The truth is that not every Hollywood romance starts out as love at first sight nor is it always a meet-cute. There are times when relationships begin behind the scenes both literally and figuratively. We all know that divorce is nothing new in this industry, but affairs are actually very common too. It can get messy when you get involved with a person who is in a relationship or even marriage with someone else. This is even worse when you yourself have a partner! However, there are certain sparks that simply won’t die out. You probably had no idea that the following pairs got their start this way.
LeAnn Rimes And Eddie Cibrian
In 2008, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian got to work together on a Lifetime Channel movie called Northern Lights. They could not deny that they had good chemistry from the get-go. This would have been fine if they were not already married to other people. It took two divorces before they could finally make it public. Rimes told People, “I take responsibility for everything I’ve done. I hate that people got hurt… But I don’t regret the outcome.”
LeAnn Rimes And Eddie Cibrian
Swizz Beatz And Alicia Keys
Songstress Alicia Keys and music producer Swizz Beatz actually knew each other when they were kids. Back then, she explained, “I didn’t really like him that much. I thought he was too ostentatious. Everything with him is really over the top. I used to see him and think, ‘He is so annoying.’” A while later, he got married before they started working together. Their professional relationship turned romantic, which is why he got a divorce from his wife to tie the knot with Keys.
Swizz Beatz And Alicia Keys
Blake Shelton And Miranda Lambert
When Blake Shelton first met Miranda Lambert as one of the judges on The Voice, he was already married to Kaynette Williams. He knew that the marriage was doomed when they performed “You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma” on the show. She knew that he was a married man but could not resist his charms. “I knew better, like, ‘this is off-limits.’ My parents are private investigators, for God’s sake. I’ve seen this my whole life—affairs, and of all people to know better, I know better than this.”
Blake Shelton And Miranda Lambert
Blake Shelton And Gwen Stefani
Before Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton started to work together on The Voice, she was already the wife of Gavin Rossdale. On the other hand, he and Miranda Lambert were a married couple. It was too hard to resist the chemistry that existed between Shelton and Stefani, however. Once the couples both divorced, it was on. No one knows for sure whether anything was going on before that, but they did announce their relationship not long after the finalization of the legal proceedings. Interesting.
Blake Shelton And Gwen Stefani
Prince Charles And Camilla Parker Bowles
In the ‘70s, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles met each other for the very first time. They got along right away, but they had to keep things on the down-low. They split up and got married to other people, but their flame did not die out. In the end, their relationship caused the end of his marriage to Princess Diana. In 2005, they finally got to walk down the aisle. They look happy even to this day. Good for them.
Prince Charles And Camilla Parker Bowles
Russell Crowe And Meg Ryan
In the ‘90s, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan were considered the “It” couple. They had a lot of fans who were there to support them. It must have come as a shock to hear that the actress was having an affair with Russell Crowe. What was it like after the divorce? Years later, Ryan said, “I felt the effect like I was the bad guy or whatever the story was… But I remember letting go of needing to correct anybody. Divorce is hard. Love is hard. All those things were so personal. They weren’t for mass consumption.”
Russell Crowe And Meg Ryan
Kelsey Grammer And Kayte Walsh
Well, it was not like Kelsey Grammar had always had a boring love life. He had been married to Camille, his third wife, when he and Kayte Walsh fell in love. The drama blew up even more when it was taped for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Later on, Kayte revealed that she felt ashamed of the way things started. At any rate, they are now happily married even though things started out rocky.
Kelsey Grammer And Kayte Walsh
Antonio Banderas And Melanie Griffith
At the beginning of this story, Antonio Banderas and Ana Lenz were married. On the other hand, this was also the case for Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Banderas and Griffith grew close on the set of Two Much. He said, “We just thought this may be one of those, you know, infatuation moments that we have when we shoot movies because we got to play together a couple, so let’s just go home.” In the end, they did not go home and went on to be married for two decades.
Antonio Banderas And Melanie Griffith
Britney Spears And Kevin Federline
After three months of dating, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline got engaged. This is far from the most dramatic part of this story! He met her when his girlfriend at the time was pregnant with his child. We are not surprised to hear that things did not work out between Spears and Federline. After spending two years of marriage with him, she divorced him. It was a messy and long custody battle for the two kids. He ended up getting sole custody of the two little boys.
Britney Spears And Kevin Federline
Claire Danes And Billy Crudup
At the age of 24, Claire Danes started having an affair with actor Billy Crudup. He decided to leave his wife Mary Louise Parker to be with her. The young actress did not grasp what any of this meant at the time. She explained, “I was just in love with him. And needed to explore that and I was 24… I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be.” We all know what it is like to be young and in love!
Claire Danes And Billy Crudup
Billy Bob Thornton And Angeline Jolie
Did you know that Billy Bob Thornton and Laura Dern used to be an item? They were together when he started to work on Pushing Tin. He had undeniable chemistry with Angelina Jolie, who fell in love with him. They tied the knot, but he forgot to break up with Dern! “I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I’ve never heard from him again,” she said.
Billy Bob Thornton And Angeline Jolie
Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie
Laura Dern was not the only person that Angelina Jolie took a boyfriend from. In 2005, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had been married when he landed the lead role in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The two stars fell in love on the set of the show, so he left Aniston to be with Jolie. In 2016, Brangelina split up and cited “irreconcilable differences” on paper. They are now co-parenting their brood of kids with each other. Aniston stayed friends with Pitt, which must have taken a lot of strength on her end.
Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie
Justin Theroux And Jennifer Aniston
For fourteen years, Justin Theroux and Heidi Bivens were married when he and Jennifer Aniston met on the set of Wanderlust. This marked the start of a whirlwind romance. He divorced his wife to get serious with the actress. In 2015, the couple tied the knot and remained together for three years. They might have divorced in the end, but she has also managed to find a way to stay friends with him.
Justin Theroux And Jennifer Aniston
Johnny Cash And June Carter
June Carter and Johnny Cash make up one of the most iconic couples in the music industry. You might be surprised to hear that their romance began as an affair. When he fell in love with her, he was still married to a woman called Vivian Liberto. Their daughter told People what it was like to grow up with a pair of moms. “It seemed inevitable, though it was so painful for my mom. I had two really good examples from women in my life. My mom gave me this powerful sense of discipline, family, mothering and detail orientation. And June gave me this sense of expansiveness and how to live life as a performer,” she said in the interview.
Johnny Cash And June Carter
Julia Roberts And Daniel Moder
While the actress had been shooting The Mexican, she had been going out with Benjamin Bratt. This was when she fell in love with a cameraman by the name of Daniel Moder. He had been married to a makeup artist called Vera Steimberg at the time, but he divorced her to be with Julia Roberts. They went public after the divorce and have been married for nearly two decades by now.
Julia Roberts And Daniel Moder
Katharine Hepburn And Spencer Tracy
In 1941, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn met while they were shooting a film called Woman of the Year. This was the beginning of an affair that went on for 26 years until his death. He did not plan to divorce Louise Tracy to be with the actress, although their romance had been an open secret in the industry. In fact, Angela Lansbury once said, “We all knew, but nobody ever said anything. In those days it wasn’t discussed.”
Katharine Hepburn And Spencer Tracy
Debra Messing And Will Chase
In 2000, Daniel Zelman and Debra Messing became husband and wife. She was starring in Will and Grace back then and was one of the biggest TV stars of the time. In 2016, a year before the reboot of the sitcom, they divorced. She fell in love with one of her Smash costars Will Chase. When the divorce was finalized, she went public with the new relationship. Sadly, it was not meant to last either as they split up two years after that. Oh well!
Debra Messing And Will Chase
Bruce Springsteen And Pattie Scialfa
In the early ‘80s, Bruce Springsteen and Pattie Scialfa met. He then asked her to come with him on his tour. They had instant chemistry, although he could not help but feel attracted to Julianne Phillips. He ended up marrying the latter but realized that she was not the one for him. After he and Scialfa went on another tour, the Boss got a divorce from his wife at the time and finally entered a relationship with his friend. In 1991, Springsteen and Scialfa tied the knot and have been together since then.
Bruce Springsteen And Pattie Scialfa
Humphrey Bogart And Lauren Bacall
Bogie was known to be a ladies’ man. Humphrey Bogart had been with his third wife when he and Lauren Bacall worked on To Have And Have Not together. He fell in love with her but did not divorce Mayo Methot until a year later. After that, he stayed in a happy relationship and then marriage with his costar. They stayed together until his death in 1957. She married Jason Robards four years later.
Humphrey Bogart And Lauren Bacall
Jason Aldean And Brittney Kerr
We are sure that Jason Aldean was not thrilled with the way his affair with Britney Kerr came out. He was still officially the husband of Jessica Ussery when reports came out that he had been smooching the American Idol contestant in public. No matter how much he wanted to salvage the marriage, it was hard to do such a thing when he was caught red-handed. In 2013, Ussery divorced him. Two years after that, he got married to Kerr. They now have two kids between them.
Jason Aldean And Brittney Kerr
Jessica Sklar And Jerry Seinfeld
In 1998, Jessica Sklar and Eric Nederlander had only returned from their honeymoon when she and Jerry Seinfeld crossed each other’s paths at the gym. Even though they were still just newlyweds, Sklar and Nederlander found themselves in couple therapy. The final straw was the chance encounter at the gym. She divorced him and got married to the comedian in 1999. Seinfeld later claimed that people got the story all wrong. He said, “The true story of what happened has never been printed, No. 1, because it’s not nearly as interesting as the gossip, and No. 2, because my wife, to her great credit in my opinion, doesn’t have much interest in setting the tabloid record straight.”
Jessica Sklar And Jerry Seinfeld
Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez had both been in relationships with others when their love story began. At the time, he was with Dayanara Torres. On the other hand, she and Ben Affleck were engaged. We will let you figure out what came next. She called off the engagement with the actor, while he filed for divorce. It only took them four days after the finalization of the divorce to get married. They had two kids together and remained married for seven years, but things did not work out for them in the end.
Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck
Kim Kardashian And Kanye West
Before Kim Kardashian married and had kids with Kanye West, she was first married to an NBA player called Kris Humphries. Sadly, that first marriage of hers did not go on for more than 72 days. Not long after Kim K and Yeezy went public with their romance, the sportsman called her out for embarking on an affair while they were still husband and wife. This did not really do much. In the end, the new couple went on to have four kids. It is unfortunate, however, that they have since split up as well.
Kim Kardashian And Kanye West
Ethan Hawke And Ryan Shawhughes
It was natural for the rumor mill to go wild when it came out that Ethan Hawke and the nanny had an affair. The actor had been estranged from his wife Uma Thurman when he allegedly began his romance with Ryan Shawhughes. He has refused to confirm or deny whether this was the case. “My relationship with my present wife is thrilling to me and I’m committed to it. But neither she nor I know what shape the future will come in… fidelity can’t be the whole thing you hang your relationship on. If you really love somebody you want them to grow, but you don’t get to define how that happens. They do.”
Ethan Hawke And Ryan Shawhughes
Megan Fox And Machine Gun Kelly
For a decade, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green were married. It ended when she found a new lover. Not long after she filed for divorce from the actor, she admitted that she was seeing Machine Gun Kelly. Green did not take this news kindly and posted a photo of his three kids. Two of them were with her. Curiously, he shared the picture after she shared a photo in which she declared her love for the rapper.
Megan Fox And Machine Gun Kelly
Ingrid Bergman And Roberto Rossellini
The truth is that Ingrid Bergman had always been a fan of Roberto Rossellini. When they worked on Stromboli together, she went on to fall in love with the director. She and Peter Lindstrom were still married at the time, so the affair got her blacklisted in Hollywood. In fact, she made such big headlines that she had to be denounced at the Senate floor. One of the senators went as far as to say that the actress “had perpetrated an assault upon the institution of marriage.” Her banishment went on for seven years and ended when she landed a role in Anastasia.
Ingrid Bergman And Roberto Rossellini
Nicolette Sheridan And Michael Bolton
In 1991, Nicolette Sheridan tied the knot with Harry Hamlin. The year after that, she met Michael Bolton. The musician swept her off her feet. After a divorce, they went public with their relationship. Her ex took to Twitter to share his thoughts on the affair in 2019. He said, “Re Fake News! What’s it called when your wife of one year suddenly goes to bed with a pop singer?” How bitter does he sound?
Nicolette Sheridan And Michael Bolton
Frank Sinatra And Ava Gardner
It is not at all a secret that Frank Sinatra had always been a Casanova. He found it hard to stay faithful to Nancy Barbato during the course of this marriage. The final nail in the coffin had been his affair with Ava Gardner. Sinatra and Gardner remained together until she found love with Luis Miguel Dominguin in 1954. The divorce was not finalized until 1957, but the exes managed to stay friends through it all.
Frank Sinatra And Ava Gardner
Jack Nicolson And Rebecca Broussard
Angelia Houston and Jack Nicholson had been in a relationship for 17 years before he called it quits. Why? Well, the actor actually had a child on the way with Rebecca Broussard. This news did not please Houston, of course. In her memoir, she narrated, “He was coming out of the bathroom when I attacked him… He was ducking and bending, and I was going at him like a prizefighter, raining a vast array of direct punches.”
Jack Nicolson And Rebecca Broussard
Mel Gibson And Oksana Grigorieva
After three decades of marriage, Robyn Moore divorced Mel Gibson in 2009. If you read the tabloids, you were probably not at all surprised by this turn of events. The actor had started to go out with Oksana Grigorieva when he was a married man! Perhaps the worst part is that she was pregnant with his child. A year later, the two split up. This separation caused legal troubles for him. He also had to defend himself in public as he settled with her outside of court.
Mel Gibson And Oksana Grigorieva