Michael Caine has never cheated on his wife of 35 years

Michael Caine is such a sweet old guy. He recently sat down for an interview with The Daily Mirror, and he mostly talked about how much he loves his wife of 35 years, Shakira Caine. It’s actually Caine’s second marriage, but the way he talks about Shakira, it makes me a little swoony.

Micheal Caine is a two-time Oscar winner who has starred in films with some of the most beautiful and talented women in the world. He says that he enjoys working with these beautiful women, but that his greatest “temptation” was always at home – his wife. Shakira was a beauty queen and then a jewelry designer (before everyone was designing jewelry), but now she simply travels when Michael travels, and stays home when he’s home, so they can always be together. Here’s part of The Daily Mirror’s interview:

Since finding fame as a cocky womaniser in Alfie, Michael Caine has worked with some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

But he has only ever had eyes for one leading lady – his wife Shakira. For 35 years their marriage has been rock solid and they have been inseparable. Michael is justifiably proud that he has never strayed – despite temptation being constantly thrown in his path.

“I was always doing love scenes with very beautiful women,” says Michael, 75.

“You can go on the set and there’ll be one of the most beautiful women in the world and the director will say, ‘Take your clothes off and get into bed.’

“That could be a great temptation so I decided that I would never marry a woman who wasn’t as beautiful as the women I was working with. And I married a woman who, in actual fact, is more beautiful than most women I have worked with, so all the temptation was at home, not at work.”

With a throaty cackle, he adds: “So I rush home to get some temptation.”

Michael fell for Shakira, a former Miss Guyana, after spotting her in a Maxwell House ad. Intrigued, he got her number from a friend who worked in advertising. After several calls, she agreed to meet him.

Today they are as devoted as ever, happy to spend time together at their home, a 200-year-old converted barn in the Surrey countryside – their daughter, Natasha, 35, a model turned interior designer and property developer, long since flew the coop.

“I’m deliriously happy,” says Michael, whose first marriage to actress Patricia Haines ended in 1957. “I love the house. I’m very happy there and I’m a real family man. I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home. People ask me, ‘Where do you go for your holidays?’ I say, ‘I go home.’”

“My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we’re still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.”

From The Daily Mirror

I’ve seen Shakira on Michael’s arm at various red carpets, and she is very stunning, and always dressed elegantly. She’s got a very regal, almost haughty look, but you can tell that they’re still really in love. The story of how they met is very sweet too – I wonder if she even knew who Michael Caine was when he called her up.

Michael Caine and Shakira are shown in file photos from 2007 and 2008. Credit: WENN

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