Meet Christopher Guest, Jamie Lee Curtis’ husband of 40 years. He’s famous for his mockumentary turns in This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show – but did you know the actor is also a baron?
Fresh from winning her first Emmy for The Bear, Curtis shared that she and her husband don’t actually have much in common – that is, besides perseverance, patience, gentleness … and mutual hatred
Curtis, 65 – who will be celebrating her 40th wedding anniversary with Guest, 76, this December – got candid about her marriage in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“I’m sober for a long time, and we have a phrase in recovery: ‘If you stay on the bus, the scenery will change.’ And that’s marriage,” she said. “So I think perseverance, patience, gentleness – and a really good dose of hatred.”
“You’re going to hate each other. We’re human beings,” she continued. “Forty years, you’re going to hate each other, and so not leaving – not allowing that hatred to cause you to make some choice that you’re going to regret – I think that’s really the secret.”
“I’m the luckiest girl in the world. I’ve been an actor since I was 19. I’m 65. I sold yogurt that makes you s*** for seven years, and I just never thought in my life that I would get to do work at this level, depth, and complexity and intelligence,” Curtis told the assembled media after her win.
But what do we know about the man who gets to take the “luckiest girl” home at the end of the night?
Here’s everything to know about Christopher Guest.