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10 Celebs Who Fell In Love With Normal People

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Ten famous names walked away from the A-list dating pool entirely.

Hollywood pairs off with itself more often than not — co-stars, tour mates, industry friends of friends. But a handful of the biggest names in music and film skipped that pattern altogether, ending up with a personal trainer, a hairstylist, a bartender, or a hometown classmate instead. From Britney Spears’s new boyfriend to Ed Sheeran’s childhood crush, these are the stars who found love outside the industry entirely.

• Britney Spears met Sam Asghari on the set of her “Slumber Party” video in late 2016, but didn’t call the number he gave her until roughly five months later.
• Eddie Redmayne married financial publicist Hannah Bagshawe in December 2014, capping a friendship that started 12 years earlier on a school charity catwalk.
• Ed Sheeran passed on dating within the music industry and instead reconnected with Cherry Seaborn, a former high school classmate and childhood crush.

The Slumber Party Connection

Sam Asghari is a model and personal trainer, not a name pop fans would have recognized before 2016. He and Britney Spears crossed paths on the set of her “Slumber Party” music video that year, and he handed over his phone number the way anyone might. Spears didn’t use it right away — it took roughly five months before she actually dialed. Once she did, the two became inseparable fast, and the relationship went public in early 2017, with Asghari suddenly turning up at Spears’s side at events across Los Angeles.

Five months of silence, then one phone call — that’s the entire origin story of one of pop’s most guarded relationships.

Ed Sheeran’s Hometown Romance

Sheeran spent much of 2016 out of the spotlight, and part of the reason was Cherry Seaborn — not a fellow musician, but someone he’d known since high school. The two reconnected as adults and started dating in 2015, with Sheeran opting for a partner with zero ties to the recording industry rather than anyone from his own professional circle. It’s a pattern worth comparing to Danielle Jonas’s path into the Jonas family, another case of a musician settling down with someone who had no interest in chart positions.

Eddie Redmayne’s 12-Year Friendship

Eddie Redmayne married Hannah Bagshawe, a financial publicist, in December 2014, and the backstory has been misreported for years — there’s a persistent urban legend that he hired her professionally and things developed from there. The real timeline is longer and less transactional: the two struck up a friendship when Redmayne walked a charity catwalk during his school years, and that friendship ran for roughly 12 years before it ever turned romantic.

Hollywood’s Everyday Love Stories

The pattern goes back further than any of pop’s recent headlines. Matt Damon met Luciana Barroso in 2003 while she was tending bar in Miami, and the two are still together. Patrick Dempsey booked a hair appointment and walked out with more than a haircut — he met his wife, hairstylist Jillian Fink, at her salon. Ellen Pompeo’s story started in a Los Angeles grocery store in 2003, where she met music producer and businessman Chris Ivery; the two married in 2007. Each of those relationships has outlasted plenty of industry pairings that started with far more fanfare, a dynamic worth setting alongside Sandra Bullock’s relationship with Bryan Randall, another case of a star choosing someone entirely outside the business.

Spears and Asghari, meanwhile, were still the newest entry on the list as of mid-2017 — a couple built on a five-month wait and a music video set, doing their best to stay off the tabloid treadmill everyone else on this list eventually escaped.