United Kingdom, Feb. 15 -- Miles Teller was "rejected three times" by Keleigh Sperry before she agreed to a date.

The 37-year-old actor has now been married to Keleigh, 32, since 2019 but admitted that when he was first trying to ask her out, she was having none of it.

He told E! News: "When I first met her, she turned me down like three times in one night.

"I would say the fact I kept coming back and trying to swoon her, I'll give myself a pat on the back for that."

The 'Gorge' star met Keleigh backstage at a party for the Grammy Awards in 2013 but she almost left before he got her contact details and he "got lucky" in the end because he managed to catch her.

He said: "I got lucky the valet line was very long. She was leaving and I ...