Emma Watson And Other Celebrities Who Don't Date Famous People
Not all celebrities are part of a high profile power couple like Beyonce and Jay-Z, or Brad and Angelina. Some celebrities opt for a hint of normalcy in their personal lives and shack up with regular folk. Emma Watson has revealed that she won’t date other famous people. “I don’t date people who are famous”, the Noah actress explained. Watson is currently in a relationship with Oxford University student Matt Janney, although she did add that a dating non-famous can be tough too, “I don’t think it’s fair that, all of a sudden, intimate details of their personal life are public as a direct result of me.”
Emma Watson isn’t the only celeb to be involved with another non-famous partner. Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso have been happily married since 2005. The pair met in a bar while Damon was filming Stuck on You with Greg Kinnear and they now have four daughters. “I hit the jackpot with my wife”, Damon told The Guardian. Well, ain't that nice?
Reese Witherspoon married fellow actor Ryan Philippe after meeting him on the set of their movie Cruel Intentions in 1999. The pair have two children together, but split after seven years of marriage in 2006. Wetherspoon eventually met Jim Toth, a talent agent, when his drunk friend hit on her. The pair married in 2011 and have a son together. Wetherspoon told Elle mag, “Jim said, ‘I’m gonna show you every day what a good partner is, what a good person is. I’m going to take care of you. I’m gonna do this so much that you’re gonna get used to it.” Wow, he sounds perfect, we may stop dating celebrities too.
Julia Roberts may have been filming The Mexican in 2001 with Brad Pitt, but it’s the cameraman who caught her eye. Unfortunately he was married and she was dating Benjamin Bratt, although that didn’t stop them. The couple married in 2002 and have three children, Roberts has since described husband Danny Moder as her “Prince Charming”.
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston dated after her divorce from Brad Pitt, but it was real estate agent Kyla Weber that swept him off his feet. Vince and Kyla married in 2010, and every day he is thankful that he “met the best girl in the world.”
Elizabeth Banks is currently starring in The Hunger Games, one of the biggest movie franchises of all time, but her relationship with her husband sounds even more epic. The pair met on Banks’ first day of college in 1992, were married in 2003 and had their first child in 2011. Now that’s a real life love story.
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