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John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan reportedly ended their three-year relationship in August 2014. It may be a shocker for some who didn't know the two were even dating. They join a list of other celeb couples we were surprised to find out either are or were together:cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":true,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":1,"title":"Photos: Surprising celebrity couples "}
If the rumors are true, actress Sofia Vergara has moved on from an engagement with Nick Loeb to actor Joe Manganiello, pictured here. According to People magazine, the two have "just started to hang out," but if the pairing lasts it just might be the hottest in Hollywood -- and the latest to catch people by surprise.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":2,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}Travel pals, or something more? Actors Michelle Rodriguez -- who was previously linked to model Cara Delevingne -- and Zac Efron stirred relationship rumors when they were spotted kissing on a boat in Italy in July. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":3,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Travel pals, or something more? Actors Michelle Rodriguez -- who was previously linked to model Cara Delevingne -- and Zac Efron stirred relationship rumors when they were spotted kissing on a boat in Italy in July. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":3,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
according to People magazine. Gere is newly single after breaking up with wife, "Law & Order" star Carey Lowell, in September. Lakshmi was last linked with venture capitalist Adam Dell, with whom she has a young daughter. " border="0" height="360" id="articleGalleryPhoto004" style="margin:0 auto;display:none" width="640"/>Actor Richard Gere and "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi are an item, according to People magazine. Gere is newly single after breaking up with wife, "Law & Order" star Carey Lowell, in September. Lakshmi was last linked with venture capitalist Adam Dell, with whom she has a young daughter. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":4,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
in January: she used to date Tom Cruise waaaay back in the day. "Actually, when I dated him he was Tom Mapother still," Gilbert told "Watch What Happens Live" host Andy Cohen. "It was when he first moved to Los Angeles and I think I was ...16? 17? I did not have sex with him. We made out, but honestly, there was no sex." Intriguing! " border="0" height="360" id="articleGalleryPhoto005" style="margin:0 auto;display:none" width="640"/>Melissa Gilbert dropped a bombshell on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" in January: she used to date Tom Cruise waaaay back in the day. "Actually, when I dated him he was Tom Mapother still," Gilbert told "Watch What Happens Live" host Andy Cohen. "It was when he first moved to Los Angeles and I think I was ...16? 17? I did not have sex with him. We made out, but honestly, there was no sex." Intriguing! cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":5,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Sharon Osbourne said in 2013 that she and former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno had a "flingy-wingy" when she was 25. (It was before her marriage to Ozzy Osbourne.) cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":6,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg famously dated in 1993. The two played on-screen love interests in the comedy "Made In America," and they were soon moving the romance off screen as well. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":7,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}Cher dropped a bomb during an interview with Bravo's Andy Cohen in June 2013: Not only had she hooked up with Tom Cruise when he was just a budding young star in the early '80s, but she could report that he was one of her top five lovers of all time. Cher, do tell!cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":8,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}Before Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz and Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake was attached to another star: Fergie, before the Black Eyed Peas.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":9,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}Whitney Houston and Ray J had an affectionate bond that fueled endless rumors that they were a pair following Houston's 2007 breakup with Bobby Brown. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":10,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}Let's time-travel back to 1989, when New Kids on the Block wasn't an aging boy band but rather the hottest thing on, well, the block. At the time, it did make sense that Danny Wood would fall for another rising star: Halle Berry.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":11,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Cher dropped a bomb during an interview with Bravo's Andy Cohen in June 2013: Not only had she hooked up with Tom Cruise when he was just a budding young star in the early '80s, but she could report that he was one of her top five lovers of all time. Cher, do tell!cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":8,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Before Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz and Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake was attached to another star: Fergie, before the Black Eyed Peas.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":9,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Whitney Houston and Ray J had an affectionate bond that fueled endless rumors that they were a pair following Houston's 2007 breakup with Bobby Brown. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":10,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Let's time-travel back to 1989, when New Kids on the Block wasn't an aging boy band but rather the hottest thing on, well, the block. At the time, it did make sense that Danny Wood would fall for another rising star: Halle Berry.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":11,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Perhaps it's because of the timing -- Matt Damon's career was just taking off with "Good Will Hunting" when he hooked up with Winona Ryder -- but it's easy to forget these two were a serious couple between 1997 and 2000. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":12,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}Yes, before Kanye, Kris or Reggie, Kim Kardashian apparently had a little something going with Nick Lachey after his 2005 divorce from Jessica Simpson. Lachey told Details magazine that they had a date in 2006, but he thinks it was a ploy for Kardashian to be seen with an MTV-famous boy band member. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":13,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Yes, before Kanye, Kris or Reggie, Kim Kardashian apparently had a little something going with Nick Lachey after his 2005 divorce from Jessica Simpson. Lachey told Details magazine that they had a date in 2006, but he thinks it was a ploy for Kardashian to be seen with an MTV-famous boy band member. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":13,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Ellen DeGeneres in 2009. "She was the biggest star in the world ... and we had the time of our lives."" border="0" height="360" id="articleGalleryPhoto0014" style="margin:0 auto;display:none" width="640"/>John Stamos has fond memories of dating Paula Abdul in the late '80s, just as he began starring on "Full House." "She was so adorable, she was America's sweetheart," Stamos told Ellen DeGeneres in 2009. "She was the biggest star in the world ... and we had the time of our lives."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":14,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
Glenn Close and Woody Harrelson are said to have become romantic partners for a spell in 1991, when they performed in the play "Brooklyn Laundry" together. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":15,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}
When Billy Corgan and Tila Tequila got cozy on the red carpet in 2009, the best word to describe most people's reaction was "confused." For whatever reason, the Smashing Pumpkins star seemed to be enjoying the company of reality minx Tequila at Bravo's 2009 "A-List Awards." cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":16,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}In the case of Lisa Kudrow and Conan O'Brien, it seems that like attracted like. According to Kudrow, she and O'Brien dated for a bit prior to her acting career before realizing they were better off as friends. But O'Brien's apparently been a great pal to Kudrow -- she's credited him with helping her launch her career. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":17,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}HIDE CAPTIONPhotos: Surprising celebrity couples Surprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couples<<<
In the case of Lisa Kudrow and Conan O'Brien, it seems that like attracted like. According to Kudrow, she and O'Brien dated for a bit prior to her acting career before realizing they were better off as friends. But O'Brien's apparently been a great pal to Kudrow -- she's credited him with helping her launch her career. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":17,"title":"Surprising celebrity couples"}HIDE CAPTIONPhotos: Surprising celebrity couples Surprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couplesSurprising celebrity couples<<<
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The two split "a couple of weeks ago," one of Mellencamp's friends told Closer Weekly, which was the first to report the news.The pair had kept their relationship relatively quiet. The couple began going out sometime in late 2010, according to People magazine, after Mellencamp separated from his wife of 18 years, Elaine Irwin Mellencamp.Ryan, 52, and Mellencamp, 62, kept time on both the East Coast and in Mellencamp's longtime home of Indiana..cnnArticleGalleryNav{border:1px solid #000;cursor:pointer;float:left;height:25px;text-align:center;width:25px}.cnnArticleGalleryNavOn{background-color:#C03;border:1px solid #000;float:left;height:25px;text-align:center;width:20px}.cnnArticleGalleryNavDisabled{background-color:#222;border:1px solid #000;color:#666;float:left;height:25px;text-align:center;width:25px}.cnnArticleExpandableTarget{background-color:#000;display:none;position:absolute}.cnnArticlePhotoContainer{height:122px;width:214px}.cnnArticleBoxImage{cursor:pointer;height:122px;padding-top:0;width:214px}.cnnArticleGalleryCaptionControl{background-color:#000;color:#FFF}.cnnArticleGalleryCaptionControlText{cursor:pointer;float:right;font-size:10px;padding:3px 10px 3px 3px}.cnnArticleGalleryPhotoContainer cite{background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #000;bottom:48px;color:#FFF;height:auto;left:420px;opacity:.7;position:absolute;width:200px;padding:10px}.cnnArticleGalleryClose{background-color:#fff;display:block;text-align:right}.cnnArticleGalleryCloseButton{cursor:pointer}.cnnArticleGalleryNavPrevNext span{background-color:#444;color:#CCC;cursor:pointer;float:left;height:23px;text-align:center;width:26px;padding:4px 0 0}.cnnArticleGalleryNavPrevNextDisabled span{background-color:#444;color:#666;float:left;height:23px;text-align:center;width:25px;padding:4px 0 0}.cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{padding-right:68px;width:270px;margin:0 auto}.cnnGalleryContainer{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 0 20px;padding:0 0 0 10px}if (typeof cnnArticleGallery == "undefined") {var cnnArticleGallery = {};}if(typeof cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList =="undefined"){cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList = [];}var expGallery51=new ArticleExpandableGallery();expGallery51.setImageCount(37);//cnn_adbptrackpgalimg("Shocking celebrity splits ", 1);
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have been dodging breakup rumors for months. After multiple denials from Cannon, he finally admitted that he and his wife of six years have been "living apart." Carey's rep had no comment.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":true,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":1,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}Tea Leoni and David Duchovny have reportedly made their breakup official. The couple separated in 2011, but they'd done that before and reconciled. However, according to TMZ and People magazine, Leoni and Duchovny quietly filed for divorce in June, bringing an end to their 17-year marriage. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":2,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}It looks like Michael Strahan and model/TV personality Nicole Murphy aren't going to make it down the aisle. People magazine confirmed that the couple has ended their five-year engagement. "They love each other very much, but with the distance and work schedule it has been hard to maintain the relationship," Strahan's rep told the publication. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":3,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}On July 2, Jewel announced that she and husband Ty Murray had split up. In a lengthy blog post, the folk singer/songwriter explained that she and her husband of six years had decided to get a divorce, choosing to "release each other" with love so that they "may take on our new form: dear friends and devoted co-parents of our beloved son Kase."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":4,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}After five years of romance, Rick Fox and Eliza Dushku parted ways. It seems it was distance that came between the former basketball star and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actress -- Dushku told The Boston Globe that "Rick's an L.A. guy and I'm a Boston girl." As a result, she has moved back to Beantown and plans to eventually enroll in college. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":5,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}Actors Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs surprisingly decided to separate after 10 years of marriage, a rep for the couple confirmed to People magazine in December. The couple's son, Walker, was born in 2009.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":6,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas "thoughtfully and consensually" brought an end to their 20-year marriage in June. The two actors released a statement announcing their breakup after reports indicated Griffith had filed for a divorce.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":7,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}On June 6, the rumors about Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart turned out to be true. A source close to Lopez told CNN that the infamously May-December couple had ended their romance after dating for three years.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":8,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}Actors Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell recently separated after nearly two years of marriage. The couple, who welcomed a son in July 2013, said in a statement that they plan to remain close friends. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":9,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}Sofia Vergara recently announced via her WhoSay account that her engagement to producer Nick Loeb is off. The "Modern Family" star blamed the breakup on their busy schedules. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":10,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}One of Hollywood's enduring love stories has been put on ice. Actress Paula Patton and her husband, Robin Thicke, mutually decided to separate in February. The couple have one child together, Julian Fuego. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":11,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Sherri Shepherd's husband, Lamar "Sal" Sally, has reportedly filed for divorce from "The View" co-host after three years of marriage. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":12,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}After 20 years of marriage, Cuba Gooding Jr. and his wife, Sara Kapfer, have split up. The actor's wife filed for legal separation on April 21. According to TMZ, the pair were high school sweethearts who went on to have three children together. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":13,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}Rapper Big Sean and "Glee" actress Naya Rivera called off their engagement in April, six months after announcing their plans to wed. Rivera moved on from Big Sean to marry friend Ryan Dorsey in July.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":14,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}On the April 4 episode of Katie Couric's talk show, "Katie," singer Richard Marx discussed being "back on the market" after a 25-year marriage to Cynthia Rhodes. The couple separated in July 2013 and announced their divorce in April. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":15,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}"It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin wrote on Paltrow's site Goop in a March 25 post titled "Conscious Uncoupling." The A-list pair, who have been married for 10 years, reportedly took a "breakup moon" in the Bahamas following their surprising announcement.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":16,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}The "Big World" of TLC stars Matt and Amy Roloff has been split in half. The couple, who'd been together for 26 years and came to fame on the reality series "Little People, Big World," announced in March that they're embarking on a trial separation. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":17,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}According to TMZ, Khloe Kardashian filed for divorce from Lamar Odom in December. The couple met, got engaged and married within a month in 2009, and they were the subject of the E! reality series "Khloe & Lamar."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":18,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}After a six-year relationship, Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom announced in October that they had decided to formally separate. TMZ indicated that the pair were planning to divorce. The couple, who share a son, said in a statement that they remain amicable. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":19,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}After 22 years of marriage -- and several months of swirling rumors -- Kris and Bruce Jenner officially separated in October. "We will always have much love and respect for each other. Even though we are separated, we will always remain best friends and, as always, our family will remain our No. 1 priority," they told E! , the network that airs "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":20,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}In September, Liam Hemsworth's rep confirmed rampant speculation that the actor and Miley Cyrus had ended their year-long engagement. The couple first met on the set of 2010's "The Last Song" and had been off and on since then. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":21,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Movie veteran Clint Eastwood and his wife of 17 years, Dina, separated over the summer of 2013, according to People. They have one daughter together.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":22,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}George Clooney and Stacy Keibler were going strong -- and looking hot on the red carpet -- for two years. But in July 2013, their photogenic romance came to an end. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":23,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}"Vampire Diaries" stars Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder had a relationship that sizzled on and off the small screen. But the two shocked fans when anonymous sources confirmed to People in May 2013 that the co-stars were no longer a couple after dating for "several years."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":24,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Jane Seymour and James Keach announced the end of their 20-year union in April 2013. The couple are the parents of twin sons.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":25,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Julianne Hough and Ryan Seacrest decided to take a break in March 2013 after more than two years together, People reported. The duo's busy schedules were to blame, but they plan to stay friends, sources told the magazine.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":26,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}In September 2012, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler separated after nine years of marriage. They have two sons.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":27,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes "amicably settled" their divorce in July 2012, just two weeks after Holmes filed for it, an attorney said. Holmes and Cruise, who were married for five years, have one daughter.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":28,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver separated in May 2011 after 25 years of marriage. The public has since learned of Schwarzenegger's affair with the family's housekeeper that resulted in the birth of his fifth child.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":29,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}After almost seven years together, Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes went their separate ways in March 2010. The couple said that the split was mutual and that they would continue raising their children together.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":30,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman collaborated on four films together, including the controversial "Eyes Wide Shut," during their 11-year marriage. The couple split in 2001.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":31,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins split in 2009 after 23 years together. The pair, who met on the set of "Bull Durham," have two sons but never married.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":32,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Mia Farrow appeared in several of Woody Allen's films before the couple went their separate ways in 1992. The pair reportedly split after Farrow found out about Allen's sexual relationship with one of her adopted daughters, whom Allen married in 1997.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":33,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}MTV "Newlyweds" Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey split in 2005 after their three-year marriage.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":34,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe were married for seven years before calling it quits in 2006. The pair, who have two children, finalized their divorce in 2008.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":35,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's seven-year romance came to an end in 2005. Speculation over whether Angelina Jolie had anything to do with the breakup added a juicy angle to the split.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":36,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}Perhaps Hollywood's happiest divorced couple, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, split in 1998 after a 10-year relationship. 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Tea Leoni and David Duchovny have reportedly made their breakup official. The couple separated in 2011, but they'd done that before and reconciled. However, according to TMZ and People magazine, Leoni and Duchovny quietly filed for divorce in June, bringing an end to their 17-year marriage. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":2,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
It looks like Michael Strahan and model/TV personality Nicole Murphy aren't going to make it down the aisle. People magazine confirmed that the couple has ended their five-year engagement. "They love each other very much, but with the distance and work schedule it has been hard to maintain the relationship," Strahan's rep told the publication. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":3,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
On July 2, Jewel announced that she and husband Ty Murray had split up. In a lengthy blog post, the folk singer/songwriter explained that she and her husband of six years had decided to get a divorce, choosing to "release each other" with love so that they "may take on our new form: dear friends and devoted co-parents of our beloved son Kase."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":4,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
After five years of romance, Rick Fox and Eliza Dushku parted ways. It seems it was distance that came between the former basketball star and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actress -- Dushku told The Boston Globe that "Rick's an L.A. guy and I'm a Boston girl." As a result, she has moved back to Beantown and plans to eventually enroll in college. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":5,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
Actors Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs surprisingly decided to separate after 10 years of marriage, a rep for the couple confirmed to People magazine in December. The couple's son, Walker, was born in 2009.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":6,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas "thoughtfully and consensually" brought an end to their 20-year marriage in June. The two actors released a statement announcing their breakup after reports indicated Griffith had filed for a divorce.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":7,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
On June 6, the rumors about Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart turned out to be true. A source close to Lopez told CNN that the infamously May-December couple had ended their romance after dating for three years.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":8,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
Actors Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell recently separated after nearly two years of marriage. The couple, who welcomed a son in July 2013, said in a statement that they plan to remain close friends. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":9,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
Sofia Vergara recently announced via her WhoSay account that her engagement to producer Nick Loeb is off. The "Modern Family" star blamed the breakup on their busy schedules. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":10,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
One of Hollywood's enduring love stories has been put on ice. Actress Paula Patton and her husband, Robin Thicke, mutually decided to separate in February. The couple have one child together, Julian Fuego. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":11,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Sherri Shepherd's husband, Lamar "Sal" Sally, has reportedly filed for divorce from "The View" co-host after three years of marriage. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":12,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
After 20 years of marriage, Cuba Gooding Jr. and his wife, Sara Kapfer, have split up. The actor's wife filed for legal separation on April 21. According to TMZ, the pair were high school sweethearts who went on to have three children together. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":13,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits "}
Rapper Big Sean and "Glee" actress Naya Rivera called off their engagement in April, six months after announcing their plans to wed. Rivera moved on from Big Sean to marry friend Ryan Dorsey in July.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":14,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
On the April 4 episode of Katie Couric's talk show, "Katie," singer Richard Marx discussed being "back on the market" after a 25-year marriage to Cynthia Rhodes. The couple separated in July 2013 and announced their divorce in April. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":15,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
"It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin wrote on Paltrow's site Goop in a March 25 post titled "Conscious Uncoupling." The A-list pair, who have been married for 10 years, reportedly took a "breakup moon" in the Bahamas following their surprising announcement.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":16,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
The "Big World" of TLC stars Matt and Amy Roloff has been split in half. The couple, who'd been together for 26 years and came to fame on the reality series "Little People, Big World," announced in March that they're embarking on a trial separation. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":17,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
According to TMZ, Khloe Kardashian filed for divorce from Lamar Odom in December. The couple met, got engaged and married within a month in 2009, and they were the subject of the E! reality series "Khloe & Lamar."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":18,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
After a six-year relationship, Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom announced in October that they had decided to formally separate. TMZ indicated that the pair were planning to divorce. The couple, who share a son, said in a statement that they remain amicable. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":19,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
After 22 years of marriage -- and several months of swirling rumors -- Kris and Bruce Jenner officially separated in October. "We will always have much love and respect for each other. Even though we are separated, we will always remain best friends and, as always, our family will remain our No. 1 priority," they told E! , the network that airs "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":20,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
In September, Liam Hemsworth's rep confirmed rampant speculation that the actor and Miley Cyrus had ended their year-long engagement. The couple first met on the set of 2010's "The Last Song" and had been off and on since then. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":21,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Movie veteran Clint Eastwood and his wife of 17 years, Dina, separated over the summer of 2013, according to People. They have one daughter together.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":22,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
George Clooney and Stacy Keibler were going strong -- and looking hot on the red carpet -- for two years. But in July 2013, their photogenic romance came to an end. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":23,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
"Vampire Diaries" stars Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder had a relationship that sizzled on and off the small screen. But the two shocked fans when anonymous sources confirmed to People in May 2013 that the co-stars were no longer a couple after dating for "several years."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":24,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Jane Seymour and James Keach announced the end of their 20-year union in April 2013. The couple are the parents of twin sons.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":25,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Julianne Hough and Ryan Seacrest decided to take a break in March 2013 after more than two years together, People reported. The duo's busy schedules were to blame, but they plan to stay friends, sources told the magazine.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":26,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
In September 2012, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler separated after nine years of marriage. They have two sons.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":27,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes "amicably settled" their divorce in July 2012, just two weeks after Holmes filed for it, an attorney said. Holmes and Cruise, who were married for five years, have one daughter.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":28,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver separated in May 2011 after 25 years of marriage. The public has since learned of Schwarzenegger's affair with the family's housekeeper that resulted in the birth of his fifth child.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":29,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
After almost seven years together, Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes went their separate ways in March 2010. The couple said that the split was mutual and that they would continue raising their children together.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":30,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman collaborated on four films together, including the controversial "Eyes Wide Shut," during their 11-year marriage. The couple split in 2001.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":31,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins split in 2009 after 23 years together. The pair, who met on the set of "Bull Durham," have two sons but never married.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":32,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Mia Farrow appeared in several of Woody Allen's films before the couple went their separate ways in 1992. The pair reportedly split after Farrow found out about Allen's sexual relationship with one of her adopted daughters, whom Allen married in 1997.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":33,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
MTV "Newlyweds" Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey split in 2005 after their three-year marriage.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":34,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe were married for seven years before calling it quits in 2006. The pair, who have two children, finalized their divorce in 2008.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":35,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's seven-year romance came to an end in 2005. Speculation over whether Angelina Jolie had anything to do with the breakup added a juicy angle to the split.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length] = {"currentPicture":false,"x":5,"y":1,"pos":36,"title":"Shocking celebrity splits"}
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37>>>Photos: Shocking celebrity splits"It was the distance," a source told People of the split. "She lives in New York and he resides in Indiana. It was the long distance that ultimately was the cause."Mellencamp's friend had a different take."I don't think he loved all the attention he got just from dating an actress," the friend told Closer Weekly. "I bet he'll stay away from dating another famous person for a while."Ryan, who hasn't appeared in a movie since 2009's "Serious Moonlight," is currently directing "Ithaca," a version of William Saroyan's novel "The Human Comedy."Mellencamp's new album, "Plain Spoken," is due for release next month.0Comments »SHARE THISPrintEmailMore sharingRedditStumbleUponDelicious/* push in config for this share instance */cnn_shareconfig.push({"id" : "cnn_sharebar2","url" : "http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/21/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/meg-ryan-john-mellencamp-split/index.html","title" : "Meg Ryan, John Mellencamp break up"});
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