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Russell Crowe won’t be saying “I do” for a second time.
During a candid interview with Australia’s 60 Minutes that aired on Sunday, Nov. 2, the actor, 61, shared that he has no plans to marry again amid his romance with girlfriend Britney Theriot.
Addressing ongoing speculation that the pair are engaged, Crowe told journalist Karl Stefanovic, “All these reports keep coming out saying that Britney and I are engaged and I’m going to get married again.”
“No,” he said emphatically, before opening up about his relationship with Theriot, 33. “We are very, very good friends, and we have a wonderful relationship. My life is so joyous and happy at the moment — why ruin that with a wedding?”
“Why would I go through… I’ve been married once,” Crowe continued, referring to his nine-year union with ex-wife Danielle Spencer. “I know how it can go and where it can go. So I don’t need to go to that place.”
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After Stefanovic jokingly asked, “Where’s the romance in you?” the Gladiator star replied: “Do you know how romantic it is to be boyfriend and girlfriend? Wherever you are in the world, you know?”
He said that “having that slight thing, that means you got to keep respecting each other and waking up with a smile.”
“And we do — this is something that is fascinating to me — we do everything together,” Crowe revealed. “We’re very happy, man. It’s a very positive life.”
He then reiterated, “But no, I’m not going to get married again. Doing it once is cool, great, you know. But I don’t want to do it again.”
Crowe and Theriot, a former actress who now works as a real estate agent, have been dating since 2020. They reportedly met on the set of Broken City in 2013. They weren’t romantically linked until November 2020, when they were spotted getting affectionate on the tennis court, as seen in photos published by the Daily Mail.
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They made their red carpet debut as a couple in October 2022, attending the premiere of Crowe’s movie Poker Face in Rome, Italy.
During a February 2024 interview with PEOPLE, the Nuremberg star recounted a romantic moment that he and Theriot shared, describing it as “like a scene from a movie.” He said he and his band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, had just played a show in the Czech Republic, and the couple were at an afterparty in an underground nightclub.
“I struggled through a packed bar to get to the restroom. Trying to avoid the crowd on the way back, I took a shortcut across the dance floor,” Crowe remembered. “Halfway across it, I bumped into my girlfriend, Britney. Naturally, she thought I’d come there to find her.”
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He continued: “So I took her into my arms and we danced. Using the type of moves my old man would, spinning her around and bringing her back. Her eyes were sparkling with the fun of it all. For a couple of minutes, [everyone] stopped and watched. It was like a scene from a movie.”
After separating in 2012, Crowe and ex Spencer finalized their divorce in 2018. They share two sons: Charles, 21, and Tennyson, 19.
