{"id":36176,"date":"2025-10-23T06:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jamie-oliver-says-this-is-the-key-to-making-a-25-year-marriage-work\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:11:33","slug":"jamie-oliver-says-this-is-the-key-to-making-a-25-year-marriage-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jamie-oliver-says-this-is-the-key-to-making-a-25-year-marriage-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Oliver says this is the key to making a 25-year marriage work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68f9adcc599d46a4ccc0b065?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Jamie Oliver\"\/><figcaption>Jamie Oliver<\/p>\n<p>Weiss Eubanks\/NBCUniversal<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Jamie Oliver says that a bit of &quot;tension&quot; is key to his 25-year marriage.<\/li>\n<li>Oliver first met his wife when they were teenagers. Now, they have five kids together.<\/li>\n<li>What matters most is &quot;not to hold grudges, and to try to communicate as much as possible,&quot; he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jamie Oliver&#039;s secret to 25 years of marriage? A whole lot of love with just a dash of tension.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I wouldn&#039;t be the first to say opposites attract,&quot; the celebrity chef told Good Housekeeping in an interview published on Tuesday. &quot;We get on very well and we genuinely like each other, but we&#039;re also very different. That can create a certain tension, but it also seems to work, and I feel very blessed to have had 25 years.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Oliver first met his wife, Juliette &quot;Jools&quot; Norton, when they were teenagers. The couple married in 2000 and shares five kids.<\/p>\n<p>But even after all this time together, Oliver says marriage takes work, and they&#039;re &quot;just wrestling through like anyone else.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What matters most is &quot;not to hold grudges, and to try to communicate as much as possible,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver added that &quot;sometimes it doesn&#039;t matter who&#039;s right or wrong&quot; because, ultimately, he just wants his wife to be happy.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2021 appearance on the &quot;12 Questions&quot; podcast, Oliver said his wife, daughters \u2014 and the women he works with \u2014 help keep his ego in check.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And they don&#039;t sit there telling me how great I am all day, let&#039;s just put it that way. They keep me in check, as well as my wife. And now my daughters,&quot; Oliver said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to People in April, Oliver credited his wife for holding down the fort at home.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think it hasn&#039;t been easy, and we&#039;ve had a few bumps here and there, but on the whole, so far, so good. And probably most of that credit should go to Jools, but I&#039;d like to think I&#039;m a good dad,&quot; Oliver said.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Oliver did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver isn&#039;t the only celebrity who has spoken about the ways they maintain strong relationships with their spouses.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Lowe, who has been married to Sheryl Berkoff for over 30 years, said he goes to couples therapy with her regularly because &quot;it&#039;s like taking your car in and making sure the engine&#039;s running great.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Grammar said thinking of love as a &quot;contact sport&quot; is the key to his 14-year marriage to his wife, Kayte Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Once in a while, you got to back it up with some action,&quot; Grammar said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Oliver Weiss Eubanks\/NBCUniversal Jamie Oliver says that a bit of &quot;tension&quot; is key to his 25-year marriage. Oliver first met his wife when they were teenagers. Now, they have five kids together. What matters most is &quot;not to hold grudges, and to try to communicate as much as possible,&quot; he said. 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