12 People Who Didn’t Know They Were Dating Someone Famous
If you ever meet a guy with a long, horrible beard and a “rasta hat,” turn the other way and run. Best-case scenario, that’s Matthew McConaughey.
Michael Cera’s Wife
Listed on Wikipedia as simply “Nadine,” the two met at a bar in Paris while Cera was promoting Arrested Development. She thought he was some random Swedish guy before he started speaking English.
Lily Allen
She had no idea who David Harbour was when they matched on Raya. She also had no idea how TV works: “He was wearing a policeman’s uniform. It was a still from Stranger Things. I’d never seen Stranger Things. I thought he was just like a sexy policeman from a reality TV show.”
Jonathan Owens
The NFL player you’ve never heard of met world-famous gymnast Simone Biles on Raya. When asked how he managed to catch her eye, he replied, “I always say that the men are the catch. I honestly didn’t know who she was.”
Camila Alves
She found herself flirting with some guy who “had a really long beard, and he had this rasta hat,” and who was hanging out with Lance Armstrong. That walking red flag turned out to be her future husband, Matthew McConaughey.
Olivia Munn
When she met Aaron Rodgers, she thought that A) he was in college; B) he was big for his age; and C) that she simply had to date him: “When I met him, I said, ‘So what do you do?’ And he said, ‘Oh, I play football.’ And I go, ‘Cool. What college?’ He's like, ‘Oh, no. I play professional’… All I saw was that he was, like, really attractive. I didn’t really care what he did. I was like, ‘You are such a big man.’”
Shailene Woodley
Rodgers’ ex-fiance also had no clue who this dreamboat dork was when she met him: “I don’t know him as a football guy. I know him as, like, the nerd who wants to host Jeopardy! He just happens to also be very good at sports.”
Peter Sarsgaard
He didn’t think to ask Maggie Gyllenhaal what she did for work for half a year: “I met Maggie at a dinner, and I didn’t even know she was an actress. I knew nothing about her, but it was instant. Then Secretary came out maybe six months later, and I was like, ‘Oh, whoa. Okay.’”
Tom Pelphrey
He’d never watched The Big Bang Theory, despite dating star Kaley Cuoco, because he “was living in Upstate New York, on a dirt road, in the middle of the woods, without much Wi-Fi.” When he introduced her to his family, his mom’s boyfriend kept calling her “Penny,” which is how he found out she starred in one of the most popular sitcoms of all time.
Luis Felber
Before going on a date with future wife Lena Dunham, the musician had to Google her (which, depending on the year, says a lot about what he’s willing to tolerate in a spouse). After the Googling, “I went on her Instagram, and I saw her dancing to a song called ‘Red Hot Pussy’ in her garden in L.A. Lena puts herself out there in a really special way. That was all I had to go on at the time.”
Alejandra Gere
Richard Gere says that his future wife thought she was falling for an entirely different A-lister: “She had no idea who I was when we met. None. She didn’t see movies, which was great. She thought I was George Clooney.”
Danielle Jonas
She’d never heard of the Jonas Brothers when Joe hit on her during a Bahamas vacation in 2007. She’d go on to marry Kevin.
Mrs. Fonzie
Publicist Stacey Weitzman had no clue she was getting hit on by The Fonz. Henry Winkler said, “She wanted to go to the movies. And I told her that might be difficult. She wanted to know why. I said, ‘I don’t know how to describe it to you.’ When we got to the theater, I told her we should sit in the back. She didn’t understand, so we sat in the middle of the theater. And the entire theater came over and said hello.”