Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are the ultimate in celebrity single couples
The couple met in 1966 while filming the movie "The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band," which was actually Hawn's first movie. Nothing happened between the two for a great reason: age. While Hawn was 21 at the time, Kurt was only 16. It would be a decade and a half before this iconic couple began their love affair, after meeting again at an audition in 1983. In an episode of the talk show "Harry," Kurt confessed that the couple slept together on their first date and, amusingly, were interrupted by the police (they had broken into the house Hawn was renovating).
Hawn and Kurt have been together for four decades, and they even have a son together, hockey player turned actor Wyatt Russell. Kurt is also considered a father figure by Hawn's two other children, actors Kate and Oliver Hudson, who continually praise Kurt's stepdad in interviews. And while Hawn and Kurt work magic together on screen — “Overboard” is a classic — what we admire most is their close family and sweet love for each other, and it didn't take marriage to do that. As Hawn once said on the British talk show "Loose Women," "I mean, we've been married before. It didn't work. So why do it again?
Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham got engaged decades ago
It takes a strong human being to be able to make a living with a celebrity as enormously famous as Oprah Winfrey, given her larger-than-life presence that is sure to dominate each and every day. But luckily for her, our favorite media mogul found her life partner decades ago in Stedman Graham, a successful businessman, author, and speaker. Winfrey and Graham first met in 1986, and once Graham became single, the couple went on a date. The following year, Graham was already making appearances on Winfrey's talk show and the rest is history. The couple have been together for nearly four decades, but have never been married.
Despite never walking down the aisle, Graham and Winfrey are technically engaged, as they have been since Graham proposed to her in 1992. Throughout the 1990s and even into the early 2000s, many speculated about when they would get married, but people have almost given up. until now. Winfrey has made it clear that marriage isn't a big deal to her, and that it's not even really a topic of conversation for the couple. "Nobody believes it, but it's true," she told Vogue in 2017. "The only time I ever brought it up was when I said to Stedman, 'What if we got married?' And the answer is, 'We wouldn't be. together'. We would not have stayed together, because marriage requires a different way of being in this world."
Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb have no desire to get married
Academy Award-winning actor Sam Rockwell has always walked to the beat of his own drum, and that includes his stance on marriage and parenthood. "I definitely don't want to be a father. It's not my bag," Rockwell once told The Guardian. «It is strange, I do not have children, I do not understand it very well. I think being an only child means you learn to live in your own world. It is a matter of survival… but also, children are a lot of work.” That interview took place in 2007 and, true to his word, Rockwell hasn't had any children since. However, he has found romantic love.
Rockwell met fellow actor Leslie Bibb at the famed Chateau Marmont in late 2007, and the rest is history. Although their love story began on the West Coast, they ended up putting down roots in an East Village loft in Manhattan. The two maintain a relatively private and low-key existence. And the nice little life they've built doesn't include any paperwork, despite marriage speculation after Rockwell referred to Bibb as his "wife" while on the awards circuit in 2018. Sweetly, as Rockwell told Us Weekly, they never go more than two or three weeks without seeing each other, even when they work on location, to ensure their continued closeness.
