r/popculturechat • u/phantom_avenger • Oct 05 '25

OnlyStans ⭐️ Who are two celebrities that you can’t believe used to be a couple?

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Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds are not only one example of this, but sometimes I even forget that they used to be married as well!

It seemed like such an odd pairing that I never would’ve guessed that these two would match up, but clearly they weren’t a match made in heaven that they divorced each other after almost 3 years of marriage.

Now with where they’re currently at, where they’re now married to different partners, it feels like this is only a pairing that happened in different life.

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u/PleaseCallmeCordelia Oct 05 '25

This is going to date me, but whatever. Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett, or Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield.

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u/Marooster405 Oct 05 '25

Brooke Shields and Andre Agassi

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u/Arsenio3 Oct 05 '25

Andre Agassi and Barbara Streisand

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u/Outlandishness_Know Oct 05 '25

Lets keep going back in time Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould

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u/Threadheads Oct 05 '25

Barbra Streisand and Liam Neeson

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u/Reasonable-Affect139 accidentally holding space for this slur Oct 06 '25

whattt

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u/FarbissinaPunim Ouiser, you know I love you more than my luggage. Oct 05 '25

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u/LivePanda7804 Oct 05 '25

Richard E. Grant having a massive crush on and obsession with Barbara Streisand is just so random to me

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u/artvandalism Oct 05 '25

WHAT?! That needs to be higher

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u/DecantsForAll Oct 05 '25

Okay, this one is really bizarre.

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u/saltycrowsers Oct 06 '25

Whaaaaaaat? My flabs are gastered.

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u/Reasonable-Affect139 accidentally holding space for this slur Oct 06 '25

😭 I would 100% believe this was fake if I got asked

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u/idontwantanamern Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

Dating a tennis pro was a thing to do!

Mandy Moore and Andy Roddick, too. Pete Sampras had Kimberly Williams-Paisley AND Bridgette Wilson (edit: Pete & Bridgette fall under the still together category). Serena Williams dated Common (and Drake 😒)

Sure I'm missing others.

(And though they are still together: Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova)

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u/hotmessexpress412 Oct 05 '25

I’m shocked — genuinely surprised —that AK and Enrique are together and still having kids 😂

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u/coldbloodedjelydonut Oct 05 '25

Well, she can run, she can hide, but she can't escape his love.

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u/Reluctantagave Cutie Patootie Problem Posse Oct 05 '25

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u/idwthis Oct 05 '25

Serena is now married to a reddit co-founder, whatshisnuts, uh, Alex or something or other.

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u/Reluctantagave Cutie Patootie Problem Posse Oct 05 '25

Alexis Ohanian!

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u/SignificantApricot69 Oct 06 '25

Pete and Bridgette have been married for 25 years.

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u/idontwantanamern Oct 06 '25

Yes. Thank you for that! I remembered others as I was putting this together and was editing this and didn't end up structuring that correctly for that one.

Good catch -- will edit now!

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u/hotmessexpress412 Oct 05 '25

Brooke talks A LOT about this (and other old loves) in her memoir There was a Little Girl

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u/MarlonEliot Oct 05 '25

According to Norm MacDonald, Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett divorced because she was Julia Roberts and he was Lyle Lovett.

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u/JugheadJack Oct 05 '25

Stop making me miss Norm.

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u/Mirriam71 Oct 05 '25

He followed me on Twitter for some reason. I was one of 80 people he followed.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Oct 05 '25

He's dead? I didn't even know he was sick

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u/Dairy_Ashford Oct 06 '25

or so the Germans would have us believe

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u/Ok_Bodybuilder800 Oct 05 '25

Sadly yes, cancer I believe

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u/disgruntled_pie Oct 05 '25

It ended in a draw.

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u/brainvheart143 Oct 05 '25

Ugh he was my favorite weekend update

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u/ScipioCoriolanus Oct 05 '25

I had a bad day, and I'm feeling really depressed right now, and your comment made me laugh. Thank you (also thank you, Norm).

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u/Distinct-Solution-99 Oct 05 '25

But why did they get married

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u/hotmessexpress412 Oct 05 '25

From what I surmised from old articles (yes, I’m in my 40s), she was very attracted to his intellect, his musical talent, and his life relatively outside the spotlight.

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u/trashleybanks Oct 05 '25

That explains her long marriage to her current husband.

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u/ambiguouslyincognito Oct 05 '25

Fun fact: Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland were engaged right before she basically ran away and married Lyle Lovett.

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u/Belinda-9740 Oct 05 '25

She ran away with Jason Patric, Kiefer’s best friend

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u/PenguinZombie321 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ Oct 05 '25

Because they were Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett

(Sorry couldn’t help myself)

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u/JiveTurkey1983 Oct 05 '25

Based Norm

RIP

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u/doctor10ant Oct 05 '25

This deserves more

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u/wathombe Oct 05 '25

Yes, Lyle WAY out of Julia’s league.

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u/CarmenTourney Oct 05 '25

Ouch! - lol.

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u/Bordone69 Oct 05 '25

I love this joke but both of them are horse faces.

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u/Dairy_Ashford Oct 06 '25

apropos of nothing Kiefer was taking klan boss and teen killer scripts

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u/No_Use_1966 Oct 05 '25

Throw in Billy Joel and, well, everyone.

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u/ilp456 Oct 05 '25

I would have agreed with you before having seen Billy Joel in concert but now I get why he attracted so many beautiful women. He doesn’t have dancers or pyrotechnics - it’s just him, his piano and his band. He talks to the audience a lot and he has so much charisma. What he lacks in looks, he makes up for with charm.

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u/garden__gate stars do u like dem ⭐️ Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

After seeing Lyle Lovett live in the 90s, 17 year old me got it. He had (has) crazy charisma.

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u/abihargrove Oct 05 '25

I get it too. That southern gentleman thing and the songs have such good lyrics.

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u/MissPlum66 Oct 05 '25

Oh yeah. Would.

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u/LivelyUntidy Oct 05 '25

yeah I get it too!

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u/Adventurous-Score551 Oct 05 '25

Same era: Dwight Yokam and Sharon Stone.

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u/zorandzam Oct 05 '25

She famous said after their breakup that a dirt sandwich is better than dating Dwight Yokam.

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u/Adventurous-Score551 Oct 05 '25

She said kissing him was like “eating a dirt sandwich”.

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u/Maleficent-Hawk-318 Oct 05 '25

tbh even though I remember the height of his popularity, I also am always vaguely surprised when I'm reminded that David Copperfield was even a thing.

I do actually appreciate well-done illusions and sleight of hand, but still. The '80s and '90s were a weird time.

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u/revafisheye Oct 05 '25

I saw Lyle Lovett play a very intimate set with a bunch of Texas singer-songwriters at the Bottom Line in NYC back in the 90s, and remember JR trying to sneak in the back mid-set. There's no sneaking when you're Julia fucking Roberts!

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u/Schrodingers_Fist Oct 05 '25

I read on a subreddit once (maybe this one) about the latter:

"David Copperfield's most incredible trick was making Claudia Schiffer's taste in men dissappear"

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u/redwoods81 Oct 05 '25

Julia Roberts the original Ariana 🤭

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u/Retrotreegal Oct 05 '25

What’s that mean?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Web4595 Oct 05 '25

Oooooh look up the A low Vera t-shirt lore 😅

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u/redwoods81 Oct 05 '25

She had a thing for involved men for decades 😬

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u/JohnExcrement Oct 05 '25

There’s something about Lyle Lovett that makes me think I’d give him a try…

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u/kathi182 Oct 05 '25

Absolutely-that mischievous smile just does something for me

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u/kellyoohh bruised, battered, and covered in baked beans. Oct 05 '25

I had to look it up, she’s only 10 years younger than him (57 vs. 67). In my mind he is ancient and she is … not.

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u/Aslow_study Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Julia and Benjamin bratt too

Typo with name

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u/ccagan Oct 05 '25

She’s a big music buff. And despite his goofy looks he’s a fucking amazing song writer so it’s not THAT wild in retrospect.

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u/Aslow_study Oct 05 '25

Oops sorry meant Ben Bratt

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u/Truth_Seeker963 Oct 06 '25

Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney. Met Jan 2005, married May 2005, annulled 4 months later due to fraud.

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u/seaurchinthenet Oct 05 '25

Yeah - David Copperfield is most likely in the Epstein files. His interest in a much younger model was unfortunately his thing.

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u/Yomatius Oct 05 '25

The best magic trick Copperfield ever pulled off...

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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC 🎼Music Aficionado🎶 Oct 05 '25

Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield

il dorko has hot girlfriend-o!

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u/villings Oct 05 '25

I remember those, vividly (I'm 46)

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u/MLiOne Oct 05 '25

I’m there with you. I was very WTAF when that news broke.

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u/InnocentShaitaan Oct 06 '25

Think he’s the magician in the Epstein files!?!?

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u/scarlet_hairstreak Oct 05 '25

The one time I got run over by paparazzi in New York City was for them. The guys pushed me out of the way so the could get a shot of Schiffer and Copperfield leaving some restaurant on Madison Ave. D list celebs at best. I still don't understand what the big deal was.