For some reason, most of us seem to get caught up in the private lives of celebrities. Perhaps because, despite their lavish lifestyles and massive incomes, they look larger than life and we want to believe they are just like the rest of us. Celebrities who are friends frequently appear in the most popular news stories. Although we often assume the worst, we rarely know what is really going on. What is certain is that people sometimes abandon their spouses in favor of their lovers. Here are some examples of when they happen.
Allison Lambert
The CMT 100 Best Duets Gala featured a duet between Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton in 2005. Shelton described the performance as follows: “We were playing as part of a duet night hosted by CMT. They paired me up with Miranda, and during the rehearsal stage, I don’t know” something happened that we were We both know him. Shelton and Lambert dated despite the fact that Shelton was still married to Canette Williams. He and Williams separated in 2006, and after seeing Lambert for four years, they got married. in 2012. Unfortunately, that marriage didn’t last either, but we’ll get to that later.
Angelina Jolie
In order to set the record straight, we must first note that Brad and Angelina say they weren’t romantically involved when he was still married to Jennifer Aniston. However, they undoubtedly got engaged in 2004 while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Pitt and Aniston divorced in 2005, and less than a year later Brangelina was a thing. They finally divorced in 2016.
Britney Spears
Britney Spears and backup dancer Kevin Federline began dating in 2004; After just three months of dating, they got engaged. Small detail though: Shar Jackson, the actress, was still Federline’s wife and was expecting their second child together. Before the baby was born, they divorced, and Kevin later married Britney. Jackson commented that Federline’s romance with Spears “wasn’t just a breakup, it was more like breaking up a family.”
Rimes, LeAnn
When they were filming the 2009 movie Northern Lights, country singer LeAnn Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian became friends. Despite the fact that they were already married, they fell in love with one another. Cibrian was married to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville, who frequently talks about the affair on the program. In 2011, Rimes and Cibrian finalized their divorce from their prior partners and wed one another a year later.
Tori Spelling
When Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling first met, they fell in love right away. The issue was that they were both previously married—he to Mary Jo Eustace, an actress, and she to actor Charlie Shanian. The night they met was when they first started dating. She married McDermott after they both got divorced from their respective wives a short while thereafter. Together, they are parents to five kids.
Dwyane Wade
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade have been wed since 2014. Prior to it, he had been wed since 2002 to his high school sweetheart. They parted ways in 2007, and they got a divorce decree in 2010. He and Union started dating in 2008, thus even though they weren’t truly having an affair, he wasn’t legally divorced at the time of their relationship.
Keys, Alicia
Swizz Beats was going through a divorce when he started dating Alicia Keys. Before they made the decision to end their marriage in 2008 and obtain a divorce in May 2010, he was wed to Mashonda Tifere. He started Alicia Keys soon after he and Tifere parted ways. He married Keys only two months after Tifere’s divorce was legally finalized. They currently share two kids.
Julia Roberts
On the set of the movie The Mexican in 2000, Julia Roberts and cameraman Daniel Moder got to know each other. She and actor Benjamin Bratt were still dating at the time, while Moder was wed to Vera Steimberg. He filed for divorce from his wife about a year after they started dating, and in 2002, after it was official, he married Roberts. Together, they are parents to three kids.
Amber Heard
Vanessa Paradis, an actress, and Johnny Depp were partners for 14 years and have two children together. Depp started seeing Amber Heard quite soon after they split up. Heard and him did not have an affair, but their connection developed swiftly after he split from Paradis. After getting hitched in 2015, they divorced in 2017 with great animosity.
Danes, Claire
Billy Crudup and Claire Danes started dating in 2003. Although Crudup was seeing a pregnant Mary-Louise Parker at the time, and because of his relationship with Danes, he ended up breaking up with her, their relationship attracted a lot of attention. Before divorcing in 2006, the couple dated for three years. Currently, she is wed to actor Hugh Dancy.
Melanie Griffith
Actor Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith first spoke when she was 14 and he was 22. After she turned 18 in January 1976, they began dating and eventually were married, although the union only lasted six months. Despite divorcing, the two kept in touch and got married again until their second divorce in 1996. Soon after, Johnson, who was then 47 and newly divorced, started dating 18-year-old Jodi Lyn O’Keefe.
Jessica Lopez
As he was going through a divorce from Dayanara Torres and only five months after Jennifer Lopez ended her relationship with actor Ben Affleck, they started dating. In February 2008, they gave birth to twins together, however, they divorced in 2014. After splitting from Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez is now dating Ben Affleck once more.
Soon-Yi Previn
Despite never getting married, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow were partners for ten years. Many children, including Soon-Yi Previn, were adopted by Farrow. Soon-Yi started an affair with Allen, who was 56 years old, while she was only 21 years old. Farrow’s connection with Allen was permanently over after she learned the truth. In the end, Soon-Yi and Allen got married in 1997, and they have since adopted two kids.
Debra Messing
Daniel Zelman and Debra Messing met at NYU as graduate students, where they later got married in 2000. Although they started the divorce process in 2012, it wasn’t finalized until 2016. She started dating Will Chase in 2011, just before going through with her divorce. But in October 2014, their relationship came to an end.
Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall
Prince Charles and Camilla first met in 1971 and had a brief relationship before parting ways. In the end, he wed Princess Diana, while she wed Andrew Parker Bowles. The two had an affair while they were still married, which was revealed ten years later in “Camillagate,” which made for great tabloid fodder. On April 9, 2005, they were eventually wed after both of them ultimately decided to get divorced.
Traci Lynn Johnson
Tiki Barber, an NFL player, wed Virginia Cha, his high school and college love, in May 1999. Together, they are parents to four kids. It was announced that they were divorcing while she was seven months along with their twin daughters, and it was later revealed that this was because he had an affair with Traci Lynn Johnson, a 23-year-old NBC intern who had also been watching their kids. He wed Johnson in 2012 following the conclusion of his divorce from Cha. Together, they are parents to two kids.
Seinfeld, Jerry
Jessica Sklar and her new husband Eric Nederlander had just returned from their honeymoon when Jerry Seinfeld first met them in August 1998. She was invited out by Seinfeld, who was unaware that she was married. I told him I didn’t think this was the proper moment for me to get connected with someone, she stated after telling him. She did, however, file for divorce and start seeing Seinfeld just two months later. They wed in December 1999, and the two of them now have three kids.
Ryan Shawhughes
In May 1998, actor Ethan Hawke wed Uma Thurman, whom he had met while filming Gattaca. The couple split up in 2003 amid suspicions of his adultery, and their divorce was finalized in 2005. Hawke wed Ryan Shawhughes in 2008; when Thurman was a college student, Shawhughes had looked after Hawke’s children. About the connection, Hawke has stated that “none of the pressures that caused my [first] marriage to fail were even vaguely related to Ryan.” Together, they have two daughters.
Kayte Walsh
It was unexpectedly announced that Kelsey Grammer and Camille Donatacci would be separating in July 2010. In August 2010, it came to light that Grammer was having an affair and pregnant with Kayte Walsh, a flight attendant who was 25 years his junior. She tragically miscarried. Nonetheless, the couple got hitched in February 2011 after becoming engaged in December 2010. Currently, they are parents to three kids.
Brittany Kerr
In August 2001, Jason Aldean wed Jessica Ann Ussery. He expressed regret in 2012 for “acting inappropriately at a bar” with Brittany Kerr, a former American Idol participant. Ussery promised to support her partner, but by 2013, she and Aldean had split. He and Kerr started dating soon after, and in 2014, they became engaged. They were married in 2015 and have since had two kids.
Rebecca Romijn
After divorcing John Stamos, Rebecca Romjin started dating Jerry O’Connell, but O’Connell was also seeing Giuliana Rancic at the time. By September 2015, he had split from Rancic and had proposed to Ramjin. Their twin daughters were born in July 2007 after their marriage.
Patti Scialfa
In the early 1980s, Patti Scialfa first encountered Bruce Springsteen in a pub. Later, in 1984, she took part in the Born in the USA Tour. During the tour, she briefly dated Tom Cruise, and Bruce ended his marriage to Julianne Phillips. Springsteen and Scialfa soon after began living together. In 1989, his divorce from Phillips was legally binding. Three kids total between him and Scialfa.
Oksana Grigorieva
Robyn Denise Moore and Mel Gibson were wed for 26 years before making the separation announcement in July 2006. On April 13, 2009, she filed for divorce, and soon after, pictures of Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva at the beach appeared online. On April 28, 2009, they made their first public appearance together, and in October of that same year, she gave birth to their daughter. The two had already filed for a restraining order against each other by April 2010.
Thomas Kail
Michelle Williams and Phil Elverum were married from 2018 to 2019 before it was revealed that she was having an affair with Thomas Kail. In the end, she married Kail in 2020, and the two are now parents.
Gwen Stefani
Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani were wed in 1995, but their marriage ended in 2015 as a result of his extramarital affairs. Stefani and Shelton met while working on The Voice after Blake Shelton’s divorce from Miranda Lambert, and the two started dating soon after. After five years of dating, they announced in October 2020 that they were engaged. They exchanged vows in July 2021.
Eniko Parrish
Torrei Hart and Kevin Hart were wed until they announced their divorce in 2010. Torrei alleges that Kevin’s infidelity with Eniko Parrish led to their divorce. In 2014, Hart popped the question to Parrish, and the two were wed in 2016. It’s interesting to note that Hart acknowledged cheating on Parrish while she was carrying their baby. They stayed together and welcomed a second child in 2020.
Lauren Bacall
After having an affair while he was still married to the actress Mayo Methot, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall got married in 1945. Bogart was 46 years old and Bacall was only 19 at the time. On the set of the movie To Have and Have Not, they became friends. About six months after his divorce from Methot was finalized, the two got hitched. The 12 years they spent together ended with his death in 1957.
Jennifer Aniston
On the Wanderlust set, Jennifer Aniston met Justin Theroux, and the two started dating in 2011. Theroux broke up his 14-year relationship with his fiancée, and soon after, he and Aniston became a couple. Three years after their 2015 wedding, in 2018, they divorced.
Stephanie McMahon
Although they were dating in real life as well, Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Joanie “Chyna” Lauer had a storyline about their romance in the 1990s in the realm of WWE. After that, Triple H dated Stephanie McMahon, who maintains that he was cheating on her despite his claims that he and Lauer had split up. In 2003, Stephanie and Paul exchanged vows.
Not All Affairs Work Out – Arnold Schwarzenegger
We’re going to venture a guess and suggest that most affairs don’t actually work out at all. Not all affairs turn out well. In 1986, Arnold Schwarzenegger wed Maria Shriver. Together, they have 4 children. After spending 25 years together, Schwarzenegger and Shriver divorced in 2011 after Shriver learned that he had an extramarital child with their housekeeper and had cheated on her. In 2021, the divorce was legally finalized.
James Jesse
Sandra Bullock wed Monster Garage host Jesse James in 2005. Many women confessed to having affairs with James when he was still married to Bullock in 2010, according to many women who came forward. Bullock filed for divorce shortly after, and it was concluded in June 2010.
Hank Baskett
Former Playboy model Kendra Wilkinson and retired NFL quarterback Hank Baskett were wed from 2009 until their divorce in 2018. News that Baskett had an affair with his wife when she was pregnant surfaced in 2014. Although he expressed regret and they made an effort to make amends, they ultimately decided to seek a divorce and are now co-parenting their children.
Alex Rodriguez
After meeting in a Miami gym, Alex Rodriguez wed Cynthia Scurtis in 2002. Together, they had two kids. After learning that he was having extramarital affairs in 2008, she filed for divorce. She firmly disputed the allegations that he had an affair with Madonna.
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley dated for 13 years in a highly publicized relationship that started in 1987. They ultimately ended their relationship in 2000. After Grant was apprehended, it was discovered that he had cheated on Hurley with a prostitute. Despite their breakup, they still share a close friendship.
Ryan, Meg
Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan were wed in 1991, however, they later separated and divorced in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Ryan and Russell Crowe had an affair in 2000 when he was still linked to singer Danielle Spencer. They met on the set of the movie Evidence of Life. Although their love endured, Ryan’s marriage broke down.
Kobe Bryant
Having met when he was 21 and she was 17, Kobe Bryant and Vanessa Laine were wed in 2001. Following an investigation into a case of sexual assault involving a 19-year-old employee, he was detained in 2003. He admitted having an adulterous encounter even though he insisted it was consensual. He publicly apologized and gave Vanessa a $4 million diamond ring. They stayed together until his death in a helicopter accident in 2020.
Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart’s Twilight co-star, and they dated for four years. When filming Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012, she was seen with her married director Rupert Sanders, so exposing their relationship. She and Pattinson split, and she and Sanders both apologized in front of the public.
Katharine McPhee
In 2008, Katharine McPhee and Nick Cokas got married after dating for three years. In 2013, pictures of her and her husband, Smash director Michael Morris, were made public. 2014 saw the announcement of McPhee and Cokas’ divorce, which was formalized in 2016. Morris and Mary McCormack kept their marriage intact. “I don’t have any regrets, all of the choices I made I learned from in a really deep way,” she told Ocean Drive Magazine.
Manson, Marilyn
Dita Von Teese, a burlesque dancer and model, and Marilyn Manson began dating in 2001. They got engaged in 2004. When Von Teese learned that her husband had started dating Evan Rachel Wood, who was then 18 years old, in 2006, she filed for divorce.
Gardner, Ava
Before she met Frank Sinatra, who was then wed to his wife Nancy, Ava Gardner had been married twice. He eventually left his wife for Gardner after they got together. They ultimately got married as well, which generated a lot of media attention. They were wed between 1951 and 1957.
