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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds married in 2012.
In honor of the most romantic day of the year, we take a look at the stories behind Hollywood’s favorite lovebirds.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively
Reynolds and Lively sparked up a friendship on the set of the movie “Green Lantern” in 2011. Shortly after the movie wrapped, they were both single (He finalized his divorce with Scarlet Johansson in 2011 and Lively ended her relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio that same year) and decided to go on a double date — she with another guy — and he with a different girl.
The 39-year-old “Deadpool” hunk told SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio that date was “awkward” for the other parties since it was obvious that he and Lively, 28, shared “fireworks.” Sparks led to a lavish — and secretly planned — wedding at the Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, S.C. in September 2012.
Daughter James was born two years later. The 28-year-old starlet gushed to Vogue shortly before her birth that Reynolds will be a “great father and leader and patriarch — he’s so meant to be all of those things.”
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Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum
The lovebirds shared their first kiss in 2006 on the dance movie “Step Up.”
“We were basically together on the movie,” he told Redbook magazine in 2014. “As soon as the movie wrapped, we went back to L.A. and were together, and together ever since — never broken up. That’s nine years.”
They share a daughter Everly, 2.
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In January, Channing, 35, wrote on Instagram that if it wasn’t for Jenna, 36, he “would have never even found the path much less stayed on it and not flown off in flaming truck of dynamite singing devil went down to Georgia. Hahahaha… to my light. I love you.”
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Channing Tatum, left, and Jenna Dewan Tatum arrive at the world premiere of “Hail, Caesar!” at the Regency Village Theatre on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Angelina Jolie, left, and Brad Pitt arrive at the 2015 AFI Fest opening night premiere of “By The Sea” on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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The Tatums and the Pitts.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
This A-list couple, who are parents to six children, may have had a rocky start (he was still married to Jennifer Aniston when the met on the set of 2005’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) but have proved many times that their love is unbreakable.
The pair faced one of their biggest challenges when Jolie, 40, decided to have her Fallopian tubes and ovaries removed in March 2015 following results from a regularly scheduled blood test.
The “Unbroken” director, whose mom Marcheline Bertrand died of ovarian cancer in 2007, also had a preventive double mastectomy in 2013.
Pitt, 52, told the “Today Show” that she dealt with it all fearlessly.
“There was strength in that. It was just another one of those things in life that makes you tighter and she was doing it for the kids, and she was doing it for her family so we could be together.”
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
For years, the “Jesus Walks” rapper pursued the 35-year-old reality star, but it wasn’t until her 72-day marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries ended in 2012 that she decided to give things with him a shot.
Four years and two kids later, the two manage to be one of the most-talked about couples in Hollywood.
Kardashian — who is often a subject in West’s music — adores everything about her 38-year-old hubby, even his egotistical rants about fame and, well, just about anything else he gets riled up about.
“I completely do understand when he’s talking about something that he’s really passionate about, because it’s not like he just goes on a tangent talking about it — it’s stuff that we’ve talked about at home and in conversations with our friends and hanging out for so long, that I completely know what he’s talking about,” she told Access Hollywood in 2015.
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Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell attend the premiere of “The Hateful Eight” at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Kanye West, left, and Kim Kardashian arrive at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Actors Golden Hawn and Kurt Russell, along with Mr. and Mrs. Kanye West.
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
Despite him never putting a ring on it, the two have been together since 1983 — which is pretty much unheard of in fickle Hollywood.
“A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage,” Hawn, 70, told Net-A Porter magazine in 2015. “It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.”
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Russell, 64, met became involved with his “Overboard” co-star after meeting on the set of “Swing Shift.” They have a son, Wyatt, 29. He also helped raise her two kids (with Bill Hudson) actors Oliver Hudson, 39, and Kate Hudson, 36.
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
These two lovebirds, who were both born on Sept. 25 (and 25 years apart!) tied the knot in 2000 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.
Years later, Douglas, 71, calls his biggest career highlight meeting Zeta-Jones, 46.
“It would probably be the Deauville Film Festival in 1999 when I met Catherine. That was the best memory I got,” the “Wall Street” star told Entertainment Tonight earlier this month.
The couple, who share two children Dylan, 15, and Carys, 12, hit a rough patch in 2013 and briefly split.
“It took work on both our parts,” Douglas has said of their reconciliation. “I don’t think there’s much chance of fixing a relationship if one of you is already out the door.”
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Michael Douglas, left, and Catherine Zeta-Jones arrive at the 15th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
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Jennifer Aniston, left, and Justin Theroux arrive at the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Douglas, Zeta-Jones, and Theroux and Aniston.
Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston
After a painful divorce with Brad Pitt in 2005, the “Friends” alum dating a string of men who just didn’t seem to fit the bill (John Mayer, Vince Vaughn to name a few) until Theroux stole her heart.
The “Wanderlust” co-stars who became friends first on the set of the 2010 movie went public with their romance at an after-party for 2011’s MTV Movie Awards. During vacationing in Rome in 2012, he popped the question.
Three years later, they married after tricking guests such as Courteney Cox, Jimmy Kimmel and Chelsea Handler that they going to attend his 44th birthday party.
“You gotta take care of each other on Valentine’s Day, every day,” Theroux told E! News recently of his V-Day plans with Aniston, 47. “But we’ve actually scratched our dinner plans because I’m tired so we’re probably just going to put on pajamas and catch up on some Netflix.”
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
The pair has been living their own version of a rom-com since 1985 after meeting on the set of “Volunteers” when he was still married to his college sweetheart Samantha Lewes.
He divorced Lewes in 1987, and a year later he married Wilson.
The 59-year-old Oscar-winning actor claims his relationship with Wilson, also 59, has inspired him professionally.
“I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother,” he told Oprah in 2001. “For example, I was able to construct a number of things in (the movie) Philadelphia because of my relationship with Rita.
“The way my character felt about his lover is the way I feel about mine. The same was true when I played Forrest Gump, who loved Jenny. Without my connection with Rita, I don’t know how I would’ve been able to connect with what Forrest was going through.”
The have two sons: Chet, 25, and Truman, 20.
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Chrissy Teigen, left, and John Legend arrive at the 47th NAACP Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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Actor Tom Hanks, left, and Rita Wilson, right, arrive for the Europe premiere of the movie ‘Bridge of Spies’ in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, along with Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks.
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen
The couple, who are expecting their first child, met on the set of the R&B hitmaker’s 2007 music video “Stereo” and by Sept. 2013, they had tied the knot in Lake Como, Italy.
“All of Me,” off of Legend’s 2013 album “Love in the Future” is about his supermodel wife.
“It’s not just a song to me,” Teigen, who appears in the music video, told Vibe magazine in 2014. “It’s so personal for me. I don’t really listen to it like a song; I listen to it as like ‘Oh, that’s my husband he’s singing about us.”
Legend and Teigen, who posted photos of each other on Instagram, know how to keep things spicy — in and out of the boudoir.
In 2014, the 30-year-old Sports Illustrated beauty told Cosmopolitan that they joined the mile-high club en route to see her parents in Thailand.
“We were under a blanket. We weren’t even in one of those pod things. I feel like we should get a trophy for that.”
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
The lovebirds met in 1995 when she auditioned to play his girlfriend on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
She wasn’t picked, but an off-screen romance quickly followed.
They secretly wed in 1997 on New Year’s Eve in her native Baltimore and have been inseparable ever since — despite the divorce rumors.
Last September, Smith, 47, posted an adorable birthday message on Facebook for her 44th birthday.
“I’ve told you ‘I love you’ at least 8,285 times…and of the nearly 3.96 Billion women on the planet – there is only 1 that I want to spend the rest of my life with. Happy Birthday, my Love!” he wrote.
They have two children: Jaden 17, and Willow, 15.
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David Beckham and Victoria Beckham pose for photographers upon arrival at the British Fashion Awards 2015 in London, Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, left, and Will Smith arrive at the 47th NAACP Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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The Beckhams and The Smiths have been longtime friends.
David and Victoria Beckham
When Posh Spice met the British soccer stud in 1996, they formed an immediately bond.
“My wife picked me out of a soccer sticker book. And I chose her off the telly … It felt straight away like we’d always been meant to be together,” David wrote in his biography, “Both Feet on the Ground.”
Known as England’s most fashionable couple, they tied the knot in 1999 at a castle in Ireland.
They have four kids: Brooklyn, 16, Romeo, 13, Cruz, 10, and Harper, 4.
George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin
In 2014, Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor announced he popped the question to the 38-year-old British lawyer after only seven months of dating.
The lavish wedding took place that same year in Venice, Italy, and included celebrity guests such as Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber and Bono.
The 54-year-old “Hail, Caesar!” star revealed one of the things he admires about his bride is her intelligence.
“The only way we resolve anything is by arm wrestling,” he jokingly told Stephen Colbert last September. “That is my only chance of winning anything with her because if it’s an intellectual battle, I would lose. She’s the smart one in the family.”
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Singer Beyonce, left, and Jay-Z watch during the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Brooklyn Nets, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Amal Clooney, left, and George Clooney arrive at the world premiere of “Hail, Caesar!” at the Regency Village Theatre on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Carter and Mr. and Mrs. George Clooney.
Jay Z and Beyoncé
Hova and Bey, who started dating in 2000, didn’t go public with their relationship until after the release of their single, “’03 Bonnie and Clyde” in 2003.
A fiercely private couple, they married in Jay Z’s New York City penthouse in 2008. Daughter Blue Ivy was born four years later.
Named the highest paid couple by Forbes in 2013, their On the Run tour grossed more than $ 100 million.
In 2013, she gushed about Hova to Oprah in an interview. “I would not be the woman I am if I did not go home to that man …We were friends for a year and a half and that foundation is so important in a relationship.”
Taylor Swift via Instagram
Instagram photo posted on June 11, 2015, by Taylor Swift of herself with Calvin Harris in a blowup swan floatie, captioned “Swan goals.”
Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift
From Jake Gyllenhaal to Harry Styles, we all know about Ms. Swift’s messy love life thanks to her hit songs.
But ever since she’s been linked to Harris she seems, well, happy.
The couple, who met at last year’s Brit Awards, recently celebrated their first-year anniversary.
In June, they dethroned Jay Z and Bey when they were named Forbes highest paid couple with a combined $ 146 million.
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