13 Celebrities Who Dated A Current Or Former Costar After A Shocking Breakup

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13-02-2025

PSA: There is no evidence of any overlap between the relationships listed in this article (unless stated otherwise).
1 and 2. Wicked costars Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater were first linked in the summer of 2023, around the same time that news of Ariana's divorce from Dalton Gomez broke publicly, and Ethan filed to end his marriage with his childhood sweetheart, Lily Jay.
3. Just over a year after splitting from his wife of almost three decades, Deborra-Lee Furness, Hugh Jackman was spotted on an apparent date night with his ex-Broadway costar Sutton Foster.
4 and 5. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher met on the set of That '70s Show in 1998, though they didn't get together until 2012. In between that time, Mila dated Macauley Culkin for 8 years, and Ashton literally married and got divorced from Demi Moore.
6. Emma Stone was dating Kieran Culkin when she was cast in The Amazing Spider-Man alongside Andrew Garfield. Emma and Andrew eventually got together and stayed together for four years.
7. Brad Pitt famously began dating (his now ex-wife) Angelina Jolie shortly after his divorce from Jennifer Aniston. His and Jen's divorce was finalized in 2005, not long after he and Angelina met while shooting their 2004 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
8. Well, a few years after her split from Brad, Jen started dating her Tropic Thunder costar Justin Theroux, whom she'd met on set in 2007. They ended up getting married in 2015, though ultimately split in 2017.
9. Justin Theroux was also in a relationship when he first met Jen; he'd been dating Heidi Bivens for over a decade. Justin and Jen didn't start dating until around 2011 — after they reconnected while filming Wanderlust, and shortly after he split from Heidi. Jen later denied rumors that anything romantic happened between her and Justin on the Wanderlust set, maintaining that they were just 'great friends' while working on that project.
10. Shortly after his split from Jennifer Lopez (the first time), Ben Affleck began dating Jennifer Garner in 2003. They had met a few years prior on the set of Pearl Harbor, and ended up getting married for 13 years before parting ways in 2015.
11. Ryan Phillippe was linked to his Stop-Loss costar Abbie Cornish while he was still married to Reese Witherspoon. The affair rumors were pretty extensive, though he vehemently denied cheating on the Legally Blonde star.
12 and 13. Finally, shortly after Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johannson got divorced, he began dating Blake Lively, whom he'd met on the set of Green Lantern a year prior. Blake was also in a relationship when she first met Ryan; she was dating her Gossip Girl costar Penn Badgley.