Ron Howard had to propose three times before wife accepted
Ron Howard's wife turned down his marriage proposal twice before she eventually accepted. The 69-year-old actor-turned-director met Cheryl Alley when he was just 16 and they were at school together and though things quickly got serious between them, she refused to become the 'Happy Days' star's wife until she had achieved the things she wanted first. Speaking on 'The Drew Barrymore Show', the couple's eldest daughter, actress Bryce Dallas Howard, said: "While they had an incredible relationship in high school and everything, he proposed three times and she said no two of them. Because she was ...