Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor’s real-life romance has a sweet ‘Meet the Parents’ connection

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The couple married in 2000, separated 17 years later and reconciled during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christine Taylor revealed that her husband, Ben Stiller, pulled off a surprise proposal while filming “Meet the Parents” — and it had a sweet connection to the movie’s plot.

The “Brady Bunch Movie” star told Page Six that Stiller was preparing to pop the question while shooting the 2000 comedy, just as his character, Greg Focker, was planning to do the same.

“The story is simultaneous [with our lives],” Taylor told Page Six at the “Focker-in-Law” premiere on Wednesday. “He was getting ready to propose to me as he was shooting. He was literally asking my dad for my hand in marriage, unbeknownst to me, so it was a little bit of life imitating art.”

“But as Ben has said before, my dad wasn’t quite as intimidating as Bob De Niro’s character!” she joked.

Taylor, 55, revealed that Stiller, 60, surprised her while she was in Los Angeles and she believed he was in New York rehearsing for “Meet the Parents.”

Unbeknownst to her, the “Zoolander” star had flown to LA and arranged for her friends and family to gather at her home while she was at the movies.

“I was driving to my house, and oh, my garage clicker isn’t working, and oh, shoot, I’ve got to park the car and go in the front door, and when I started to walk up the front steps, the door was open, rose petals were lining the rooms,” Taylor remembered.

“He had flown in; my whole family was involved. I couldn’t believe it,” she added. “I really pride myself on…it’s very hard to surprise me, let’s put it that way.”

The couple met on set in 1999 and tied the knot the following year. They share two children, daughter Ella, 24, and son Quinn, 21, and have starred in several movies together, including “Zoolander.”

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