19 years of dating or 6,992 days together: The longest celebrity engagements
Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh has just married Jean Todt after a nearly two-decade engagement. And she is not the only star to have waited before tying the knot
Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt - 6,992 days together. That's the figure published by the couple themselves to announce that, after 19 years together, they were finally walking down the aisle. Yeoh, 60, who won an Oscar for her performance in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and Todt, 77, the former head of the Ferrari team, tied the knot in Geneva. Although Todt proposed to Yeoh only two months after they met, it was only this summer that they decided to get married. Marc Piasecki (FilmMagic)Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez - The Portuguese soccer player proposed to the then unknown Rodríguez back in November 2018. Five years and thousands of headlines later, Rodriguez says she still wants to marry Ronaldo. "It's not up to me, but hopefully," she said in her Netflix docuseries ‘I Am Georgina.’Raúl Caro Cadenas (EFE)Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth - The two stars were one of the most talked-about young couples in Hollywood. After meeting on the set of the movie ‘The Last Song,’ Cyrus, who was then only 19 years old, announced that they were engaged. Six years later, in 2018, they secretly married in Nashville and less than a year later, they divorced. The singer claimed that the marriage had been a "disaster." CORDONPRESS
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom - A helicopter. That’s where the ‘Lord of the Rings’ star proposed to the singer in 2019. Although they had planned to get married in Japan a year later, the wedding was pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic. Today, they are still waiting for the right time to tie the knot. GtresOnlineShakira and Antonio de la Rúa - The Colombian pop star and the son of the former president of Argentina were engaged for 10 years. But the couple broke off their engagement in 2010, when Shakira met Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué at the World Cup in South Africa. She and Piqué were together for 12 years, but never got married. Last year, they announced they were separating.
GettyOprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham - The legendary TV host and self-help expert announced they were engaged in 1992, but have never tied the knot. Oprah later admitted that if they had married, they would not still be together. “I didn’t want the sacrifices, the compromises, the day-in-day-out commitment required to make a marriage work. My life with the show was my priority, and we both knew it,” she wrote in an essay.Cordon
Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis - Another wedding that never came to be. The actress and ‘Ted Lasso’ star met in 2011 and dated for two years before announcing their engagement. The couple had two children, Otis and Daisy, but did not get married. They called off their engagement in 2020.
Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo - In 2008, the couple announced they were engaged, but did not walk down the aisle for another seven years. Adams met Le Gallo at an acting class in the early 2000s, and they have a daughter named Aviana.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin (FilmMagic)Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid - The actress known for bringing Monica Geller to life in 'Friends' and the Snow Patrol musician have been together for a decade. After getting engaged in 2014, they broke up a few months later. But the separation did not last long, and in 2016 they got back together. But according to Cox, they have no plans to get married.
JMEnternational (Getty Images)Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher - After meeting at a party in Sydney in 2001, the acting couple announced their engagement in 2004. The actress converted to Judaism for Cohen, and after a six-year engagement, they married in a secret wedding in Paris. With three children together, they are one of the most long-lasting couples in Hollywood.
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