Joe Alwyn made headlines this week after saying he wanted to keep details of his relationship with ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift private. Types of kindness “As you all know, we have mutually decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private,” the actor said, adding, “There will always be a gap between what is known and what is said.”
Joe Alwyn famously tried to keep his six-and-a-half-year relationship with the global superstar out of the public eye, but it seems as though the public knows more about their relationship now that it's over than they did while they were together.
Here are 10 other celebrity couples you might not even realize are together because they keep their relationships very private.
Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter
Imelda Staunton starred as Queen Elizabeth crownand Jim Carter as Mr. Carson. Downton AbbeyThe couple have been together for over 40 years. They met in 1982 when they starred in a National Theatre production. Guys and DollsThey married a year later.
Their daughter, Bessie, was born in 1993. Netflix viewers may not be aware that she stars in Bridgerton Prudence Featherington.
The pair appeared together in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1987 production of The Wizard of Oz1998 period drama Shakespeare in Lovea 2007 BBC series Cranford 2010 film version Alice in WonderlandStaunton appeared alongside her husband in Downton Abbey and its sequels. Downton Abbey: A New Era, Lady Maud Bagshaw. They will reprise the roles in the upcoming final film.
Stanton recently revealed that she and her husband have always put their relationship first, and she turns down roles that would keep them apart for long periods of time.
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody
Leighton Meester is gossip girl, Adam Brody, known for his role as Seth Cohen in the teen drama OcThey had a private wedding ceremony in 2014. Brody Pod Crash During a 2023 podcast, he said he first met Meester when he went to a deli called Cantor's in Los Angeles with Josh Schwartz, who served as a producer on both shows. gossip girl and OcThe actor said he was “instantly smitten.” The couple have a nine-year-old daughter named Arlo and a four-year-old son, whose name has not been revealed.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Martin McDonagh
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has had a lot more luck in love than Fleabag. She's been dating Martin McDonagh since 2017. McDonagh is a director and screenwriter who directed the 2017 Oscar-winning crime comedy The Revenge. Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Waller-Bridge first spoke about her relationship last year, Vanity Fair She feels that the relationship has helped her writing: “It really helps to be around someone you consider a genius. It makes you better,” she says. Rumors of the couple's engagement circulated in September after Waller-Bridge attended her brother's wedding wearing a diamond ring.
Emmy Rossum and Sam Esmail
With the director Mr. Robot Creator Sam Esmail directed American comedy star Emily Rossum. Shamelessfilm debut Comet. The couple got engaged in 2015 and married in New York two years later. They co-starred again in a 2022 drama miniseries. Angeline. The couple announced on Instagram that they were expecting a daughter in 2021 and a son in 2023.
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost
Johansson first met Saturday Night Live He rose to stardom when she was hosting in 2010 and he wrote sketches for her.
The couple worked together again and again for several years, with Johansson SNL She kissed Ryan Reynolds eight more times during his marriage to French businessman Romain Dauriac. SNL The afterparty came one month after she filed for divorce from Dauriac.
The couple had an intimate wedding at their New York home during the 2020 lockdown and welcomed their son, Cosmo, in 2021.
The pair have kept the details of their relationship private — Johansson has no social media presence and rarely appears on Jost's Instagram page — but they do occasionally post jokes about their relationship. SNL skit.
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
Parks and Recreation Fans will know Will & Grace Megan Mullally plays Tammy Swanson, the vengeful ex-wife of Nick Offerman's Ron Swanson. Over the show's six seasons, Tammy tried to ruin Ron's life with library books, eye pokes, and peanuts. But fans may not know that the couple is married in real life.
The pair met in 2000 while rehearsing for a play. Berlin Circle Offerman performed in the play at the Evidence Room Theatre Company in Los Angeles, and three years later, they suddenly married at their Los Angeles home on the eve of the 2003 Emmy Awards. The couple made cameos in each other's projects, with Offerman appearing in two episodes. Will & Grace Also, Children's Hospital.
Offerman said, BuzzFeed He said he always learns a lot from working with them, and that working with them makes him feel “like Luke Skywalker standing next to Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber battle.”
Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton
Dyer and Heaton first met at an audition. Stranger Things 2015. An off-screen romance also flared when the two characters, Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers, fell in love. The pair initially tried to keep their relationship secret and didn't acknowledge they were dating until they attended the 2017 Fashion Awards together.
Dyer and Heaton are very private about their relationship, and rumors circulated in 2018 that they had broken up after they hadn't been photographed together for a long time. However, the pair were spotted trying to hail a cab in New York City in December 2023. Dyer and Heaton are currently co-starring in the fifth and final season of the show. Stranger Things.
Kit Harington and Rose Leslie
Kit Harington and Rose Leslie's romance had a much happier ending than their characters' relationship. game of thronesThe couple met when Harington was starring as Jon Snow and Leslie was cast as his wildling lover Ygritte, and they had a small traditional wedding at Rayne Church in Aberdeenshire in June 2018. game of thrones Co-stars Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner and Peter Dinklage attended the reception, which took place at Leslie's family's 900-year-old castle.
Their son was born in 2021 and their daughter in 2023. The couple are keeping the children's names secret. Harrington said: Parents“I don't think it's right to talk about relationships in the press. I believe it's just between her and me, and whatever I say here, she might not want it, so I don't say anything. I really think it's our private life.”
Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender
Vikander met the X-Men star on the dance floor at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, and their romance blossomed when they played a married couple in the 2016 period drama. Light Between the SeasTheir relationship became public when they attended the Golden Globe Awards together that year.
They got married in 2017 at the age of 19.NumberVikander lives in a century-old farmhouse in Ibiza. The couple spent the 2020 lockdown together in the French countryside, and their son was born in 2021. In 2022, Vikander said having her baby had changed her life “in every way.”
Neither of them have social media pages. tomb raider Horoscope Harper's Bazaar She gave up sharing her life on Instagram after just a month because “personally, I just wasn't finding any joy in it,” she said.
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale
Actor Bobby Cannavale (Blue JasminePrime Video Series Homecoming) is believed to have met Rose Bryne through a mutual friend while both were appearing on the US TV show. Compensation for damages They started dating in 2012. The two have kept details of their relationship secret. Bridesmaids The actor acknowledges Vanity Fair “We're generally pretty private,” he said in 2019.
The two have worked together on numerous projects together, including the 2014 film adaptation. Annie,comedy Adult Beginner (2014) and spy (2015), Theatre Medea (2020), Romantic Comedy Seriously Red (2022) and comedy-drama Ezra (2023).
The two have two sons together: Rocco Robin, born in February 2016, and Raphael, born in 2017. In 2020, Cannavale shared a rare photo of his kids dressed up as Buzz Lightyear and Woody. Toy Story.