When you know, you know. And Tim Daily and Téa Leoni knew it instantly. Or at least he did.Â
When asked by LifeMinute, Daly said he realized he was in love with Leoni âabout four minutes after I met her at the office of âMadame Secretary.ââ While in the same interview, he admits that Téa wanted to take a beat before taking it to the next level… and so she waited nine years before proposing to him. Apparently she was worth the wait! And the patience!Â
How They Met
The couple first met on the set of their CBS show, âMadam Secretary,â in 2014. The duo played husband and wife, Henry and Elizabeth McCord, in the political drama, which aired for six seasons.
According to Daly, though they tried to keep their relationship hush hush, everyone on set couldnât help but notice their undeniable chemistry. Everyone except âMadam Secretaryâ costar, Geoffrey Arend, who told People that the coupleâs off-screen romance came as a total surprise.
The secrecy eventually became too much, and they went public at the White House Correspondentsâ Dinner in Washington, D.C. in April 2015. Their table at the esteemed event included veteran journalist Bob Schieffer and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
They then married in a small, intimate ceremony in New York, which was attended only by immediate family.Â
Fate Finds a Way
Leoni and Daly actually attended the same high school, admittedly ten years apart. Not only that, but prior to acting in âMadame Secretaryâ together, they met twice prior to 2014. The first was when Daly was at Paramount for a fundraiser and he noticed a gorgeous, 23-year-old Téa. The second was through Leoniâs then-husband, David Duchovny, who was friendâs with Dalyâs first cousin. He estimated that he had shaken Leoniâs hand a couple times in passing⦠but then when they stepped onto the âMadame Secretaryâ set in 2014, it was a whole new ballgame.
But donât worry, falling head over heels wasnât just a one-sided occurrence. In fact, Daly repeated an anecdote that when Leoni first saw Dalyâs movie, âDiner,â she immediately turned to her roommate and said that she was going to marry him someday â without ever having met!Â
And while weâre unable to corroborate this story with Leoniâs roommate, itâs more fun to believe in the magic and manifestation of love.
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