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Elizabeth Taylor

No. From To Husband Children
16 May 1950 29 Jan 1951 Click to show or hide the answer  
221 Feb 1952 26 Jan 1957 Click to show or hide the answer Michael Howard (1953)
Christopher Edward (1955)
32 Feb 1957 22 March 1958 Click to show or hide the answer Elizabeth Frances "Liza" (6 Aug 1957)
412 May 1959 6 March 1964 Click to show or hide the answer  
515 March 1964 26 June 1974 Click to show or hide the answer  
610 Oct 1975 29 July 1976 Click to show or hide the answer  
74 Dec 1976 7 Nov 1982 Click to show or hide the answer  
86 Oct 1991 31 Oct 1996 Click to show or hide the answer  

Christopher Edward Wilding was born on 27 February 1955 – his mother's 23rd birthday.

In 1964, Elizabeth Taylor adopted a daughter called Maria (born in Germany in 1961).

Richard Burton adopted Liza and Maria during his first marriage to Taylor.

The third marriage (Michael Todd) was the only one not to end in divorce.

Elizabeth Taylor died in 2011, aged 79.

The Duchess of Windsor

The Duchess of Windsor was born Bessie Wallis Warfield, in 1896.  She died in 1986.

No. From To Husband
18th November 1916 1927 Click to show or hide the answer
221st July 1928 May 1937 Click to show or hide the answer
33rd June 1937 28th May 1972 (his death) Click to show or hide the answer

Historical Marriages

Jean Armour (1765–1834) was the wife (from 1788 until his death in 1796) of Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Julius Caesar's third (or fourth) and last wife, from 59 BC until his assassination 15 years later (Pliny the Younger's third and last wife had the same name) Click to show or hide the answer
Marie Sklodowskaya married Click to show or hide the answer
Married his former student Mileva Marić in 1903 (they separated in 1914 and divorced in 1919); later married his first cousin Elsa Löwenthal (née Einstein) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the future Lord Melbourne, 1805–28 (they separated, and she died, before he inherited the peerage or became Prime Minister) Click to show or hide the answer
Husband of Marie Antoinette Click to show or hide the answer
Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife Click to show or hide the answer
Wife of Francis II of France Click to show or hide the answer
Married Constanze Weber, 1782 Click to show or hide the answer
Frances Nesbit: wife of Click to show or hide the answer
Married Aurelia Tizon (1929, d. 1938), Maria Eva Duarte (1945, d. 1952), Maria Estela (Isabel) Martinez (1961, he died in 1974; she succeeded him as President) Click to show or hide the answer
Alexander the Great's wife Click to show or hide the answer
Xant(h)ippe, renowned for her short temper, was the wife of Click to show or hide the answer
Alice FitzWarin (or FitzWarren) was the wife of Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer

Others (mainly celebrities)

Married Jennifer Garner, star of TV CIA drama Alias, in 2005 (separated 2015) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the actress Brooke Shields 1997–9 (tennis star) Click to show or hide the answer
George Burns's second wife (1926–64) and comedy partner Click to show or hide the answer
Married Soon–Yi Previn, adopted daughter of André Previn and Mia Farrow, 1991 Click to show or hide the answer
Mötley Cröe drummer Tommy Lee (1995–8), rock star Kid Rock (2006–7), poker player Rick Salomon (2007–08, 2014–2015) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Katie Price (Jordan) in 2005 at Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey in the TV series) – divorced in 2009 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to film director Blake Edwards, from 1969 until his death in 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Former sex worker Daisy Parker (1919–23), pianist Lil Hardin (1924–38), Alpha Smith (1938–42), singer Lucille Wilson (from 1942) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to former footballer Lee Chapman, since 1988 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Gerald Scarfe since 1981 (previously engaged to Paul McCartney, but ended the relationship in 1968 when she found him in bed with Francie Schwartz) Click to show or hide the answer
Humphrey Bogart's wife, from 1945 until his death in 1957 (his 4th and only really famous wife, and the mother of his two children); subsequently married Jason Robards (1961–9) Click to show or hide the answer
Former Bond girl, married to Ringo Starr since 1981 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to US actress Paula Stewart (1953–8), Angie Dickinson (1965–80), lyricist Carole Bayer Sager (1982–91); and to non–celebrity Jane Hansen (from 1993) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to actress Catherine Deneuve (1965–72), model Marie Helvin (1975–82) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Kim Basinger (1993–2002) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) 1999 Click to show or hide the answer
Mel Brooks's second wife (from 1964 until her death in 2005) Click to show or hide the answer
Welsh–born fashion designer: married to the pop star Sandie Shaw, 1968–78 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Penelope Cruz, 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Israeli pianist and conductor (born in Argentina): married to Jaqueline du Pré, from 1967 until her death in 1987 aged 42 (she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1973) Click to show or hide the answer
Husband of Labour cabinet minister Jennie Lee Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Tessa Wyatt (1972–7) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Australian model Miranda Kerr in 2010 (separated in 2013) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Hugh Pollock (1924–42), Darrell Waters (from 1943, until his death in 1967; she died in 1968). Pollock was the father of her two daughters Click to show or hide the answer
Married to John Cleese (1968–78): appeared in some Monty Python television episodes, and in the first two films; co–wrote and co–starred in Fawlty Towers Click to show or hide the answer
Soviet gymnast Ludmilla Tourischeva (a four–time Olympic gold medallist, 1968–76) married, in 1977 (double gold medallist in 1972) Click to show or hide the answer
Pop star who married supermodel Iman Click to show or hide the answer
Cartoonist, once married to Anna Ford Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Emma Thompson, 1989–95 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Katy Perry from October 2010 to July 2012 Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Footballer: married Frankie Sandford, of the Saturdays, in 2014 Click to show or hide the answer
Former model, married to Billy Joel 1985–94 (the Uptown Girl) Click to show or hide the answer
Comedian and satirist: married former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq in 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Whitney Houston (1992–2007 – she died 2012) Click to show or hide the answer
Poet Elizabeth Barrett married (1846) Click to show or hide the answer
Film director: married to fellow director Kathryn Bigelow (1989–91), actress Linda Hamilton (1997–9) and former actress Suzy Amis (2000 to date) Click to show or hide the answer
Johnny Cash's second wife, from 1967 until her death in 2003: country singer Click to show or hide the answer
Married to her mentor, Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, 1993–8 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Alexander George McCorquodale (1927–32) and his cousin Hugh McCorquodale (1936, until his death in 1963) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Mildred Harris, Lita Grey, Paulette Goddard, and Oona O'Neill (daughter of the US playwright Eugene O'Neill) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to co–presenter Maggie Philbin, from 1982 until 1993 Click to show or hide the answer
Petitioned for divorce from Greg Allman after 10 days in 1975 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, from 1930 until her death in 1976 Click to show or hide the answer
Fabric designer Celia Birtwell, 1969–74 (fashion designer) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the actress Talia Balsam, 1989–93; subsequently married the London–based Lebanese–British lawyer and activist Amal Ramzi Alamuddin, in 2014 (in Venice) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Cheryl Tweedie of Girls Aloud, 2006 (divorced 2010) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Kris Kristofferson, 1973–80; previously had relationships with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, and is often held responsible for the break–up of CSN&Y Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Ed Balls, since 1998 (they were the first married couple to serve together in the British cabinet) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Mexican businesswoman Laura Álvarez in 2013 (his third wife – she runs a Fair Trade coffee import business) Click to show or hide the answer
Married comedian David Mitchell in 2012 Click to show or hide the answer
Second wife (2011 to present) is actress Rachel Weisz, who won an Oscar in 2006 for The Constant Gardener Click to show or hide the answer
First wife of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Click to show or hide the answer
Married actresses Mimi Rogers (1987–90), Nicole Kidman (1990–2001), Katie Holmes (2006–12) Click to show or hide the answer
Married fellow Oscar winner Javier Bardem, 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
English jazz–pop musician (primarily piano), singer, songwriter and radio presenter: married model and author Sophie Dahl (granddaughter of Roald Dahl, Patrician Neal and Stanley Holloway) in 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Married theatre director Sophie Hunter in 2015 (on St. Valentine's Day) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Jeremy Irons from 1978 (his second wife) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the Oscar–winning US actress Patricia Neal, 1953–83 (5 children) Click to show or hide the answer
Married golfer Sam Torrance in 1988 (an actress; he proposed on Concorde on the way to play in the Ryder Cup) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Cleo Laine, from 1958 until his death in 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Former swimmer: married to sprinter Derek Redmond, 1994–2000 Click to show or hide the answer
Second wife (of three) was Sandra Dickinson, 1978–94 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to American actress, writer and director Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, since 1996. They have two sons (Ronan b. 1998 and Cashel b. 2002) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to actor Michael Williams, from 1971 until his death in 2001 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Jennifer Saunders in 1985 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Paula Abdul, 1992–4; partner of Demi Moore, 1986–7 Click to show or hide the answer
Roy Rogers's acting partner, and his third wife (from 1947 until his death in 1998) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to British tennis player John Lloyd (1979–87), US Olympic skier Andy Mill (1988–2006), Australian golfer Greg Norman (2008–9) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to David A. Stewart (of Eurythmics), 1987–96 Click to show or hide the answer
John Dunbar, the artist and co–founder of the gallery where John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met, was the first of three husbands of Click to show or hide the answer
Married Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn; also had a long–term relationship with Woody Allen (and bore his only child, Satchel – now known as Ronan Farrow) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to John Stapleton for over 40 years (both TV journalists and presenters) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to French film director Roger Vadim (1965–73), US political activist Tom Hayden (1973–90), Ted Turner, founder of CNN (1991–2001) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Nanette Newman, from 1955 until his death in 2013 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to former Miss World Wilnelia Merced (a native of Puerto Rico, 29 years his junior) from 1983 until his death in 2017 Click to show or hide the answer
Married photographer Alexandra Hedison, 2014 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Peter Sellers (from 1977, until his death in 1980) and David Frost (1981–2) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Lynn Frederick (1981–2) and Lady Carina Howard (from 1983, until his death in 2013) Click to show or hide the answer
Actress who married Gary Kemp (1988–95) and Jude Law (1997–2003) Click to show or hide the answer
Married "comedian" Elliott Spencer, Jan 2015 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Mickey Rooney (1942–3), Frank Sinatra (1945–6) and Artie Shaw (1951–7) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Anna Gordy (elder sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy), 1961–76 Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Cindy Crawford, 1991–5 Click to show or hide the answer
Joan Collins's 5th husband (2002) Click to show or hide the answer
Mike Tyson's wife (1988–9) Click to show or hide the answer
British rower – ranked No. 1 in the world, and an Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016: married naturalist, explorer and broadcaster Steve Backshall in 2016 Click to show or hide the answer
Married (and divorced) Alvin Stardust Click to show or hide the answer
Cabinet minister and former Times columnist: married fellow Times columnist Sarah Vine (known in Private Eye as Sarah Vain), who later switched to the Daily Mail, in 2001 Click to show or hide the answer
Michael Denison's wife (from 1939) and widow Click to show or hide the answer
Brian Rix's wife, and co–star in the Whitehall farces Click to show or hide the answer
Married fellow athlete Jonathan (John) Bigg (1993?) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Christian Horner, Warwickshire–born Team Principal of the Red Bull Formula One team, in 2015 – their first child, a son, was born in January 2017 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to John Thaw, from 1973 until his death in 2002 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to actress, singer and film producer Rita Wilson since 1988; they first met in 1981, when she appeared in an episode of the television sitcom Bosom Buddies, in which he starred, and starred together in Volunteers (1985) Click to show or hide the answer
Second husband (of five) was Orson Welles (1943–7) Click to show or hide the answer
Johnny Depp's second wife (2015–17): an actress, whom he met while filming The Rum Diary, released in 2011Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Dawn French, 1984–2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Kingsley Amis's second wife (and stepmother to Martin Amis): novelist Click to show or hide the answer
Actress wife of John Profumo (died in 1998) Click to show or hide the answer
Married (Noelene Edwards) in 1958, aged 19; divorced in 1981, remarried in 1982, divorced in 1986; later married Linda Kozlowski, co–star of his film blockbuster (1990–2014); has five children with Noelene and one with Linda Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Les Dennis, 1995–2003 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Maria Ellen Santiago on 15 August 1958 aged 21 (after proposing on their first date); died on 3 February 1959 (less than 6 months later) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the singer Bobby Brown, 1992–2007 (she died in 2012 aged 48) Click to show or hide the answer
Charles Bronson's actress wife Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Lisa–Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis), 1994–6. His second wife (1996–9), and the mother of his first two children, was Deborah Jeanne (Debbie) Rowe, his dermatologist's nurse Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
John le Mesurier's second wife (1949–65) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Bianca Perez Morena de Macias (1971–8), Jerry Hall (1990–9) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Married to James Bolam, with whom she co–starred in When the Boat Comes In (BBC1, 1976–81) Click to show or hide the answer
Married American artist and film director Andre Levitas at Hampton Court in 2014 (Welsh lyric mezzo –soprano; previously engaged to TV presenter Gethin Jones) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to German recording engineer Renate Blauel, 1984–8 (after the divorce he announced that he was not bisexual but gay). Formed a civil partnership with David Furnish on 21 December 2005 – the day after civil partnerships became legal in the UK – and married him on the ninth anniversary of the partnership (21 December 2014) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the Scottish aviation pioneer Jim Mollison, from 1932 to 1938 Click to show or hide the answer
Second wife (1993–2020) was Marina Wheeler QC; they have 6 children Click to show or hide the answer
Actress, married Peter Fleming – adventurer, travel writer, and brother of Ian Click to show or hide the answer
Married Melanie Griffith in 1976, when he was 26 and she was 18 (having lived together for 3 years); he had starred in The Harrad Experience (1973) with her mother Tippi Hedren; divorced less than a year later; this was his third marriage. They remarried in 1989 and divorced in 1996; their daughter Dakota was born in 1989. Also had a relationship with Patti D'Arbanville (1981–5). He married socialite and nursery teacher Kelley Phleger in 1999; they are still married (in 2022) and have three children Click to show or hide the answer
Married to actors Jonny Lee Miller (1996–9), Billy Bob Thornton (2000–3), Brad Pitt (2014–19) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Nora Barnacle for the last ten years of his life (1931–41); they had their first "romantic assignation" on 16 June 1904, and their sexually explicit letters have aroused much curiosity, fetching high prices at auction Click to show or hide the answer
Married fellow TV presenter Tess Daly in 2003 – the year before she joined Bruce Forsyth as one of the original presenters of Strictly Come Dancing Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Prince Rainier II of Monaco, from 1956 until her death in 1982 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Rebekah Wade, 2002–9 (she was Editor of The Sun, 2003–9) Click to show or hide the answer
Actress wife of Sir Michael Redgrave, and mother of his three children (Vanessa, Lynn and Corin) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Moira Shearer, from 1950 until her death in 2006 (he died in 2009) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Dan Donovan (1988), Jim Kerr (1992), Liam Gallagher (1997) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Chrissie Hynde (1984) and Patsy Kensit (1992) Click to show or hide the answer
Married the famous Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Jemima Goldsmith (daughter of Sir James), 1995–2004 Click to show or hide the answer
Tom Cruise's second wife (1990 – 2001); married New–Zealand–born country singer and guitarist Keith Urban in 2006 Click to show or hide the answer
Irish comedian, married television presenter Cat Deeley in 2012 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Elvis Costello 2003 (Canadian jazz singer and pianist) Click to show or hide the answer
Real–estate developer who married Ivanka Trump in 2009, and became senior advisor to his father–in–law; admitted meeting Russians during and after the 2016 presidential election campaign, but denied any impropriety Click to show or hide the answer
Footballer, married television presenter Christine Bleakley in 2015 Click to show or hide the answer
Loose Women anchor: also co–presents Good Morning on Fridays with Eamonn Holmes (since 2000), and married him in 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Husband of actress Elsa Lanchester Click to show or hide the answer
Actor who married Sadie Frost and also had a child with Sienna Miller Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Eric Thompson from 1957 until his death from a heart attack in 1982, aged 53 (and mother of Emma Thompson) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Charles Saatchi in 2003, after the death of her first husband (journalist John Diamond) from throat cancer in 2001; they divorced in 2013 after pictures were published of him holding her by the throat at a table outside a London restaurant, in what he described as a "playful tiff" but which resulted in him being cautioned for assault and her leaving home Click to show or hide the answer
Princess Anne's second husband (1992) Click to show or hide the answer
Pamela Anderson (1995–8) Click to show or hide the answer
First and most famous of Tony Curtis's six wives (1951–62); he was the second and most famous of her three husbands, and they were the parents of Jamie Lee Curtis Click to show or hide the answer
Married Cynthia Powell on 23 August 1962 (divorced in 1968) Click to show or hide the answer
Austrian actress and singer (1898–1981): married composer Kurt Weill in 1926, divorced in 1933; remarried in 1937, he died in 1950; married US actor George Davis in 1951, he died in 1957; married (obscure) artist Russell Detwiler in 1962, he died in 1969 aged 44 (she was 71) Click to show or hide the answer
Olympic gold medallist: married Steve Finan O'Connor (son of comedian Tom O'Connor, manager of former One Direction member Liam Payne, and former manager of the pop group All Saints) in 2006 Click to show or hide the answer
American singer: married his 13–year–old first cousin once removed, in 1957, when he was 22 and had already been married twice Click to show or hide the answer
Married to playwright Jack Rosenthal, from 1974 until his death in 2004 Click to show or hide the answer
Mildred Davies: wife and co–star (in Safety Last, 1923) of Click to show or hide the answer
Married Clark Gable in March 1939 – died in a plane crash in January 1942 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Kurt Cobain, from 1992 until his suicide in 1994 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Sean Penn (1985–9), Guy Ritchie (2000–8) Click to show or hide the answer
Graca Machel, the widow of former Mozambican president Samora Machel, was the third wife of Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the actor and producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2013 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Gwyneth Paltrow from 2003 to 2016 Click to show or hide the answer
French–born actor: married Halle Berry in 2013 (previously dated Kylie Minogue) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Anita Dobson, 2000 Click to show or hide the answer
Jill Ireland's first husband Click to show or hide the answer
Married Linda Eastman in 1969 (she died in 1988), Heather Mills in 2002 (divorced in 2008), Nancy Shevell in 2011 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Susan George, from 1984 until his death in 2010 (actor – Falcon Crest, Casualty, etc.) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the actress Tatum O'Neal, 1988–94 (tennis star) Click to show or hide the answer
Mrs. Paul Daniels Click to show or hide the answer
Singer: married former World Superbike Champion James Toseland, in 2012 Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Married to the actor Hywel Bennett, 1970–88; 'in a relationship' with singer Michael Ball, from 1992 (TV presenter, prominent in the 1960s) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Second husband (since 1998) is quantum chemist and university professor Joachim Sauer Click to show or hide the answer
Married the comedian Sarah Parkinson, three months before her death from cancer in 2003 (she was his second wife; they were 'unofficially' married in the Maldives in 2000) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Justine Thornton QC, a former child actress, in 2011 Click to show or hide the answer
Tessa Jowell's second husband (from 1979) – international corporate lawyer, acted for Silvio Berlusconi and investigated in Italy for money laundering and tax fraud Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Mary Hayley Bell (actress and writer) from 1941 until his death in 2005 aged 97 – she died 8 months later, aged 94 Click to show or hide the answer
Fourth husband was David Gest (2002–7) Click to show or hide the answer
Jim Dougherty (1942, when she was aged 16 yrs 18 days; they divorced in 1946) Click to show or hide the answer
Baseball player Joe di Maggio (1954; she filed for divorce in October 1954)
Playwright Arthur Miller (1956; they divorced in Mexico in 1961) Click for more information
Wife of Jonathan Dimbleby: writer Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Bruce Willis 1987–2000, Ashton Kutcher 2005–15 Click to show or hide the answer
First two marriages (of four) were to actresses Suzy Kendall (1968–72) and Tuesday Weld (1975–80) Click to show or hide the answer
British actress: married (since 2012) to singer, songwriter and group leader Marcus Mumford Click to show or hide the answer
Wendi Deng (1999–2013) was the third wife, and Jerry Hall (2016–) the fourth, of Click to show or hide the answer
Married Julia Lemigova in New York in 2014 (former tennis star) Click to show or hide the answer
Joan Collins's second husband (1963–70 – English actor, singer and songwriter) Click to show or hide the answer
'The Great Dane' – married to Sylvester Stallone, 1985–7 Click to show or hide the answer
Barbara Hepworth's second husband Click to show or hide the answer
Diplomat, diarist etc., married to the writer Vita Sackville–West Click to show or hide the answer
Married to actresses Jill Esmond (1930–40), Vivien Leigh (1940–60), and Joan Plowright from 1961 until his death in 1989 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to John McEnroe, 1986–92 Click to show or hide the answer
British portrait photographer, active in the 1960s, who had a long–term relationship with Faye Dunaway; they were married from 1983 to 1987, and had a son, born in 1980, who he later claimed was adopted (which she denied); he died in 2019, aged 81 Click to show or hide the answer
Madonna's first husband (US actor – 1985–9) Click to show or hide the answer
Played Carla in Cheers; married Danny de Vito Click to show or hide the answer
American equestrian Sandy Pflueger is the second wife of (they married in 1997 and separated in 2012) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Olga Khokhlova (from 1918 until her death in 1955) and Jacqueline Roque (from 1961 until his death in 1973) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Jessica Taylor, formerly of the pop group Liberty X (formed by the five losing finalists from Popstars, 2001; split May 2007), Dec 2007 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to actress Vivien Merchant (1956–80) and writer Antonia Fraser (from 1980 until his death in 2008) Click to show or hide the answer
Pop singer and actress: married to Chris Evans 2001–7, married actor Laurence Fox (DS James Hathaway in Lewis) in 2007 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Jennifer Aniston 2000–5, and Angelina Jolie from 2014 Click to show or hide the answer
Poet: first wife of Ted Hughes, but committed suicide Click to show or hide the answer
Film producer, married to Sophia Loren from 1966 until his death in 2007 Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Scottish TV presenter: married to Dan Hipgrove, the guitarist in Toploader, from 2001 to 2004 Click to show or hide the answer
Actor – married Barbara 'Babs' Lord, out of Pan's People, in 1975 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Michael Jackson 1994–6, and Nicolas Cage 2002–4 (the second and third of her four husbands); she died in 2023 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Peter Andre (2005–9), martial artist/kickboxer Alex Reid (2010–11), builder Kieran Hayler (2013) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Australian actress Coral Browne, from 1974 until her death in 1991 (he died in 1993) Click to show or hide the answer
Married That's Life presenter Paul Heiney in 1980 Click to show or hide the answer
Paul Merton's first wife (1990–8) Click to show or hide the answer
Jean Michel Jarre's wife Click to show or hide the answer
Married to TV producer Desmond Wilcox, from 1977 until his death in 2000 Click to show or hide the answer
Bruce Forsyth's assistant on The Generation Game, and the second of his three wives (1973–9) – they started an affair during his first marriage, and he'd already divorced his first wife when the series started Click to show or hide the answer
English actress: married to the Italian actor Franco Nero, since 2006 (they also had a son together in 1969) Click to show or hide the answer
Laurie Anderson, who had a UK No. 2 hit in 1981 with O Superman, was the third wife (from 2008 until his death in 2013) of Click to show or hide the answer
Married model / lap dancer Nancy Sorrell, 2003 Click to show or hide the answer
Married her 4th husband, painter and decorator John Burns – her partner of 12 years, and 20 years her junior – 4 months before her death from cancer, aged 65, in February 2009 Click to show or hide the answer
Two members of Great Britain's women's hockey team, who married in 2013: in 2016 they became the first same–sex married couple to win Olympic gold as part of the same team, and the first British married couple to do so since 1920 Click to show or hide the answer
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English film director: married Madonna at Skibo Castle, near Dornoch, Sutherland, 2000 (divorced 2008) Click to show or hide the answer
Mexican painter, married to Frida Kahlo (another Mexican painter) from 1929 to 1939 and from 1940 until her death in 1954 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to country singer Lyle Lovett, 1993–5 Click to show or hide the answer
Actress who married Alan Dobie and Rex Harrison Click to show or hide the answer
Married eight times; first wife was Ava Gardner (1942–3 – before she was famous); his fifth wife was murdered along with her lover, a Serbian–born actor, stunt double and bodyguard (or he shot her and then himself) in 1966; his eighth marriage (1978) lasted longer than all the others put together, but they separated in 2012 and legally separated in 2014; he died in April 2014, aged 93 Click to show or hide the answer
Singer in Guns 'n' Roses: married to Erin, the daughter of Don Everly, from April 1990 to January 1991 – he wrote Sweet Child o' Mine for her Click to show or hide the answer
Married screenwriter Jane Goldman in 1988; her works include The Woman in Black (2012); they have three children Click to show or hide the answer
Conservative politician – Energy Secretary under Cameron, Home Secretary under May: married to the journalist and critic A. A. Gill, 1990–5 Click to show or hide the answer
Wife of Leonard Cheshire VC Click to show or hide the answer
Married to singer Jack Jones (1967–9) and Robert Wagner (from 1990) Click to show or hide the answer
US poker player and "celebutant": famous for marriages to actresses Elizabeth Daily (1995–2000), Shannon Doherty (2002–3) and Pamela Anderson (2007–08; 2014–2015) Click to show or hide the answer
Married model and singer Carla Bruni, Jan 2008 (French president) Click to show or hide the answer
Clara Wieck: concert pianist, wife of Click to show or hide the answer
Married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of the late President John F. Kennedy (daughter of his sister Eunice), in 1986 – separated 2011 after he admitted fathering a child 14 years earlier with a long–serving member of their household staff Click to show or hide the answer
British soul singer: married to German model Heidi Klum, 2005–14 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Anne Howe, Britt Ekland, Miranda Quarry and Lynn Frederick Click to show or hide the answer
Bandleader who married Lana Turner and Ava Gardner Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Peggy Harper (the ex–wife of his former manager – 1969–75), Carrie Fisher (1983–4) and Edie Brickell (since 1992) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to (i) his childhood sweetheart Nancy Barbato, 1939–51; (ii) Ava Gardner, 1951–7; (iii) Mia Farrow, 1966–68; (iv) Barbara Marx (née Blakeley), the former wife of Zeppo Marx, from 1976 until his death in 1998 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Rolling Stone Bill Wyman in 1989, when she was 19 and he was 46 (they had started dating in 1983); divorced in 1991 Click to show or hide the answer
Sarah Greene married Click to show or hide the answer
Married to childhood friend Jason Alexander for 55 hours, in 2004; married to Kevin Federline 2004–7; he is the father of her (first) two children Click to show or hide the answer
Welsh singer, married to Roger Moore 1953–61 (when they married, he was 26 and she was 38) Click to show or hide the answer
Second and third wives were Brigitte Nielsen (1985–7) and Jennifer Flavin (from 1997) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Nicholas Ball (star of the TV series Hazell – ITV, 1978–9) and Billy Connolly (1992–) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Alana Hamilton (ex–wife of US actor George Hamilton – Love at First Bite, Zorro the Gay Blade – 1979–84), Rachel Hunter (New–Zealand–born actress and model – 1990–2006), Penny Lancaster (English model – 2007–). Also had relationships with Britt Ekland (1975–7) and Kelly Emberg (1983–90), and has eight children by five different mothers: one with a fellow–student when he was 18, two with each wife, and one with Emberg Click to show or hide the answer
Married actress Trudie Styler in 1992 Click to show or hide the answer
Married actor James Brolin in 1998; previously (1963–71) married to Elliott Gould Click to show or hide the answer
Married to fellow singer–songwriter Carly Simon, from 1972 to 1983 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Margaret Kempson in 1942 and Margaret Roberts in 1951 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Diane Burgdorf, 1987–2005, and Sarah–Jane Russell (née Clemence – sister–in–law of Lord Rothermere) since 2008 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Kenneth Branagh 1989–95, Greg Wise 2003– Click to show or hide the answer
US actress, married British actor Gary Oldman (1990–2) and US actor Ethan Hawke (1998–2004) Click to show or hide the answer
Married American actress Jessica Biel, 2012 Click to show or hide the answer
England rugby footballer, married Zara Phillips July 011 Click to show or hide the answer
Married since 1991 to actress and former model Kelly Preston (Mischief 1985, Twins 1988, Jerry Maguire 1996) Click to show or hide the answer
Married to former Radio 1 DJ (and Top of the Pops presenter) Peter Powell (1990–8), and to Grant Bovey (2000–15) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Girls Aloud member, married England footballer Ashley Cole in 2006; second husband (July 2014) is French restaurateur and nightclub owner Jean–Bernard Fernandez–Versini Click to show or hide the answer
French film director: first husband of both Brigitte Bardot (1952–7) and Jane Fonda (1965–73) – also Catherine Deneuve had a son by him in 1963 Click to show or hide the answer
Mandy Smith's second husband, after Bill Wyman (Everton footballer) Click to show or hide the answer
Celebrity chef, married to Fern Britton (same name as an England rugby player who, bizarrely, won Celebrity Masterchef in 2011!) Click to show or hide the answer
Natalie Wood's husband, 1957–62 and from 1972 until her death in 1981; married former Bond girl Jill St. John, 1990 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Dutch model Lara Stone, 2010 Click to show or hide the answer
Actress – played Doctor Who's assistant Romana, 1979–81: married to Tom Baker 1980–2, and Richard Dawkins from 1992 (separated in 2016) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Married four times; his second wife (1977–87), and the mother of his two daughters (including EastEnders actress Hannah Waterman), was actress Patricia Maynard; his third wife (1987–98) was actress Rula Lenska Click to show or hide the answer
Married Daniel Craig, 2011 Click to show or hide the answer
Married (1985–1988) to actor David Easter (Brookside, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks) and (1988–2002) to Tim Healy (Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Benidorm, etc.) Click to show or hide the answer
American actress: married to Dudley Moore (1975–80) and to Israeli violinist Pinchas Zuckerman (1985–98) Click to show or hide the answer
Second wife (of three) was Rita Hayworth (1943–7) Click to show or hide the answer
US rapper: married Kim Kardashian in 2014 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Prunella Scales since 1963 Click to show or hide the answer
Pop singer (greatest success in the early to mid–eighties), married to Robert Fripp (best known as the guitarist and leader of the progressive rock group King Crimson) since 1986 Click to show or hide the answer
Married the American actress Ayda Field in 2010 (after they'd been in a relationship since 2006) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Alexis Ohanian, co–founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit, in 2017 Click to show or hide the answer
Married former video production assistant Blake Fielder–Civil in 2007 (they divorced in 2009; she died in 2011, aged 27) Click to show or hide the answer
Married (i) assistant film director Jim Threapleton, 1998; (ii) (2003–11) film director Sam Mendes; (iii) (2012 to present) Ned Rocknroll (real surname Smith), a nephew of Richard Branson who works for Virgin Galactic – they met in 2011 on Branson's Necker Island Click to show or hide the answer
Twice married to Robert Wagner: 1957–62, and from 1972 until her mysterious death in 1981 Click to show or hide the answer
Married Geoffrey Durham (The Great Soprendo) in 1980; they separated in 2002 and divorced in 2005 (she died in 2016) Click to show or hide the answer
Married Swedish former model Elin Nordegren in 2004 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to actress Venetia Barrett (1952–86), and to Michele Dotrice (a rather more famous actress) from 1987 until his death in 2009 Click to show or hide the answer
Married to Paul Newman, from 1958 until his death in 2008 (co–starred with him in Harry & Son, 1984) Click to show or hide the answer
Footballer who married Joy of the Beverley Sisters Click to show or hide the answer
First wife of Ronald Reagan Click to show or hide the answer
Married Scottish rugby union international Kenny Logan, 2001 Click to show or hide the answer
Canadian–born singer and songwriter: married actress Darryl Hannah in 2018 (his third wife) Click to show or hide the answer

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