Why Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Are Hollywood’s Best Love Story

Behind every national treasure is a real gem.

And Tom Hanks would be the first to say that wife Rita Wilson is the star of this operation, an enduring love affair that started nearly 40 years ago and continues to warm cold, jaded hearts in Hollywood and beyond. 

“I’m a lucky man,” Hanks told E! News in 2016. “She could’ve done better.”

Also keeping it light ahead of their 36th wedding anniversary a couple years ago, Hanks told E! that the key to their success was “finding each other” in the first place.

Though now we know his real secret, which he readily shared at the Toy Story 5 premiere in June when asked if he had marriage advice for then-engaged Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.

“The man must make the waffles on Sunday,” Hanks, who’s turning 70 on July 9, revealed to E!, weeks before attending the couple’s July 3 nuptials.

OK, so they’re not giving away their tricks of the trade.