John Corbett and Wife Bo Derek’s Relationship Timeline: How They Met and Beyond
03.08.2023 - 21:27
/ usmagazine.com
While John Corbett’s Sex and the City character, Aidan Shaw, has an on-again, off-again romance with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), his real-life relationship with wife Bo Derek is steady and supportive.
The duo met when Corbett told his friend Norby Walters, a Hollywood agent, that he needed a date to an Oscars party. During a joint appearance on Today in 2015, Corbett noted that he found the actress “intimidating” at first. Derek, however knew she liked the And Just Like That actor “instantly.”
Keep scrolling for a look at Corbett and Derek’s love story over the years:
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The twosome were introduced by a mutual friend after Corbett expressed his need for a date to an Oscars party. Prior to meeting Corbett, Bo was married to actor and director John Derek from 1976 until he died of congestive heart failure at age 71 in 1998.
During a 2020 interview with Fox News, Bo described her first husband’s death as “an enormous loss,” saying, “The air just gets sucked out of the room when you lose your partner. So, I wallowed in that for a while.”
Bo added that she “didn’t expect to end up with anyone again.” However, that changed when she met Corbett.
“It was just an attraction, a comfort,” she said of the their initial bond. “He makes me laugh all the time. He’s full of life, full of joy. I became attracted to him and I still am. We take things day by day and I think we are still there.”
The private pair shed more light on their romance during a joint appearance on Today in July. Bo described their dynamic as a “day to day relationship” before sharing that she “hadn’t dated in five years” when she met Corbett.
“I kept saying to my friends, ‘I’ll wait until the sparks and all