17 Celebrity Couples Who Fell in Love at First Sight (and Are Still Going Strong!) (2025)

21 Celeb Couples Who Broke Up and Reunited — and Whether They're Still Together

Nick Jonas & Priyanka Copra Jonas

When Nick Jonas met actress Priyanka Chopra — whom he married in two wedding ceremonies in 2018 — he caught the "Lovebug" on the spot.

"It was kind of an instant thing," the singer told Entertainment Tonight in January 2019. "I knew once we locked in together that I had a partner for life and a teammate, someone I could walk through the good times and the bad times with, and that was the key."

Their first in-person meeting at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty played out like a rom-com. As Jonas later told Vogue in 2018, he dropped to one knee in front of everyone and declared, "You're real. Where have you been all my life?"

"It was such a Prince Charming moment," Chopra recalled of this moment on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show in May 2023. "It was like time stopped. And also he was so hot and I didn't know him. ... It was really like a meet-cute from a movie. He just held my hand and I turned around and he was in a suit and he goes down on his knees and I think time stopped."

Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick

Ferris Bueller's Day Off star Matthew Broderick and Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker have been together since 1991 and married in 1997 — spending more than 30 years as a couple.

During a 2022 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Broderick reminisced about the moment he knew Parker was "the one."

"Oh, the first time I met her," he said. "I saw her walking down the street and thought, 'That's it.' "

Rebecca Romijn & Jerry O'Connell

According to Jerry O'Connell, the connection between him and his future wife was instant when he first laid eyes on her: "When I met Rebecca — I know you hear 'love at first sight' — I just enjoyed her energy so much, immediately," he said on the CBS reality series The Real Love Boat.

Romijn chimed in: "We both decided we wanted to be with each other more than anybody else in the whole world. It was pretty cut and dried."

Kaley Cuoco & Tom Pelphrey

"When I met Tom, it was absolutely love at first sight," Cuoco told Extra in September 2022 at the premiere of her movie Meet Cute.

"My manager actually took me as her guest to the Ozark premiere, and I met him there," Cuoco recalled of her first real-life meet-cute with the actor. "It was like the angels started singing. I was like, 'Hallelujah!' It was very magical … it was perfect."

Idris Elba & Sabrina Dhowre

"I have been married before and I famously said I wouldn't get married again. But I met someone that opened me up," Idris Elba said of his wife on The View.

"It was love at first sight," Elba added. "I went out on my only day off, true story, it was a Sunday night, I went to this party and there she was. The rest is history."

As for what makes Dhowre "the one," Elba told PEOPLE in 2018 that they have "good chemistry."

"She makes me laugh, and we share common goals. She makes me happy," he said. "She makes me celebrate my successes and when I'm not too sure about stuff, she makes me think."

Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones

Michael Douglas knew from the moment he laid eyes on Catherine Zeta-Jones that she was the one, and had an interesting way of breaking the news to her.

"I looked at her, and I said, 'Catherine, I'm going to be the father of your children,' " Douglas said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "The first time I met her! You think that went over big?"

Apparently, the over-the-top comment didn't scare her away because the two have been married for 20-plus years and share two children: son Dylan and daughter Carys.

Emily Blunt & John Krasinski

Emily Blunt — who later costarred in A Quiet Place and its sequel with spouse John Krasinski, who also directed and co-wrote the films — knew "disarmingly soon" that they were meant for each other.

The Oppenheimer star was out to lunch with a friend, chatting about how much she was enjoying the single life, when her future husband walked in. "And that was it," she told PEOPLE’s former editor-in-chief Jess Cagle during an episode of The Jess Cagle Interview in April 2018. "We were engaged within 10 months, but I think we probably knew before that."

Prince Harry & Meghan Markle

While making their official debut as an engaged couple outside Kensington Palace, Prince Harry revealed that he knew Meghan Markle was the one for him as soon as he saw her. When asked when he knew the Suits actress was going to be his future wife, Harry said with a smile: "The very first time we met."

Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt

Heidi Montag dedicated an Instagram post to her longtime love on their nine-year wedding anniversary — seven weeks after welcoming their first child, son Gunner Stone.

"It was love at first sight," gushed the reality star, who met Spencer Pratt while filming The Hills. "I knew my life would never be the same. You are my soulmate, my heart, my soul, my best friend, my everything. We have fought through so much to be together."

George Clooney & Amal Clooney

“I think it was about three days in. You know, you could tell,” the Oscar winner told Access Hollywood about when he knew the human rights lawyer was the one. "I knew when I met her that she was extraordinary and special. I wondered if I would ever get a chance to date her. We were friends for a while before and luckily she said yes.” The Clooneys would go on to marryin 2014 at a lavish multi-day wedding in Italy.

Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi

"Ellen took my breath away," Portia de Rossi told The Advocate in 2005 upon meeting her now-wife backstage at VH1's Big in '04 Awards. "That had never happened to me in my life, where I saw somebody and experienced all of those things you hear about in songs and read about in poetry. My knees were weak."

Warren Beatty & Annette Bening

"It didn't really surprise me," Warren Beatty — who had once been known for his storied dating life — recounting his decision to get married during a 2016 appearance on Today. "I always felt I wasn't trying to avoid marriage, I was trying to avoid divorce. I had no doubt when I met Annette that it was time to get married."

Tom Ford & Richard Buckley

For designer-turned-director Tom Ford, "love at first sight" was something he experienced when coming face-to-face with his future husband on an elevator ride in 1986.

"By the time that elevator landed on the ground floor I thought, 'You're the one.' That's it. Click. Sold," Ford said during a 2016 appearance on The Jess Cagle Interview. "It was literally love at first sight." He continued: "Our eyes locked and within a month we were living together. We have been together ever since." (Richard Buckley died in September of 2021 at age 72.)

Stephen Colbert & Evelyn Colbert

The late-night talk show host knew instantly his wife was "the one" when he saw her in a theater lobby and thought, "Her. There's your wife. You're going to marry her."

The couple's love story began later near the buffet line at the show's afterparty, which he shared with his Late Show audience during a Q&A in July 2016. "You will kick yourself for the rest of your life if you do not turn around and say hello to her," Colbert remembers saying to himself upon seeing Evelyn who, the two later discovered, he had grown up with.

Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves

Although Matthew McConaughey was "happily single," things all changed when he saw Brazilian model Camila Alves. "Out of the corner of my eye, this sort of aqua-green figure went floating across the frame about 20 feet in front of me," he told PEOPLE of seeing Alves for the first time in 2006.

He continued, "My eye went up and I remember what came out of my mouth. I didn't say 'Who is that?' I went, 'What is that?' As l was trying to get [her] attention across the room, I went in my head, 'This is not the kind of woman you call over across the room, McConaughey. Get your ass out of your chair and go get her.' Which I did."

As for what immediately drew the Oscar winner to Alves, McConaughey was quick to respond: "The self-respect she had, the way I understood her and her relationship with family, the way she respected me but never took anything for granted, not putting on any airs whatsoever."

Matt Damon & Luciana Damon

The pair's initial encounter reads like the start of an epic love story, which Matt Damon is more than eager to recount: "I saw her across the room, and it was like there was a beam of lighting shining down on her — she was radiating joy," the actor recalled to Metro in 2011 of seeing his future wife, Luciana, who worked as a bartender at the time. "I was like, I have to talk to this person.' "

David Beckham & Victoria Beckham

In September 2024, David Beckham told PEOPLE he knew Victoria was "the one" immediately.

"She was aSpice Girland sexy and beautiful and charming," the former professional soccer player said. "Then I found out what a strong woman she is."

Victoria echoed the same sentiment about David in The Daily Mail in 2007: "Completely love at first sight. He told me he went home and wrote my [telephone] number on so many other things in case he lost it."