Relive Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone's 24-Year Love Story

McCarthy and Falcone officially met 10 years later at The Groundlings, an improv and sketch comedy theatre in LA. They had signed up for the same comedy writing class, and McCarthy immediately took a liking to Falcone after watching his improv on day one of the course. “Ben got up there and was so quiet and was just very peculiar,” she revealed in an October 2018 episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” “He was playing an inmate that really liked his new roommate. He kept calling it a roommate, I believe. And he was so quiet. And I realized that everybody, myself included, we had all, like – we were leaning forward, listening. And he’s the only one that went really quiet. And I immediately was like, ‘Oh, he’s strange. I like him.’ And we were friends from, like, day one.”

During a June 2022 appearance on “The Late Late Show,” the couple shared that they knew pretty early into their after-class hang out at the dive bar, The Snake Pit, that they had a connection. “I knew I was pretty sweet on him, for sure, like from day one. He was the only person I was like, ‘I like you. That’s it. I’m done. I’m done shopping,'” McCarthy told James Cordon.

McCarthy and Falcone shared the screen in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s beloved dramedy, “Gilmore Girls.” While McCarthy starred in the show as the talented chef and Lorelai Gilmore’s best friend, Sookie St. James, for its seven-season run, Falcone made a cameo in season three, episode 20, titled “Say Goodnight, Gracie.” Playing Mr Brinke, a lawyer attending Fran’s funeral, Falcone shared a scene with McCarthy in the episode.

In Jan 2007, McCarthy and Falcone announced they were expecting their first baby together. “We are so excited about the baby,” McCarthy told People, adding, “I hope the baby has a lot of Ben’s calm traits and less of my spazzy ones.” On May 5, 2007, the “Life Of The Party” actress and Falcone welcomed a baby girl, who they named Vivian Falcone.

The pair announced they had welcomed their second daughter, Georgette, into the world on March 22, 2010. At the time, McCarthy was gearing up to film the CBS sitcom “Mike & Molly” and returned to the set only four months after giving birth to Georgette.

In a June 2022 interview with E! News, McCarthy opened up about her daughters’ potential acting careers. “I think we both just want them to do something they really love and to feel good about themselves doing it,” she said. “It could be a gecko catcher in the Galapagos Islands or could be acting or – they’re both very artistic. So, I just want them to be happy and to kind of lead with kindness.”

When McCarthy’s sidesplitting performance in “Bridesmaids” earned an Oscar nomination, the couple hit the red carpet at the 2012 ceremony all smiles. Though McCarthy lost the Best Supporting Actress category to Octavia Spector for her leading role in “The Help”, McCarthy and Falcone’s loved-up snaps from the red carpet were the real winners of the night.

“Tammy” marked the first big project where the husband and wife juggled many creative roles – the pair co-wrote and coproduced the road comedy, with McCarthy starring in the lead role and Falcone at the helm. The movie was released under their production company, On the Day, which the Hollywood couple launched in 2013. Talk about power couple goals!

After years of creating magic in Hollywood movies as a couple, the duo returned to the small screen with the comedy series “Nobodies.” McCarthy and Falcone play themselves in the show, in which a group of actors/comedians struggle to hit it big while their fellow Groundlings members have achieved fame and fortune before them.

McCarthy and Falcone celebrated 13 years of marriage – and 20 wonderful years together – with a perfect night in at their home. However, they weren’t alone and didn’t seem to mind it all that much. “We had a very romantic evening at our house with Richard E. Grant, which I thought was kind of lovely,” McCarthy spilled on “The Ellen Show.” McCarthy described her “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” costar as “the most delightful person on Earth.” “But he found out on the way home. He’s like, wait, ‘Is this our anniversary?’ I’m like, ‘Yes. You’re the gift.’ And then we just ate hamburgers,” she said.

When asked about the presents they exchanged to mark the occasion, McCarthy gave her spouse a Jitterbug, or as she explained, “phone for senior citizens.” Falcone, on the other hand, swept her beau off her feet with “two beautiful rings, one that said ‘Love.'”

“So I need to work on my romance skills, I think,” McCarthy joked.

You know what they say about how couples eventually morph into one another over time. That seemed to be the case for the McCarthy and Falcone who showed up at the Vanity Fair Oscars Afterparty wearing matching Adidas tracksuits.

McCarthy was behind the creative wardrobe choice, but Falcone was so into the idea that he was on board instantly. “I just thought, like, ‘Should we change?’ And I was like, “Oh, I have an idea!'” McCarthy told Entertainment Reporter about the outfit switch.

“When I heard that, I was like, ‘Oh, God, yes. 150 per cent yes; let’s do this,'” Falcone added. Rocking a comfy coordinated athleisure outdoors has got to be an advanced level rite of passage in a relationship, and these two are the living proof of it!