I put “secretly” in quotes because at this point, most of what David Schwimmer does is “secret”. Meaning that few people really care. David’s post-Friends life hasn’t been uneventful in any way – he’s actually had some minor success as a director, and he seems to relish a low-key lifestyle. BUT – the physical change in David has been odd. All of a sudden the once groomed and normal-seeming Schwimmer took a more avant-garde, goth poseur turn. I think it was the influence of his girlfriend-now-wife Zoe Buckman. Zoe and David have been together since 2007, when Zoe was 21 and David was 40. I give him credit for staying with the same girl for years, and for marrying her quietly and discreetly. But there some vague weirdness to it too.

The perennially lonely guy of Friends is single no more. David Schwimmer has been secretly married to his British girlfriend Zoe Buckman for four months, the actor’s rep confirms to PEOPLE.

The two tied the knot in a small private ceremony in early June after having reportedly met in London in 2007, at the time Schwimmer was directing the romantic movie comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run, starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton.

A part-time photographer, Buckman, now 25, was waitressing at the Cuckoo Club in London’s West End when she served Schwimmer, now 43. She then reportedly left her home in north London and moved to Los Angeles to be with him.

In March, the two announced their engagement. News of the nuptials was first reported by EW.com. This is the first marriage for both.

Word of Schwimmer’s wedding first surfaced on the same day that Courteney Cox, who played his sister Monica (he played Ross) on NBC’s Friends, announced that she and her husband of 11 years, actor David Arquette, were separating.

[From People]

I tend to think Zoe is too young for him, and I tend to think David should know better. But maybe the fact that they’ve been together for years already, and that no one really cared that they were married, maybe that will help them be a more “normal” couple.

David has directed a second film, by the way. It’s called Trust, and he managed to talk CLIVE OWEN into starring in it. It’s all about Clive’s character’s daughter who goes online and meets a predator and sh-t happens. Clive + Schwimmer = ? Magic? Don’t know. Here’s the trailer:

It just seems like an extended Law & Order: SVU episode, right?

Anyway, congrats to David and Zoe.

Header: David and Zoe in 2008, credit: WENN.