Evidently, a chance to meet your celebrity crush might be as unlikely as you believe. It could be the result of a chance encounter in a café as well as the outcome of lengthy, diligent cyber stalking, couples have turned the unlikely concept into a reality. For example, from Kimye and Zac Efron’s romance and Australian waitress and model Vanessa Valladares, L’OFFICIEL presents 14 celebrity fan couples who show that lusting for your favorite celebrity can be rewarded in a significant way.
1. Justin and Hailey Bieber

Though she’s always had a life in the spotlight due to her family members who are famous (Stephen Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger and others. ), Hailey Bieber was once a fan just like us. The two were briefly met by Baldwin’s dad back in 2009, and pictures showing Hailey standing in line while Justin snapped photos with her fans outside the NYC hotel back in 2012 were revealed just prior to the time they were married in 2018.
2. Patrick Dempsey and Jillian Fink
They first met in 1994, after Dempsey went to Fink’s Los Angeles hair salon for an appointment, what started as sporadic hair cuts and banter turned into the beginning of a relationship in 1997 and the couple eventually being married two years later in 1999 and being in love all the way to today (despite an incident involving divorce in the year 2015).
3. Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney
In the wake of being recommended by a mutual acquaintance, JLaw and art dealer Cooke Maroney tied the knot in a wedding of 150 guests ceremony held in Rhode Island, attended by guests such as Adele and Kris Jenner. On February 20, 2022 Lawrence was the mother of their first child.
4. Danielle Caesar and Jake T. Austin
A fervent Jake T. Austin fan, Caesar met Austin at an informal meet-and-greet at a meet-and-greet in New York City in 2011 and began to follow him on Twitter and tweets at Austin for several years. After he was able to catch his attention, the couple made it open about their romance in the year 2016 which made Caesar the most admired fangirl in the world. By 2021, the couple parted ways. apart.
5. Liam Payne and Maya Henry
Payne and Henry started dating quietly in 2019- roughly one year after Henry posted a picture of herself at a One Direction meet-and-greet to her Instagram. After becoming engaged in the year 2020, the couple called the shots on June 20, 2021. The couple briefly reunited the month of October 2021, but then ended the relationship in April 2022.
6. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
After meeting in 2003 while Kardashian worked as Brandy’s assistant West quickly developed a crush. Even though he was immediately friends with the reality star (the celebrity was also entertaining other potential romantic partners during the same time), West remained undeterred and even referred to Kim in his songs prior to their marriage and even in his song on Keri Hilton’s 2009 hit song, “Knock You Down.” They eventually became a household name in 2012 and got married the following year, and they had 4 children prior to declaring divorce in the early 2022.
7. Fergie and Josh Duhamel
Before their first meeting Duhamel has been out about his feelings for Fergie on social media platforms and even in interviews with diverse media outlets. When they were on set together for the NBC show Las Vegas in 2004 sparks erupted and they got married in the year 2009. When they parted in 2017 and co-parented their son, who is eight, Axl.
8. Steve Harvey and Marjorie Bridges
Marjorie and Steve Harvey met in the year 1990, when Marjorie came in after the show to see a stand-up comedy show Harvey did. In the year 2018, Marjorie recounted on Steve’s now-canceled talk show that he suddenly turned his back when he gazed at her and then added, “I don’t know who this person is but I’m going to marry her.”
9. Prince William and Kate Middleton
Prince William has disclosed that prior to the meet, Middleton had posters of the prince displayed in her dorm room at college wall. Middleton has denied all accusations of this nature. The couple is now parents to three children with them after their wedding in 2011.
10. Riz Ahmed and Fatima Farheen Mirza
The cake to the most memorable meet-cute of all the time. Ahmed and Mirza came across in an New York City coffee shop while he was working on his role on Sound of Metal. Ahmed told Jimmy Fallon on an episode of The Tonight Show that they were “both fighting around the laptop plugs,” and the rest was the rest of history. The couple got married in a private backyard ceremony in the year 2020.
11. Louis Tomlinson and Eleanor Calder
Calder and Tomlinson became acquainted by way of Harry Styles, whom she was a acquaintance from a bakery that the One Direction member worked at before becoming famous. They began their relationship in 2011, but split in the year 2015, according to Tomlinson’s busy schedule. When Tomlinson had a baby boy named Freddie in the year 2016 with stylist Brianna Jungwirth the couple and Calder revived their former relationship in the early part of 2017.
12. Zac Efron and Vanessa Valladares
Efron became acquainted with Valladares as she worked as a waitress at the Byron Bay’s General Store café in Australia in the year 2020. The two hit it off and began dating for a period of 10 months, and even moved into a home together before separating the romance in April 2021.
13. Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman
Hathaway was just out of her relationship when she first was introduced to her co-star actress Shulman at the time of their meeting in. The two did go out to New Orleans together to attend the screening of Rachel getting Married and Hathaway was able to tell that she “fell attracted like a fool” according to her interview with People in the year 2011. The couple got married in 2012 and were married for the past year.
14. Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim
Cage first met Kim in 2004 in an Los Angeles restaurant called Kabuki which Kim was a waitress at. The couple got married two months after and ended up splitting in the year 2016.