Random Celeb Couples Who Had To Work Together After Breaking Up (13 items)

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  (#1) Kristen Stewart

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  The very public breakup of Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson was the stuff of tabloid dreams. In 2012, Stewart had an affair with a (married) director, and she and Pattinson, whom she had been dating since 2008, split up in the aftermath. What could have been a clean break between the two superstars turned out to be a bit messier than anticipated. You see, they still had to film Breaking Dawn — Part 2. "It was incredibly painful," Stewart told The Daily Beast about the breakup. "Ugh, f**king kill me."
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  (#2) Kaley Cuoco

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  The Big Bang Theory is one of TV's most beloved shows, and Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki have been two of its biggest breakout stars. They met on the set in 2007 and dated quietly under the radar for two years before splitting in late 2009. The split, however, has had no impact on their working relationship. They've continued to make their hit show without a hint of turbulence or discord. Galecki has called Cuoco "a dear friend," going on to say, "She's not an ex, she's a part of my life."
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  (#3) Cameron Diaz

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  In 2003, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz met at the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards and started dating shortly thereafter. They were a couple for three years before going their separate ways in 2006. But the breakup didn't sour the solid friendship at the heart of the couple's connection. They went on to work together in the 2011 comedy, Bad Teacher. Cameron lovingly called Justin "freakin' weird," "bizarre," and "hilarious." On the experience of making Bad Teacher with her ex, she said that they were just, "two people who were working together, who just so happened to have gone out with one another at another time in our lives."
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  (#4) Kourtney Kardashian

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  In 2006, Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick began dating, and their tumultuous relationship became a focal point of the Kardashian's reality television empire. The relationship produced three children and lasted until 2015. But the demands of reality TV wait for no one, and Kourtney and Scott still had to appear together on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Disick later said:

  We never had any negativity between us and we made a very smooth transition into the way we live, and luckily, thank God, we're able to see one another and still be with our children and, knock on wood, that we have that. Thank God we have that and everyone is somewhat happy and it seems to work. It's not broke, so don't fix it.
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  (#5) Jennifer Lopez

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  At one time, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were the First Couple of Pop Music. The two began dating in early 2004 and were married that summer. In 2008, they had twins. Just a few years later, the marriage was on the rocks, and JLo and Anthony divorced in 2014. That doesn't mean, however, that the two stopped working with one another. They've made new music together, appeared onstage side by side, and are committed to being cooperative and supportive co-parents. On continuing to work together, Lopez said:

  It actually kind of repaired certain parts of our relationship that had been fractured from our marriage and our divorce and it kind of made us friends again. Because when we first started working together, it’s how we met…we met working. And so we remembered that, like, oh right, we connect on this level of music.
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  (#6) Shia LaBeouf

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  In 2007, Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf met on the set of Transformers, and the two briefly dated. The relationship didn't last long, but the Transformers franchise definitely has. As a result, the two had to work together on another Transformers movie in 2009. It's still unclear if Fox was involved with future husband Brian Austin Green at the time of her dalliance with LaBeouf. Later, looking back on his relationship with Fox, LaBeouf said, "I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry onscreen."
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  (#7) Michael C. Hall

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  After Dexter costars Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter revealed they were secretly married in 2008, the press went wild. After all, they played brother and sister on the show, so the union took some getting used to for Dexter's sizable fanbase. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last, and Hall and Carpenter called it quits; the divorce was finalized in 2011. Dexter, on the other hand, was far from over: they still filmed two more years of the show.

  "The fact that Jennifer and I worked through whatever was going on with us personally and the way we did and maintained a commitment to telling this story was never in question," Hall said. "It was always what we needed and wanted to do."
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  (#8) Blake Lively

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  Gossip Girl costars Blake Lively and Penn Badgley dated in real life throughout the show's first couple of seasons. But after they broke up in 2010, the two remained committed to keeping their personal lives separate from their professional lives. They went on working together on Gossip Girl until the end of the series. Their commitment to keeping a distinct line between the private and the professional was so strong that even their Gossip Girl colleagues didn't know they had broken up. "The shocking thing was, I found out on the set of the Season Two finale that Blake and Penn had broken up months before,” the show's co-producer and writer, Joshua Safran, said.

  They kept the breakup hidden from the crew, which you could never do now. I don’t even know how they did it. They kept it from everybody, which is a testament to how good they are as actors. Because they did not want their personal drama to relate to the show.
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  (#9) Jennifer Lawrence

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  Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult began dating in 2010, when they met on the set of X-Men: First Class. They were together, off and on, for four years before finally calling it quits for good in 2014. After the split, they made X-Men: Apocalypse together. The breakup also coincided with the last film in JLaw's other smash-hit movie franchise, The Hunger Games. She was just 24 at the time. "Being 24 was this whole year of, 'Who am I without these movies? Who am I without this man?'" Lawrence later reflected on this period in her life.
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  (#10) Chad Michael Murray

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  In 2005, One Tree Hill stars Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray tied the knot after nearly a year of dating. Sadly, the union was short-lived, and the two split up just five months after walking down the aisle. One Tree Hill, on the other hand, was still going strong, and they continued to work together for the next four years. Bush chalked the failed marriage up to a childish mistake; "we were two stupid kids who had no business being in a relationship," she said. Murray elaborated:

  At the end of the day, we're grownups, and I actually think it's interesting that when people split in a way that's unpleasant, they usually just go on quite literally hating each other--or the person in my situation hates the other person, whatever--but when you have to work with somebody for another half a decade, you kind of have to deal with it. Because for me, at the end of the day, my job is my priority.
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  (#11) Laura Dern

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  From 1985 to 1989, Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern were one of the most visible up-and-coming couples of Young Hollywood. During that time, they made the now-classic David Lynch film, Blue Velvet. Decades after their split, they were reunited on the set of another Lynch project, the TV series Twin Peaks: The Return, in which the former couple had to film a love scene together. "Laura and I were kind of like, 'Okay, here we go.' Welcome back, 25 years later," MacLachlan told Ellen. "Yeah, it was weird. We had a couple of laughs for sure."
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  (#12) Sean Penn

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  You'd be forgiven if you've forgotten about that hot minute when Charlize Theron and Sean Penn dated. OK, it was more than a minute--18 months, to be exact. In 2014, they even announced their engagement, but the two broke up the following summer. They had completed the movie The Last Face, in which Penn directed Theron, though the movie had not yet been released. The former couple still had to make all the publicity rounds together after The Last Face hit theaters. Despite rumors of tension between the two, Theron insisted things were actually quite simple. "We were in a relationship and then it didn’t work anymore. And we both decided to separate," she said. "That’s it."
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  (#13) Liev Schreiber

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  Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber were the kind of rare, low-key Hollywood couple that one assumed just might be a success story among all the failed marriages of Tinseltown. But, alas, it wasn't to be. They split up in 2017 after two kids and 11 years together. But the two have remained close friends--so close, in fact, that they even made a new movie together. Schreiber called working with his ex, "a treat."

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