They’ve been married for 17 years and it looks like there’s still plenty of romance left between Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely Shaye Smith. The loved up duo walked the red carpet together at Cannes on Thursday, and even shared a smooch for the cameras and they posed at the glamorous amfAR Gala at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc.
While the former James Bond actor looked dashing in a classic tuxedo, it was Keely who stole the show in a stunning floor-length gown and black lace shawl.
Keely, who is a journalist and former model, paired her gorgeous dress with a statement jewelled necklace and kept her long her down for the occasion.
The couple was joined at the event by a host of other celebrities, including musician Sting, and model Heidi Klum. The gala was just one of the amfAR events held every year to raise money for AIDS research.
Pierce and Keely, who is the actor’s second wife, have been married since 2001 and share two children together, sons, Dylan 20, and Paris 17.
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Pierces’s first wife, Cassandra Harris, died from ovarian cancer in 1991, leaving Pierce a single father to their son, Sean, and Cassandra’s two children from her previous marriage, whom Pierce adopted after their father died in 1986.
Tragedy struck the family again in 2013 when, at just 42, Charlotte sadly lost her battle with the same disease that claimed her mother’s life.
Speaking to Esquire in 2017, Pierce said that losing his wife and daughter caused him to have a negative outlook on life for many years.
“I don’t look at the cup as half full, believe me,” he told the magazine. “The dark, melancholy Irish black dog sits beside me from time to time.”
His own childhood wasn’t a bed of roses either, and the Irish-born actor has been open in the past about his rough upbringing. His father walked out on the family when Pierce was just a baby and his mother left to work in London a few years later, effectively leaving him as an orphan.
Hhe was shipped between relatives before being sent to a boarding house, where he slept on a “metal bed with a curtain around it.”
“My fatherly instincts are purely my own. They relate back to no one, because there was no one,” he told Esquire.
“I only met [my father] Tom the once, I had a Sunday afternoon with him. A story about this and that, had a few pints of Guinness, and we said goodbye. I would have loved to have known him. He was a good whistler and he had a good walk…. That’s as much as I know about him.”