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Guy Ritchie
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Name: Guy Ritchie
Born: 10/09/1968 (Age: 41)
From: London, UK
Famous for: He was married to the world's biggest popstar
Relationship status: Divorced (See above)

All About this Star

In a nutshell

Guy Ritchie was born on September 10, 1968 in Hatfield in Hertfordshire, the son of an advertising executive called John Ritchie.

He left school with one - just ONE! - GCE (you can tell it was a while ago, they missed the S out) but, luckily for fans of gun-shooting, masculine movies, his qualification was in film studies. Hooray!

It's never easy to enter your chosen career path straight away, though. After all, we were stuck cleaning toilets until Tiscali asked us to profile your favourite celebs. And Richie was no different, spending time working on a building site until, for whatever reason (perhaps his outstanding GCE result) he was spurred into going to work as a runner in the 'movie industry'. We're still not sure what 'runners' actually DO, but it was a start.

Guy managed to get one of his short films broadcast by Channel 4 and this was the start of his road to the 'big time'.

His first major film (and possibly his only decent one) was Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It got decent reviews, a few of you went to see it and so Guy continued to release a few films about guns and gangsters and stuff, with Snatch and Revolver two you might have heard of.

Although he's a director, most people know Guy because he's married to a little-known singer called Madonna. They met at a fabulous party held by Sting and his wife Trudy Styler and it wasn't long until they were married. In 2000 they had their first son who they named Rocco.

Perhaps mixing love with work wasn't the best idea, though - Madonna starred in the film everybody loved to hate (hang on, lets just call it hated full-stop), Swept Away. It absolutely bombed at the box office and we all hoped Madonna learnt her lesson.

But we all know how it ended - Guy and Madonna divorced in 2007.She's moved onto Jesus...

Did you know?

Guy's got a black belt in Judo. So don't slag off his films or he might come and chop-chop you...

Gallery


  • Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie split with Madonna last summer after months of rumours about their crumbling marriage. But he's back on the market already – enjoying romantic beachfront strolls in Malibu with model Jasmine Waltz.

  • As marriage splits go, this was the big one. Wed in a lavish ceremony at a castle in Scotland in 2000, Queen of Pop Madonna and filmmaker Guy Ritchie were dogged with divorce rumours for months this summer – and finally confirmed their marriage was over in October. With lightning speed, the divorce was granted in November.

    By December 15, 2008, the couple had agreed a divorce settlement, the terms of which grant Richie between £50million and £60million, a figure that includes the value of the couple's country house in England.
  • Madonna was so obsessed with soaking up traditional English life after her marriage to Guy Ritchie that the couple bought the Punchbowl pub in
London's Mayfair. Given their impending divorce, maybe they should
rename it the Wig and Pen...

    Madonna was so obsessed with soaking up traditional English life after her marriage to Guy Ritchie that the couple bought the Punchbowl pub in London's Mayfair. Given their impending divorce, maybe they should rename it the Wig and Pen...

  • To celebrate the release of her new album Hard Candy, Guy Ritchie treated his wife Madonna to a one-off £10,000 bejewelled ice pick designed by Jade Jagger - to match her limited-edition Jade Jagger dagger.

  • To celebrate the release of her new album Hard Candy, Guy Ritchie treated his wife Madonna to a one-off £10,000 bejewelled ice pick designed by Jade Jagger - to match her limited-edition Jade Jagger dagger.
  • The opportunity to pop out for a quiet meal with your loved one simply 
doesn't exist if you're a global megastar like Madonna. But far from 
ruing their very public marriage, Madonna and Guy Ritchie smile at the 
sea of cameras flashing in their faces as their exit a car in London.

    The opportunity to pop out for a quiet meal with your loved one simply doesn't exist if you're a global megastar like Madonna. But far from ruing their very public marriage, Madonna and Guy Ritchie smile at the sea of cameras flashing in their faces as their exit a car in London.
  • Guy Ritchie might be married to the Queen of Pop, but he looks like the 
King of Flops during a break in Tel Aviv, Israel.

    Guy Ritchie might be married to the Queen of Pop, but he looks like the King of Flops during a break in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie in happier times. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

    Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie in happier times.

    (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
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