With actor Greg Wise having been signed up for this year’s Strictly, viewers can expect to see his wife Emma Thompson cheering him from the audience.Now proud parents to two grown up children, they have one of the strongest partnerships in Hollywood. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter. You can sign up at the top of the page Emma met Greg on the set of the film Sense and Sensibility in 1995 when she was 36 and he was 29.
"He assumed it wasn't me because I was married and quite a lot older than him so he thought it might be Kate. He took her to Glastonbury, and she was so bored, and he thought, 'This isn't going to work, who can it be?'" Emma was previously married to Kenneth Branagh for five years before they split, citing conflicting work schedules as the reason the relationship broke down. Emma hinted at the rumour when she said that real life experiences influenced her Love Actually role, of playing a cheated on partner.Emma once told Radio 4, “Work saved me and Greg saved me. He picked up the pieces and put them together again.
According to The Telegraph, Emma declared at the time, "This for me is heaven. It has been a wonderful day”, before joking, "We'll need to get inside, Greg has got no knickers on."