Oscar winners Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n
“I love you today as I did then,” Zeta-Jones, from Swansea, said in an Instagram post showing photos of the couple over the years.<\/p>\n
The pair got married at a star-studded event at the Plaza Hotel<\/a> in New York on 18 November 2000. <\/p>\n Douglas published his own Instagram post<\/a> paying tribute to “my darling Catherine”, adding “Who knew?” <\/p>\n 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 In 2019, Douglas joined her for an event where Zeta-Jones was given the honorary freedom<\/a> of the City and County of Swansea. <\/p>\n During the ceremony, Zeta-Jones described the award as “a real honour”.<\/p>\n