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1. In 2004 she told the Associated Press that "it was love at first sight" when this couple met on a blind date. Their wedding in 2003 was featured on MTV's "Til Death Do Us Part", however the marriage only lasted three years. Who was this sex symbol and her musician husband?
2. Nikki Webster and Matthew McMah met on a blind date on Australia Day in 2010 and Matthew proposed marriage in Fiji in January of 2011. Nikki became famous as a 13-year-old when she had a prominent role in the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening ceremony. Before her marriage she had a relationship with her partner Sasha Farber on what show?
3. Do you remember the redheaded boy from "The Partridge Family" who grew up to become a radio DJ and reality TV star? Well he met his wife, Gretchen Hillmer, on a blind date on November 4 (my parents' anniversary) in 1990. The stranger thing is that they got married the same day they met! Who was this redheaded celebrity?
4. Speaking of child TV stars, Jerry Mathers' third marriage was to a TV producer, Teresa Modnick, whom he met on a blind date arranged by his sister. What show was Jerry the star of?
5. Kaley Cuoco of "The Big Bang Theory", met the former pro tennis player on a blind date in 2013, and he immediately moved in with her. Three months later they were engaged, and three months after that they married. 21 months after that they divorced. She had their wedding dated tattooed on her back: XII XXXI XIII. Who was her beau in this tennis match with a score of Love/Love? (Sorry, but I couldn't resist).
6. And speaking of tennis pros, Pete Sampras saw actress Bridgette Wilson for the first time up on the movie screen in 1999. He commented to his friend that he would love to meet her, and his friend actually forged ahead and found out her phone number. She on the other hand didn't know who Sampras was, calling the match-up "the closest thing to a blind date I've ever been on" after her sister urged her to ahead and meet him. He proposed 9 months later. What screwball dark comedy movie did Sampras spot her in?
7. Switching sports now to basketball, Michael Jordan met his wife Juanita Vanoy on a blind date in 1984. They married in 1989, and it was a rocky road as they divorced and then reconciled and then divorced again in a settlement that at the time in 2007 would become the largest celebrity divorce settlement of all time at $168 million. That unfortunate record has since been broken. Several times. In fact all of the following celebrities had divorce settlements in excess of $100 million EXCEPT for whom?
8. Nightclub owner Rande Gerber met his future wife in the early 90s on a blind date. He had an old friend, the agent of this famous actress, whom Gerber would eventually marry. The old friend was getting married, and Gerber didn't have a date to take to the wedding. The famous actress was invited but her boyfriend at the time (Richard Gere) didn't want to go. So Gerber's friend set the two of them up attend together as friends. The two talked and drank and Gerber fell in love at first sight. Unfortunately for him, the actress married her boyfriend soon after. The two managed to keep in touch and when she got divorced she and Gerber met up and rekindled the magic. Who is his wife?
9. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady split from his girlfriend Bridget Moynahan in December 2006 around the time she became pregnant, which she formally announced three months later. Brady told "Details" magazine that he was set up on a blind date with a supermodel shortly afterwards, and they eventually married in Santa Monica, California, in February 2009. Who is she?
10. To conclude, a beautiful pair of celebrities - a pair for the ages. The late great David Bowie and supermodel Iman met at a dinner party in 1990. Bowie would say, "That she would be my wife, in my head, was a done deal...I'd never gone after anything in my life with such passion in all my life. I just knew she was the one." They had one child. What is that child's name?
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