Stars Who Started New Love Chapters After 40

Love stories do not follow one perfect timeline.

Some people meet their person young. Others build careers, go through breakups, raise families, survive public heartbreak, or simply wait until the right person comes along later.

That is true for celebrities, too. Fame may make relationships more public, but it does not make love any simpler.

This article focuses on public, documented relationships where celebrities found love, remarried, got engaged, or built meaningful partnerships after 40. Some relationships are still going strong. Others ended, but still became part of the celebrity’s public story.

Here are celebrities who found love after 40.

George Clooney

George Clooney spent years being described as one of Hollywood’s most famous bachelors.

That changed when he met human-rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in 2013. Clooney was in his early 50s when their relationship began, and the couple married in Venice in 2014. People notes that George and Amal married in 2014 and welcomed twins in 2017.

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz found lasting love in her 40s with Good Charlotte musician Benji Madden.

The actress met Madden in 2014, and the relationship moved quickly. People reported that Diaz and Madden began dating after meeting in May 2014, got engaged seven months later, and married in January 2015.

Diaz later stepped away from constant Hollywood work and built a quieter family life with Madden. The couple welcomed daughter Raddix in 2019 and son Cardinal in 2024, according to People’s relationship timeline.

Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek found love and marriage after 40 with French businessman François-Henri Pinault.

Hayek and Pinault began dating in the mid-2000s and married on Valentine’s Day in 2009 in Paris. People reported that the couple married at the City Hall of the Sixth Arrondissement and share daughter Valentina Paloma.

Hayek has also spoken about their marriage in a way that pushes back against shallow assumptions. Because Pinault is wealthy, she has faced unfair speculation about the relationship, but she has described him as kind, generous, and supportive.

Tina Turner

Tina Turner’s love story with Erwin Bach is one of the most moving examples of later-life love.

Turner met Bach in the 1980s, after surviving years of personal and professional pain. People reported that Turner and Bach dated for 27 years before marrying in 2013 and remained married until her death in 2023.

Their relationship mattered because Turner often described Bach as a source of peace, stability, and love without control. After everything she had publicly survived, that kind of partnership carried deep emotional meaning.

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves has long been private about his personal life, which made his relationship with artist Alexandra Grant especially touching to fans.

Reeves and Grant first collaborated years before they became publicly known as a couple. People reported that they went public with their relationship in 2019 and had been linked through creative projects as early as 2011.

Halle Berry

Halle Berry found love later in life with musician Van Hunt.

The actress and Hunt first connected during the pandemic, when they initially bonded through phone conversations before becoming a public couple. People reported that Berry confirmed the relationship in September 2020 and later called Hunt the “love of her life.”

In February 2026, People reported that Berry confirmed her engagement to Hunt after five years of dating.

Kim Cattrall

Kim Cattrall found lasting love with Russell Thomas after decades in the public eye.

The Sex and the City star met Thomas in 2016 while working with the BBC, and the couple began dating afterward. People reported that Cattrall and Thomas married in London in December 2025 after years together.

Cattrall has described Thomas warmly, including calling him funny and full of energy. Their relationship became a gentle contrast to the highly dramatic romantic life of her famous character, Samantha Jones.

Niecy Nash

Niecy Nash surprised fans in 2020 when she married singer Jessica Betts.

Nash and Betts had known each other for years before their relationship turned romantic. People reported that the couple wed in August 2020, nearly a year after Nash split from her former husband Jay Tucker.

The marriage drew attention because Nash had previously been married to men, but she explained the relationship as being about the person she loved rather than a label. That made the story feel personal, joyful, and deeply specific to her life.

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani found love after 40 with country star Blake Shelton.

The two met while working as coaches on The Voice. People reported that Stefani and Shelton began dating in 2015 after their respective divorces and married in 2021.

Their relationship blended two different music worlds: Stefani’s pop, ska, and fashion-forward image with Shelton’s country background. That contrast became part of their appeal.

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford found long-term love with Calista Flockhart later in life.

Ford and Flockhart met at the Golden Globe Awards in 2002. People reported that the couple have been together since 2002 and married in 2010.

Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres found lasting love with Portia de Rossi in her 40s.

The couple began their relationship in the mid-2000s and married in 2008 after same-sex marriage became legal in California. People’s relationship timeline notes that DeGeneres and de Rossi have been married since 2008 and have celebrated major anniversaries together.

Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox found love after 40 with Snow Patrol musician Johnny McDaid.

The Friends actress and McDaid became a public couple in the 2010s and announced their engagement in 2014. People reported that Cox shared the engagement news herself with a selfie and the message, “I’m engaged to him!”

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez’s rekindled romance with Ben Affleck became one of the biggest celebrity love stories of the 2020s.

Lopez and Affleck were first engaged in the early 2000s, then reunited nearly two decades later. People reported that they were spotted together again in April 2021, went public with the rekindled relationship, and married in July 2022.

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston found love after 40 with actor and writer Justin Theroux.

Aniston and Theroux met years earlier and later became a couple. They married in 2015, when Aniston was in her mid-40s. People reported in 2026 that Aniston and Theroux, who met in 2007 and married in 2015 before divorcing in 2018, have remained supportive friends.

Kris Jenner

Kris Jenner found a long-term partner after 40 with Corey Gamble.

Jenner and Gamble met in Ibiza in 2014 while attending a birthday party for fashion designer Riccardo Tisci. People reported that the couple have been dating since 2014 and became inseparable soon after meeting.

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney found love later in life with Nancy Shevell.

The Beatles legend and Shevell began their relationship in 2007, years after the death of McCartney’s first wife Linda and after his later marriage to Heather Mills ended. People reported that McCartney and Shevell met in the Hamptons, got engaged in 2011, and married on October 9, 2011, in London.

Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum found lasting love later in life with Emilie Livingston.

Livingston is a former Olympic rhythmic gymnast, dancer, and performer. People reported that she met Goldblum at a gym in California in 2011, married him in 2014, and later welcomed two sons with him.

Goldblum was in his 60s when he married Livingston, making their relationship one of Hollywood’s clearest examples of later-life marriage and fatherhood.

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson’s relationship with Lauren Hashian became one of the most important partnerships of his adult life.

Johnson and Hashian began dating in 2007 after his split from Dany Garcia. People reported that Johnson and Garcia announced their separation in 2007, and Johnson and Hashian started dating that same year.

The couple later married in Hawaii in 2019 and have two daughters together. People also reported in 2026 that Johnson and Hashian attended the Met Gala together and noted that they had been together since 2007 and married in 2019.

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