Kelsey Grammer Choosing a 'Normal' Life with Kayte Walsh

Steven Bryan
After decades in the spotlight, it is easy to understand why Kelsey Grammer was attracted to Kayte Walsh, the Virgin Airlines flight attendant who will become his new wife. Now divorced from Camille Grammer, the outspoken star of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," the former "Frasier" star is planning a lavish wedding banquet to celebrate his marriage to Walsh.

Kelsey Grammer now seems to be seeking a sense of normalcy in his personal life, something that was lacking in his marriage to Camille Grammer. Hopefully, he has found it in Walsh, a woman who had been working in the service industry. He also is not the first celebrity to choose a "normal" woman to become a life partner.

George Herman Ruth, also known as "The Babe," was one of baseball's first and most enduring superstars. In 1931, Ruth earned a reported annual salary of $80,000 , which was extraordinary for a professional athlete at the time. Early in his career, Ruth married his first wife, an 18-year-old waitress named Helen Woodford . Fifteen years later, Helen Ruth died in a house fire while she was legally separated from her husband.

President Woodrow Wilson headed to his first term in the White House with first wife Ellen, a woman who described herself as " naturally the most unambitious of women ." Wilson had known his future wife since childhood, becoming reacquainted while she was keeping house for her widowed father. Ellen Wilson was thrust into the political spotlight, but most published accounts say she did not enjoy the attention.

Professor Stephen Hawking became a worldwide sensation following the publication of his book " A Brief History of Time ." Confined to a motorized wheelchair, the result of motor neuron disease, Hawking even made a cameo appearance in one episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." In 1995, Hawking married his second wife, his former nurse Elaine , but the two were divorced in 2006.

After network executives cancelled "The Partridge Family" in the 1970's, series star Danny Bonaduce had to reinvent himself numerous times, including stints as a popular radio host and the subject of his own reality series "Breaking Bonaduce." After a long marriage to second wife Gretchen, Bonaduce married former teacher Amy Railsback on November 22, 2010.

Jane Lynch, one of the breakout stars of "Glee," plays a character that constantly is looking for her perfect match. In real life, Lynch found her soulmate in clinical psychologist Dr. Lara Embry. Saying she was basically ignorant of Lynch's celebrity status, Embry met Lynch at a fundraiser and thought she was cute .

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