Michael Caine’s story of how he discovered spouse of 52 years is ‘biggest love story ever informed’

Folks assume Michael Caine’s story of how he discovered his spouse Shakira is the ‘biggest love story ever informed’.

They have been married since 1973, and later that yr the couple welcomed their daughter, Natasha, however it began a couple of years earlier than that when the actor was watching TV.

As Caine tells it, he and his pal determined to present the disco a swerve one night time and stayed in to observe TV as an alternative, at which level the actor laid eyes on his future spouse.

“I noticed this woman on the tv in a industrial and fell in love immediately. It was a industrial for her for espresso in Brazil and the whole lot, ‘terrible lot of espresso in Brazil’ was the tune,” he mentioned on The Jonathan Ross Present.

“I simply watched her and I believed ‘that is the girl for me’ and I mentioned to my mate I mentioned ‘we will Brazil within the morning and we’re gonna discover her’.”

Later that night time, he did ultimately head all the way down to the disco when a pal got here as much as Caine and his mates and mentioned ‘you three, no women, what is going on on’.

The actor defined that he’d seen ‘a phenomenal woman on the tv’ and declared ‘and I’ll Brazil within the morning to search out her’.

His pal informed him ‘I have been watching tv all night, I by no means noticed any stunning women’, at which level Caine defined that he was speaking about one of many girls within the adverts.



As luck would have it, he was chatting with somebody who labored for the corporate that made the advert and will level him in the suitable path.

It was at this level that Caine was informed ‘Michael, she’s not Brazilian, she’s Indian and she or he lives on Fulham Highway’ and the proverbial apple of his eye turned out to be a lot nearer to house.

His pal handed alongside her quantity and Caine explained in a Wired interview in 2017 that his plan to seduce Shakira hit a snag as ‘she would not exit with me’, however he determined to be persevered as he ‘phoned her for 10 days and she or he would not exit with me’.

“However on the final day she did and we have by no means left one another since, and that is how I met my spouse,” Caine defined, and the remainder is 52 years of marriage.

His story has folks declaring they imagine in ‘love at first sight’, whereas others joked that with the rise of social media ‘he would fall in love each different day these days’.

Just a few others even shared their very own comparable love tales the place they thought somebody they had been inquisitive about ‘may very well be my future spouse’ and determined to go for it.