15 Celebrity Exes Who Had No Choice But To Keep Working Together After They Broke Up

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13-03-2025

1. Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz first got together after working on Zoë's directorial debut Blink Twice. They were together for about three years but called off their engagement in October of 2024. Coincidentally, the news of their casting in the upcoming film Alpha Gang became public at the same time as their breakup.
2. Xolo Maridueña and Hannah Kepple dated for about three years while starring on Cobra Kai together. The pair broke up in 2022 but continued to appear on the show together until it's finale in 2025.
3. Florence Pugh and Zach Braff broke up at the beginning of 2022 but continued to work together for the press cycle of their movie, A Good Person, which Florence starred in and Zach wrote and directed.
Florence shared that they actually kept their split private for a while before it was announced publicly and said, "We've been trying to do this separation without the world knowing because it's been a relationship that everybody has an opinion on. We just felt something like this would really do us the benefit of not having millions of people telling us how happy they are that we're not together. So we've done that."
4. Madelyn Cline and Chase Stokes broke up in 2021 after going public with their relationship a year prior. They continue to star on Outer Banks together and play love interests on the series.
Chase is now dating country singer Kelsea Ballerini. There doesn't seem to be any ill will between Madelyn and Kelsea, though, and both have shared kind messages with each other on social media.
5. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Dany Garcia announced their divorce in 2007, but the two have continued to run their production company, Seven Bucks, together. In fact, Dany is a producer on several of Dwayne's biggest movies, including Jungle Cruise, Black Adam, Baywatch, and the Jumanji movies. Dany also manages Dwayne, and they own football minor league XFL together.
Dwayne explained that he and Dany have a great working relationship, even though marriage just wasn't meant to last for them. He said, "Where we're at today comes with a lot of work and a lot of digging in. I mean, that was years ago. Now, while marriage wasn't in our cards, we did realize, 'Well, wait a second, we're building something that's pretty cool.' Marriage may not be in our cards, but building business can be. And that took time."
6. Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse dated for about three years before they split in 2020. They continued to star on Riverdale together until the series ended in 2023.
At the time of their breakup, Cole said, "What an incredible experience I had. I'll always feel lucky and cherish that I had the chance to fall in love. I wish her nothing but the utmost love and happiness moving forward."
7. Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco secretly dated from 2008 to 2009 and played love interests on The Big Bang Theory at the same time. They continued to star on the series together until its finale in 2019.
On the Armchair Expert podcast, she shared, "Luckily, Johnny and I came out of it so brilliantly, and we're closer today than we ever were."
8. B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling dated while they worked on The Office together, and B.J. described their relationship by saying, "No one, including us, ever really knew, 'Is this dating? Is this not dating?' We were never really dating, we were never really not dating. We didn't know. No one knew." The two continued working together during the first season of Mindy's series The Mindy Project, where B.J. was a consulting producer and appeared onscreen as one of her love interests.
The two are still extremely close friends, and B.J. is even the godfather to Mindy's children.
9. Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett met on the set of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and allegedly dated until the summer of 2020. Their characters continued to be love interests in the show's second season until their onscreen breakup in Episode 8 and Olivia's eventual departure from the series in Season 3.
Around the time of their rumored breakup, Joshua was spotted with Sabrina Carpenter — thus the beginning of the heartbreak that inspired Olivia's album Sour and her hit song "Drivers License."
10. Sabrina Carpenter and Griffin Gluck first met on set for Tall Girl and began dating shortly after. They were together up until around 2020. They both returned for the film's sequel, which came out in 2022.
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11. Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison dated briefly before the two were cast together on Glee. They went on to star on the show together for its entire six-season run.
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In her book, Brunette Ambition, Lea shared that she and Matthew dated "for a Broadway beat" before starring on Glee together. On the series, she played a student who had a brief but intense crush on Matthew's character. Lea is currently married to Zandy Reich and they have two children together. Matthew is currently married to Renee Puente and they also have two children together.
12. Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush got engaged in 2004 shortly after One Tree Hill began airing on TV and were married in 2005, but they got divorced in 2006. They continued to work together and play on-and-off love interests until Chad left the series in 2009.
Sophia told Andy Cohen, "For me, at the end of the day, my job is my priority, and so I think at the end of it, it really let me just let go of it."
13. Joey King and Jacob Elordi continued playing love interests in The Kissing Booth 2 and The Kissing Booth 3 after their breakup in 2018.
On the podcast Mood With Lauren Elizabeth, Joey shared, "I'm a fan with how [the film] resonated with the world, it resonated with me. So going back and doing that and making the sacrifice of what, obviously, everyone is thinking about — outwardly addressing, but what I'm kind of on the sly addressing, making those sacrifices was totally worth it."
14. Charles Melton and Camila Mendes began dating in 2018 and starred alongside each other on Riverdale, where their characters briefly played love interests. They first broke up in 2019 and then seemingly rekindled their relationship for a short time in 2021. They continued to star on the series together until its finale in 2023.
15. Christina Haack and Tarek El Moussa got married in 2009 and started working together on their reality series, Flip or Flop, in 2013. The couple called it quits in 2016 after having two children together but continued co-hosting their show until the series ended in 2022. They now star together on a new HGTV series called The Flip-Off.
A source told People magazine, "Tarek and Christina are generally cordial. They're co-parenting, and nothing gets in the way of that. The show was just too intimate of a setting at this point, and it was time to close that chapter." And upon the series finale, Tarek said, "I think we did a pretty good job, and I'm excited for what the future holds for both of us and wish [Christina] nothing but the best!"