The young couple, powerhouses in their own right, took great pains to keep their relationship out of the spotlight until the beauteous extravaganza that was their wedding in early 2023.
A highlight of the early aughts’ rumour mills was Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi’s alleged romance, fraught with numerous challenges, not the least of it being that one of them was married at the time.
The cricketer-filmmaker power duo, whose pastel-coded wedding in 2017 has become the template for all other high-profile weddings since, has grown into a beautiful epitome of togetherness.
These two were the literal blueprint for the generations of actor-sportsman pairs that would come after them, despite the fact that they were only married for a year (although they did remain good friends until Monroe’s death in 1962).
This pair is still going strong, as far as we know, with four kids and endless endorsement deals between them, but when they first started dating in 1997, their Posh and Becks–dubbed chemistry captivated the UK (if not the whole world.)
God, remember the Mandy-Andy fever of the early aughts? The pop star and actor and tennis legend seemed made for each other, though I guess they, uh, weren’t, since they broke up in 2004 (although they’re still pals, which I love).