Is it even legal to be that cute?
Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford probably know some secret that makes their couple so
awe-inspiring.
Perhaps, that's because they were childhood pen pals?
Welcome to Rumour Juice!
In today's episode, we're going to find out how these two nurtured friendship while being
kids and what old-school rituals keep their fire burning.
Carey and Marcus were first linked in early 2011 when they were caught looking cozy together
at two different concerts.
But their love story reportedly began much earlier than that.
Before their courtship ended in a wedding, Mulligan and Mumford were childhood pen pals!
Too good to be true, right?
Well, rumor has it that they both attended a Christian church camp when they were about
12 years old and instantly became friends.
No wonder, Carey and Marcus both grew up in religious families and shared lots of interests.
It turns out that future stars corresponded via mail.
In her interview with The Guardian, Mulligan was hesitant to talk about their pen pal relationship
though she didn't deny that they had written to each other when they were young.
“Carey and Marcus began sending each other letters through their churches when they were
kids,” an insider once revealed.
Years later, the pen pals reunited in Nashville, Tennessee, at a secret Mumford & Sons show
that Carey attended with her pal Jake Gyllenhaal.
According to a source, “Marcus invited Carey to watch him play a secret show in the basement
of his friend Mike Harris’s home in Nashville.
She sat in the front row, and while he was singing, Marcus looked down at Carey, and
she blushed.
It was clear they had chemistry.”
What’s interesting, Mulligan was rumored to have a romance with Gyllenhaal exactly
at that time.
The famous actor had already broken up with the singer Taylor Swift.
The romance rumor mill first swung into action when the A-list pair were spotted cosying
up on a super-secret date night.
According to onlookers, Jake and Carey snuck into a small Mumford and Sons gig at a private
venue in Nashville – the home of Jake’s country singer ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
The twosome even had a late-night jam session.
"At the end of the night, there were just the musicians, Jake, Carey, and the Mumford
boys,” a source revealed in the interview.
"We had some pizza and just played music.
Jake picked up a guitar, and Carey joined in on “Amazing Grace.”
Marcus and Carey seemed really friendly."
But things took an unexpected turn.
Not satisfied to end things there, Carey and Marcus attended a secret Arcade Fire show
in New York City several days later.
"They were whispering to each other and enjoying the show," a source shared in the interview.
"They definitely seemed like a couple."
According to the media, they continued their evening at a private, members-only club.
If it’s true, then Mulligan and Gyllenhaal probably didn’t have a date on that night
when the actress reunited with her childhood pen pal?
At least, Carey and Jake never confirmed the dating rumors.
But we know one thing for sure – the famous actress already had Shia LaBeouf on her dating
list while she was at that game-changing Mumford & Sons show.
It turns out the couple broke up because LaBeouf wasn’t ready to move on to the next level.
He revealed they had differing lifestyles, and her desire to get married and have children
didn’t match his vision of the future.
In the interview, LaBeouf praised his famous ex but admitted that the relationship would
not have lasted because they were such different people.
He explained: "Carey is not just an actress, she is a great human being, a sweet girl and
super intelligent.
Our thing came down to not having compatible work/lifestyles...
We were always traveling and had sensibility differences that weren't conducive to living
with one another.
Speaking about her desire to settle down, the actor said: "She's happy as hell right
now, and we wouldn't have been able to make it like that.
She was chasing marriage, family, kids more than I was."
The Transformers actor and Mulligan dated for a year after meeting on the set of Wall
Street 2 in 2009, before calling it quits in October the following year.
So when Carey reunited with her childhood pen pal, it didn’t take long to determine
that she’d met her match.
Just one month after the pair began spending time together, they took things to the next
level.
In 2011, Carey moved from New York to live in the U.K., so that she was closer to Mumford.
It seems like Carey and Marcus are a match made in heaven.
A mere five months after being each other’s childhood sweethearts, they knew their marriage
was meant to be.
According to the tabloids, Marcus popped the question while vacationing with his paramour
in Somerset, England.
The couple tied the knot in the English countryside in 2012, just over one year after their budding
relationship made headlines.
More than 100 of the couple’s closest friends and family members (Jake Gyllenhaal, Sienna
Miller, and Colin Firth among them) gathered together in a quaint barn to watch the couple
exchange their vows.
Marcus’s father, John Mumford, who is a vicar, officiated the intimate ceremony.
The bride wore a backless ivory gown by Prada, the same designer who created her first Oscars
look.
Though they’ve made many public appearances together, the British couple prefers to keep
their private life out of the spotlight.
“Marcus is the only thing that’s mine that I can keep totally away, so I try to,”
Mulligan told in the interview with Vogue five months before welcoming daughter Evelyn.
The duo also shares son Wilfred, who arrived in 2017.
Carey and Marcus had so much love when they became parents.
And it looks like a fairy-tale romance even today.
The couple purchased a gorgeous 16th-century farmhouse in Devon, England.
As Carey's pal Sienna Miller would later tell Vogue, their life there would prove nothing
short of idyllic.
"They have chickens and a dog, and roasts and friends, jams by campfires.
Marcus can headline Glastonbury, and Carey can be nominated for however many Oscars.
And then they come back to their farm, they’re in big wooly jumpers and funny hats, raising
piglets.”
No doubt, it’s an amazing balance Carey and Marcus managed to strike.
Carey and Marcus even today share some of the old-fashioned rituals.
And it seems like their alleged pen pal past helps them keep their love alive.
Despite the distance and busy schedules, the couple celebrates their special romantic connection.
Mulligan once explained that she and Mumford write each other love letters, “I think
they’re becoming a lost art form, which is very sad.
To have a love letter from someone, to hold it in your hand and know that you can keep
it for your whole life…
well that’s an amazing thing.”
Seems like they've got something very special going on, and given each of their knacks for
the written word and creativity, there’s no doubt those letters must be epic.
Besides having similar tastes when it comes to being romantic, they also share a love
for charity work.
They revealed they're both work hard at being ambassadors for War Child UK and have traveled
to Congo to help the cause.
Yes, they keep their romantic life away from the spotlight, but when Mulligan and Mumford
make public appearances together, it’s always something special.
As personal friends of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Carey and Marcus were among the A-listers
who attended the royal wedding in 2018.
The couple even had a viral moment when a yawn escaped Marcus's lips on camera.
“We were convinced there were so many absurdly famous people that we were not gonna be on
camera at all,” Mulligan told Jimmy Kimmel later that year.
“And then, of course, it finishes, and we were allowed to turn our phones back on, and
we have 15,000 messages saying, ‘Marcus, you yawned on TV!’”
This past month, Mulligan hosted SNL.
In her monologue, she said it was great to be there because Mumford had played on the
show a couple of times.
He couldn't make it because he was at home with the kids.
Well, maybe not, because he appeared out of the crowd to say hi.
“I left them with the Sons!
I couldn’t miss this!
You’re going to smash it!
SNL!”
the singer responded to his wife before enquiring whether or not the show had booked a musical
guest for the night.
“If they end up needing anyone, I’m very happy to do it,” joked the father-of-two.
Even though Mulligan has said she likes to take roles that scare her because it's exciting,
it doesn't look like she took that approach with starting her relationship with Mumford.
She seemed completely at ease about it.
And it worked.
Thank god she doesn't share the same ideals as her character Daisy Buchannan either.
Carey and Marcus made a long journey to the place where they’re now.
They made it from childhood pen pals to a gorgeous couple and mature parents of two.
And just look how they combine their serene countryside idyll and celebrity life!
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