6. Harrison Ford & Calista Flockhart
Now 83, Harrison Ford used all his life experience to forge a happy 15-year marriage with 61-year-old Calista Flockhart – and it all began with spilled glass of wine at an after-party.
“She spilled wine on me, or I spilled wine on her or something, and that sort of sealed the deal,” he recalled.
Ford also believes romance has no expiration date: “Old people can love, too. You know, you think about falling in love and all of that business, you think it’s the business of youth or something, and staying in love is the issue. Maintaining, nurturing, basically, not f*cking up.”
Flockhart added: “We’ve had to work. We’ve had our ups, we’ve had downs like everybody else – mostly ups, which is good – and we just stay together. He’s the person that I want to call when something happens. That knee-jerk thing where I have to call Harrison.”
5. Tom Selleck & Jillie Mack
Tom Selleck, now 80, secretly married actress Jillie Mack, 68, in 1987 – but the secret behind their happiness is no secret at all.
“I get up before Jillie and put on the tea kettle, so when she gets up, her tea water is hot,” Selleck said. “I think I’m pretty romantic.”
He gushed: “Jillie has this sort of joie de vivre – this effervescent quality that just lights up a room. Apart from being my wife, she’s my friend.”
They also escaped the spotlight to a 65-acre ranch in Hidden Valley, Calif. – once owned by Dean Martin – where they raise horses and avocados. Said Selleck: “It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.”