Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin’s first date was once one to keep in mind. A couple of months after meeting via a mutual buddy, the duo went to dinner at an Italian restaurant in L.A.

“The waiter comes up to our table to give us our menus and says, ‘You two are going to get married and have children. You’re soulmates, and you’re going to have a really perfect life together,’” recalls Hamlin, 72. “At this level, Lisa and I didn’t know each other in any respect.” Adds Rinna: “We had been so uncomfortable.”

Three a long time later, they're continuing to end up him right.

Since tying the knot in 1997, the Mayfair Witches actor and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum have welcomed daughters Delilah, 25, and Amelia, 22, navigated the pitfalls of Hollywood together and stay more in love than ever. “We made our circle of relatives our No. 1 precedence,” says Rinna, 60. “You can by no means cross flawed doing that.”

Here, the pair share extra secrets from their marriage for Us Weekly’s first-ever Power Couples Issue, on newsstands now.

Twenty-six years in Hollywood is fairly a feat. How do you do it?
Harry: If shall we bottle and promote it, that may be just right. I don’t assume anybody is aware of. It comes down to listening and being respectful and supportive. Lisa is Lisa, and that during and of itself is kind of a challenge, which is why I don’t observe [her] on social media.
Lisa: In our case, opposites attract. And we’re good at allowing the opposite particular person to be who they're and do what they would like.
H: If Lisa desires to do something, she can do it… up to some extent.
L: We shouldn't have an open marriage! [Laughs.]

So there’s no longer one particular secret?
L: I don’t think so. Look, if we had been both dishonest and doing nefarious things, that wouldn’t work.
H: I’ve stated this again and again: I have by no means looked at any other woman for the reason that day —
L: You can look!
H: Jimmy Carter as soon as stated he had been untrue to his wife in his center. I’ve never performed that, even.
L: I've no longer, either. It’s hard to overcome this [issues at Harry].

What connects you essentially the most?
H: We like every different. Most of our buddies spend most of their time trying to avoid their spouses.
L: That’s true. We like to hang around. We love to move on adventures.

Do you've got a lot in not unusual?
H: Very little! [Laughs.] Lisa’s into high fashion, and I’m serious about quantum physics.
L: I be informed so much from Harry: history, politics, fusion energy, house. If I believed that was a bore, that would be problematic, but I like to learn.

What are your favorite qualities in every different?
H: She’s really adorable. A pleasant roll in the hay. [Laughs.]
L: Oh, my God. He’s funny. He’s good. He’s a type and good man. And a really perfect cook dinner. [Without him,] I’d starve to loss of life or must invest heavily in Postmates.

What have been your first impressions of each different?
H: Lisa was doing the night time shift at an eyeglass retailer, and I was having dinner with the landlord. When she introduced him the keys, we invited her to take a seat for a pitcher of wine. She began speaking about how she’d long past to the circus the night before and how attractive it was once. I go, “Wait a minute, who is that this extensive?”
L: It used to be Cirque Du Soleil. He’s Harry Hamlin, so my first affect was, “Wow, he’s stunning.”

Did you are feeling an instant connection?
L: It took a minute. He was ending a relationship, and I had simply come out of one.
H: I went after you. I attempted to get you to come back to Aspen with me.
L: And I wouldn’t pass. I wasn’t enjoying exhausting to get; I used to be just cautious.

So how did you get the primary date?
H: At the time, a e-book called The Rules was making the rounds. It used to be about how a lady could snag a person. One rule used to be that you by no means went out on a date the same day anyone invited you out. I known as her at, like, 6 p.m. and asked if she’d meet me for dinner in an hour. I knew I’d get close down, however she mentioned yes. She confirmed up in a white T-shirt, jeans, scuffed-up cowboy boots and no make-up to this kind of fancy restaurant. I used to be truly impressed through that. The undeniable fact that she confirmed up within the first place were given me.
L: I love to be spontaneous. It gave the look of a amusing thing to do.

And then the waiter mentioned you’re soulmates.
H: It freaked us out. After dinner, she used to be in her car, and I reached in to kiss her. And it was once the worst kiss.
L: [I was like], “Goddamn, he’s so scorching, but he can’t kiss!”

Clearly you recovered.
L: We had a 2nd date scheduled, but he canceled it. I were given off the phone with him and was like, “OK, that’s it. He’s a f—king loser.” He came crawling again about two months later.
H: And the unusual thing about that whole eating place experience used to be that we went back a 12 months or so later, and I went to the maître d’ and stated, “Hey, where’s that waiter? The heavyset, balding, Italian guy.” And the maître d’ stated, “We’ve never had anybody here who suits that description.”
L: Isn’t that so strange? We’ve never noticed him [again].

How do you guys care for conflicts once they come up?
L: We don’t argue so much. I’m in point of fact opinionated and cussed, and there are only a few issues that it's a must to conform to disagree on.

Any pet peeves?
L: Very little. His gum chewing. Sometimes his gum ends up in places like the washer. It has ended up on my Lululemons.
H: [Silently thinking.]
L: Come on. It’s were given to be once I’m loud.
H: Well, yeah. If I’m running and she comes in and begins screaming.
L: I don’t scream, however I’m loud. My voice carries.
H: When she sings.
L: That’s actually pretty, although.

What are some of the most important challenges you’ve confronted in combination?
L: My mother passing [in 2021] was the hardest time for me.
H: There are at all times challenges elevating kids. So much of strengthen has to happen mutually.
L: We undoubtedly leaned on each and every different right through [their] teenage years. It’s a miracle in itself to get through elevating two teenage girls in L.A. Come on.

When have you ever been most proud of each different?
H: Oh, right now. Lisa’s made a transition over the past year and a part that’s been peculiar. She left [Housewives] and then very gracefully [were given] herself into high fashion. And now she’s starring in a Lifetime movie. Her career is taking off in a complete different method.
L: And he’s going back to work on Mayfair Witches.

Everyone’s doing neatly!
H: It’s a great time. The ladies are on fireplace. Lisa’s on fireplace. I [have the display].
L: There have been some difficult years with my mom passing and leaving [Housewives], and Harry went via a duration the place he didn’t paintings for a very long time…
H: We’re running actors; we’re no longer large movie stars. So to keep the house going [you’re] repeatedly having to reinvent. It was arduous when the [financial] downturn happened in 2008, and we have been seeking to save the clothes shop [Belle Gray] that we had for 10, 11 years and the home.
L: That was once tough. I’ve at all times been so proud of [Harry]. He’s been ready to get us out of those eventualities.

Has your marriage experienced any rough patches?
H: It used to be a little bit bumpy originally as a result of I was popping out of a courting and didn’t slightly know how to deal with it. We did so much of remedy, and that created a very cast basis for us ultimately.
L: There used to be a moment the place I mentioned, “You want to move work out what you wish to have. If you need to return again, I’ll be right here. But I perceive if you need to head.” That was once almost certainly the toughest second.

How do you keep things spicy in any case this time?
H: I don’t have to do the rest. All I've to do is come into the room, and she’s scorching and spicy.
L: I like to take risks. I used to be born fun, so you don’t actually must do much. If you’re bored, I will alternate it up for you. [Laughs.]

Harry, how do you feel about Lisa being so candid about her sexuality?
H: I include that side of her, however there’s a prohibit to how much I wish to ingest. This is another reason I don’t observe her [on social media]. What the eye does no longer see, the center does not grieve over. I don’t wish to see her antics always. I try to not be judgmental.
L: I do cheeky, foolish things. I like to push people’s buttons.
H: When we first were given together, you were very demure.
L: I used to be. But that is an evolution. As a child, I was more like this, however in highschool, it got reduced by way of bullies. Then it got here back.

Lisa, you’re in wonderful form. Harry, are you impressed by her commitment to fitness?
H: Absolutely. What a present it is to have this be the individual I go to bed with.

How has your courting developed?
L: When you’re ovulating and you want to make young children, you’re having sex all the time. That changes as you grow older. Men of a definite age tend to move for a more youthful woman as a result of they would like that baby-making gadget.
H: I are not looking for a baby-making system.

What’s a date night time like for you?
H: We used to go out so much. Then Covid happened, and now we’ll pass to sushi. Or we went to the films just lately.
L: On Sunday, we’ll go out to lunch. Woo-hoo! Exciting! We lead a in point of fact risqué lifestyles. [Laughs.]

You’ve each been within the trade for decades. To what do you characteristic that lasting luck?
L: I’m a born hustler, and I will be able to check out almost anything.
H: I nonetheless cross to performing magnificence.

Do you favor running together?
L: I do. He’s been very fascinated with Rinna Beauty and the entire other businesses. If I get a contract, I make him learn it. And he talks to me about Mayfair Witches. We do the same thing, so there’s an understanding.

Lisa, are you acting more now that Housewives is over for you?
L: That’s what’s happening. I’m an actor. And I can take what I learned on Housewives and put it into my paintings. I believe it is advisable to see it in [season 3 of] American Horror Story once I played Sheila.
H: What did you be told on Housewives? How to take care of narcissistic …
L: Sociopaths. [Laughs.]

Harry, how did you are feeling about Lisa doing Housewives?
H: I’m very glad it’s over. When she first introduced it up, I stated, “Absolutely now not. I've my outdated divorce attorney on velocity dial.” Then, I noticed it could be a good branding opportunity. I additionally knew [she] may care for it — and I've a degree in psychology from Yale.
L: That didn’t help me that much, regardless that. [Laughs.]
H: We did talk via each and every display.
L: It’s true. It’s an all-consuming job, so you wish to have improve.

Did you put any obstacles around doing the display?
H: I had two stipulations. I advised her, “No alcohol, and you'll’t take a look at what persons are saying about you on social media. It’s poisonous.”
L: For 5 years, I didn’t drink. Then I stated, “Oh, f—k it. I’m having a cocktail.” [But] I was by no means crazy inebriated.
H: You did get a moniker: Drunk Rinna.
L: God, it was once a laugh, though. When we went to the wine tasting — one of the most efficient episodes of all time. There have been a lot of nice times.

Lisa, would you ever return to truth TV?
L: I never say never. They must pay me a sh*tload of cash.

What a few circle of relatives fact display?
L: That can be fun.
H: It’s no longer like we have now the rest to hide. We’ve already been available in the market.

How are your daughters doing?
L: They’re good ladies.
H: They’re very levelheaded, lovely human beings and I believe that’s one of the reasons they’re such a success, because they take that with them anyplace they pass.

Delilah is pursuing song and Amelia is busy modeling. What’s it like staring at themnavigate showbiz?
H: Lisa is helping. She’s sort of a momager.
L: I don’t get 10 p.c, though. Kris Jenner’s method smarter.

What recommendation have you ever given them about luck?
L: Be nice to everyone and don’t whinge.
H: To treat everybody similarly and no longer be all in favour of what folks think of them.

How did you stability your profession with parenthood over time?
H: I principally took two decades off. I used to be almost definitely the principle parent.
L: I worked so much. We have been fortunate. We had lend a hand. We had a nanny and my mother was right here a lot.

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You collaborated with the women to your Rinna Beauty lip equipment. Will you workforce up once more?
L: We simply began a production company, which is truly thrilling. It’s called The Girls.
H: I believe the youngsters will transform actors.
L: I think so, too. We enhance them in whatever makes them glad.

Lisa, you’re also writing every other guide.
L: It’s going to be a humorous [take a look at] what I’ve been doing since Rinnavation came out in 2008. It’ll be full of tea and precisely what everyone wants.

How do you stay attached with such busy schedules?
H: Now that we’re in an empty nest and going off in different directions for work, we’ll need to figure that out. We take our dating second to moment. We don’t have expectancies about where we will have to be in five years.
L: It’s about discovering the steadiness. No subject what we have now occurring, we make our marriage the concern. Everything else comes after that.

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