Curtis Stone and Lindsay Price share secrets to making romance last

It’s a tale that would easily slot into a Hollywood movie— but 10 years on, chef Curtis Stone and his American actor wife Lindsay Price are still as loved up as ever.

It’s rare in 2022 to meet a married couple who still glance at one another, and finish each other’s sentences, like they’re in the honeymoon phase.

Rarer still, when they’re a Hollywood couple.

But chef Curtis Stone and actor Lindsay Price are like characters torn out of a rom-com script.

A mutual friend set the pair up on a blind date in 2009.

“She said ‘I’ve found your husband’,” Price told Confidential.

Stone initially said no, but changed his mind when he saw a photo of Price.

Curtis Stone and Lindsay Price, were set up via a mutual friend who arranged a blind date. Picture: Tim Hunter

They exchanged lengthy emails for several months, until they met again.

“I can be quite verbose,” Price said. “I’d write paragraphs, and then get two words, these Aussie-isms, back.

Chef Curtis Stone and actor Lindsay Price Stone say the secret to a fun marriage, even in Hollywood, is finding ways to spend fun time together. Picture: Tim Hunter

“I was worried he didn’t like me! Little did I know he was trying to type with his giant thumbs.”

After “learning the hard way,” that Price is a whiskey-lover, the first thing Stone made for her was a chocolate whiskey mousse.

He sealed the deal with a chilli crab on one of their first dates.

But she says her all time favourite was the fresh fettuccine, with slow-braised beef ragu, that he whipped up after bringing her home from hospital with their first born.

The pair on their wedding day in 2013. Picture: Facebook

Filming a YouTube series together with Destination NSW was something they “masterminded” as an excuse to spend more time together, amid Stone running his two LA restaurants, and Price, a Beverly Hills 90210 alum, starring in shows like Lipstick Jungle, Atypical, Splitting Up Together and Blackish.

“Some people warned us it’s dangerous for couples to work together,” Price said. “But we’re 10 years in, and so relaxed with each other.”

So filming the travel series Carry On with Curtis and Lindsay - Sydney over the last two months, with kids Hudson, 10, and Emerson, 7, in tow, was “actually just a nice hang”.