When news broke this week that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were filing for divorce after 19 years of marriage, few could have imagined that one of the people who brought them together would be a well-known politician.

Ex-foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer told Sky News host Chris Kenny he had personally introduced the pair at the G'Day USA gala in Los Angeles back in 2005.

“At an Australian function in Los Angeles, I was in the green room talking to Nicole Kidman, and Keith Urban was brought in,” he told the Kenny Report on Thursday.

“To be honest with you, in those days, I didn’t know much about Keith Urban. I shook hands with Keith, and I said to him, ‘do you know Nicole Kidman?’ And he said, no, he didn’t.

“They shook hands with each other and the rest is history, at least

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