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Some couples are supposed to be in combination endlessly and some relationships crash and burn--and then there are some that finish amicably and the two can still be friends. Not all relationships end amicably however it would be so much easier if they did. Breakups will also be messy, tricky, heartbreaking, and scary but if each parties admire and care about every different, there should not be any purpose for messiness.
The media loves messy famous person breakups--the messier the better. Few things pique the public's hobby greater than a torrid affair breaking up a prime profile marriage or accusations destroying a celebrity courting. To many, there's something intriguing about rich, famous, beautiful people's personal lives crumbling round them and the general public eats it up--and then asks for seconds.
However, the media hardly covers stories wherein these rich, well-known, and wonderful other people have quiet, amicable breakups that involve no cheating rumors or scandals. There are many celebrities who have had these types of breakups that you might now not know about and so they would possibly bring you some semblance of relief that it is conceivable to transport on without the entire messiness. Sometimes two other folks just aren't meant to be together romantically they usually each can see that and they are able to still be friends even years later. These are the celebs who have damaged up and were always better off as friends.
Scarlet Johansson and Jack Antonoff: Prom Date
Since the two have had utterly other occupation trajectories, it's not easy to consider that Scarlett Johansson and Jack Antonoff were ever actually a couple however they actually dated each different once upon a time! According to Page Six, the 2 were together for roughly a yr while they were attending the Professional Children’s School on the Upper West Side and he even took her to promenade! What a skilled young couple. A couple of years back when Antonoff used to be nonetheless in a relationship with Girls author Lena Dunham, the actress stumbled throughout an previous photograph of Antonoff with Johansson on the net and she mentioned that she thought she was once "hallucinating" when she saw them according to the Daily Mail.
At the time, Dunham stated: "I'm not jealous. It's very sweet. I love looking at pictures of them."
Now that Dunham and Antonoff have officially broken up after five years of dating, she most certainly does not love taking a look at photos of them anymore which is comprehensible. Now that Johansson and her ex-husband are officially divorced and Antonoff and Dunham are no longer a pair, perhaps the Bleachers frontman and Black Widow gets again in combination. Probably now not.
Rihanna and Shia LaBeouf: They Didn't Find Love
Hollywood used to be an absolutely different position in 2007 than it is today. Ten years in the past, Rihanna and Shia LaBeouf were each rising stars--her as a singer and him as an actor. Like Johansson and Antonoff, the 2 have had utterly different career trajectories which makes this coupling seem so abnormal however they did actually date...or at least they went on one date. In 2007, the 2 were noticed grabbing a meal in combination and what came about subsequent used to be all hypothesis until LaBeouf in spite of everything told everyone what truly took place between them. According to an interview, LaBeouf had a large crush on Rihanna and they were arrange on a date whilst he was filming Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull.
He published nothing extra came about after the primary date, saying, "The spark wasn't there. We weren't passionate about each other in that way, so we remain friends."
As weird as this couple sounds, it is not that bizarre bearing in mind Rihanna first rose to prominence as a pop big name together with her first hit "Umbrella" and LaBeouf used to be fresh off his stint on the Disney Channel and becoming a movie superstar however we will see now that they are better off as friends.
Natalie Portman and Moby: Nerd Wrath
Natalie Portman first made a name for herself as a child actress in Hollywood together with her position in Leon: The Professional as Mathilda however she become a big celebrity when she landed the role of Padme in the Star Wars prequels. Before she was an even bigger Hollywood famous person, won an Academy Award, and dated probably the most best stars in Hollywood, she was going secure with the musician, Moby who had simply discovered good fortune together with his album Play in 1999. That's right. The stunning, intelligent, Japanese-speaking, Harvard graduate dated Moby. The two dated very briefly again in 2001 and it was once an amicable breakup in line with Moby who spoke about his reports in an interview in 2008.
Moby additionally went on to say that the fact that he dated Portman made him the "target of a lot of nerd wrath" and “you can’t date Luke Skywalker’s mom and no longer have them hate your guts.”
With this interview, Moby made it appear to be this was once a real problem but most people almost definitely should not have a problem with dealing with some nerd envy if it meant getting so far Natalie Portman. Seventeen years later, it is obtrusive that the two are better off as friends.
Busy Philipps and Colin Hanks: Friends Forever
Just since you break up with any individual, it doesn't suggest that you need to really feel awkward round every different and those two end up it. While Philipps used to be co-hosting Live with Kelly in 2017, Hanks gave the impression on the show and they revealed their romantic previous. According to Hanks, they both got their first roles in TV displays (her with Freaks and Geeks and him with Roswell) inside of the same week as each and every other and their first movie roles (her with The Smokers and him with Whatever It Takes) in the same week.
“We were ready to move through the entire in point of fact special moments in a tender actor’s lives together," Hanks said. Philipps said that he was her college boyfriend and they met when she was 18 and he was 19.
"We are very very shut friends now — his wife and I are tight, he and my husband hang around. We pass on vacation in combination," Philipps said. The two couples' children even go to the same school together! It just goes to show that the end of a relationship doesn't have to be a bad thing. Some couples aren't meant to be together romantically but that doesn't mean that they can't be good friends!
Kim Kardashian and John Mayer: They Didn't Hit it Off
John Mayer is known for his famous hookups: Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, Taylor Swift, and Katy Perry are just a few women he's been romantically linked to. We all know about his explosive relationship with Jessica Simpson and his creepy relationship with Taylor Swift but you may not know that he once had a fling with one of the most famous women in the world. Before she met and got together and divorced Kris Humphries, and long before she married Kanye, Kim Kardashian and John Mayer were definitely a secret couple.
All of the sudden, the couple were not seen together again but nobody knew what happened but it was clear that it was over. However, according to TMZ, Kardashian said that Mayer is a "in reality cool guy" and since Mayer has said nothing terrible about Kim, it's fair to say that they are still friends, mostly because he has said some nasty things about his other exes.
Winona Ryder and Jimmy Fallon: No Hard Feelings
Winona Ryder famously dated Johnny Depp at the beginning of her career but she's also had several other famous boyfriends that you may not remember such as Matt Damon, David Duchovny, Beck, and Val Kilmer. She also dated Jimmy Fallon back in 2000! Though they say they only dated briefly, there are multiple photos of them together looking very much like a couple which means that must have spent at least a little bit of time together.
There was obviously no bad blood between them because his show was the first late night talk show she went on when she returned to Hollywood after a six-year hiatus from the spotlight. Back when they first got together, Ryder was one of the biggest actresses in Hollywood and Fallon was already been on SNL for a few seasons and even 18 years later, the two seemed to be happy to see each other again when she was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. There was absolutely no awkwardness between them and it was as if no time had passed at all. Wouldn't it be nice to have that kind of relationship with your ex? It takes a lot of maturity to reach that level!
Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin: Indie Darlings
Before she was a two-time Academy Award winner, Emma Stone was an up-and-coming actress who got her start playing bit parts in TV shows like Malcolm in the Middle and Medium. In 2007, she landed her first big role in Superbad and her career took off. In 2009, she starred in an indie movie called Paper Man alongside Jeff Daniels, Lisa Kudrow, Ryan Reynolds, and Kieran Culkin (Macaulay Culkin's brother). According to Popsugar, Stone and Culkin started dating in 2009 or 2010 after meeting on the set of Paper Man. Celebuzz reports that the two split up in April 2011. She soon hit it big with hit movies like Zombieland, Easy A, Crazy, Stupid, Love, and The Help while Culkin continued to work in indie movies.
There doesn't appear to be any hard feelings between the two actors because the pair reunited onscreen in Movie 43 in which they play a couple. Playing a couple with an ex would be really awkward and painful if there was any bad blood between them. There are some instances of celebrity exes being forced to work with each other on a show or movie series but most exes wouldn't reunite for a completely different project unless they were friendly.
B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling: On Again, Off Again
On The Office, Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak played characters who were always in an on-again, off-again relationship and that is pretty close to what happened in real life. According to Buzzfeed, Kaling, and Novak both admitted that the characters' relationship with each other was based on their own relationship. Mindy explained it like this:
“[We] dated on and off for a couple of years, and now we are just, like, best friends. Like, real best friends. It’s the kind of friendship you have when you are embedded with someone, that you can only get by putting in that insane amount of time with people.”
According to an AMA on Reddit, Novak was asked who he was the closest to while working on The Office and replied: "I was closest with Mindy Kaling, and likewise least close with Mindy Kaling, on a minute-by-minute basis. And I wouldn't trade it for the arena." However, he also went on to say that he would actually trade their tumultuous relationship for a more peaceful one. The two may not have been right for each other romantically but they have still been able to become close friends who regularly tease and inspire each other.
Sofia Coppola and Keanu Reeves: Ultimate 90s Power Couple
The relationship between Sofia Coppola and Keanu Reeves is an often forgotten Hollywood romance but have you ever seen a more perfectly 90s It couple? Sofia and Keanu met on the set of Bram Stoker’s Dracula which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola (aka Sofia's dad) in the early 90s.
In 1993, W Magazine described Sofia as "the queen of Hollywood's cool pack" and in 1994, the Chicago Tribune described Keanu as being "grunge earlier than grunge was cool".
The two were an effortlessly cool power couple that still somehow managed to fly under the radar in Hollywood. Even Sofia's father liked Keanu (despite his terrible attempt at a British accent in Dracula) and according to an interview in Entertainment Weekly, Mr. Coppola said this about Keanu: "I really like him personally such a lot. To these days he's a prince in my eyes." Though Sofia and Keanu broke up after about a year of dating, there doesn't seem to be any bad blood between them. In Sofia's third film, Lost in Translation, which was released in 2003 (ten years after the couple broke up), Reeves' name was added in the credits which means that they probably parted on good terms. How sweet is that?
Jay Z and Rosario Dawson: Family Feud
It's hard to remember a time when Jay Z and Beyonce weren't the power couple that they are today but the "99 Problems" rapper actually dated multiple women before he started seeing Queen Bey. According to Oh No They Didn't, Jay Z and Rosario Dawson dated briefly in 2000 but Boxden reported that they actually dated from 1997 to 2000 but it was never confirmed. If this is true, Dawson was likely the last woman Jay Z dated before he started dating Beyonce in 2000.
When the "Who bit Beyonce" scandal happened earlier this year, some alleged that it was Dawson who bit Queen Bey according to Bustle but it was later confirmed to be Sanaa Lathan was the biter according to Page Six. The reason why Dawson was even considered to be the biter was because she was at the party where the biting actually happened. But she was only at the party because she is friends with both Beyonce and Jay-Z. In fact, she was even featured in the star-studded music video for Jay-Z's song Family Feud. Ever since Jay-Z's scandal, Beyonce has evey right to be jealous of women who are friendly with her husband but it doesn't seem like there is any bad blood between Dawson and Beyonce or Jay Z.
Justin Timberlake and Jenna Dewan: Before Channing
Before Jenna Dewan starred in Step Up and became romantically linked with Channing Tatum, she was a backup dancer for Justin Timberlake and the two of them had a fling. According to the Daily Mail, Dewan said in an interview that she and Timberlake dated after he had broken up with Britney Spears.
In the interview, Dewan said, "I used to be not a rebound. We're still friends. It's no longer as salacious as everyone thinks." The dancer went on to say that they were close friends and that they "were like friends that then dated."
According to The Stir, there are some who might say that it was Dewan who caused the breakup between Britney and Justin to happen, but Dewan said that was not the case and the rumor that she was the "other girl" (and the rumor that she was involved in a dance-off with Britney) was started by tabloids. She also said that she wished the dance-off rumor was true because how cool would that have been? It's been over 15 years since Dewan and Timberlake dated and it's ancient history. Their friendship, on the other hand, is still going strong.
Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern: Finding Love Behind-the-Scenes
After Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern starred in Jurassic Park in the early 90s, they started dating and they were a beautiful couple. Goldblum explained how it happened to the Chicago Tribune:
"I was struck-I'd been a large fan of hers. I feel she's an amazing actress and a impressive individual. I used to be struck from the beginning. But after the film, we discovered we preferred each different."
The relationship was first revealed in a national magazine and Dern explained that the magazine had made the relationship seem "extra fabulous in print than it most probably ever could be in person" and "once all these preconceived ideas about how glamorous it is pass away, there is a man and a lady. And it's important to work out learn how to have a dating. To me, that is very difficult work." Maybe it was too much work to keep the relationship going because the two broke up about three years after they started dating. However, there doesn't appear to be any hard feelings. Recently, Goldblum has been hinting that Dern may actually make an appearance in the upcoming Jurassic World movie according to Vulture, but it hasn't been confirmed. That would be a reunion of Jurassic proportions!
Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper: A Bad Start
They're both handsome television personalities who seem to enjoy spending time together...so why aren't they in a relationship? Well, it turns out that the two almost dated but they were never romantically involved. However, they did become friends. According to their joint interview with The New York Times, Cohen actually asked Cooper out on a date years ago, but because he brought up Cooper's mother Gloria Vanderbilt within the first minute of their conversation, Cooper changed his mind about him.
Over time, the two would see each other at various bars and a friendship ensued. At first, Cohen thought Cooper "standoffish" and Cooper said that he imagined that Cohen was the type of person who would be on a "Bluetooth headset, strolling round, gesticulating so much."
Now, Cooper says that he likes Cohen's outgoing personality and that "great to have any person who pokes fun at you" and Cohen loves to poke fun at him. Somehow, the pair became close friends and it turns out that it was best that way. They also worked together on CNN's Times Square New Year's Eve broadcast in 2017 and, according to Deadline, it was the most-watched NYE special ever. You can't deny it--those two have chemistry!
Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes: First Love
It's fair to say that Katie Holmes isn't friends with all of her exes (we're looking at you, Tom Cruise) but she is friends with the one ex, her Dawson Creek's co-star Joshua Jackson, who she called her "past love" according to a 1998 interview with Rolling Stone. In the interview, she said that she considered Jackson to be one of her best friends during and after their eight-month relationship. Of course, when Dawson's Creek ended, Holmes became a big movie star, she dated and became engaged to Chris Klein, and then had her high-profile relationship with Tom Cruise. So naturally, she lost touch with her former love. However, after Holmes and Cruise divorced, she and Jackson rekindled their friendship.
According to Us Weekly, Jackson said that he received a call from his ex-girlfriend which he described as "very nice." Jackson said that it wasn't awkward at all to speak with Holmes: "Like any old good friend, it was like, 'Oh, hi how are ya? What's occurring?' 'I had a child.' 'Yeah, that's loopy, I heard!'" The two recently reunited again for the Dawson's Creek 20th reunion for a special edition of Entertainment Weekly and were said to be very "lovey-dovey" according to Mashable but they just seem like good friends.
Bella Hadid and The Weeknd: A Girl and a Starboy
In April 2015, The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) and Bella Hadid revealed that they were a couple and as two up-and-coming stars (him as a musician and her as a model) they seemed like the perfect match. However, in November 2016, the couple officially called it quits but there didn't seem to be any bad blood. A month after they split up, Hadid walked the runway at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and The Weeknd performed. There was a lot of speculation about their breakup after the fashion show and it led some to assume that there were some hard feelings between them because of a curious side-eye--at least according to Vogue.
However, the young supermodel quickly told E! News that there was no tension between her and the "Can't Feel My Face" singer: “There is no awkwardness. He is my best friend, and I am excited because I am walking during his performance.” The two have recently been seen spending time together after his split with Selena Gomez but according to a source from People, it has been hard to coordinate their busy schedules but "They nonetheless have a great deal of love for one every other and can remain friends."
Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas: She's Part of the Family
According to Seventeen, Demi Lovato wasn't acting in Camp Rock because she was really falling in love in real life with Joe Jonas who played her love interest in the Disney Channel original movie. However, in Lovato's new YouTube documentary: Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, Nick Jonas talked a bit about his brother Joe's relationship with Demi:
"While we were on excursion Demi and Joe’s relationship had turn out to be in point of fact difficult so I used to be enjoying the bridge." However, after the two broke up and the dust settled, Lovato and Jonas have become friends.
According to an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Lovato said that it was her ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama who encouraged her to be friends with her ex. In an interview with Billboard, Joe Jonas said that he has known Lovato for a long time and that they have "noticed every other go through tough instances, good occasions, in and out of relationships. It's funny to think again on that now. It appears like we were kids, even though I suppose we were. [Demi] is sort of a sister to either one of us, and it's nice to understand all of us have that enhance." It turns out that there are happy endings in real life and not just in Disney movies.
A$AP Rocky and Chanel Iman: She Deserved Better
Before A$AP Rocky was romantically linked with Kendall Jenner, the rapper was in a relationship with model Chanel Iman for eighteen months and it ended in 2015. When the pair broke up, Rocky said in an interview with MTV that he was "depressed" because he knew that she deserved better than what he could give her.
"That's my very best pal, you've gotta be mature, to be in this type of quandary and have a courting," Rocky said. "I never really discuss these kinda things, about her, and she or he by no means in point of fact talks about me so I'm no longer actually gonna say a lot on the subject but she's satisfied and that's the reason all I would like -- I want her to be happy."
However, after the two broke up, they worked together in the Netflix movie Dope and Iman told The Rickey Smiley Morning Show that "It’s never an awkward second" working alongside her ex-boyfriend. Also, according to Hollywood Life, the two were both at the same party and they reunited without any unpleasantness. Recently, Iman married New York Giants wide receiver, Sterling Shepard and she seems very happy--just like her ex always wanted her to be.
Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki: With a Bang
Speaking of exes who work together, Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki started dating after starring in Big Bang Theory together and continued to work together after they broke up. Luckily for them, there doesn't seem to be any awkwardness between them even though they play husband and wife on the show. Even after the couple split, Cuoco said in an interview on The Talk that Galecki "is considered one of my best friends and probably the most closest folks I've ever worked with." When she appeared on Watch What Happens Live she said
"Johnny is actually certainly one of my absolute best friends. It’s a scenario that ended well. I perceive now and again it doesn’t. It could have gone terrible."
According to Us Weekly, Galecki also thinks very highly of his former flame as well, saying: "She's not an ex, she's part of my lifestyles." Even Karl Cook, Cuoco's fiancé gets along with Galecki. Cook and Galecki proved that there isn't any bad blood by goofing off and cuddling up next to each other for an Instagram post. How many ex-boyfriends do you know who would be comfortable taking a photo with a new boyfriend? Not many. That takes a whole other level of maturity!
Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield: Biggest Fan
There are few Hollywood couples who are as adorable as Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield. Who didn't have their hearts broken when they split up? It's been years since they broke up but considering that neither has publicly dated anyone since dating each other, there is plenty of room for rumors. When Stone won a Golden Globe for her performance in La La Land last year, Garfield, who was in the audience, stood up to cheer for her. According to InStyle, the two reunited and were seen chatting and laughing together at a dinner hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
According to an interview in Vanity Fair, Garfield had nothing but good things to say about his ex: “There’s so much love between us and so much respect. I’m her biggest fan as an artist. So for me, it’s been bliss to be able to watch her success and watch her bloom into the actress that she is." Recently, Stone has been related to SNL writer Dave McCary so no matter is going on between Stone and Garfield does no longer appear to be anything more than friendship however that is almost definitely for the most efficient.
Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake: Gone
Justin Timberlake is certainly no longer friends with all of his exes (he and Britney Spears will most likely by no means be on good phrases) however he is still superb friends along with his ex Cameron Diaz who he dated from 2003 till 2006. The two reunited five years after their breakup on the set of their movie Bad Teacher in 2011 but, according to Diaz, the reunion used to be now not awkward as awkward as you could believe.
According to Us Weekly, Diaz mentioned that she enjoyed working with her ex at the movie: “It's great. Justin and I have at all times had a just right giggle in combination, and to make a movie where we get to have amusing together, and there actually used to be no one else who used to be more perfect for this section.”
She even went directly to gush about Timberlake, pronouncing that he used to be "a genius comedian. . . he's clearly talented. We went for the best person for the job, and it just so happened that it was him. And he delivers." It's been over a decade for the reason that two broke up Timberlake married Jessica Biel and Diaz lately were given married to Benji Madden so it simply goes to turn that everything works out in any case.
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