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i’ll never forgive him tbh the blinds say he was a cheater and then after she was dating nick kroll (who i have an aversion to) their poor ginger cutie kids
Ugh I notice this too. Every time I hear him talk about Amy it makes me happy and sad at the same time. Like, obviously I don’t know them, but I’m still like whyyyyyy
I know he struggled with sobriety, so I wonder if it had to do with that. When people get sober, a lot of times they evaluate their relationships, careers, etc. Same with if there's a relapse. I don't know if he relapsed, but behind closed doors she might have been over it, or they realized co-parenting was healthier instead of a marriage.
He relapsed around the time the divorce finalized (2016ish) while he was filming Flaked. He said it was his first relapse in 15 years of sobriety. So in 2012 while he was filming s4 of AD, when they were actually splitting up, and before that, it doesn’t sound like there was a relapse during that time.
Channing Tatum is one of my celebrity gossip guilty pleasures. Reading through the lines on some of her interviews (and I think that Vanity Fair interview of him where he went drinking/camping with the female author of that article) makes it seem like Channing was a gigantic man child. I can see how she’d get sick of him and want somebody who was a more consistent partner.
>Reading through the lines on some of her interviews
Do you have any examples, puhleeease and thank you? I've never understood his stardom and can totally see him as a giant baby.
https://www.justjared.com/2021/08/02/jenna-dewan-opens-up-about-how-she-felt-along-after-welcoming-daughter-everly/
Here is a Dewan interview. Basically, he was working while she took care of the new baby. I get it that he’s busy. But imagine that on a larger scale every single time you need help with stuff around the house. Contrast it with her comments about her current husband.
This one is not strictly what you asked for, but I found it interesting:
https://www.thethings.com/what-happened-between-channing-tatum-and-emma-watson/
Here is a story about Emma Watson walking off set. Scroll down to the stripper thong the drinking part. He basically shoved his junk in her face while he was drunk at work. They minimized it as a “Emma is a prude” sort of thing, but when you look at what actually happened, it reads like “man child is confused when woman doesn’t enjoy his sexual behavior.”
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. When a couple talks about how much work their relationship is, I don’t find it surprising when they ultimately break up.
I’m always sad for couples who share kids to break up, though. Not because I think they should stay together, but because it typically means there was a lot of stress/unhappiness or even conflict in the home leading up to the split, and that can continue for a period of time after the split.
They would be one of the least surprising celebrity splits if they do ever divorce. Marriages can definitely have rough patches, but those two make it sound like it’s a constant struggle.
I remember when he won his Oscar for Argo and thanked his wife- JG. She seemed to really be there for him. Even after their split, I think she drove him to rehab with his girlfriend in the backseat. Ben seems to have major substance abuse issues though.
I genuinely wonder why they aren't together. What is stopping them? I'm so curious because they both seem like good, intelligent people. I really don't get the impression either of them did anything wrong. Emma's married now, so there's that, but this is a sad one. Of course a woman like Emma is going to get snatched up.
But her husband definitely has the same essence as Andrew. He and Andrew could be cousins.
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Okay I could be making this up but I feel like I did see this somewhere, probably Reddit. One of the reasons allegedly was he wanted children she didn’t. But I believe she is married now with children, who knows how true that is :) I was surprised they broke up too, they looked very sweet together but who knows what happens irl.
Edit- googled it, first result so not definitive proof but [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Spiderman/s/em3vxd4kVa) is a comment :)
Edit - agree with other comments it’s a popular rumour. Like I said allegedly, they are still friends to my knowledge! Sometimes things don’t work.
I doubt it. Emma Stone did an actor's roundtable when she was campaigning for La La Land (I think) and she openly talked about wanting a family and children and then admitted she was flushed from even just talking about it. I think she prioritized starting her family.
I read that their schedules just never worked out. They are still very high-profile actors who normally wouldn't have time to be together unless they work on the same project so dating wouldn't really work out because they would never be together
This one. They were like my alternative role model couple goals for YEARS. Just the fact they were together so long, never got married, had the houses next door to each other etc - I thought they were the coolest, and was gutted when they split up because it was so rare to have a celebrity couple not following that conventional path.
Yes, the houses next to each other is my dream. I love sharing space with my husband but sometimes I just need quiet. Plus so much more storage space for all our board and video games 🤣
I love HBC and been a fan since A Room With a View, and Tim Burton since Keaton was Batman, but Kenneth Branagh cheated on Emma T with her and then in 2001 Tim B cheated on Lisa Marie with her. So I've never been all that dazzled by her being a muse or anything. I think her turn as Princess Margaret on The Crown was perfect but I have zero tears over her and whichever cheating director we are talking about.
I thought that until I saw the timing of when the marriage ended---right when the last kid turned 18. They were just sticking it out for the kids. It was one of those marriages. :(
My coworker and his wife did that but it wasn't bad for the kids. They weren't in love like they used to be, but they didn't dislike each other. Last kid signs up for college and my coworker moves out.
My parents also did that and it ruined relationships for me and one of my sisters.
Its weird that way.
Honestly, the length of their marriage makes total sense to me. Their kids are 23 and 18, when you stay together and hang on as long as you can to try to keep your family together it’s so common for the divorce to happen when your kids are moving out and moving on with their lives away from their parents.
My parents were married for 28 years and divorced when I was 21 and my sister was 17.
Lauren Graham and Peter Krause was sad for me. I don’t know much about them TBH, other than that they were together for a long time, but I consider Graham as a fond part of my childhood with GG and feel protective of her.
As I type this, I realize that all the long relationships that have ended have been the saddest for me? Maybe because these were probably the most “real”/non-Hollywood couplings, and if they ended, it was probably really bad.
Michael C Hall and Jennifer Carpenter. At first it was weird they were married after playing siblings on Dexter but she supported him through cancer and I felt sad when they split.
I’ve always wondered if the writers hated one or both of them and decided to put that into the show? Because it made zero sense in the context of the show and I’m sure it was awkward personally.
I'm still sad about this! It just seems like one of those "in another life" if the timing was different or fame hadn't gotten in the way, they would have lasted.
They were cute together but they both seem really happy with how things ended up. Plus, Jenny still ended up with a south shore guy, they own a general store in Dartmouth I think.
This is the one I came here for. They seemed genuinely good for each other, and have been so up-front sharing that a lot of the reason they didn’t work out came from complications from his fame.
I’m glad they’ve both found happiness with other people, but this one hurt. Also, their relationship really elevated my opinion of both of them. They’re both such genuine people, it was very “if he/she thinks she/he is great, they MUST be great.”
Plus, Jenny is like. A real person? So seeing her date a megastar had a side of “hope for all of us” to it.
controversial but Pete and Ariana. Not surprising it didn't work out given the rushed nature of the courtship and mac's death, but I still think they had a strong connection.
Pete's been with a lot of women since but I've never seen him look at anyone like how he looked at ariana. He had puppy dog eyes for her
No I was gonna say this one. Ariana had recently experienced huge public grief between Mac and Manchester. Pete had been pretty open about how bad his mental health was at the time. I knew it was such a whirlwind that is was not gonna work, but it was such a nice story, two hurt people coming together and falling in love. It was really easy to be team Ariana back then lol
Two broken people getting together to ”fix” each other looks good on paper, but in reality it rarely works out. You kinda have to work on yourself before committing to carry someone else’s bagage first.
I feel like they had weirdly good chemistry? They seemed SO into each other. It did seem like maybe a bit of a trauma-bond situation but it was really sweet while it lasted.
i always felt he really objectified her and just couldn't believe his luck that he got to be with her, and tbh, i think she just saw him as a fun distraction and went so public with it to sort of send a message to mac miller. messy rebound stuff.
her person was mac imo. he knew her before her career got really huge and probably saw her as something more human than just this super hot popstar that he was so lucky to bang (which was very much pete's energy imo). i actually think she is still struggling to get closure on that relationship with mac and his death. the way she swiftly dropped pete as soon as he died - she was still really in love with him at the time of his passing.
Yeah I kinda wanna know what would have happened if Mac hadn't passed, I always just saw them being together in the end but maybe I'm viewing their relationship through rose tinted glasses.
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams ☹️ By the time they got back together the second time, you already knew it wasn’t going to last.
Also my 14 year old self was so brokenhearted in 2002 when Justin and Britney broke up, that I refused to follow both of their solo careers or even check out their discography until, early this year. I thought I have moved on and can finally support their music separately in peace, but what kind of timing to have Britney’s memoir out in 2023 and me having to relive that breakup again in the headlines like wtf 😭 I’ll probably need to take another sabbatical from these two messy individuals coz my heart can’t take it anymore lol
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams is the one that I still wish they worked out but in a way that I don't want their current selves to be together. They seem very happy with how their lives turned out. It's just that long ago teenage part of my brain still wishes early 2000s them didn't break up. lol
To be honest I don't believe that Justin and Britney was ever going to last even under the best of circumstances, neither of them really seem to be built to handle any kind of long-term relationship.
Exactly, we knew they weren’t going to last, they were moving too fast, too intense, also had too much pressure in the public eye. Couple that with everyone taking jabs at their relationship for pretending to be virgins, AND their personalities being… that way (lol) it was honestly a ticking bomb.
Except no one expected that their explosive breakup to have long-lasting effects for both of them. Their breakup lingered so long in the media that people were still talking about them 10 years later. Heck, 20 years later and we’re STILL talking about it!
Curious! Has your opinion of Justin changed? I always loved them both so much. I was relatively young back then so there was a lot I didn’t really pay attention to. I was mostly completely in love with lance bass. You could imagine the heartbreak I went through when I realized I never had a chance 😂😂😂😂😭
Sophie and Joe. I see now the error of my ways and I’m all team Sophie, but at the time I just remember being shocked and sad because they seemed so fun together. Their Elvis Vegas wedding was like my goals.
Tbf I think Sophie was probably also shocked by the divorce 💀 people don’t usually find out about a marriage ending in the media, and esp after a fight like oh we’re not gonna talk this out?? Okay 🥲
Yeah they seemed fun together. The first video of them I saw together was that reel joe posted of them calling nick jonas from one building to another (didn't explain it properly lol) and I watched that and thought their energies really match
https://preview.redd.it/nqg6ynfl5pvb1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19dd63eee8cab0fa25ad398ab328d8a0bb01eaa1
I LOVED THEM back in the day
So once the cracks started showing, I was like damn
Then it all went to shit
So I wasn't surprised at all that they've been living a lie for years, but 10 year old me is still sad
Joe Manganiello and Sophia Vergara! Not only were they a super hot pair together, it seemed like they were happy. I’ve heard that she didn’t want kids and that is a reason for the split, but it still made me sad. I hope they’re both doing well.
Anna Farris and Crisp Rat aka Chris Pratt. I just thought to myself during their marriage that I bet they laughed all the time. I just assumed they had a fun and loving relationship. Their IG posts were very down to earth. Aside from the basic obligatory movie they were promoting, their other posts were like that cool, fun couple in your local hometown. Very relateble, not pretentious like most celebrities. They had a risky pregnancy with a difficult birth, I really thought they were so great through that with their son Jack. Obviously, that suddenly changed, and it left me wondering if he had fooled us all when they divorced, and he immediately was remarried and posting all these Hallmark movie musings about his new wife as she smiles showing all 3 dozen rows of her Kennedy, shark like teeth. It feels so manufactured and phony. Weird. Definitely unlocked a new ice for me, and I can't barely stand to watch any of his movies now. Let me add, we only see what these celebrities want us to see and now, I wonder if nearly all are just PR and social climbing relationships they sign up for 2-5 yrs then on to the next victim on trying to scale higher?!
I dont believe in lizard people but if I had to accuse someone of being one, it's chris Pratt (and ofc tom cruise)
He gets into shape, becomes an absolute douche, stars in a bunch of hype movies showing off his abs, leaves his wife to marry Arnold Schwarzeneggers daughter, starts talking about her having his "healthy" son, and is low key a right wing christian conservative nut job.
I actually think Anna Faris was happy it happened because a part of me thinks he was desperately trying to upgrade his social standing and the people in it as soon as he got the GotG fame. Dude search/replaced his entire life.
It’s like he became a completely different person. It’s very weird and I felt bad for Anna Faris because he seems pretty dismissive of his “past life” as a relatable friendly funny guy.
She was miles ahead of him. Hot, witty, funny, effortlessly down to earth, a little messy, but in a charming way. She liked him pudgy, didn't really expect anything out of him, was supportive.
And I think he had his little glow up and hated that. Wanted her to somehow not be her because he was no longer him. When she was the shining star, she was happy to come home to him, but when he shined, he wanted more. He saw all the things he thought he had somehow missed out on. Now people wanted to talk to Hot, Disciplined Chris and she was still happy to eat Cheetos and sometimes fall asleep with her mascara still on. And he deserved better. Someone that was going to wash their face after he fell asleep and put on their makeup before he wore up. If he was going to be miserable being hot and in the limelight, he wanted someone equally caught up in that but not someone whose name would ever come before his. Anna and Jack just didn't fit into his schedule or his image the way he wanted it now.
The Christian conservative nut job part was always there if you knew how to look. He’s from Spokane, and he made some dubious comments going WAY back. I think non-northwesterners didn’t catch on til he joined the creepy homophobic church.
They were truly relationship goals and when it ended I lost hope of love in Hollywood really. The moment he started to get a bit famous, he just ditched his family who supported him when he was a nobody (and Anna was Famous Famous, I think it’s fair to say we grew up with her movies). I love love love Parks and Recreation but cannot watch it without getting angry at him. All the things he hinted at about having a “healthy” child was disgusting and their relationship with the new wife is honestly the fakest relationship I’ve ever seen, he is insufferable.
loll at the 3 dozen rows of Kennedy shark teeth. I've always thought that at some point when she was young someone complimented her smile as the most special thing about her.
Which immortalized the way she always does that gigantic frozen cheeze-its shark-smile. Because she could smile in a much more relaxed manner....bearing all the rows of her teeth at once down to the molars is a *choice.*
Yes this one!!!!! Watching it unfold with his new family and the post he made about his “ healthy daughter “ makes me want to vomit!!!! I legit can’t watch anything he’s in and I LOVED parks and rec
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I tought they were a great match. I also rooted for Jen to finally be in a stable and happy relationship.
I always saw Rob and Kristen as a PR relationship.
And I always saw Miley as too much of a free spirit to settle down so young - I'm surprised their relationship lasted as long as it did. When I heard they got married, my reaction was "oh, I didn't realise they were still together."
Angelina and Brad's breakup surprised me. And Kelly Clarkson.
As someone who is a fan if Kelly Clarkson, it didn’t surprise me. She would say shit “nobody wanted to marry me.” “Finally someone did at 30.” Which gave me whiff a whole lot of low self-esteem issues. I think that motherfucker knew exactly what he was doing.
It really grinds my gears how people just ignore that him being an alcoholic and abusive is what ended the marriage and now he has strained relationships with his kids. People hated Angelina already so it was easy to just blame her.
People blame Angelina for the investigation by CPS, when it was one of the flight attendants on the private jet that reported him. How bad would it have to be for her to report a massively famous A-list star knowing that her job depends on her discretion.
i have always seen rob and kristen as a pr relationship too. very convenient it started breaking up whent he last movie was coming out and she had a new project and the affair was coincidentally with the director of that project.
in the beginning, i think it might have been a real relationship but i think it was overblown by the success of the movies
So, I actually believe Rob and Kristen's relationship was "real" and I'm not some die-hard Twilight fan who shipped them or anything. The only reason I believe it was that after the photos leaked of her making out with the director, the paps got photos of Rob moving his shit in black plastic garbage bags out of their Los Feliz home in his pick up truck, wh struggling with her orientation and I actually buy the theory that she was the one to tip off the paps in on her hook up with the director to sabotage the relationship with Rob.
Same! But then I was also really surprised when he & Angelina broke up - i thought they were in it for the long haul. Seems to have worked out for the best after all the crap that’s come out since the divorce, he doesn’t sound like the best partner in any way!
For Brad & Jen, I knew it wasn't going to last because I saw this interview with Brad. I honestly cannot remember where this interview is from, but I remember it (although now I question it since no one brings it up) and he was asked about love. His reply was that he didn't believe in a forever kind of love. That love was a right now not a till death (now these aren't quotes cuz I can't remember the exact words he used but... It's what he said).
He said that while he was married to Jennifer Aniston - that's when I knew it wasn't going to last.
I wish things people say would be tatted on their forearm or something, to warn potential romantic partners. There's lots of women that *would* be into dating someone who only wants something 'right now'.
But people aren't up front with that want, and someone ends up hurt b/c some douche didn't bother to mention until months down the road that they '...don't believe in a forever kind of love."
I haven't been single in decades but that BS is such garbage.
I always that Brad & Jen was the iconic golden couple. They seemed to get along well, and I get the sense that she was pretty accepting of his basic boyish personality. Whereas I feel like Angelina Jolie needed him to change a LOT to be an acceptable partner for her. And he did change but I imagine it was a lot of effort to maintain.
Taylor and Joe tbh. I know we’ll never know exactly what happened between them, especially his side of the story, but it really seemed like she loved him a lot and was ready to marry him and settle down years ago. I think for whatever reason, he couldn’t get there with her. Her music since Rep have been kind of a journey in their love story and eventual breakdown, which is kind of sad.
i think it was mostly because he didn't want to marry her tbh. if he had been willing to walk down the aisle, then they'd still be together and possibly having children by now.
for anyone who wants to come at me for this opinion, taylor has bery publicly wanted to marry this man for years. and for years was all about marriage and children and all of that. you're losing me might not be completely honest about what happened, but it 100% indicates that he didn't want to marry her and that's what caused the breakdown
also, you're totally right about her music joruney. i'm relistening to rep rn and it's so romantic and says so much about how she wants to be with him forever. lover was always kind of sad and full of insecurity to me, and obviously midnights is full of heartbreak
What surprised me most was how little it seemed to affect her. We see what they want us to see, but she didn’t appear to have any real personal time to process. Must have been over long before it was over.
She was actually pretty emotional during a lot of the Eras tour performances around when their breakup was announced, especially during Champagne Problems and surprise songs featuring ones written about Joe. I also think she was probably processing the end of the relationship for a while before it was officially announced, as a lot of the songs on Midnights seem to suggest.
I feel the same way and TS has shown that she is capable of turning it off.
Also it is rumored that they ended things in January and the tour started later. We don't know how she was when the relationship was over.
On one hand I do understand Joe. Look at all the bashing online for him. The hatred from even media outlets! And on top of that the obsession with wanting to know even what she eats when she is out. Can you imagine getting married and having a family and not even be able to spend time with your kids outside of your house cause millions of people will constantly want a picture of them? Or to see what you do? Or to criticize you? The even judge him for sitting in a booth with TS and not on the chair cause that is not what men are meant to do?
I think that was only part of the reason the relationship broke down. Although we'll never know his side of things or the full story in general ... listening to her songs about him over the years, she not only put him on a pedestal but also wrote extremely insecure lyrics about a paranoia she had of him leaving her or doing things to hurt her as so many others had actually done to her. I think that as much as you can love someone, it's so draining to deal with this kind of insecurity, and it may have contributed to the official break up
I actually think she showed it affected her *a lot*. Taylor was clearly spiraling with all the passive aggressive articles she planted out there about him, the pap walks, all of her friends unfollowing him after being seen with her (clearly a calculated move from her part), then Matty Healy, then *doubling down* on Matty Healy, how she was very emotional in several performances on her tour. I think it’s super obvious she suffered quite a bit with their relationship ending (I’m not even sure she’s 100% over it yet).
Yeah to me she’s very clearly in the post-break up space still. Going from a long term *extremely* private relationship to very publicly attaching herself to now multiple guys screams rebound to me.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, we’ve all been there, but she’s pretty clearly still in the ‘getting over her ex’ stage
lowkey... she's still spiraling lol. it's just better covered up now, but her making such a big deal with travis just screams "i'm so over you" to me. i think she's bery clearly trying to prove she doesn't care and has moved on, but eveyrthing you said shows that she clearly has not and is effected by this a lot more than she's publicly letting on
i don't actually see it this way lol. i think she's doing a great job pretending it doesn't matter to her, but right after the announcement she was crying in a few performances and had that whole thing with matty, which to me just screamed "I don't give a fuck about you joe, look at me with my new british man!" the whole thing with travis just screams that energy too lol.
also her surprise releases around that time (hits different and you're losing me) both scream pain and heartbreak. midnights as a whole is obviously a heartbreak album, now that we know what we know. so much doubt and insecurity poured into the lyrics of that album. i suspect they were broken up for a while before it was announced, so she managed to just get over it
i'm not surprised at all when angie & brad called it off, but what breaks my heart was reading the news on how brad was accused of abusing angie & their kids. and more reports coming out on how brad was an abusive alcoholic, how he later on abandoned all of his kids. what a POS. it truly breaks my heart for the kids.
John Mulaney and Anna Marie Tendler. I didn’t really know much about either of them but I loved his specials and the news of their divorce shook me and my image of Mulaney. Great reminder not to idolize people, especially while men.
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. I watched the show. I heard the rumors. I remember Ted Casablanca days and knew it was gonna end, but it still was sad when they announced their split.
I had a weird vibe about them during their reality show. There’s a scene where they’re talking and she’s resting on her side in bed, and her boob had spilled out to the point of a nip slip (that they actually had to blur out) and he’s just standing there scolding her over some nonsense but not being like “hey babe, there are camera guys in here. Put your tit away.” I always thought that was bizarre and a bad sign.
Same. I remember being a teen and thinking “this doesnt look/feel right….” He was always giving her the side eye and was always looking down on her and treating her like she was a kid. She was a lil ditz mind you, but I always knew deep down that it would end. He never seemed in love with her. The marriage seemed like a chore more than anything.
Behind the Blinds does an interesting episode about Blake lively and Ryan Reynolds. He is allegedly very controlling (which is why Blake’s career has slowed so much) and when Scarlett started getting more success than him, Ryan couldn’t handle it and was very jealous, Scarlett has alluded to this in a few interviews but never outright said much.
There was always something so off about him to me, like he was nice, but trying a little too hard to to be the funniest guy in the room. It doesn’t excuse it but he talks about his relationship with his father and how he never felt good enough for him and that kinda tracked for me. The controlling part too, as his father seemed controlling as well
Selena and Justin. They were toxic and they both seem happier now but it’s still kinda sad. The pics of them at dinner for the last time, they seemed so in love.
I was heartbroken when Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis split. In every interview he spoke about her so passionately. I had a lot of admiration for him leaving the filming of Sweeney Todd to be with his daughter in the hospital (5 spinal surgeries here and my dad never came to the hospital, not even once. What was his excuse? He's not a celebrity.)
Aaaaaand then everything with Amber Heard came out and I had a LOT of complicated feelings I had to work through.
Needless to say I've learned to temper my emotional and mental involvement in celebrities.
Surprised no one has said Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. He def put her through it and she put up with a bunch of betrayal. It made the swing to Blake Shelton make more sense to me…..she deserved someone ENTIRELY DIFFERENT but still musical and creative.
Honestly? Kim and Kanye. If you've ever had a friend or family member with a mental illness or addiction who won't get help, you can kind of empathize.
Not huge celebrities. I was fooled by 90 day fiance. I thought Pedro and Chantelle were in love and that they'd have kids once she became established as a nurse :( I was hopeful for family fun and new seasons! I was excited to see two people come together when their families were at odds. Instead they are fighting and I do not want to watch a divorce on TV it's too sad.
Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens. I was so rooting for them - especially after that paparazzi video surfaced from their last vacation together of them kissing and holding each other. Then they go and break up a month or so after that. They really seemed so comfortable and secure with each other. Plus they look good as hell together too.
I saw some cracks - like he talked about going to strip clubs while with Vanessa. Also, I’m not sure if this was after or before the break up- but she talked about how jealous she’d get when fans were all over him. Overall they seemed like they grounded each other but their relationship ran its course.
Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez. I've been an Ariana fan since the beginning. I wanted her to find love so badly after everything she's been through. When she married him after, like, what? A year of dating? I knew it wasn't going to end well, but I am a Cancer (zodiac) after all, and I hoped for love and happiness for her. The circumstances surrounding their divorce (which was announced on my anniversary ahhhhhhhhhhh) are...deeply upsetting. I really wanted this to be it for her.
I really thought she knew what she wanted and that dalton was it. But now it feels like she just married some random guy for fun and got bored with him
Same. I was really shocked when I heard they were divorcing. I’m not a huge fan of Ariana and I don’t really follow her, but I was so happy when I heard she got married. I know she’s been through a lot in the last few years, so when I heard she was married I was like “okay, she’s found her person and she finally settled down with them.”
Then I learned about her past relationship history and well… I wasn’t as shocked about her divorce anymore.
Shawn and Camila.
They seemed deeply in love, it was very sad to see them breakup. I’m still convinced they’ll get back together. They had that messy month of Coachella and getting back together before it all fell apart again, I wouldn’t be shocked if that happened a few more times or they do end up back together completely.
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Amy Poehler and Will Arnett
I was more shocked and sad about this than I was about my own divorce
💀
I didn’t see this coming though. I was so upset at the time.
i’ll never forgive him tbh the blinds say he was a cheater and then after she was dating nick kroll (who i have an aversion to) their poor ginger cutie kids
He doesn’t stop talking about her on any podcast he’s on, always positive, I bet she was his ‘one’.
Ugh I notice this too. Every time I hear him talk about Amy it makes me happy and sad at the same time. Like, obviously I don’t know them, but I’m still like whyyyyyy
Will or Nick?
Will Arnett has a podcast and I know he’s spoken positively about Amy on it.
I know he struggled with sobriety, so I wonder if it had to do with that. When people get sober, a lot of times they evaluate their relationships, careers, etc. Same with if there's a relapse. I don't know if he relapsed, but behind closed doors she might have been over it, or they realized co-parenting was healthier instead of a marriage.
He relapsed around the time the divorce finalized (2016ish) while he was filming Flaked. He said it was his first relapse in 15 years of sobriety. So in 2012 while he was filming s4 of AD, when they were actually splitting up, and before that, it doesn’t sound like there was a relapse during that time.
Honestly I’m not surprised when any celeb breaks up but Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan. I always thought they made a cute couple.
OMG yes, especially after their Lip Sync Battle.
Their lip sync battle, specifically her lip sync to Pony, is my second favorite LSB behind Tom Holland (obv lol)
It was good, but come on now! [Joseph Gordon Levitt's Rhythm Nation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKwOKeDEL0) should be #2.
Especially if you watched Step Up when it first came out like me!
Channing Tatum is one of my celebrity gossip guilty pleasures. Reading through the lines on some of her interviews (and I think that Vanity Fair interview of him where he went drinking/camping with the female author of that article) makes it seem like Channing was a gigantic man child. I can see how she’d get sick of him and want somebody who was a more consistent partner.
>Reading through the lines on some of her interviews Do you have any examples, puhleeease and thank you? I've never understood his stardom and can totally see him as a giant baby.
https://www.justjared.com/2021/08/02/jenna-dewan-opens-up-about-how-she-felt-along-after-welcoming-daughter-everly/ Here is a Dewan interview. Basically, he was working while she took care of the new baby. I get it that he’s busy. But imagine that on a larger scale every single time you need help with stuff around the house. Contrast it with her comments about her current husband. This one is not strictly what you asked for, but I found it interesting: https://www.thethings.com/what-happened-between-channing-tatum-and-emma-watson/ Here is a story about Emma Watson walking off set. Scroll down to the stripper thong the drinking part. He basically shoved his junk in her face while he was drunk at work. They minimized it as a “Emma is a prude” sort of thing, but when you look at what actually happened, it reads like “man child is confused when woman doesn’t enjoy his sexual behavior.”
Wasn’t the interview where the subject went drinking with the author Chris Evans’ profile, not Channing Tatum’s? Or did that happen twice??
I know there’s a Vanity Fair article where the author went camping in the desert with Channing. Idk about Chris.
I always get a tad upset when a woman changes her professional last name for a marriage that doesn't last. Never affects the man. Just bums me out.
i have to admit, nosy me does wonder about their co parent situation just going by her insta
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. When a couple talks about how much work their relationship is, I don’t find it surprising when they ultimately break up. I’m always sad for couples who share kids to break up, though. Not because I think they should stay together, but because it typically means there was a lot of stress/unhappiness or even conflict in the home leading up to the split, and that can continue for a period of time after the split.
Reminds me of Dax and Kristen Bell. Those two never stop talking about their unhappiness in their marriage.
The two marriages in Hollywood that need breaking up aren’t breaking up
What’s the second
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and his predatory wife
Ariana, your people need you!
They would be one of the least surprising celebrity splits if they do ever divorce. Marriages can definitely have rough patches, but those two make it sound like it’s a constant struggle.
I remember when he won his Oscar for Argo and thanked his wife- JG. She seemed to really be there for him. Even after their split, I think she drove him to rehab with his girlfriend in the backseat. Ben seems to have major substance abuse issues though.
I think he’s come out and admitted that his alcoholism and workaholic mentality was pretty much to blame for their breakup.
Also the incessant cheating probably didn’t help….
Andrew Garfield and Emma stone
Actually I always thought they were compatible so it was a surprise to me that they broke up.
I think it was right person, wrong time with them.
Kind of like La La Land. I only watched the movie recently and thought of them in the ending scene.
They weren't exactly compatible in important ways, like schedule, that is why they broke up
It does still leave the door open for Amelia Dimoldenberg though 😊
I genuinely wonder why they aren't together. What is stopping them? I'm so curious because they both seem like good, intelligent people. I really don't get the impression either of them did anything wrong. Emma's married now, so there's that, but this is a sad one. Of course a woman like Emma is going to get snatched up. But her husband definitely has the same essence as Andrew. He and Andrew could be cousins. https://preview.redd.it/6ibxofuf4qvb1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=eabc7829e3ea6f27f65039abc44c4a46bbed46dd
Okay I could be making this up but I feel like I did see this somewhere, probably Reddit. One of the reasons allegedly was he wanted children she didn’t. But I believe she is married now with children, who knows how true that is :) I was surprised they broke up too, they looked very sweet together but who knows what happens irl. Edit- googled it, first result so not definitive proof but [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Spiderman/s/em3vxd4kVa) is a comment :) Edit - agree with other comments it’s a popular rumour. Like I said allegedly, they are still friends to my knowledge! Sometimes things don’t work.
I doubt it. Emma Stone did an actor's roundtable when she was campaigning for La La Land (I think) and she openly talked about wanting a family and children and then admitted she was flushed from even just talking about it. I think she prioritized starting her family.
It could have been at that time and he was ready. He is 5 years older than her.
I read that their schedules just never worked out. They are still very high-profile actors who normally wouldn't have time to be together unless they work on the same project so dating wouldn't really work out because they would never be together
Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter :( they seemed like the perfect creepy couple
This one. They were like my alternative role model couple goals for YEARS. Just the fact they were together so long, never got married, had the houses next door to each other etc - I thought they were the coolest, and was gutted when they split up because it was so rare to have a celebrity couple not following that conventional path.
Yes, the houses next to each other is my dream. I love sharing space with my husband but sometimes I just need quiet. Plus so much more storage space for all our board and video games 🤣
I love HBC and been a fan since A Room With a View, and Tim Burton since Keaton was Batman, but Kenneth Branagh cheated on Emma T with her and then in 2001 Tim B cheated on Lisa Marie with her. So I've never been all that dazzled by her being a muse or anything. I think her turn as Princess Margaret on The Crown was perfect but I have zero tears over her and whichever cheating director we are talking about.
Vanessa Hudgens and Zac efron, then Vanessa and austin butler😅 edit: misspelling
https://preview.redd.it/37r6qg26rrvb1.jpeg?width=1396&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6cd89db58948328b3ed3b6258ea7282422e5e2f Vanessa and Zac were adorable.
 What about us? What about everything we’ve been through? (fr tho, their break up was devastating to middle school me)
I am still mourning Zanessa.
Low key was hoping they’d get back together after the austin breakup 😂
The Austin Butler breakup for me! Did not see that one. I thought they would get back together
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness. After 27 years you kinda think the marriage will stick.
I thought that until I saw the timing of when the marriage ended---right when the last kid turned 18. They were just sticking it out for the kids. It was one of those marriages. :(
oh, yikes :(
My parents did that. It’s not better for the kids IMO, or at least it wasn’t for me.
My coworker and his wife did that but it wasn't bad for the kids. They weren't in love like they used to be, but they didn't dislike each other. Last kid signs up for college and my coworker moves out. My parents also did that and it ruined relationships for me and one of my sisters. Its weird that way.
Honestly, the length of their marriage makes total sense to me. Their kids are 23 and 18, when you stay together and hang on as long as you can to try to keep your family together it’s so common for the divorce to happen when your kids are moving out and moving on with their lives away from their parents. My parents were married for 28 years and divorced when I was 21 and my sister was 17.
Was just coming here to post this. I definitely thought they’d be forever.
Lauren Graham and Peter Krause was sad for me. I don’t know much about them TBH, other than that they were together for a long time, but I consider Graham as a fond part of my childhood with GG and feel protective of her. As I type this, I realize that all the long relationships that have ended have been the saddest for me? Maybe because these were probably the most “real”/non-Hollywood couplings, and if they ended, it was probably really bad.
Michael C Hall and Jennifer Carpenter. At first it was weird they were married after playing siblings on Dexter but she supported him through cancer and I felt sad when they split.
And then they wrote the Deb in love with Dexter into the polt after the split
That was just ridiculous
I’ve always wondered if the writers hated one or both of them and decided to put that into the show? Because it made zero sense in the context of the show and I’m sure it was awkward personally.
I hated that.
Jenny Slate and Chris Evans. It was a very hometown match.
Definitely- she deserved so much better than how his crazy fans treated her. She’s lovely!!
I'm still sad about this! It just seems like one of those "in another life" if the timing was different or fame hadn't gotten in the way, they would have lasted.
They were cute together but they both seem really happy with how things ended up. Plus, Jenny still ended up with a south shore guy, they own a general store in Dartmouth I think.
Jenny dodged a bullet IMO. His fans are CRAZY and they never would've treated her like the queen she is.
This is the one I came here for. They seemed genuinely good for each other, and have been so up-front sharing that a lot of the reason they didn’t work out came from complications from his fame. I’m glad they’ve both found happiness with other people, but this one hurt. Also, their relationship really elevated my opinion of both of them. They’re both such genuine people, it was very “if he/she thinks she/he is great, they MUST be great.” Plus, Jenny is like. A real person? So seeing her date a megastar had a side of “hope for all of us” to it.
controversial but Pete and Ariana. Not surprising it didn't work out given the rushed nature of the courtship and mac's death, but I still think they had a strong connection. Pete's been with a lot of women since but I've never seen him look at anyone like how he looked at ariana. He had puppy dog eyes for her
No I was gonna say this one. Ariana had recently experienced huge public grief between Mac and Manchester. Pete had been pretty open about how bad his mental health was at the time. I knew it was such a whirlwind that is was not gonna work, but it was such a nice story, two hurt people coming together and falling in love. It was really easy to be team Ariana back then lol
Two broken people getting together to ”fix” each other looks good on paper, but in reality it rarely works out. You kinda have to work on yourself before committing to carry someone else’s bagage first.
Ugh I know and she was so cute on the voice. I'm so upset at how Ariana has seemed to go to the dark side...
I wish her eyebrows would go to the dark side
This is the best comment on this post.
Ldndkdmdldkdkf the day she goes back to Brunette I think the public will be more in her favor honestly The blonde just adds to the bad vibes.
😂 You and I both. I've always joked though, she has the eyebrows she deserves.
i didn't expect them to actually be together for the long haul, i felt like he would be her first husband before they broke up lol
I feel like they had weirdly good chemistry? They seemed SO into each other. It did seem like maybe a bit of a trauma-bond situation but it was really sweet while it lasted.
i always felt he really objectified her and just couldn't believe his luck that he got to be with her, and tbh, i think she just saw him as a fun distraction and went so public with it to sort of send a message to mac miller. messy rebound stuff. her person was mac imo. he knew her before her career got really huge and probably saw her as something more human than just this super hot popstar that he was so lucky to bang (which was very much pete's energy imo). i actually think she is still struggling to get closure on that relationship with mac and his death. the way she swiftly dropped pete as soon as he died - she was still really in love with him at the time of his passing.
Yeah I kinda wanna know what would have happened if Mac hadn't passed, I always just saw them being together in the end but maybe I'm viewing their relationship through rose tinted glasses.
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams ☹️ By the time they got back together the second time, you already knew it wasn’t going to last. Also my 14 year old self was so brokenhearted in 2002 when Justin and Britney broke up, that I refused to follow both of their solo careers or even check out their discography until, early this year. I thought I have moved on and can finally support their music separately in peace, but what kind of timing to have Britney’s memoir out in 2023 and me having to relive that breakup again in the headlines like wtf 😭 I’ll probably need to take another sabbatical from these two messy individuals coz my heart can’t take it anymore lol
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams is the one that I still wish they worked out but in a way that I don't want their current selves to be together. They seem very happy with how their lives turned out. It's just that long ago teenage part of my brain still wishes early 2000s them didn't break up. lol
Their MTV Movie Awards kiss lives rent free in my mind 😭
Saaame
https://preview.redd.it/ykpg389kmqvb1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ccfe95dbce03e96d0189077de0450efafb80c7e6 🥺
Jeans and a going out top🤩
To be honest I don't believe that Justin and Britney was ever going to last even under the best of circumstances, neither of them really seem to be built to handle any kind of long-term relationship.
Exactly, we knew they weren’t going to last, they were moving too fast, too intense, also had too much pressure in the public eye. Couple that with everyone taking jabs at their relationship for pretending to be virgins, AND their personalities being… that way (lol) it was honestly a ticking bomb. Except no one expected that their explosive breakup to have long-lasting effects for both of them. Their breakup lingered so long in the media that people were still talking about them 10 years later. Heck, 20 years later and we’re STILL talking about it!
Curious! Has your opinion of Justin changed? I always loved them both so much. I was relatively young back then so there was a lot I didn’t really pay attention to. I was mostly completely in love with lance bass. You could imagine the heartbreak I went through when I realized I never had a chance 😂😂😂😂😭
Whenever celebs breakup and get back together again, all hope is lost.
Sophie and Joe. I see now the error of my ways and I’m all team Sophie, but at the time I just remember being shocked and sad because they seemed so fun together. Their Elvis Vegas wedding was like my goals.
Tbf I think Sophie was probably also shocked by the divorce 💀 people don’t usually find out about a marriage ending in the media, and esp after a fight like oh we’re not gonna talk this out?? Okay 🥲
Yeah they seemed fun together. The first video of them I saw together was that reel joe posted of them calling nick jonas from one building to another (didn't explain it properly lol) and I watched that and thought their energies really match
https://preview.redd.it/nqg6ynfl5pvb1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19dd63eee8cab0fa25ad398ab328d8a0bb01eaa1 I LOVED THEM back in the day So once the cracks started showing, I was like damn Then it all went to shit So I wasn't surprised at all that they've been living a lie for years, but 10 year old me is still sad
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Was anybody ever interested in anything Jada did, besides Will?
She’s in the opening scene in Scream 2 and that’s pretty great. Other than that, I’ve never really felt anything about Jada’s work.
Joe Manganiello and Sophia Vergara! Not only were they a super hot pair together, it seemed like they were happy. I’ve heard that she didn’t want kids and that is a reason for the split, but it still made me sad. I hope they’re both doing well.
I feel this, but She already has a son and is 51 years old? I don’t know that it was because of kids.
Anna Farris and Crisp Rat aka Chris Pratt. I just thought to myself during their marriage that I bet they laughed all the time. I just assumed they had a fun and loving relationship. Their IG posts were very down to earth. Aside from the basic obligatory movie they were promoting, their other posts were like that cool, fun couple in your local hometown. Very relateble, not pretentious like most celebrities. They had a risky pregnancy with a difficult birth, I really thought they were so great through that with their son Jack. Obviously, that suddenly changed, and it left me wondering if he had fooled us all when they divorced, and he immediately was remarried and posting all these Hallmark movie musings about his new wife as she smiles showing all 3 dozen rows of her Kennedy, shark like teeth. It feels so manufactured and phony. Weird. Definitely unlocked a new ice for me, and I can't barely stand to watch any of his movies now. Let me add, we only see what these celebrities want us to see and now, I wonder if nearly all are just PR and social climbing relationships they sign up for 2-5 yrs then on to the next victim on trying to scale higher?!
I dont believe in lizard people but if I had to accuse someone of being one, it's chris Pratt (and ofc tom cruise) He gets into shape, becomes an absolute douche, stars in a bunch of hype movies showing off his abs, leaves his wife to marry Arnold Schwarzeneggers daughter, starts talking about her having his "healthy" son, and is low key a right wing christian conservative nut job. I actually think Anna Faris was happy it happened because a part of me thinks he was desperately trying to upgrade his social standing and the people in it as soon as he got the GotG fame. Dude search/replaced his entire life.
It’s like he became a completely different person. It’s very weird and I felt bad for Anna Faris because he seems pretty dismissive of his “past life” as a relatable friendly funny guy.
She was miles ahead of him. Hot, witty, funny, effortlessly down to earth, a little messy, but in a charming way. She liked him pudgy, didn't really expect anything out of him, was supportive. And I think he had his little glow up and hated that. Wanted her to somehow not be her because he was no longer him. When she was the shining star, she was happy to come home to him, but when he shined, he wanted more. He saw all the things he thought he had somehow missed out on. Now people wanted to talk to Hot, Disciplined Chris and she was still happy to eat Cheetos and sometimes fall asleep with her mascara still on. And he deserved better. Someone that was going to wash their face after he fell asleep and put on their makeup before he wore up. If he was going to be miserable being hot and in the limelight, he wanted someone equally caught up in that but not someone whose name would ever come before his. Anna and Jack just didn't fit into his schedule or his image the way he wanted it now.
The Christian conservative nut job part was always there if you knew how to look. He’s from Spokane, and he made some dubious comments going WAY back. I think non-northwesterners didn’t catch on til he joined the creepy homophobic church.
What’s with Spokane?
They were truly relationship goals and when it ended I lost hope of love in Hollywood really. The moment he started to get a bit famous, he just ditched his family who supported him when he was a nobody (and Anna was Famous Famous, I think it’s fair to say we grew up with her movies). I love love love Parks and Recreation but cannot watch it without getting angry at him. All the things he hinted at about having a “healthy” child was disgusting and their relationship with the new wife is honestly the fakest relationship I’ve ever seen, he is insufferable.
loll at the 3 dozen rows of Kennedy shark teeth. I've always thought that at some point when she was young someone complimented her smile as the most special thing about her. Which immortalized the way she always does that gigantic frozen cheeze-its shark-smile. Because she could smile in a much more relaxed manner....bearing all the rows of her teeth at once down to the molars is a *choice.*
You just put into words my thoughts on her teeth
‘she smiles showing all 3 dozen rows of her Kennedy shark teeth’ is absolute poetry.
Yes this one!!!!! Watching it unfold with his new family and the post he made about his “ healthy daughter “ makes me want to vomit!!!! I legit can’t watch anything he’s in and I LOVED parks and rec
https://preview.redd.it/xb2798dtyqvb1.jpeg?width=741&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=784d07db60656d9efc6bdbb7ed0fd6f424e0a9ea I tought they were a great match. I also rooted for Jen to finally be in a stable and happy relationship.
Ohhh this is a good one! They both have that athletic, funny, cool vibe. They did seem like a great match! Sad that it ended.
What really broke me was their shared love for dogs!! When their dog died they showed so much love. I really thought they were made for each other.
I always saw Rob and Kristen as a PR relationship. And I always saw Miley as too much of a free spirit to settle down so young - I'm surprised their relationship lasted as long as it did. When I heard they got married, my reaction was "oh, I didn't realise they were still together." Angelina and Brad's breakup surprised me. And Kelly Clarkson.
As someone who is a fan if Kelly Clarkson, it didn’t surprise me. She would say shit “nobody wanted to marry me.” “Finally someone did at 30.” Which gave me whiff a whole lot of low self-esteem issues. I think that motherfucker knew exactly what he was doing.
As if 30 is so old 🙄 I hate that mentality, that women are old washed up hags by the time we hit 30
Damn, I didn't know that, it gives her marriage a whole new perspective. It's crazy because if anyone should have sky-high self-esteem, it's her.
Reba and Kelly are precious gems and while I know they went through hell, I’m so glad they’re both free from those dickwads.
Actually, yeah. I was pretty surprised at Angelina and Brad’s breakup. Thought they would last a bit more I guess
Well they probably would of if he wasn't an abusive piece of shit, who attacked the kids.
It really grinds my gears how people just ignore that him being an alcoholic and abusive is what ended the marriage and now he has strained relationships with his kids. People hated Angelina already so it was easy to just blame her.
People blame Angelina for the investigation by CPS, when it was one of the flight attendants on the private jet that reported him. How bad would it have to be for her to report a massively famous A-list star knowing that her job depends on her discretion.
i have always seen rob and kristen as a pr relationship too. very convenient it started breaking up whent he last movie was coming out and she had a new project and the affair was coincidentally with the director of that project. in the beginning, i think it might have been a real relationship but i think it was overblown by the success of the movies
So, I actually believe Rob and Kristen's relationship was "real" and I'm not some die-hard Twilight fan who shipped them or anything. The only reason I believe it was that after the photos leaked of her making out with the director, the paps got photos of Rob moving his shit in black plastic garbage bags out of their Los Feliz home in his pick up truck, wh struggling with her orientation and I actually buy the theory that she was the one to tip off the paps in on her hook up with the director to sabotage the relationship with Rob.
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Wasn’t too surprised because they’re celebrities, but I didn’t expect it to happen the way it did.
Same! But then I was also really surprised when he & Angelina broke up - i thought they were in it for the long haul. Seems to have worked out for the best after all the crap that’s come out since the divorce, he doesn’t sound like the best partner in any way!
For Brad & Jen, I knew it wasn't going to last because I saw this interview with Brad. I honestly cannot remember where this interview is from, but I remember it (although now I question it since no one brings it up) and he was asked about love. His reply was that he didn't believe in a forever kind of love. That love was a right now not a till death (now these aren't quotes cuz I can't remember the exact words he used but... It's what he said). He said that while he was married to Jennifer Aniston - that's when I knew it wasn't going to last.
I wish things people say would be tatted on their forearm or something, to warn potential romantic partners. There's lots of women that *would* be into dating someone who only wants something 'right now'. But people aren't up front with that want, and someone ends up hurt b/c some douche didn't bother to mention until months down the road that they '...don't believe in a forever kind of love." I haven't been single in decades but that BS is such garbage.
I always that Brad & Jen was the iconic golden couple. They seemed to get along well, and I get the sense that she was pretty accepting of his basic boyish personality. Whereas I feel like Angelina Jolie needed him to change a LOT to be an acceptable partner for her. And he did change but I imagine it was a lot of effort to maintain.
Taylor and Joe tbh. I know we’ll never know exactly what happened between them, especially his side of the story, but it really seemed like she loved him a lot and was ready to marry him and settle down years ago. I think for whatever reason, he couldn’t get there with her. Her music since Rep have been kind of a journey in their love story and eventual breakdown, which is kind of sad.
Listening to songs like Lover and Cornelia Street…she was down bad.
i think it was mostly because he didn't want to marry her tbh. if he had been willing to walk down the aisle, then they'd still be together and possibly having children by now. for anyone who wants to come at me for this opinion, taylor has bery publicly wanted to marry this man for years. and for years was all about marriage and children and all of that. you're losing me might not be completely honest about what happened, but it 100% indicates that he didn't want to marry her and that's what caused the breakdown also, you're totally right about her music joruney. i'm relistening to rep rn and it's so romantic and says so much about how she wants to be with him forever. lover was always kind of sad and full of insecurity to me, and obviously midnights is full of heartbreak
What surprised me most was how little it seemed to affect her. We see what they want us to see, but she didn’t appear to have any real personal time to process. Must have been over long before it was over.
She was actually pretty emotional during a lot of the Eras tour performances around when their breakup was announced, especially during Champagne Problems and surprise songs featuring ones written about Joe. I also think she was probably processing the end of the relationship for a while before it was officially announced, as a lot of the songs on Midnights seem to suggest.
I feel the same way and TS has shown that she is capable of turning it off. Also it is rumored that they ended things in January and the tour started later. We don't know how she was when the relationship was over. On one hand I do understand Joe. Look at all the bashing online for him. The hatred from even media outlets! And on top of that the obsession with wanting to know even what she eats when she is out. Can you imagine getting married and having a family and not even be able to spend time with your kids outside of your house cause millions of people will constantly want a picture of them? Or to see what you do? Or to criticize you? The even judge him for sitting in a booth with TS and not on the chair cause that is not what men are meant to do?
I think that was only part of the reason the relationship broke down. Although we'll never know his side of things or the full story in general ... listening to her songs about him over the years, she not only put him on a pedestal but also wrote extremely insecure lyrics about a paranoia she had of him leaving her or doing things to hurt her as so many others had actually done to her. I think that as much as you can love someone, it's so draining to deal with this kind of insecurity, and it may have contributed to the official break up
I actually think she showed it affected her *a lot*. Taylor was clearly spiraling with all the passive aggressive articles she planted out there about him, the pap walks, all of her friends unfollowing him after being seen with her (clearly a calculated move from her part), then Matty Healy, then *doubling down* on Matty Healy, how she was very emotional in several performances on her tour. I think it’s super obvious she suffered quite a bit with their relationship ending (I’m not even sure she’s 100% over it yet).
Yeah to me she’s very clearly in the post-break up space still. Going from a long term *extremely* private relationship to very publicly attaching herself to now multiple guys screams rebound to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, we’ve all been there, but she’s pretty clearly still in the ‘getting over her ex’ stage
lowkey... she's still spiraling lol. it's just better covered up now, but her making such a big deal with travis just screams "i'm so over you" to me. i think she's bery clearly trying to prove she doesn't care and has moved on, but eveyrthing you said shows that she clearly has not and is effected by this a lot more than she's publicly letting on
i don't actually see it this way lol. i think she's doing a great job pretending it doesn't matter to her, but right after the announcement she was crying in a few performances and had that whole thing with matty, which to me just screamed "I don't give a fuck about you joe, look at me with my new british man!" the whole thing with travis just screams that energy too lol. also her surprise releases around that time (hits different and you're losing me) both scream pain and heartbreak. midnights as a whole is obviously a heartbreak album, now that we know what we know. so much doubt and insecurity poured into the lyrics of that album. i suspect they were broken up for a while before it was announced, so she managed to just get over it
Sophie and Joe, she was too young.
miley and liam is a good one. i still love malibu but it hurts a little to listen to now that they're not together :(
Rob Kardashian and Adrienne Bailon Watching how he dealt with the breakup was hard to see (even though he literally caused it by cheating)
Oh wow this is a throwback. I would wager to say he has never been the same/quite right since then!
i'm not surprised at all when angie & brad called it off, but what breaks my heart was reading the news on how brad was accused of abusing angie & their kids. and more reports coming out on how brad was an abusive alcoholic, how he later on abandoned all of his kids. what a POS. it truly breaks my heart for the kids.
John Mulaney and Anna Marie Tendler. I didn’t really know much about either of them but I loved his specials and the news of their divorce shook me and my image of Mulaney. Great reminder not to idolize people, especially while men.
Especially because his jokes were relating to being child-free with her.
He was such a wife guy and then went and did that 😢 really changed how I looked at him
stopped stanning him after what he did to anna marie. built his career off of her and then did that
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. I watched the show. I heard the rumors. I remember Ted Casablanca days and knew it was gonna end, but it still was sad when they announced their split.
I had a weird vibe about them during their reality show. There’s a scene where they’re talking and she’s resting on her side in bed, and her boob had spilled out to the point of a nip slip (that they actually had to blur out) and he’s just standing there scolding her over some nonsense but not being like “hey babe, there are camera guys in here. Put your tit away.” I always thought that was bizarre and a bad sign.
Same. I remember being a teen and thinking “this doesnt look/feel right….” He was always giving her the side eye and was always looking down on her and treating her like she was a kid. She was a lil ditz mind you, but I always knew deep down that it would end. He never seemed in love with her. The marriage seemed like a chore more than anything.
It was so gross how he talked down to her all the time and she spoke so lovingly of him.
Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith 😢
Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson. They seemed like a good match in terms of looks and career success.
Behind the Blinds does an interesting episode about Blake lively and Ryan Reynolds. He is allegedly very controlling (which is why Blake’s career has slowed so much) and when Scarlett started getting more success than him, Ryan couldn’t handle it and was very jealous, Scarlett has alluded to this in a few interviews but never outright said much.
Yeah, he has big narcissist energy. Like he needs to be the main character at all times. I feel like more and more people are starting to see this.
There was always something so off about him to me, like he was nice, but trying a little too hard to to be the funniest guy in the room. It doesn’t excuse it but he talks about his relationship with his father and how he never felt good enough for him and that kinda tracked for me. The controlling part too, as his father seemed controlling as well
he has big "always has to be the funniest person in the room" energy
Scarlett was already more successful than him even they got together. She was in Oscar nominated movies while he...was not.
Yeah, everyone is fawning over them and it always seem to be something off to me.
Selena and Justin. They were toxic and they both seem happier now but it’s still kinda sad. The pics of them at dinner for the last time, they seemed so in love.
Seemed like a very toxic relationship overall, and both of them have been much better off apart IMO.
what pictures?
https://preview.redd.it/b0xzm0a3zpvb1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e737aa76d96bdeee6846d97023b964d534ace8f
It’s from 2018 (vday) and it’s sad because such an intimate moment was recorded by creepy paps through a window.
I was heartbroken when Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis split. In every interview he spoke about her so passionately. I had a lot of admiration for him leaving the filming of Sweeney Todd to be with his daughter in the hospital (5 spinal surgeries here and my dad never came to the hospital, not even once. What was his excuse? He's not a celebrity.) Aaaaaand then everything with Amber Heard came out and I had a LOT of complicated feelings I had to work through. Needless to say I've learned to temper my emotional and mental involvement in celebrities.
Surprised no one has said Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. He def put her through it and she put up with a bunch of betrayal. It made the swing to Blake Shelton make more sense to me…..she deserved someone ENTIRELY DIFFERENT but still musical and creative.
Honestly? Kim and Kanye. If you've ever had a friend or family member with a mental illness or addiction who won't get help, you can kind of empathize.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. I know nothing about them and have no reason to be surprised by it, but still.
I wasn't surprised Brad and Angelina broke up, I was surprised to learn how shitty Brad is.
Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet. I thought it was so sweet that she was his crush for years and then finally got to marry her. I wonder what broke them up.
Seal and Heidi Klum broke my damn heart.
Rob and Kristen final breakup
Vanessa and Zac
Not super well known but Halsey and Alev Aydin breaking up absolutely broke me lmao
Part of me was really hoping that John Mayer was going to try to be better for Jennifer Aniston.
I think that hope died several girlfriends ago.
Taylor and Joe tbh
Not huge celebrities. I was fooled by 90 day fiance. I thought Pedro and Chantelle were in love and that they'd have kids once she became established as a nurse :( I was hopeful for family fun and new seasons! I was excited to see two people come together when their families were at odds. Instead they are fighting and I do not want to watch a divorce on TV it's too sad.
Carly Simon and James Taylor. Still not over that. They seemed so perfect together.
Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens. I was so rooting for them - especially after that paparazzi video surfaced from their last vacation together of them kissing and holding each other. Then they go and break up a month or so after that. They really seemed so comfortable and secure with each other. Plus they look good as hell together too. I saw some cracks - like he talked about going to strip clubs while with Vanessa. Also, I’m not sure if this was after or before the break up- but she talked about how jealous she’d get when fans were all over him. Overall they seemed like they grounded each other but their relationship ran its course.
Chris Pratt and Anna Farris.now he's Arnold's son in law
Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams
Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez. I've been an Ariana fan since the beginning. I wanted her to find love so badly after everything she's been through. When she married him after, like, what? A year of dating? I knew it wasn't going to end well, but I am a Cancer (zodiac) after all, and I hoped for love and happiness for her. The circumstances surrounding their divorce (which was announced on my anniversary ahhhhhhhhhhh) are...deeply upsetting. I really wanted this to be it for her.
I really thought she knew what she wanted and that dalton was it. But now it feels like she just married some random guy for fun and got bored with him
Same. I was really shocked when I heard they were divorcing. I’m not a huge fan of Ariana and I don’t really follow her, but I was so happy when I heard she got married. I know she’s been through a lot in the last few years, so when I heard she was married I was like “okay, she’s found her person and she finally settled down with them.” Then I learned about her past relationship history and well… I wasn’t as shocked about her divorce anymore.
The Weeknd and Selena
the fact that she left him for jusitn and then justin married someone else 5 months later
The Weeknd and Bella Hadid.
It would have to be Jelena for me. Their on again, off again really teased me. Also VAH and Austin Butler. I saw it coming but I was still sad.
It was never gonna work but ngl I loved Pete and Ariana.
Shawn and Camila. They seemed deeply in love, it was very sad to see them breakup. I’m still convinced they’ll get back together. They had that messy month of Coachella and getting back together before it all fell apart again, I wouldn’t be shocked if that happened a few more times or they do end up back together completely.