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07-07-2025
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Celebrity Couples Who Started Their Relationships as Affairs
Over the years, celebrities have provided us with endless supplies of both incredible love stories and messy, dramatic splits. And while we'll always have a soft spot for celeb love, especially when they gush about each other in candid interviews, celebrities have also been quite messy in the past, too. In fact, some beloved Hollywood couples began their relationships as full-on affairs. Whether one or both of them were married when they first met, some of these love stories have been nothing short of unconventional. In early 2025, Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman were the latest couple to seemingly confirm cheating rumors. According to several reports, the two started dating when they starred together on Broadway's Music Man back in 2021. The two were married at the time, but have since divorced their exes. For more celeb couples who started out in affairs, scroll below. 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'I think many people were shocked [Jackman] could do this to her.' Jackman and Foster went public with their relationship in January 2025. Furness filed for divorce in May 23, 2025. We all remember the scandal back in 2009 when Northern Lights co-stars LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian got together, despite both of them being married at the time. Rimes was married to chef Dean Sheremet while Cibrian was married to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville. After word got out, they split from their partners and ended up marrying each other in 2011. 'It was so public,' Glanville said of their affair in an op-ed to The Sun. 'Everyone felt sorry for me and wanted to hug me. But I wanted to punch everyone in the face. I couldn't turn on the TV without seeing something about them.' 'LeAnn had taken over my life and I didn't have a voice anymore,' she continued. 'I did not want my kids around her. She'd got my husband and she was not getting my children.' Ariana Grande and her boyfriend Ethan Slater met while working on Wicked together, which began filming in December 2022. At the time, both Grande and Slater were married. According to TMZ, Grande separated from her husband, Dalton Gomez, in January 2023. She then filed on Sept. 18, 2023. Slater, on the other hand, filed for divorce from his wife, Lilly Jay, on July 26, 2023. The two share a son, born in August 2022. In August 2023, sources told the Daily Mail that Slater and Grande were seen packing on the PDA as early as March. 'They were seen making out at a pub in Hampstead, and they were all over each other at Michelle Yeoh's Oscar party [in March],' the source said. 'They were sloppy on set,' the insider added. 'They were seen being all over each other while he was still supposedly happily married to Lilly.' '[Ariana's] the story, really. Not a girl's girl,' Slater's ex-wife Jay told Page Six on July 27, 2023. 'My family is just collateral damage.' When Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys reconnected, Beatz was married to singer Mashonda, whom he quickly split from in 2008. He and Keys married in 2010. While the details are hazy, Mashonda publicly accused Keys of 'destroying a family' in a 2009 Twitter post. 'I feel that after [one] and a half years of you hiding this affair and acting like it [doesn't] exist, that now is the time to confront it, since you talk so openly about it now… You have no idea how much pain I was caused because of this affair,' she wrote. Beatz and Keys welcomed their first son, Egypt, in 2010, and their second, Genesis, in 2014. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt met in the summer of 2004 on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the spy thriller on which they've since admitted they both fell in love — if not quite admitting to an affair. At the time, Pitt was famously married to Jennifer Aniston, who went on to file for divorce from Pitt in March 2005. Just four months later, Pitt and Jolie were granted a spread in W magazine showing off their 'domestic bliss,' with photos taken in March. Jolie had this to say about how they fell in love in 2006. 'Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened,' she told Vogue. 'I think a few months in I realized, 'God, I can't wait to get to work.' … Anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair.' Pitt and Jolie, who share six kids together, married in 2014. Two years later, Jolie filed for a divorce. The settlement was finalized in December 2024. One of the most publicized affairs in royal family history involved King Charles, Queen Camilla, and the late Princess Diana. Per reports, Charles was unfaithful throughout their marriage, which started in 1981. In her iconic Panorama interview with journalist Martin Bashir in 1995, Diana confirmed their affair. 'What effect did [their affair] have on you?' Bashir asked the late Princess of Wales. 'Pretty devastating,' she replied. 'Rampant bulimia, if you can have rampant bulimia, and just a feeling of being no good at anything and being useless and hopeless and failed in every direction.' 'And with a husband who was having a relationship with somebody else?' Bashir added. 'With a husband who loved someone else, yes,' she replied. 'You really thought that?' Bashir asked. 'I didn't think that,' the royal stated. 'I knew it.' Later on, Bashir asked if Queen Camilla's affair with her ex-husband was the reason for their split. 'Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,' she famously replied. Charles and Diana, who had been separated since 1992, divorced in 1996. Charles and Camilla went on to marry in 2005, eight years after Diana's tragic passing. Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott were both married when they met in 2005. McDermott was married to Mary Jo Eustace and Spelling was married to Charlie Shanian. In her memoir sTORI Telling, the Beverly Hills 90210 star remembered their first meeting. 'It was love at first sight. I fell so hard … Then I noticed he had a wedding ring. And — oh, yeah — I had a husband too,' Spelling wrote, per Us Weekly, before revealing that they spent the night together at a hotel. 'The following day, when I woke up next to Dean, I had no regrets. Something was really wrong with my marriage. Not only because I slept with this guy — though that certainly wasn't a positive sign — but because I didn't regret it.' Spelling and McDermott married a year later 2006 and welcomed five kids throughout their marriage. McDermott announced their separation in June 2023 and Spelling filed for divorce in March 2024. Angelina Jolie's relationship with Billy Bob Thornton also began with infidelity. When the two met on the set of the 1999 dramedy Pushing Tin, Thornton was engaged to actress Laura Dern. But, despite their relationship, Thornton began a relationship with Jolie and the two eloped in Vegas in May 2000. 'I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I've never heard from him again,' Dern told ABC. 'It's like a sudden death. For no one has there been any closure or clarity,' she said. Jolie and Thornton were together for two years until Jolie filed for divorce in 2002. They adopted son Maddox that same year. Jolie was granted full custody after their split. While they've never confirmed it, the timeline of Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie's relationship certainly suggests some overlap. Their relationship went public in Baccarin's divorce proceedings with her ex Austin Chick when she revealed she was pregnant with a baby with McKenzie. 'I am planning to re-marry,' she wrote in the court documents. 'Also, I am three-and-a-half months pregnant.' Baccarin and McKenzie secretly wed in June 2017. They share two sons named Frances and Arthur. Baccarin also shares her first son, Julius, with Chick. Ariana Grande was also accused of stepping on toes before starting her relationship with Big Sean. At the time they met in 2014, Big Sean was engaged to the late Naya Rivera. In her 2016 memoir, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up, the Glee alum accused Grande of hitting on her fiancé. 'On the one day that he was back in LA, he said he didn't want to see me. But since she had a key, she let herself into his house,' Rivera wrote, per Page Six. 'I walk in, go downstairs, and guess what little girl is sitting cross-legged on the couch listening to music? … It rhymes with 'Smariana Schmande.'' Grande and the rapper were together for eight months before calling it quits on April 2015.
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04-07-2025
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Celebrities Who Had Children From Affairs
Celebrity affairs are sadly not out of the norm in good ol' Hollywood. There are romances, divorces, and a fair share of affairs for one in every five celebrity couples (and I think I'm even being generous there). It's a part of life, and a pretty big one in the world of celebrity culture. However, it's almost old news when a new affair comes to light. But there's one thing that still has everyone clutching their pearls: when the affair leads to parenthood. That's right: sometimes affairs lead to children, and that's when it gets even messier. We've seen it in recent years with Tristan Thompson and Dave Grohl, but they're definitely not the only ones. In fact, some even happened in Old Hollywood, with stars like Clark Gable. We know, it's very messy. In fact, we found a little over a dozen celebrity men who had children as a result of affairs they had; and trust us, it's a bit of a bummer. Below, see which celebrity men had children due to affairs. More from SheKnows Jenna Dewan's 'Little Moments of Sunshine' Capture the Sweet Side of Parenting Best of SheKnows A Look Back At Lindsay Lohan's Long-Term Relationships Over the Years All the Best Fashion Moments from Lindsay Lohan's Acting Comeback 7 Epic Ways Margot Robbie Has Celebrated Her Birthday Over The Years — From 24-Hour Parties To Her Barbie-Themed Bash In September 2024, Dave Grohl announced that he fathered a daughter during an affair with an unnamed woman. 'I've recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage,' the Foo Fighters frontman wrote in a statement shared on social media. 'I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her. I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness.' The details of Grohl's affair remain unknown, and he was reported to still be working on his marriage as recently as December 2024. Liam Gallagher fathered two children during affairs. In 1998, while married to Patsy Kensit, the Oasis frontman had a daughter, Molly, during a brief fling with singer Lisa Moorish. From 2011 to 2012, Gallagher had an affair with journalist Liza Ghorbani, who gave birth to a daughter named Gemma. This all happened while he was married to singer Nicole Appleton. In 2018, he met Molly for the first time months after revealing he'd never met either of the daughters he had outside of his marriages. 'Not met the one in New York either,' he said of Gemma, per The Mirror. 'But I wish them well. if they ever need anything, give us a shout.' In December 2022, Tristan Thompson secretly welcomed a baby with a woman named Maralee Nichols after a brief affair while he and Khloé Kardashian were still together and expecting their son Tatum, who was born via surrogate in August 2022. The NBA star, who also shares an older daughter, True, with Kardashian, confirmed his paternity of Nichols' son, Theo, in a January 2022 Instagram Story. 'I take full responsibility for my actions. Now that paternity has been established I look forward to amicably raising our son,' he wrote. 'I sincerely apologize to everyone I've hurt or disappointed throughout this ordeal, both publicly and privately.' Thompson and Kardashian ended their relationship after his affair was revealed in December 2021. In 2009, Lil Wayne was expecting babies with then-fiancée Nivea and his on-and-off girlfriend Lauren London. London welcomed a son named Kameron three months before Nivea welcomed a son named Neal. Both women ended their relationship with the rapper but became friends with one another through the ordeal. 'It was very crushing, then she and I became very close, ironically, after he and I decided to let it go,' Nivea said in a 2019 interview. 'I know that sounds weird, but we were two people going through something that was along the lines of humiliating. It felt like, who else could you share this oddly unique situation with?' Dan Marino has been married to Claire D. Veazey since the 80s, and has welcomed six children with his longtime wife. However, he welcomed a seventh child with CBS employee Donna Savattere in 2005, and paid her millions to keep it quiet, per the New York Post. 'This is a personal and private matter. I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then,' he told The Post in a 2013 statement. 'We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved.' In 1935, Clark Gable had an affair with Loretta Young during the filming of The Call of the Wild, while he was married to Maria Langham. Young welcomed their daughter, Judy Lewis, in Nov 1935, and publicly called Judy her 'adopted' daughter. According to People, Young privately admitted to Lewis that she and Gable were her biological parents in 1966, six years after Gable's death. After Young's death, her posthumous memoir admitted the truth. Tom Jones spent 20 years denying that he fathered a child after cheating on his high school sweetheart, Melinda Rose 'Linda' Trenchard, in 1987. The Welsh singer had a son, Jonathan, with American model Katherine Berkery and refused to acknowledge even after a legal battle, which included DNA testing that conclusively proved Jones was the dad. He later claimed he was 'tricked' into fathering the child. 'If I had planned it, I would have done something more than just financially,' he said via Wales Online. 'But it wasn't. I was tricked, really. I just fell for it.' Jones and Trenchard remained married until her 2016 death despite many publicized infidelities, many of which Jones admitted to. In 2011, days after Maria Shriver filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger, news broke that the former Governor of California had fathered a child with his housekeeper Mildred Baena 14 years earlier. The affair resulted in a son named Joseph Baena, with whom the actor has remained close throughout his life. Ted Nugent has been married to Shemane Deziel since 1989, but in 2005, news broke that he fathered a son with a woman named Karen Gutowski. Since then, he agreed to pay $3,500 in monthly child support. While Eric Clapton was married to Pattie Boyd, he fathered two children during affairs. The first one was with a woman named Yvonne Kelly, with whom he was dating in the mid-1980s. They welcomed a daughter named Ruth Kelly Clapton in January 1985. The second was with Italian model Lory Del Santo, and they welcomed a son named Conor in Aug 1986. Clint Eastwood was married to Margaret Neville Johnson from 1953 to 1987, and he had a lot of affairs, to put it lightly. However, the two most famous ones resulted in the births of two daughters. His first affair that resulted in pregnancy was with a still-unknown woman, who welcomed their daughter Laurie in 1954. Per the Daily Mail, Laurie was given up for adoption but wound up tracking her father down as an adult. Eastwood also had an affair that lasted from 1959 to 1973 with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis, who welcomed their daughter Kimber in 1964. While married to Janice Itson, boxer Evander Holyfield fathered two children with two different women, per CBS News. He welcomed a son with ex Tamie Pettaway in 1997, and that same year, fathered another child with Toi Irvin. Yikes. Despite being married to Eudoxie, Ludacris fathered a daughter named Cai in 2013 with Tamika Fuller. Eudoxie spoke about staying with Ludacris, saying via Rolling Out, 'Many people did tell me, but I listened to my heart and it's the best decision I've ever made.'
