Brian Austin Green rejected his wife Megan Fox at first

He said: “She was doing ‘Hope and Faith’ at the time here in New York with Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford, and I came and did an episode of it. I met Megan on that, and she was really young. And I was like, ‘This isn’t this. This can’t f***ing happen. This isn’t going to happen, no way.’ And so I left and she was just really persistent - and thank God.”

The 46-year-old actor had “just gotten out of a relationship” and “wasn’t looking for a relationship at the time” when he first met Megan, and although he had planned to “play the field for a little while”, the ‘Transformers’ actress won him over eventually.

Brian - who has sons Noah, six, Bodhi, five, and Journey, three, with Megan - admits that he didn’t realise his feelings for 33-year-old Megan until she told him she was going to start pursuing other dating options.

Speaking on Barstool Sports’ ‘KFC Radio’ podcast, he added: “That’s when I realised I was, like, ‘F**k, I must be really into this situation … the thought of that kills me.’ And … we’ve been together now for 15 years. You know, it’s funny because you talk about Megan now because you know her after all of that. But you know, this was when I met her — [she] was pre-‘Transformers'. It was pre- all that.”

The couple began dating in 2004 and got engaged in 2006, and although they briefly called off their romance in 2009, they reconciled and married the following year.