh told Grazia.
3. Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt
Brad and Ange have always been a subject of controversy. The couple fell in love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith whilst Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston. Although they have only been married since 2014, they were together for 10 years before that. They have six children together- now that is what you call a family unit!
4. Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber
Cindy and Rande have been together for almost twenty years and have two children together.
Cindy shared her secrets to a healthy and happy marriage with Haute Living.
She said of her marriage: “We’ve been together for about twenty years, and the foundation of our relationship is that we have a really strong friendship… We genuinely really like and respect each other. We have fun together. Life is stressful and parenting is stressful, but we still make time for each other. We treat each other like friends and that’s great…but I still like looking at him, That’s not to be underrated.”
To which Rande replied equally lovingly:
“I do have the most beautiful wife in the entire world. I look at her now the same way I did when I first met her. I look at her in the morning and see her lying there and I know how lucky I am.”
5. Elton John and David Furnish
Mr Furnish and Sir Elton, who have two sons, became civil partners in 2005 and formally tied the knot in 2014.
6. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
Will and Jada have been married since 1997 and they have two children together: Jaden and Willow.
So how what is their secret?
“We’ve been married 20 years and we’ve been asking ourselves [what’s the secret to marriage] and really at the end of the day it’s just not quitting,” Will told E.T.
“You can’t expect it to be easy, it’s like our marriage was the most difficult, grueling, excruciating thing that we have ever taken on in our lives. And you know we’re just not quitters.”
7. Snoop Dogg and Shante Broadus
Snoop may not seem like the ‘settle down’ type, but believe it or not he married his high school sweetheart back in 1997. He publicly admitted to have steered off course due to the high rolling, glamorous musician lifestyle, but that ultimately his wife is the most important thing.
“This music industry is a mother, man, and it’ll take your vision and blur it. But God is good, so I understand that I need my wife and my kids in my life… We’ve been married for 10 years … some people in life are chosen for you. And I feel like we’re chosen for each other.”
8. Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen
The physically flawless Tom and Gisele have been married since 2009. They have stuck together through thick and thin- even Tom’s ex having his child whilst Gisele and Tom were dating. Yikes!
Despite this, Gisele stuck around and the two are a great example of a strong relationship.
“We’re in a great place, I’ll just say that,” the NFL player told Boston radio station WEEI 93.7 FM. “I’m a lucky man. I’ve been very blessed with support from my family and certainly her, and there’s no bigger supporter that I have than her and vice versa. I’ve been very blessed to have an incredible relationship with my life partner, and I don’t think anything will ever get in the way of that.”
9. Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker
SJP is super secretive (and smart) when it comes to her tips for making a relationship work.
“The secret is, we don’t discuss it. To reporters or anybody else. That’s it!” she told The Huffington Post. “We don’t hold it up as an example and we don’t air our dirty laundry.”
10. Meryl Streep and Don Gummer
It is not only Meryl’s phenomenal career that has enduring success. Her relationship is equally long lasting. She has been married to Don Gummer for 38 years and they have four children together.
In her 2012 acceptance speech for winning the Best Actress Academy Award for The Iron Lady, Meryl spoke beautifully about Don.
‘First I’m going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives, you’ve given me,’ she said.
11. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
Ellen and Portia have been dating since 2004, and after the overturn of the same-sex marriage ban in California the pair made it official in 2008.
“We’re just really good friends and we talk about everything, and we never ever, ever lie to each other, like, not even the tiniest lies,” Portia told E.T.
“And she’s the only person I want to hang out with. Like, she is my best friend and I just want to be with her all the time… She’s just so awesome! Who wouldn’t want to be with Ellen all the time?”
12. Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder
Julia has been married to cinematographer Danny Moder for 13 years. They have three children together.
She told Extra that “kissing” was what kept her marriage so strong. Seems easy enough!
13. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
Goldie and Kurt have a very strong relationship that never needed to be official. They have been together for over 30 years since 1983, but only tied the knot in 2015!
“A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage,” Goldie Hawn told the press. “It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.”
When they did finally get married, they did so in style with a Wild Wild West theme at their multimillion pound ranch near Aspen, Colorado.
14. Bono and Alison Hewson
Bono has known Ali Hewson since she was 14 years old. However, these two are definitely not joined at the hip. They are two independent people who like each others company and are perhaps the least obviously loved up of all of these ‘too good to be true’ couples.
“My missus has been playing hard to get for quite a while now and she’s an elusive character,” Bono told The Sun.
“She’s not easy to get to know and other people’s praise holds not much sway for her. She’s a very independent, smart kind of girl, who, I think, sees me as a figure of amusement. Most of the time, I enjoy her company.”
15. Sting and Trudie Styler
You would never guess that this pair of ‘loved up teenagers’ have been married for 25 years and together for over 30. Sting was singing his wife’s praises in a saucy interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
“Relationships aren’t easy, and I don’t think they’re particularly natural, but we’re lucky because… We love each other – that’s a given – but Trudie lights up my world when she comes into a room. I don’t take her for granted.”
Sex is also a huge factor for the duo, and they have been rumoured to engage in tantric sex.
“When we see each other, it’s romance. I don’t think pedestrian sex is very interesting…There’s a playfulness we have; I like the theatre of sex. I like to look good. I like her to dress up. I like to dress her up.”
