Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Turn the 2026 Met Gala Into a Glam Date Night
Sparked on the set of Heat Vision and Jack, a never-aired 1999 pilot, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor’s romance raced to a wedding, stretched 17 years before a public detour, and now looks headed for a Hollywood happy ending.
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor have one of those Hollywood relationships that took a detour and still found its way back. It starts with a bizarre-sounding pilot that never aired, hits a rough patch 17 years in, and ends (so far) with a low-key, genuinely happy reunion.
The quick version
- 1999: They meet filming a TV pilot called Heat Vision and Jack. It never made it to air.
- 2000: They get married.
- May 2017: After 17 years of marriage, they announce they are separating.
- October 2018: Taylor, then on Search Party, sidesteps questions about a reconciliation.
- 2019: They show up at the Emmy Awards together, looking very much back on, according to an eyewitness who said they were happy and basically inseparable all night.
- February 2022: They confirm they are officially back together.
Rewind to the beginning: Stiller and Taylor met on Heat Vision and Jack in 1999, a would-be series that has a culty reputation despite never airing. They clicked, got married the next year, and stayed together for nearly two decades.
In May 2017, they publicly called time on the marriage. No scorched-earth press tour, no messy back-and-forth — just a clean break on paper while they kept things steady for their two kids, Ella and Quinn.
By late 2018, the question everyone had was: are they or aren’t they? Taylor wasn’t giving it up. Asked point-blank if they were officially back together, she offered this carefully vague answer:
'We're a big family. We're together all the time.'
Pressed on how friendly things seemed post-split, she smiled it off as wonderful. Then came the tell: in 2019 they hit the Emmys side by side and, per someone who was there, looked happy and barely left each other's side. Not exactly ironclad proof, but you didn’t need a magnifying glass.
They kept working together here and there, kept things private, and kept co-parenting Ella and Quinn without making a spectacle out of any of it. Finally, in February 2022, they stopped playing coy and confirmed what their body language had been saying since awards season 2019: they were back on.
So no, it hasn’t been a straight line. But if you’re looking for a Hollywood love story that took a breather and came back stronger — this is that.