Nineteen years together or 6,992 days together: The longest celebrity engagements

• Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt – 6,992 days together

This is the number that the couple themselves released to announce that, after 19 years together, they would finally walk up the church steps. The 60-year-old Yeohwho won an Oscar for her performance in the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and 77-year-old Todt, former Ferrari team principal, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony in Geneva. Although Todt proposed to Yeoh two months after they met, it wasn’t until this summer that they decided to tie the knot.

• Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez

The Portuguese footballer proposed to then-unknown Rodriguez in November 2018. Five years and thousands of headlines later, Rodriguez says she still wants to marry Ronaldo. “It’s not up to me, but I hope so“, he stated in the Netflix documentary.

• Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom – A helicopter…

It was there that the “Lord of the Rings” star proposed to the singer in 2019. Although they had planned to marry in Japan a year later, the wedding was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Today, they are still waiting for the right time to get married.

• Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham

The celebrity presenter and self-help expert announced their engagement in 1992, but never married. Oprah later admitted that if they had gotten married, they wouldn’t still be together. “I didn’t want the sacrifices, the compromises, the daily commitment required to make a marriage work. My life with the show was my priority and we both knew it,” he wrote in an essay.

• Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid

The actress made famous by Monica Geller on “Friends” and the Snow Patrol musician have been together for a decade. After getting engaged in 2014, they broke up a few months later. The separation, however, did not last long and in 2016 they found each other again. According to Cox, they don’t want to get married.