The couple, who have two children \u2013 Carys and Dylan – met at a film festival in France in August 1998.<\/p>\n
Douglas’ infamous chat-up line that first night was: “I want to be the father of your children.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve heard a lot about you, I’ve seen a lot about you and I think it’s time for me to say goodnight,” she said in response, Douglas told Jonathan Ross in 2016.<\/p>\n
In 2019, she recalled the moment, joking: “You know what the worst thing is? He was right.”<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Zeta-Jones said people said the marriage “would never last”, describing the 25th anniversary as “really quite thrilling”.<\/p>\n
Douglas has regularly travelled to his wife’s native country, saying he was enamoured by the people and countryside but described the Welsh weather as “brutal”.<\/a><\/p>\n Zeta-Jones began her career on the London stage before starring in the television adaptation of The Darling Buds of May, which aired in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n But it was in Hollywood and on Broadway where she became an international star.<\/p>\n In 2003 she won best supporting actress for her role in the hit musical Chicago and a Tony award for her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. In 2010 she was appointed a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.<\/p>\n