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Some celebrity couples prove that love doesn’t need a marriage certificate to last. From talented actors to creative power duos, these relationships have stood the test of time while keeping the wedding bells silent. Join us as we explore Hollywood’s most enduring partnerships that have thrived without tying the knot!
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00:00Stop it. It's just a little something I whipped up. You do this to me all the time.
00:03Oh, lucky. The things you do.
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the decades-long Hollywood couples
00:11who decided to forego the formality of a traditional marriage.
00:15Shows that what I said was true. There's no difference between the sexes.
00:18Men, women, the same.
00:22Number 10. Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez
00:25What little white lies do you tell?
00:28Like sometimes if I'm late at the office, I'll say I was at the gym, and I really wasn't at
00:33the gym.
00:33Partners in the same business could be a recipe for jealousy and competition.
00:38Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez didn't seem to have that issue.
00:42It just feels like a moment of discovery for us.
00:45And this is like a story that we hope to tell for a while, and this is just the beginning
00:48of the story.
00:50And, you know, these are codes that we want to build upon.
00:53Since they met at New York City's Parsons School of Design, the fashion designers have been partners in all things.
00:59They launched the luxury fashion brand Proenza Schooler together in 2002
01:03and served as designers for the company until 2025.
01:07The two have been together for over two decades.
01:10Questions about eventually tying the knot seem to be met with eye rolls and annoyance.
01:14We kind of collaborated and done the senior thesis together.
01:18We kind of enjoyed working together on a creative level, but like didn't know how we could even take that.
01:24Apparently, they're doing just fine without a marriage certificate.
01:27Number 9, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys
01:30Why you?
01:31Because we're running out of time.
01:34Why can't we do this together?
01:35Because I am a KGB officer.
01:37Don't you understand that?
01:38After all these years, I would go to jail.
01:41I would die.
01:42I would lose everything before I would betray my country.
01:45They called each other husband and wife on The Americans for six seasons.
01:49Despite no marriage certificate, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys still call each other that.
01:54She said, if you propose to me, I'll punch you clean in the mouth.
01:59I don't have the words.
02:00I don't have the time.
02:01Neither of which would do you justice, Keri Lynn, except thank you.
02:03More to come.
02:04The former co-stars have been dating since 2014, but they elected to keep it hidden for as long as
02:09possible.
02:10Purportedly, no one on the set of the show actually knew.
02:14After a heavy dose of a fight training, all sweaty, like at a lunch, you said, you know, we've met
02:21before.
02:21And I said, no, we haven't.
02:22And you said, yeah, we met before.
02:25It wasn't until they were expecting their son that they'd told any of their co-workers.
02:29Despite this, they kept their relationship relatively low-key in public.
02:33They don't seem to be against marriage, but Rhys has simply said they just haven't gotten around to saying I
02:38do's yet.
02:39Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano
02:53Mostly unburdened by mainstream projects and A-list public scrutiny,
02:57theater actors turned filmmakers Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano met while working off-Broadway.
03:02The two have worked together frequently.
03:05Because we both have these other lives as actors, one of us would go away for a job
03:09and the other one would take the lead on writing for a little while.
03:12And it was very organic.
03:14However, when it comes to their two decades of partnership, they are surprisingly elusive.
03:19Rarely do they talk about each other in public except as professional collaborators.
03:33The two have co-starred in the film Ruby Sparks, which Kazan wrote,
03:37and they co-wrote Dano's directorial effort Wildlife.
03:41Though they have two children, they keep things general when speaking publicly about them.
03:45You have two children. You just had a baby, how long ago?
03:48Three weeks ago.
03:49Hello! Oh my gosh!
03:51Happy to see a family of four!
03:53Wow! Well, congratulations to you guys.
03:56Our only glimpses of the couple together are on red carpets
03:59and occasional press junkets for projects they've collaborated on.
04:02Despite being together since 2007, they have not publicly announced marriage plans.
04:08Just don't tell me how it ends, okay?
04:14Promise.
04:15Number 7. Ava Mendez and Ryan Gosling
04:18Okay, come on. Come on. Come on.
04:24In 2011, the co-stars and eventual lovers met while filming The Place Beyond the Pines.
04:30If Ryan Gosling and Ava Mendez ever actually did tie the knot, they didn't tell anyone.
04:35You really did manage to keep it a secret. And for, you know, the two of you, very private, obviously.
04:41Yes.
04:41But did you worry that someone was going to leak it?
04:45When asked directly, Mendez only said that she likes to keep things mysterious.
04:50Since their meeting, they've had two children.
04:52Mendez retired from acting in 2014, seeing few roles for Latina actresses
04:57and wanting to focus on raising the couple's children.
05:00Gosling's career has only become bigger.
05:02Hey, Barbie.
05:03Yeah?
05:04Can I come to your house tonight?
05:05Sure.
05:05I don't have anything big planned.
05:07Just a giant blowout party with all the Barbies and planned choreography and a bespoke song.
05:11You should stop by.
05:12Still, he always talks up Mendez in interviews,
05:14and the two seem to have a tremendous connection that strikes a balance between public and private life.
05:20Number 6. Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb
05:23When they first met in 2007, Leslie Bibb was up front with actor Sam Rockwell from the start.
05:29It's good.
05:29You were single.
05:30You were ready to mingle.
05:32And then I hooked.
05:33I just put my little claws in you.
05:34Talons.
05:35Yeah, you did.
05:35I put my talons.
05:36And I said, no, you're mine.
05:38And they're still in.
05:39She didn't want to get married.
05:41Luckily, neither did Rockwell.
05:42Well, I would put him in my pocket and carry him with me all the time.
05:46I love him.
05:47Yes.
05:48I do not want to get married.
05:50Talking with Jenna Bush Hager in 2025, Bibb wondered if perhaps it was the homes they came from that turned
05:56them off to marriage.
05:57However, their love doesn't seem to suffer as a result.
06:00I don't know.
06:01I mean, maybe it's probably something about the way we grew up.
06:04Yes.
06:05I, it just, I feel like if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
06:09Both actors appear happy with the way things are.
06:12They frequently star in the same projects, even if they don't get much screen time together.
06:17As was the case with season three of The White Lotus.
06:20What happened?
06:23Well, I took the party and think as far as it could go.
06:28Yeah.
06:29Number 5, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale
06:32Between raising kids, managing a relationship, and having high-profile careers, you can't find time for everything.
06:39Stop.
06:40It's a hard thing to explain to the kids what we're doing.
06:42Yeah, I bet it is.
06:43Did you have to explain it to the kids?
06:45Well, they were like, what's going on?
06:46Where are you guys tonight?
06:47We're working.
06:48Oh, we didn't know you were working together.
06:50Sometimes, you just don't have time to sit down and plan a wedding.
06:53That seems to be the case with Bridesmaids star Rose Byrne and Boardwalk Empire star Bobby Cannavale.
06:59They've been in a committed relationship since 2012 and have two children together.
07:04You do a great steak.
07:04It's usually, um, you know how that goes.
07:07You gotta cook, you know, we like to have dinner with the kids, so like, we try to make what
07:10they're gonna, what we're gonna eat with them, you know?
07:12And while they seem to have every intention to make it legal, they just don't seem to have the time.
07:18Between almost 15 years together and two children, it doesn't seem like there's all that much missing from the equation.
07:24Are there tensions at home that show up on stage?
07:27Like, who's...
07:28I mean, maybe, but we don't really think about it so much.
07:31And, you know, the kids, they just don't care that we're doing a play, so...
07:34Number 4.
07:35Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson.
07:38Like many of us, award-winning director Paul Thomas Anderson fell in love with Maya Rudolph while watching her in
07:44a sketch on Saturday Night Live.
07:59Although even she wonders if that was true, but the fact remains that she and Anderson have been together since
08:042001.
08:06Though they share four children and are incredibly prolific in their fields, the two are almost notoriously tight-lipped about
08:13their personal lives.
08:14The tidbits we do get are almost enviably sweet.
08:18I live in a house full of teenagers now.
08:20I'm not one of the teenagers.
08:21They're the other people that live there.
08:23But, um, you were supposed to laugh.
08:26Not being married in the traditional sense doesn't stop them from calling each other husband and wife.
08:31Because, as Rudolph points out, after 25 years together, boyfriend and girlfriend just don't seem appropriate.
08:37What was the experience like working with your husband?
08:39Oh, that's hilarious.
08:40Or your partner, excuse me.
08:41Oh, my God, I'm so, I'm just reeling from how funny that is.
08:45Number 3.
08:46Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
08:49Hello, Pinky.
08:52You feel all right?
08:54I don't know.
08:56Why?
08:57You were making some noises in the night.
08:59Back in the golden age of Hollywood, standards were different.
09:02Frequent co-stars Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were, by all accounts, madly in love.
09:07I love you, Sam.
09:10Will you marry me?
09:14You mean love, honor, cherish, and obey until death do us part?
09:18However, Spencer Tracy was a devout Catholic.
09:22Divorcing his wife Louise was completely out of the question.
09:25And morality clauses in their studio contracts wouldn't have permitted their affair being public anyway.
09:30Still, their relationship was an open secret in Hollywood and beyond.
09:35And there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that your son feels for my daughter that I didn't feel for Christina.
09:44The pair were still together after 26 years when Tracy passed away.
09:48Hepburn did not acknowledge their relationship until after the death of Tracy's widow.
09:53Number two, Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham.
09:56On every Valentine's Day, he would sit down and write cards from each of the dogs to me.
10:05Oprah Winfrey has been with Stedman Graham since the early days of her career.
10:09Their decision never to marry has gotten much press over the years.
10:13I'm not going to get married.
10:14I'm just trying to think of another way of phrasing it.
10:16That is such an old story, Pierce.
10:18I'm not getting married.
10:19I'm not the married.
10:20I'm just not the marrying kind.
10:23While it may not look like a traditional relationship from the outside in,
10:27the two speak frequently about their great affection for each other.
10:30The decision not to marry, as both have explained it,
10:33is that neither one wants to compromise their individual endeavors.
10:36The thing about our relationship is, I want the best for her.
10:40So, you know, I'm dedicated to her happiness, and so that's great for her.
10:45Not being married has allowed them both to achieve their own personal successes.
10:49They've been going strong since 1986.
10:52And the reason why this relationship has worked as well as it has
10:56is because we each got to define ourselves in it and not in a traditional form.
11:01There's nothing about it that's traditional.
11:03Maybe the old adage is true.
11:05If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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11:26Fortune calls, rise and ruin, night and noon.
11:32All are prisoners of the moon.
11:40Number one, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.
11:56Clearly marriage isn't for everyone.
11:58When they reconnected on the set of Swing Shift, all the way back in 1983,
12:03both Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell had already been married and divorced from other people.
12:07Considering they've been together ever since, maybe they were onto something.
12:11Hawn would later say if they had gotten married, they'd be divorced by now.
12:16I don't recognize this man.
12:18Your wife's had an almost total loss of memory.
12:21I can't believe she doesn't know her own husband.
12:24Their bond is an anomaly among Hollywood couples.
12:27While celebrity marriages come and go, they're one couple who seem unbreakable.
12:32And it's that you both want to be together.
12:37I mean, you've got to want to be together.
12:39And as long as you, why are you laughing?
12:42Between them, their blended family consists of four children,
12:46including actors Kate Hudson and Wyatt Russell, and several grandchildren.
12:50Who's your favorite celebrity couple?
12:52Tell us in the comments.
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