MATTHEW MODINE - MODINE LOST JOB FOR FUTURE WIFE

MODINE LOST JOB FOR FUTURE WIFE

Hollywood actor MATTHEW MODINE lost his job when he first met his wife, because he decided to take her on a date instead of going to work. The FULL METAL JACKET star was working in a restaurant when CARIDAD RIVERA walked in asking for a take away meal. And when Modine, 47, spotted her a couple of days later, he didn't hesitate to ask her out - even though he was supposed to be working at the time. The couple married in 1980. He says, "I was a chef at a restaurant and I met this girl. She came into the restaurant. She wanted to order something and we weren't really a take-out restaurant. "So I came out of the kitchen wearing my chef outfit and my checkered pants and told her to go to the deli down the street. When I saw her I was completely smitten. It was love at first sight. I kind of couldn't speak and I said, 'How many did you want? One order, two orders?' "Then I saw her on the street about two days later and I told her I wasn't doing anything, that I was free. I said, 'Why don't you go have lunch with me?' "Of course, I was supposed to be working as a chef at a restaurant and you can't not show up for work and I didn't so I got fired and then rehired. This woman who I met is my wife now all these years later."