10 unlikely celebrity couples you didn’t know dated: from Kim Kardashian and Nick Cannon to Lenny Kravitz and Nicole Kidman, Madonna and Tupac Shakur – but which fellow pop star did Taylor Swift date?
Here are 10 of our favourite celebrity couples you either had no idea existed, or had completely forgotten about …
1. Matthew McConaughey and Janet Jackson
This unlikely pair first hit it off at the 2002 Grammys. However, both acted coy when asked whether they were dating at the time. McConaughey later told Andy Cohen that the pair went out for dinner and “that was sorta it”, while Jackson told The Telegraph in 2006: “I guess we did [date] … It was just for a minute, that’s why I’m so hesitant to mention it”.
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2. Sandra Bullock and Ryan Gosling
The first thing you’d be right to notice about Miss Congeniality and Ken is their age difference. Yep, Gosling is 16 years younger, but the cute pair met on the set of Murder by Numbers, per Buzzfeed, and dated for about a year.
3. Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence
After the Coldplay frontman “consciously uncoupled” from his wife of 10 years, Gwyneth Paltrow, in 2014, he dated JLaw for four months. Per People, they broke up but then rekindled the romance in early 2015 where they were seen at Harry Styles’ birthday party together. In the end, Martin decided to put family first, according to People, and Lawrence got tired of him being “non-committal”.
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4. Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen
It’s not often you see low-key Welsh actors dating glamorous Hollywood starlets, but that’s exactly what happened with this unlikely pairing between 2011 and 2013, per Cosmopolitan. “Michael and I never spend more than three weeks apart,” McAdams said at the time.
5. Kim Kardashian and Nick Cannon
“If she might have been honest with me, I might have tried to hold her down and be like, ‘that was before me’, because she is a great girl,” Cannon told The Howard Stern Show in 2012.
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6. Bradley Cooper and Renée Zellweger
7. Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz
8. Cher and Tom Cruise
Speaking of Cruise, the fact that he dated share Cher in 1985 is already mind-blowing enough. The fact that she later referred to him as one of her “top five” lovers on Watch What Happens Live even more so …
9. Madonna and Tupac Shakur
This couple definitely gets filed into the “wait, what?” category. That’s right: in 1994, two years before his death, Tupac and Madonna dated, though the Material Girl only admitted it to Howard Stern in 2015, per Cosmopolitan.
In 2017, TMZ published a letter Tupac sent Madonna from prison in 1995, which revealed he’d broken up with her over her race. “I felt due to my ‘image’ I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was. I never meant to hurt you,” he wrote.
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10. Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas
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- Bridget Jones’ Diary star Renée Zellweger secretly dated Bradley Cooper, and Nicole Kidman only let slip that she was engaged to Lenny Kravitz 12 years after the fact