Madonna and Guy Ritchie

Age difference: 10 years

Having spent most of her young adult life moulding herself into the most successful female artist of all time while dating the likes of Sean Penn, Warren Beatty and Dennis Rodman, Madonna finally decided to settle down with a moderately successful film director from Hatfield called Guy.

They met through mutual friends Sting and Trudie Styler before getting married in 2000.

The pair and their three children divide their time between a house in Marylebone and a country estate in Wiltshire.