Most implausible celeb marriages.

Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett

Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney

Lizsha and David Guesht.

Elton John and Renate Blauel

Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky

Martha Raye and Mark Harris

Rock Hudson and Phyllis Gates

Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, albeit a very happy marriage

Prince Harry and what's-her-name

Chris Evans and Alpa Baptisté.

Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch

David Geffen and that porn star

George Clooney and thingy

Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine

Van Johnson and Evie Wynn

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness

Tom and Nicole

Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black

Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett.

Marilyn and Arthur Miller own this thread.

Raymond Burr and his fictional dead wife

Really, R19? You couldn't even read as far as R1?

Fred and Ethel Mertz

Sam Taylor Wood and Aaron Johnson

Gwynnie and Chris Martin

I remember some awards ceremony where Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson were making out at the podium and it was so forced.

And gross.

Jerry Lee Lewis and his underage cousin.

Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher

Elizabeth Montgomery and Gig Young

Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler

Arnie and Maria Shriver

Lennon and Yoko

Eddie Fisher and anything with a vagina.

Not a marriage, but I was amazed to learn that Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr. were together for 7 years.

How he did not drive her fucking crazy I will never be the one to tell.

I would not, on the face of it, picked Jason Robards as a husband for Lauren Bacall.

Jim Carrey and Lauren Holly

Daniel Craig and whatever.

Christine Baranski and Matthew Cowles.

David Foster and Katharine McPhee

Hayden Panettiere and Vladimir Klitschko

Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy

Warren Beatty and Annette

Frank and Mia

I love Christine Baranski, but I don't see that marriage as implausible, unless there's something about him past his appearance I am unaware of.

Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow

Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn

R42 "Ha! I always knew Frank would go to bed with a boy."

Woody Allen and Mia Farrow.

Ice-T and Coco Austin

[quote] Gwynnie and Chris Martin

Really? They seemed well matched to me...pretentious, bland, smug

R41, what seems implausible about that?

Jackie and Ari

Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels

Lucille Ball and Gary Morton

Don Johnson and Barbara Streisand.

1. Not married

2. Oh, dear.

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James

R50, that Warren would marry at all, and not go for a much younger, better looking woman.

Donald Trump and Vairst Letty

Also not a marriage, but somehow I didn't see Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg as a couple.

Didn’t Matthew Cowles, despite his appearance, come from two big money families?

Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson

R57, Annette Benning is not good looking?

What are the standards of female beauty on your planet?

Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki

R58, Donald Trump and any of his wives, actually. Ivana and Marla way outclassed him, low bar that that is.

r52 B-E-N-I-N-G

Oliver and Lisa Douglas

[quote]Didn’t Matthew Cowles, despite his appearance, come from two big money families

I didn't know that. I just looked it up. He came from a banking and publishing family. He looked like he would have come from a moonshine manufacturing family.

Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay

Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner

Tony Randall and Heather Harlan

R69, oh my God. Yes. How could she have married that garden gnome.

Not a marriage yet, but their wedding is apparently in June: Christian McCaffrey and Olivia Culpo-

Alan Ladd and Sue Carol

Clark Gable and Josephine Dillon AND Ria Franklin

Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft

Demi and Ashton

Elizabeth McGovern and Simon Curtis

Annette Benning was very striking and pretty in the early 90s, r57. Even now she's hardly ugly.

R63 And they were married on The Tonight Show! I loved the 60s.

Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere

Michael Douglas and CZJ

Christina Hendricks and her troll-like new husband.

Ugh. Wrong link.

r77 see r65

Common Law, but it is polygamous.

Orange Con Man & Lady Lindzebelle

Mitch McConnell & Elaine Chao

Kellyanne & George Conway

Mary Matalin and James Carville

Dorothy Zbornak and Lucas Hollingsworth

Can't help but wonder what Lyle and Julia's kids might have looked like

Thread Closed

Orson Welles & Rita Hayworth

Bill Wyman and the 13-year-old (I know he waited until she was 16 or 18 but still.) Mandy Smith.

Suzanne Pleshette and Tom Poston.

Ryan Gosling and that Logo-era Drag Race contestant.

J.Lo and Ojani Noa J.Lo and Chris Judd J.Lo and Marc Anthony J.Lo and Ben Affleck J.Lo and Jeff Bezos (2026)

Charles & Camilla

Nawh, made for each other.

Lyin’ Cancun Ted & Heidi

Calista Flochhart and Harrison Ford

Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills.

Bo Derek and John Corbett.

Janet Jackson and Wissam Al Man.

Tina Fey and her little troll husband

Cate Blanchett and her little troll husband.

Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley.

Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson

R98 Caulfield and Mills has to be the winner.

Married in 1980 when he was 20 or 21 and she was 38 or 39.

Strange as it may be, 44 years later they’re still together.

Good for them

Tilda Swinton and her much older husband as well as her much younger husband.

[quote]Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley.

Billy Joel and Katie Lee

[quote] Didn’t Matthew Cowles, despite his appearance, come from two big money families

Yes, and Baranski came from working class Poles in Buffalo.

People confused Matthew with his infamous AMC character Billy Clyde Tuggle. The fact that he didn't have a lot of other TV or film credits didn't help.

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie

It makes me wonder how much of Christine Baranski’s middle class characters are influenced by Matthew Cowles’ people.

RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines

R107 couldn't make it through the OP's post.

These itchy twats....

Sharon Stone and Komodo snack Phil Bronstein.

I’m the victim here!

The only other show on which I saw Cowles was Law & Order, in which he played a crazed street person. I was surprised to learn he came from a rich, established family. I suppose he really could act.

R69 R71

At the time, Ava Gardner was still far from famous, having just arrived in Hollywood, but Mickey Rooney was a major star with a long list of accolades already. Ava was flattered and Rooney charmed her with charisma , persistence and a solid buldge.

Also if you equal a Napoleon complex with a big schlong it equals good sex.