There are just some men in Hollywood who are determined to live the bachelor life forever. Our jaws hit the floor when we heard that George Clooney was getting married and having babies. Especially since he publicly declared how he would never get married again. We have to wonder if getting bachelors to settle down is more about them finding that one perfect woman that can do it for them. We never thought Clooney would get married and it makes us wonder about the other bachelors in Hollywood. Is it only a matter of time?
Clooney was married once before and up until he met his current wife, he was dating one woman after the other. Whether it was timing for these men or just fate bringing the perfect women into their lives, there are celebrity bachelors who finally decided to settle down. There is someone out there for all of us, it’s just about meeting the person that we are meant to be with. Clooney isn’t the only one that got snatched up by the woman of his dreams. Here’s how these 20 iconic celeb bachelors got snatched up (and the women who got them to settle).
20 Harrison Ford Went Through Two Marriages
Some people just aren’t meant to be married. That’s certainly what we thought of Harrison Ford until he met the woman of his dreams. He had already gone through two failed marriages, so he probably wasn’t interested in getting married again. Then he met Calista Flockhart and the rest is history. Ally is 30 years younger than her hubby and maybe that’s the magic number. Flockhart may have had her eyes set on the actor because she reportedly spilled a drink on him in 2002 and the Golden Globes.
19 George Clooney Adores His Wife
Yes, George Clooney is the one that vowed to never marry again after his divorce from his first wife. He spent a lot of time dating women over the years and we really thought that he was going to stay a bachelor. That was until he met Amal and he said,
"I thought she was beautiful, and I thought she was funny, and obviously smart,"
George said. "I don't know [what she thought of me]. She probably thought I was old. Then she sent some pictures from when she was here, and we were writing each other, emailing, talking, mostly about what was going on in each other's lives, and over a period of time, it became clear we were more than just friends."
18 Hugh Grant Finally Got Married
He has been a long-time bachelor for decades until he got married this year. He had long-term relationships with both Elizabeth Hurley and countless other girls, but not once did he get married. Grant stated that he finally married his girlfriend Anna Eberstein when he saw how she was treated at the airport.
"I didn't like going through immigration into countries where they'd say, 'Everyone with a Grant passport, over here, and all the others through there,'"
the actor told USA Today.
17 Bradley Cooper Takes A Leap
Bradley Cooper may as well be married because he’s in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Irina Shayk and they have one child together. Cooper is another actor that was married before to Jennifer Esposito and it only lasted four months. It’s been well over a decade since his divorce, so he may have trouble jumping into marriage again, but he’s definitely fully committed to Irina. Cooper says he still believes in love.
"I would say I am a romantic, for sure. I think most guys are deep down.
I look at my parents, who have been married happily since 1963, and my grandparents are the same. What guy wouldn't want that?"
16 James Brolin And Barbra Streisand Found Love in Their 50s
Sometimes, it really takes a while to find the love of your life. It was certainly that way for James Brolin who had three marriages that failed. No one thought he would settle down again until he met Barbra Streisand and the two married in their 50s.
"The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn’t negotiate with the other women,"
he told Parade. "My wife, we can negotiate very easily when there is a difference of opinion."
15 Ryan Gosling Found His One True Love
Ryan Gosling is another celebrity that has bounced from one relationship to another over the years. We thought he had found love with Rachel McAdams, but that didn’t work out, either. These days, he seems settled with longtime girlfriend Eva Mendes and they share two children together.
“While I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer. If she hadn’t have taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today. So, sweetheart, thank you.”
14 Adam Levine Married For Love
Adam Levine was another guy with a failed marriage and he once stated, "I don't know if it's possible to live the rock and roll lifestyle and still be romantic. Instinctively, monogamy is not in our genetic makeup," he said at another point. He proposed even though he was against marriage. "Famous last words, 'I'll never get married,'" Levine told Jay Leno.
"I still don't necessarily think you have to get married unless you meet someone that makes you want to marry them.
And then you marry them and it's wonderful."
13 Matthew McConaughey Loved Being A Bachelor
Matthew McConaughey never planned on settling down. He loved being wild and living out of a trailer. "I was a wild one until I met my wife," he once admitted. "I had some wonderful women in my life," he said in February of his dating history. "But I was in no rush.
When I married I intended to stay married. I did not want to make a mistake."
When he married Camila Alves he said, "I could see my 40th birthday looming," he has said of his decision to get married. "I was an older bachelor than many of my friends. I enjoyed the life I was leading, but knew it could not go on like that."
12 Alex Rodriguez Is Smitten
Alex Rodriguez wasn’t one to settle down and he’s dated a lot of women over the years. He has children from another relationship and since he has been dating Jennifer Lopez, he seems smitten. "He's so supportive," the Shades of Blue star previously told E! News.
"I mean, he was at rehearsal with me last night till 1 a.m.
and after he had worked his whole day, I work my whole day, then we go to rehearsal and he's like, 'What time will you be done?' I said, 'I don't know.' He goes, 'Alright, I'll just come over there and I'll do some work and we'll go home together.'”
11 Robert Redford Is A Sweetheart
Robert Redford was married once before and it took him a while to get married again. He’s lived a very private life, so we don’t know that much about his relationships over the years. He didn’t get married again until he was 72 and it was to his girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars. He’s 82 now, so he’s been married to her for a decade. At the time, they just had an intimate ceremony that had around 30 friends and family. Redford had told AARP that getting older allowed him to get a new perspective on life. "She's younger than I am, and European, which I like, so that's a whole new life."
10 Benji Madden Fell For Cameron Diaz
Benji Madden has spent a long time being a bachelor, dating a slew of girls over the years like Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus, Dita Von Teese, and Katy Perry. But then he met Cameron Diaz and the rest is history.
“He came along at the right time in her life, and she knows she made the right decision to be with him,”
a source told People. “Cameron has never had a romance like this one where it feels like even ground.”
9 Justin Timberlake Found The Right Lady
Justin Timberlake was another fella that liked to play the field. He had been linked to a lot of leading ladies over the years with a long-term relationship with both Britney Spears and Cameron Diaz. But when he met Jessica Biel, everything changed for him, and when their anniversary came around, he made sure to let the world know how he felt about her.
“Today is even more special for me because five years ago, on this day, I became the luckiest man in the world when I exchanged vows with my best friend.
You have taught me so much about what a true love means. I can’t put into words what these last five years have meant to me.”
8 Jerry Seinfeld Married In His 40s
Jerry Seinfeld didn’t get married until he was 45 years old to Jessica. The two got married on Christmas Day in 1999.
“The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, 'Be careful what you say when you're in a fight because it could stick in someone's head.'
I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.”
7 Vince Vaughn And Kyla Weber Are Inseparable
Vince Vaughn is another actor that we thought would be single forever. He had a romance with Jennifer Aniston back in the day but since then he’s just bounced from one relationship to another. He was 41 when he finally decided to get married. He was in a relationship with a Canadian realtor named Kyla Weber. The two have apparently met at a wedding of a mutual friend which really says a lot about being in the right place at the right time.
6 Simon Cowell Was A Bachelor For A Long Time
Simon Cowell has dated a lot of women over the years. Even when he met his long-term girlfriend Lauren Silverman, he was still with fiancé Mezhgan Hussainy at the time. Reportedly, he was also dating other women at the time. Simon has stated that he changed after his son Eric was born.
"People have asked me if I have changed since I have had Eric and of course you do, you can't help it,"
he told DailyMail. "During the first eight or nine months, I was thinking, 'I don't think he likes me very much. He does remind me of me when I was younger because he knows how to try it on and how to get away with things," he told.
5 Michael Ealy Finally Made It Down The Aisle
He is a gorgeous man and he once dated Halle Berry, but that didn't work out. He’s a ladies' man that never seems to be without a woman on his arm. That’s why fans were shocked to find out that he married his girlfriend of four years, Khatira Rafiqzada, in 2012. “…when you find someone — and that’s something that is very hard to do— but when you find someone that you actually want to spend the rest of your life with, you have to go for it. I was just very lucky that the stars lined up for me.”
4 Idris Elba Finally Settled Down
Idris Elba is now in his 40’s and until recently he had claimed that he was never going to get married. Meeting his beauty queen girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre must have changed all that for him because the two are now engaged. He has been married twice before and stated publicly that marriage was not in the cards for him. He met her while he was filming The Mountain Between Us with Kate Winslet. “Falling in love while making a movie about falling in love is pretty special.”
3 Justin Bieber Is Next
We were starting to think that Justin Bieber loved living the single life and after all, he’s still pretty young. He has bounced around dating multiple people over the years, a few models and Selena Gomez a few times. He was also single for a period of time. All of a sudden, he gets together with Hailey Baldwin who he claimed was just a friend for many years and now they are engaged. There must be something about Baldwin to make Bieber want to throw in the bachelor towel and try marriage on for size.
2 Tom Vitale Found Love Later In Life
Like so many of these bachelors, Tom Vitale was another celebrity who found love later on. Valerie Bertinelli was in her 50’s when she tied the knot. She was once with rocker Eddie Van Halen for while. She wanted to give love another chance and she stated that with Vitale things just felt right. "We're both still a little afraid of commitment, but then we were over there, and it was like our souls were calibrated." Even though she divorced Van Halen, they attended each other’s future weddings.
1 Benjamin Bratt Found His Lady
Benjamin Bratt was one of the most eligible bachelors in Hollywood for a while before he married Talisa Soto in 2002. He was most famously linked to Julia Roberts who he dated for a long time. Everyone thought that they would for sure get married until she broke things off with him. The two were recently seen together at the Oscars. It had been 18 years since he had attended the Oscars with Julia Roberts for her big win.
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