26 Celebrity Couples Who Got Engaged But Surprisingly Split Up Prior To The Wedding
Celebrity engagements certainly attract a unique level of attention.
Celebrity engagements can look glamorous from the outside, but plenty of them end before the wedding ever happens. Some splits are quiet, others turn into major headlines, and a few still surprise fans years later.
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This list looks at 26 celebrity couples who got engaged, then walked away before saying "I do." From short-lived romances to long relationships that simply ran out of road, these breakups show how unpredictable fame, timing, and love can be.
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Here are the celebrity couples whose engagements did not make it to the altar.
1. Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis dated six months after meeting at a Saturday Night Live wrap party in 2011
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In 2013, they got engaged
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But they ended things in 2020
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2. In 2016, Taraji P. Henson and Kelvin Hayden got together
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They got engaged two years later
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Then in 2020, they separated
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3. Ruby Rose and Catherine McNeil were engaged back in 2010
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Not long after, the relationship ended because of the distance
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4. In 2014, Ruby Rose and Phoebe Dahl met at a barbecue spot
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They got engaged within three months
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But at the end of 2015, they decided to go their separate ways
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Some of these romances moved fast, and the endings were just as sudden.
5. Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland were set to get married back in 1991
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But on the wedding day, Sutherland moved out of her home, and Roberts traveled with her ex-fiancé's best friend, Jason Patric
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6. Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney fell in love for real after playing love interests in the "Yoü and I" music video in 2011
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He proposed to her in 2015
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A year later, they announced they were taking a break and never got back together
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7. In 2017, Lady Gaga and Christian Carino got together
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Quietly, they got engaged in 2018
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But they separated in early 2019
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8. In 2000, Zoe Saldaña and Keith Britton started dating
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They got engaged in June of 2010
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But they went their separate ways in 2011
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9. Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones met during the 2015 Hamilton rehearsals
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They got engaged in 2019
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They reportedly ended their relationship in 2021
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10. Iggy Azalea first met Nick Young at a 2013 pool party, but they went on a date after he tweeted about his crush on her in 2014
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Young proposed to her on his birthday the following year
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But in 2016, a video of Young allegedly cheating on her surfaced, and they eventually broke up
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That one turned messy fast.
11. In early 2020, Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich started dating
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Four months down the line, they got engaged
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Two months after that, they called it quits
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12. Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan dated on the set of Love Potion No. 9 back in 1992
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They got engaged later on, but in 1995, they separated
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13. Tate Donovan and Jennifer Aniston met through friends later in 1995
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After a month, they broke up and got back together after three weeks. Then they got engaged in 1998
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The relationship soon ended, but they were co-stars in 'Friends'
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He even introduced Aniston to Bullock
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14. In 1995, Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt started dating
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They announced their engagement soon after but broke up in 1997
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15. In 2002, Nicole Kidman dated her then-landlord, Lenny Kravitz
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They were briefly engaged and separated in 2003
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Nobody actually knew about their engagement until Kidman casually revealed it during the Big Little Lies press tour
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Some of these breakups stayed private for a while, which only made them more surprising later.
Wedding drama is real, just like when a guest considered skipping a best friend’s wedding because of their partner.
16. In 2010, Karamo Brown and Ian Jordan started dating
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They got engaged eight years later
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They pushed back their wedding date in 2020, but then they decided to call everything off
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17. In 2002, Alanis Morissette and Ryan Reynolds started dating
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They got engaged in 2004
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In 2007, the engagement was called off
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18. On the set of Jumper in 2008, Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson started dating
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They got engaged later on but separated in 2010
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They got back together three months later but finally separated in 2017
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19. In May of 2018, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson started dating
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They got engaged by June
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They split up by October
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20. Anne Cline proposed to Taryn Manning during her 2021 concert
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Three months later, Manning broke off the engagement
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21. In 2009, Colbie Caillat and Justin Young started dating
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They got engaged in 2015
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But they went their separate ways in 2020
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22. In 2019, Liam Payne and Maya Henry officially got together
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They got engaged in 2020
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But they broke up in 2021
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23. In 2012, the wrestling power couple Nikki Bella and John Cena got together
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They got engaged at WrestleMania in 2017
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They called it off a year later, but soon they got back together; however, it lasted just a few months
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24. After guest-starring on an episode of Ellen in 1997, Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton started dating
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In 2010, they got engaged, and Dern went to film
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While away, Thornton married his Pushing Tin co-star Angelina Jolie, and that was it
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25. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez met at a 2015 baseball game and started dating in 2017
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They got engaged a month after their second anniversary
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However, they broke up in 2021
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26. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck dated and got engaged in 2002
They went their separate ways in 2014
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They got back together in 2021, and in 2022, they got engaged again
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Celebrity love stories can circle back, but they do not always end the way fans expect.
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