Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt: no ordinary Mr & Mrs Smith

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How they met
There's nothing strange about falling for someone at work: many happy marriages begin at the office. But when your office is a film-set and you're filming raunchy sex scenes rather than making eyes at each other at the coffee machine, and one of you happens to be married to Jennifer Aniston, it gets complicated. In case you didn't know, Brad and Angelina met on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2004 when they played married assassins hired to kill each other, and while it was pretty obvious to anyone within a 6-mile radius that the co-stars were growing close on set, they insist they only realised they wanted a relationship when filming ended and they realised they had fallen for each other in a big way. Whatever happened, Brad divorced poor Jen, shacked up with Ange and her brood, and the rest, as they say, is history...  

The keys to their relationship 
She's smouldeing, pillow-lipped and impossibly beautiful in a very mysterious way; he's blond, blue-eyed, and impossibly gorgeous in a very Hollywood way. You have to admit, Brad and Angelina do look good together on the red carpet. Famous for their humanitarian work as well as their acting skills, Brad and Angelina spent a large part of 2006 travelling and on missions, visiting schools, charities and organisations around the globe, in India (where they filmed A Mighty Heart, about the life of assassinated journalist Daniel Pearl) and in Angelina's beloved Africa.

Why they love each other
Brad and Angie both champion humanitarian causes worldwide and they both get heavily involved in causes they care about (Angelina's a UN ambassador). They have a famous 'rainbow family' comprising Maddox from Cambodia, Zahara from Ethiopia, Pax from Vietnam, and three biological children, two-year-old Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne. Ange has more than fulfilled Brad's longing for a family after his childless marriage to Jennifer Aniston. The family have led a fairly nomadic lifestyle so far but have now settled in New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricaine Katrina in 2005.