Lifestyle There is something deeply satisfying about a celebrity who decides to couple up with a normie. Firstly, because it implies that any one of us weirdos could pull an A-lister if we were simply in the right place at the right time. But secondly, because it also raises so many interesting questions.
Why? How? Where did they meet? How do they make it work? Does the normal person even understand the concept of a glam team? Does the celebrity even understand the concept of renting? It’s fascinating. As for who to direct those questions to, well, that’s what we’ll be answering here. From Riz Ahmed’s coffee shop meet-cute with his novelist wife to Sydney Sweeney’s “business guy” fiancé, here are all the celebs and royals that took a chance on kissing a frog, only for it to remain a frog.
Aka ended up with us: the normal people! An Etonian romance! Whether people who go to Eton are normal or not is up for debate, but regardless, these two lovebirds met at school, rather than on the red carpet. It all started when Redmayne walked (shirtless, we hasten to add) for a charity fashion show during his uni days. “I was this pasty, freckly guy and when I came on, the girls in the audience didn’t take much notice of me,” Redmayne has recalled.
But Redmayne took notice of someone himself: Hannah Bagshawe, who he clocked standing across the room at an after-party. “She was very beautiful and very funny and she loves the arts and theatre just as I do, so we became.
