Jessica Biel and Chris Evans Relationship Timeline: 5 Years Collectively

The early aughts have been filled with nice celeb {couples} — Brad and Jen, Britney and Justin, Ben and Jen (Half 1) — however typically we’re simply as fascinated by those that flew slightly extra beneath the radar.

Years earlier than she married Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel was in a critical, long-term relationship with one other well-known heartthrob: Chris Evans.

Let’s look again at their relationship and determine if she liked him much more than she liked sporting denims and a pleasant prime to crimson carpet occasions.

The way it Began

Each events have been attempting to interrupt into films after they bought collectively after assembly on the younger Hollywood scene in 2001. Biel, then simply 19, was a well-known TV face thanks to 6 seasons on seventh Heaven, whereas Evans, then 20, had simply made Not One other Teen Film. Whereas the 2001 comedy  didn’t get the most effective opinions, it was successful with Biel. “He was fairly good earlier than … however rattling, he actually bought buff,” she instructed Additional.

How Lengthy it Lasted

A reasonably very long time for 2 youngsters barely out of their teenagers: they have been collectively for 5 years! Whereas the pair didn’t entice the identical degree of consideration as different {couples} of the period, they had fun collectively, usually PDA-ing at awards ceremonies and flip-phone launches (there have been lots of flip-phone launches again then, OK?).

Throughout the relationship, Evans additionally confirmed early indicators of being a future Marvel hero: the couple as soon as went skydiving to have fun Valentine’s day.

They made some films collectively, too. In 2004 thriller Mobile, they performed love pursuits Ryan and Chloe.  Evans instructed Boston Journal on the time, “Any time you get to work with somebody that you realize, it’s gonna lend itself to the on-set relationship. You must discover a sure degree of leisure when you’re attempting to carry out, and any time you may lean on an current relationship with somebody, it’s solely going to assist.”

Why it Ended

Regardless of hypothesis that marriage was within the playing cards, it didn’t occur: in 2006, nonetheless solely of their mid-twenties, they cut up.

They usually had solely simply launched their second film collectively, 2006 indie drama London, during which Evans performed Biel’s drug addict ex. “Sadly, I associated to that narcissistic drug addict!” he instructed W. “I’ve had these arguments with ladies; I’ve stated these issues.”

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A few months after stepping out collectively on the February premiere, they have been over. No causes behind the break up have been publicly given, however it doesn’t sound prefer it was a nasty one. “I’ve had no dangerous breakups in my life,” Evans instructed Elle in 2017. “Usually, if I see an ex, I give an enormous hug, and it’s fantastic to catch up. When you’re ever lucky sufficient to like somebody and have them love you again, it’s value defending that. It’s uncommon that somebody can really know you. And if you happen to’ve damaged via that sort of wall, I believe it’s essential to worth that.”

What They Mentioned About Every Different

Principally, these two have been fairly personal — aside from one severely sugary interview Biel gave to Cosmopolitan in 2005.

“We at all times discuss it,” Biel stated when requested about wedding ceremony plans. “We each need to be married, and we each need to have kids. However we’re not engaged, so the rumors are false…thus far.”

She additionally revealed a few of the romantic issues the couple loved — and confessed to being one thing of a trad spouse. “I like to take pictures of him and his canine, East,” she stated, “We name him ’our’ canine now. He’s this 75-pound, half-English, half-American bulldog. And I prepare dinner for Chris when he’s working laborious. When he comes house, I’ll have dinner prepared. It’s old school and enjoyable, and I really feel sort of homemakery and nice doing it.”

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She additionally stated that her good day concerned “staying in mattress with my boyfriend and simply not having something to do all day. Letting the canine sleep together with his head on the pillow proper between us, making the mattress all gross and sweaty and filled with canine hair. It sounds disgusting, however it’s simply nice.”

She even spilled the beans on what Evans had carried out for her massive birthday. “After I turned 21, I truly awoke to seek out my mattress coated in rose petals,” she stated. “In the course of the evening, he had pulled aside at the very least 24 roses in all completely different colours and sprinkled the petals in every single place. He’s positively a keeper.”

Nevertheless, Biel did admit that her man had one annoying behavior. “Boys don’t know what they need,” she stated. “I’ll say, ’I need to go on a picnic. I need there to be wine and a blanket, and I need there to be a sundown.’ And Chris is normally extra like, ’I don’t actually know [what I want to do].’”

She added: “I like any individual who could make me chuckle and be a goofball. I believe it’s extremely attractive if a man can look uncool and utterly not care. Additionally, any individual who likes to point out affection. I present lots of affection. I’m a really massive fan of PDA. I’ll do it wherever. If I see a pair making out in public, I’m at all times like. ’Awww. Can I be part of?’”

Wow — we are able to’t think about the older and extra guarded 2025 Biel being fairly so up for this, are you able to?

What They Say Now

Neither Biel or Evans has ever publicly addressed the connection, however in 2017 he instructed Esquire that relationship one other actor might be robust. “Letting somebody go to work with somebody for 3 months … they received’t see them,” he stated. “It actually, it actually places the connection to the check.”

Key Relationship Takeaways

They could have been very younger however, for a very long time, Biel was nonetheless Evans’ most critical and long-term relationship. Within the years following the cut up, he was romantically linked to a string of different actresses and fashions, however solely bought critical with Minka Kelly and Jenny Slate. Actually, he didn’t actually quiet down till fairly just lately, marrying Portuguese actress Alba Baptista in 2023, on the age of 42.

However Biel, now 43, wasn’t single for lengthy: she met Timberlake inside a couple of months of splitting from Evans.  The pair have been married since 2012, sharing two sons, Silas and Phineas.

So, their private lives might need gone in numerous instructions, however their careers solely went a method: quickly upwards! Whereas their film success was restricted whereas they have been collectively, they’ve each grow to be large names within the 20 years since their cut up. Yup, these days of PDA-ing at flip-phone launches are lengthy behind them.