Certain rules don’t apply to celebrities — even that rule that says a friend’s ex is totally off limits. Some of these relationships have ruined friendships, others have inspired hit songs, while other famous friends somehow kept their friendships intact.
Dating a friend’s former flame is a big no-no in the real world, but it is not at all uncommon in Hollywood. Scroll down to see which celebrity friends have dated the same person.
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Certain rules don’t apply to celebrities — even that rule that says a friend’s ex is totally off limits. Some of these relationships have ruined friendships, others have inspired hit songs, while other famous friends somehow kept their friendships intact. Dating a friend’s former flame is a big no-no in the real world, but it is not at all uncommon in Hollywood. Scroll down to see which celebrity friends have dated the same person.
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Kristen Wiig was spotted with Fabrizio Moretti in December 2011 and the two were said to be dating. Prior to that, the drummer for The Strokes had dated her friend Drew Barrymore for five years, but the two went their separate ways in 2007. In 2012, Barrymore opened up to Allure about her good friend and SNL alum dating her ex and said: “It all seems so wacky and incestuous, but that's kind of how life works. It seems fitting that they would find each other. I was like, 'Right, of course, that makes perfect sense.'"
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Prior to their public feud, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry were friends. Though their friendship is not what it once was, the pop stars still have one thing in common — they both dated singer John Mayer. Mayer and Swift dated in 2009, and Perry dated the “Still Feel Like Your Man” crooner on and off for years since they were first spotted together in August 2012.
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Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder met on the set of The Vampire Diaries and dated for more than three years. In 2014, Us Weekly broke the news that he had started dating their mutual friend, Nikki Reed, and the pair ended up getting married and having a child together. In February 2017, Dobrev posed with her ex and his now-wife for a friendly photo and posted it to Instagram.
"Can't believe how time flies. Farewell dinner with team Somereed! So good catching up with these goofballs. All [love]," the Degrassi alum wrote at the time.
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Lance Armstrong and Owen Wilson have a tight bond, and to add to that, the two guys both dated the same girl, singer Sheryl Crow. While she dated Wilson in the 1990s, Crow went on to get engaged to the cyclist, but they eventually called things off in 2006 after nearly three years together.
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Taylor Swift and Gigi Hadid’s friendship is so strong that they remained great friends even after the supermodel began dating Joe Jonas in 2015. Swift and Jonas, who split in 2008, kept things cordial and even hung out together on various occasions during the DNCE guy’s relationship with Hadid.
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Naomi Campbell and Rihanna are friendship goals, and they both are rumored to have dated Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor had a brief fling with the supermodel following Titanic’s release in the 1990s. And in 2015, Rihanna and the Revenant actor ignited dating rumors after they were spotted spending Valentine’s Day weekend together. Campbell and DiCaprio even helped throw a birthday party for the singer in 2015.
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Real Friends! Jennifer Aniston dated Adam Duritz before the Counting Crows frontman briefly dated her now friend, Courteney Cox, in 1997. Thankfully, their mutual romances didn’t come in between the two actresses’ tight-knit bond, which began when they both joined the Friends cast in 1994.
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Back when they were teenagers, Nick Jonas and Miley Cyrus dated for more than a year, but their relationship came to an end in 2007. Following that relationship, Jonas also dated Selena Gomez on and off for two years. “We never feuded. We both liked the same guy when we were 16,” the “Fetish” singer said in 2016 about her old friendship with Cyrus.
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Twilight costars Nikki Reed and Ashley Greene both dated Ryan Phillippe. Greene was with the actor in 2013, and he was spotted out on a date with Reed in 2007 when she was 18 and he was 32.
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No bad blood! Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift’s friendship has been able to withstand the test of time, and also the awkwardness of dating the same guy. Taylor Lautner and Gomez had a fling in early 2009, and later that same year, the Twilight actor dated Swift for a few short months.
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After dating Joe Jonas, Gigi Hadid moved on to a new relationship with Zayn Malik. The two singers had been photographed together during Paris Fashion Week in 2015, and when Us first reported in November of that year that the model was dating the “Dusk Till Dawn” singer, Jonas unfollowed Hadid on Twitter and deleted the photo with the former One Direction guy from his Instagram. Yikes!
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Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford dated singer Carried Underwood. The American Idol alum also dated his friend, Tony Romo, in 2007, but they split by October of that year. Romo eventually married Crawford’s little sister, Candace Crawford, in 2011.
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