Miles Teller surprises wife with recreated wedding dress lost in LA fires

Miles Teller gifted his wife, Keleigh Teller, a replica of her wedding dress for Christmas because the original was lost in the California wildfires back in January. Photo / Instagram

Miles Teller got his wife Keleigh Teller’s wedding dress remade after the original was lost in the California wildfires.

The 33-year-old actor – who wished she had thought to take the white dress when the couple evacuated their home in Pacific Palisades in January – was stunned when she pulled out the garment bag from a large red box on Christmas Day.

In a TikTok video shared to her account on Friday, Keleigh asked Miles: “Is this my wedding dress?”

After the Fantastic Four star, 38, confirmed it was her wedding dress, Keleigh teared up and said: “Oh, my God. Oh, my God.”

In January, the couple – who got married in a chic Hawaiian ceremony at a Catholic church on Maui, Hawaii, in September 2019 – were heartbroken that they lost their house in the Pacific Palisades after a blaze ripped through the area.

And the Tellers were saddened that there was not enough time for them to grab all of their belongingsbefore they had to evacuate.

In an Instagram post at the time, Keleigh explained: “If you’re in the LA area PLEASE get out if you can. I wish I grabbed my wedding dress ... Wish I did a lot different but it doesn’t matter, stay safe, get out. There are no words ... THANK YOU to the first responders fighting. (sic)”

She later added: “To everyone reaching out I can’t thank you enough, your kind hearts have meant the world, I’ll never forget them.

“Community has come out stronger than I could imagine, Pacific Palisades I love you beyond measure; you are a little slice of heaven, we will come back stronger than ever. (sic)”

Miles later revealed that he and Keleigh took “very little” keepsakes – including his late grandfather’s watch – while they were evacuating.

Appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in February, the Eternity actor said: “[My wife and I] never thought [the fire] was going to come where we were, it’s very residential. We weren’t surrounded by any brush or anything.”

“Fire is scary. I grew up on the East Coast, and hurricanes, a lot of the time, in Florida, usually a lot of the time, they’re kind of scaring you for like a week. You have a heads up. But the fire, man, it moved fast.”

Miles and Keleigh Teller were also grateful for all the help that was offered to them amid the California wildfires – which devastated thousands of homes and businesses in Los Angeles and killed hundreds of people.

And this included fans sending him T-shirts featuring his favourite band, Grateful Dead.

In February, Miles told E! News: “Many people have reached out, just either letting us know that they’re there emotionally, or people are offering us their place.

“I’m a Deadhead [Grateful Dead fan], and so I’ve had a lot of people reach out to Keleigh like: ‘I want to send Miles a Grateful Dead shirt’.

“Little stuff just means a lot, so it’s been very heartwarming.”

The Top Gun: Maverick cast member added of the disaster: “When everything goes, and you have each other, it’s very emotional ... [The grief] comes in waves ..

“You lose your home, you’re part of a club nobody wants to be a part of ...

“We know it’s not an immediate sense of relief,” he added. “And so, we’re just there for one another.”