Jamie Lee Curtis lifts lid on secret to 40-year marriage to Christopher Guest

Jamie Lee Curtis is spilling the beans on the secret to her and husband Christopher Guest’s 40-year marriage

The actress, 66, made an appearance on Today this Wednesday ahead of her 40th wedding anniversary which arrives on December 18.

The conversation with show co-host Hoda Kotb turned to Curtis’ relationship with the 76-year-old This is Spinal Tap director as Kotb asked, “Do you guys just keep growing together? What is it?”

“You know what, it is that,” the Halloween actress began. “Ultimately, Chris wasn’t a director when I married him, I wasn’t a writer. Chris wasn’t a producer when I married him, I wasn’t a producer when he married me. We have grown into these new jobs that we’ve done.”

“He still makes me laugh more than any human being and I’m sure there’s something about me that he likes,” she added.

Curtis, who married Guest in 1984 after only dating for six months, recalled in a previous interview how their whirlwind romance began with an awkward start.

“I called his agent and left my number, he never called me,” she recounted during the December 3 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! show.

“We ran into each other in a restaurant, he kind of went like this [wave], I went like this [wave], he called me the next day. We went out.”

Jamie also recounted how Guest first randomly teased a proposal over a payphone before going to “Cartier to buy this very ring on my finger.”

“He was shooting SNL in New York and I was shooting the movie Perfect. I was on something called a payphone where you put quarters in and I remember we were speaking and I said, ‘What did you do today?'” Curtis quipped. 

“And then in typical boy fashion, ‘Do you like diamonds?’ Now, I’m telling the truth. So then he came out to Los Angeles and… Well, he proposed in a more private and intimate way.” The couple went on to have two daughters Annie, 38, and Ruby, 26.

On the work front, Curtis is filming the Freaky Friday sequel with Lindsay Lohan and also appears alongside Pamela Anderson in the new film The Last Showgirl. She also co-produced Prime Video’s new series The Sticky.