While there are many fans with crushes on their idols, some even get lucky enough to marry them. If you find that too hard to believe then there are several true-life instances where celebrities married their fans and some of them are those whom you know very well like Nicholas Cage. It’s actually true, that several Hollywood celebrities have ended up wooing and marrying their fans. Here is a list of 15 of them.
Reese Witherspoon at one time seemed to have only eyes for other celebrities and even dated many. She also married Ryan Phillipe and had a relationship with Jake Gyllenhall. However talent agent Jim Toth changed her mind completely. The Oscar winner of “walk the line” married Toth in 2011 even though he wasn’t a big name in Hollywood. Toth was a big fan of Witherspoon and his dream of marrying his idol came true. The couple has a son who was born in 2012.
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Maureen Cox was a hairdresser for the Beatles and attended many of their shows. Ultimately she was noticed by Ringo who started dating her at the time the fabulous four were at the peak of their fame. The couple married in 1965 after Maureen found out she was pregnant. However, the marriage lasted only 10 years and the couple divorced in 1975. It isn’t always a marriage made in heaven when you marry a star it seems.
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As the stories go, Steve Harvey met his first wife Marjorie Bridges in Memphis while he was at a comedy club. He even told her then he would be marrying her. True or not, it makes a good Hollywood story. Bridges was working as a fashion blogger at the time and since then, the couple grew close to each other. While Harvey rose to fame as a comedian, she remained his biggest fan. Bridges and Harvey were married in 2007 after his two previous marriages.
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The frontman for Green Day as everyone knows as well is truly in love with his 25-year-old wife Adrienne Nesser. It isn’t uncommon to see famous singers in relationships with other celebs but Armstrong preferred one of his fans whom he met backstage at a concert. Armstrong was reported to have said he married on impulse but he is now in a long-term relationship and he admits that his marriage has helped him get through the negative aspects of his life while touring on the road. Armstrong and Nesser have two children out of wedlock. Best wishes to them.
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Alice Kim was only 19 and an aspiring actress when she met Nicholas Cage while she was working in a restaurant Los Angeles. Cage had come there for a meal and soon connected with the waitress 20 years his junior. The couple soon began dating and were married in 2004. They had one son but unfortunately separated in 2016.
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Christian Bale had never really planned marriage for himself but that was before he met Sibi Blazic who worked as a personal assistant for Bale’s friend, Winona Ryder. Blazic changed his mind because he hit it off with her completely. They married in 2000. This is one couple who is going strong and is still married after 17 years. Bale even thanked his wife a lot during his academy award acceptance speech and gave her the credit of grounding him during the times he would go to extremes with his method acting.
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As one of the celebrities who married their fans, American Idol winner Ruben Studdard was busy autographing CD’s at an event when he noticed fan Zuri McCants who was patiently waiting in line for one. It seems it was a case of smitten at first sight for Studdard. The couple soon got together and began dating after first meeting in October 2006. Although they married in 2008, it was a short marriage that ended in divorce in 2011 due to irreconcilable differences. The couple have one daughter.
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Kelsey Grammar of Frasier fame has been married a good four times. When he met flight attendant Kayte Walsh 25 years his junior, he was still married but that didn’t keep him from wooing her. The couple married in 2011 just after Kelsey divorced Camille Grammar of real Housewives fame. They are still together and have three children.
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Everyone seems to be a fan of Matt Damon but Damon is a fan of only one person. His wife of more than 10 years Luciana Barroso. Damon as a star of several big Hollywood titles met Barroso when she was just a waitress in Miami. He was filming for the 2003 flick, Stuck on You and in 2005, they got married. It’s been 12 years but they are still a happily married couple with three kids.
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When Jessica Alba was filming for The Fantastic Four in 2004, she noticed her future husband Cash Warren who was working as a production assistant on sets at the time. He was a huge fan of hers and when they made a face to face encounter, they hit it off immediately. There was a huge chemistry between the couple and they finally married in 2008. They have been happily married ever since and have two children.
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Anne Hathaway was arrested for money laundering in 2008 along with boyfriend Raffallo Follieri. After that she swore off relationships for some time till she finally met Adam Shulman who would become her future husband. Shulman was a big fan and they were introduced by a mutual friend. Their relationship developed quickly and they married in 2012. It has been five years and they are still going strong with two kids.
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This was a really big story for Hollywood when Kelly Preston, John Travolta’s biggest fan vowed that she would marry him. It was a classic case of celebrity crush ever since she saw a picture of him on the poster of Grease when she was just sixteen. After 13 years, after becoming an actress and a model, she met him while filming a movie and then, of course, she wasn’t going to let him go. They married in 1991 and have been together for 26 years. Travolta is now 63 and Preston is 54. They have three children.
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When Conan O Brien met Liza Powell in the audience on one of his shows, The “Late night with Conan O Brien”, he was smitten by her and remarked in an interview with Piers Morgan, that there could also be footage in NBC archives of him falling for her. The couple was married in 2002 and has two children.
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In 1994, when Hairdresser Jillian Fink saw her appointment list for the day, she could barely conceal her excitement. It was none other than Patrick Dempsey the Grey’s anatomy star who was coming to her Delux hair salon. She remarked that he was extremely cute and she kept flirting with him. The couple married in 1999 and had three kids together, Tallula, Darby, and Sullivan. They were almost separated and on the verge of divorce but reconciled and are now together.
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Among celebrities who married their fans, Tom Cruise was a big catch for Katie Holmes. Although Katie Holmes went on to become a good actress, she was always a fan of Tom Cruise and admitted she had a huge crush on him even when in school where she kept photos of him in her textbooks. She later said that getting married to Cruise was like a dream come true. The couple married in 2006 in Odescalchi castle in Italy but split up after six years. Their daughter Suri now stays with her mother.
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