Their personal lives are almost as spicy and dramatic as the films they star in. When you’re a celebrity, the reality is that anything you do behind closed doors nearly always comes to light — after all, you have a posse of paparazzi following your every move! These celebrity partnerships began as scandalous – and many people were likely injured in the process – but they’ve withstood the storm for the sake of LOVE. Prepare to be astounded: we’ve compiled a list of 25 celebrities who went from mistress to Mrs.
Here Are The Celebrities Who Married Their Third Party
Miranda Lambert
Shelton remarked after singing together at the CMT 100 Greatest Duets show in 2005, “We were singing as part of a duets concert that CMT was putting on. They paired me with Miranda, and we were on stage for rehearsal, and I don’t know, something just happened and we both knew it.” Despite the fact that he was still married to Kanyette Williams, he continued to pursue Lambert. Shelton and Williams divorced in 2006, and after four years of dating, he and Lambert got engaged in 2011 and married the following year. This relationship would also break apart… for reasons we’ll get to later.
Miranda Lambert
Angelina Jolie
This was a real heartbreaker! Their chemistry blossomed during the production of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2004. Brad was still married to Jennifer Aniston at the time. Pitt and Aniston divorced in 2005, and “Brangelina” was born a year later, with a kid on board. In 2016, Brad and Angelina will call it quits on their relationship.
Angelina Jolie
Britney Spears
In 2004, the pop diva began dating backup dancer Kevin Federline, and the two became engaged after three months of dating. But there was one minor snag: Federline was already married to Shar Jackson. Not only that, but Shar was also expecting her second child with Federline at the time. Despite this, Spears and Federline married a few months later and had two sons together. In 2006, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline divorced.
Britney Spears
LeAnn Rimes
Until she met actor Eddie Cibrian on the set of Lifetime’s The Northern Lights in 2009, LeAnn Rimes appeared to be a nice and innocent country star. The fact that they were both married at the time didn’t seem to stop them from falling in love. In reality, in 2011, they divorced their husbands and married in 2011. Cibrian was married with two children to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reality actress Brandi Glanville at the time of the affair, who speaks openly about the whole disaster on the program. Let’s just say she’s not a huge fan of LeAnn Rimes.
LeAnn Rimes
Tori Spelling
From the minute they met on the set of Mind Over Murder in 2005, Spelling and McDermott were convinced they were “soul mates.” The only problem was that they were both married to other people. They each filed for divorce a month later, and by 2006, they were heading down the aisle! Together, the couple has four children.
Tori Spelling
Wade Union
Union and NBA great Dwayne Wade apparently began dating while he was still married to Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, the mother of his two children — though Union denies this. Siohvaughn didn’t take it well when Wade filed for divorce, and she even took it to court on behalf of her children, suing Union for emotional harm her children suffered as a result of the affair. The situation deteriorated. Union and Wade are revealed to be in a relationship, but they chose to take things slowly after watching their marriages break apart.
Wade Union
Alicia Keys
Who doesn’t enjoy Alicia Keys’ music? It was even more difficult to dislike her once we discovered she was the “other woman.” Swizz was married to R&B singer Mashonda with a newborn when Alicia Keys initially started dating him in 2008. Swizz and Mashonda were already calling it quits, according to Alicia, and it was only a matter of finishing the breakup, but you can bet Mashonda has a different perspective. Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys married in 2010 and have two children. Who knows why, but this duo is impossible not to like!
Alicia Keys
Julia Roberts
On the set of The Mexican, Julia Roberts met her future husband Danny Moder, who was actually a cinematographer! Despite the fact that Roberts was still seeing Benjamin Bratt and Moder was married to cosmetics artist Vera Steimberg, the couple began dating.
Amber Heard
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard supposedly met on the set of The Rum Diary in 2009, and their affair began there. Depp must have had a strong attraction to 28-year-old Heard because he ended his 14-year relationship with Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his children. Perhaps it was karma that led to Depp and Heard’s relationship ending in a public quarrel over reciprocal abuse charges.
Amber Heard
Claire Danes
On the set of Stage Beauty, Danes’ romance with actor Billy Crudup began. Crudup had to leave his pregnant wife since the romance became serious. What a disaster. Danes committed a repeat crime in 2006 when she became romantically connected with costar Hugh Dancy while on the set of Evening. Crudup was the one that was left this time! Danes and Dancy married in 2009, and they welcomed their first kid in 2013.
Claire Danes
Melanie Griffith
On the set of Two Much, this Hollywood power couple met. Both were married at the time, but they fell madly in love and divorced their spouses quite fast. The couple married shortly after the divorce papers were signed and went on to establish one of Hollywood’s most stable relationships. Griffith recently filed for divorce after 20 years of marriage in 2016, thus that can no longer be said.
Melanie Griffith
Jennifer Lopez
Lopez and Anthony married less than a week after Anthony’s divorce from former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres were finalized, so it’s only natural that they began dating when Mr. Anthony was still married. The couple married in 2004 and had two children together (twins) before divorcing in 2011.
Jennifer Lopez
Soon-Yi Previn
Yeah, this was a strange one… Woody Allen had a ten-year relationship with actress Mia Farrow, and while the two never married, their relationship ended in one of Hollywood’s most infamous scandals! Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow’s adoptive daughter, was discovered to be having a sexual relationship with Allen. When Farrow discovered nude images of her daughter at Allen’s residence in 1992, the connection became public. Allen was 56 years old at the time, and Soon-Yi was only 21 – talk about family turmoil! Soon-Yi and Allen married in 1997 and went on to have two children of their own.
Debra Missing
Debra Messing’s romance with co-star Will Chase from the TV musical Smash was revealed shortly after she filed for divorce from ex-husband Daniel Zelman. Chase was married at the time, but they split later. The relationship between Messing and Chase ended in 2014, hence she never became Mrs. Chase.
Debra Missing
Gisele Bunchen
Did Gisele end a relationship? No. Is it possible that she snatched someone’s baby daddy? Yes. Tom Brady dumped his three-year partner, Bridget Moynahan, who was expecting his child, for the supermodel. The stunning pair tied the knot in 2009 and have two children together.
Gisele Bunchen
Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall
They originally met during a polo tournament in 1970 and dated for a while. Then they split up and married and had children with other people – Prince Charles married Princess Diana in front of over 750 million people around the world, while Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles in a far less public ceremony. The two had always stayed in touch, and rumors of an affair began in the 1980s. They eventually divorced their spouses, and the couple made their first public appearance together in 1999. The couple finally got engaged in 2005, and two months later they married.
Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall
Traci Lynn Johnson
After retiring from the NFL, former NFL player Tiki Barber was on his way to a new broadcasting career when he met intern Traci Lynn Johnson. Johnson and Barber’s affair was in full swing while Barber’s 11-year-old wife was eight months pregnant with twins at home! Barber and Johnson were married just eight days after Barber’s divorce was finalized. The couple has become parents to a girl.
Traci Lynn Johnson
Jerry Seinfeld
The mistress, in this case, was none other than Mr. Seinfeld! Jessica, his now-wife, divorced her husband just days after returning home from their honeymoon for a comedian she met in a gym! Only a month after Jessica’s divorce was finalized, the two became engaged in 1998, the same year she and her first husband married – a big year for Jessica. Together, the happy couple has three children.
Jerry Seinfeld
Ryan Shawhughes
Your husband takes the nanny, which is every mother’s greatest nightmare. That’s exactly what Ethan Hawke did in 2004 to his wife, actress Uma Thurman. Hawke’s six-year marriage to Thurman came to an end when she found he was having an affair with their nanny, Ryan Shawhughes, who looked after their two children. What an embarrassment. Hawke and Shawhughes, on the other hand, never gave up on their relationship and married in 2008, with two children. Knowing what her now-husband is capable of, you’d have to believe Shawhughes screens her nannies with a lot more critical eye than most!
Ryan Shawhughes
Kayte Walsh
Kelsey Grammer was having an affair with British flight attendant Kayte Walsh, a lady 25 years his junior, just as his wife Camille was making her reality TV debut on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Kelsey went public with his new affair after his wife Camille filed for divorce in 2010 — it was a very unpleasant and public split. Grammer and Walsh were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City just two weeks after their divorce was finalized in 2011. Grammer now has two children with Camille, bringing his total number of children to six. He already had two children with Camille and two more with his first wife.
Kayte Walsh
Brittany Kerr
These two were captured in a massive PDA moment in 2012. Jason Aldean, a country singer, was photographed kissing Brittany Kerr, a former American Idol competitor, in a bar on the Sunset Strip, and the incident made headlines. Aldean’s first reaction was to blame it on the drink and drag his then-wife, Jessica Ussery, to various media sites to prove that she stood by her guy — the father of her two girls – and that humans make mistakes. By 2013, the country star had filed for divorce and was engaged to his former mistress a year later.
Brittany Kerr
Rebecca Romijn
We recently found that Romijn and O’Connell started dating when O’Connell wasn’t quite single. He was cheating on his then-girlfriend, E! News presenter Giuliana Rancic, with Romijn, who was just divorced from ex-husband John Stamos at the time. There was no house-wrecking here, but Rancic did go away with a broken heart. Romijn and O’Connell married in 2007 and are the parents of two children.
Rebecca Romijn
Patti Sciafia
They ran into each other at work! During the 1988 Tunnel of Love Express Tour, Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band member Patti Scialfa fell in love. Springsteen was married to actress Julianne Phillips at the time, but the marriage ended just as the tour was about to come to a close. Scialfa and Springsteen married in 1991, and they have three children together.
Patti Sciafia
Oksana Grigorieva
Gibson’s decision to leave his wife Robyn Moore for young Russian beauty Oksana Grigorieva, who happened to be pregnant with his child, didn’t appear to weigh too heavily on him after 30 years of marriage — one of the longest in Hollywood history. The couple never tied the knot. But don’t worry, Karma kicked in and the couple split up just six months after Grigorieva gave birth to their kid. Things became ugly when Grigorieva had to get a restraining order against Gibson, and tapes of Gibson threatening to kill Grigorieva were leaked online and made their way into the hands of the public.
Oksana Grigorieva
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams has a long Hollywood dating history, having been married to late actor Heath Ledger at the time of his sad death. In 2018, she married Phil Elverum, a songwriter, and producer. Williams’ marriage, however, came to an end when he began an affair with filmmaker Thomas Kail. In 2020, Williams and Kail married and had a child.
Michelle Williams
Gwen Stefani
We told you we’d return to Blake Shelton, and here we are. Shelton and Miranda Lambert separated in 2015, purportedly because he was having an affair with Gwen Stefani, the lead singer of No Doubt and a co-judge on The Voice. Stefani was, ironically, in the process of divorcing Gavin Rosedale for cheating on her. Blake and Gwen’s relationship is going well thus far, as the couple is happily engaged as of 2021.
Gwen Stefani
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart’s ex-wife Torrei Hart claims that the comedian started seeing Eniko Parrish behind her back, which led to their divorce. In 2016, Hart and Parrish tied the knot. It seems like not everything going on in Hart’s life is all fun and laughter.
Kevin Hart
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Boggart, then 46, left his wife Mayo Methot after having an affair with his 19-year-old costar Lauren Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not, possibly the most famous case of a celebrity leaving their spouse for a mistress in Hollywood history. Boggart was clearly infatuated, as he married Bacall six months after their divorce and stayed together for the next 12 years until his death.
Humphrey Bogart
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux co-starred in the film Wanderlust in 2012, and the two supposedly started dating on production. Theroux left his 14-year girlfriend to publicly initiate a relationship with Aniston less than two years later. In 2015, the couple married, and in 2018, they filed for divorce.
Jennifer Aniston
Triple H
Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Joanie “Chyna” Lauer were the most powerful pair in professional wrestling in the late 1990s, both on-screen and off. At least until behind Lauer’s back, Levesque established an off-screen relationship with his on-screen “wife” (wrestling is weird) Stephanie McMahon. In 2003, Levesque and McMahon married, and they are set to rule the WWE for decades to come. Lauer, however, succumbed to drug addiction and died in 2016.
Triple H
It doesn’t always work out for couples after an affair though, does it? Continue on to discover which of your favorite celebrities had affairs, but it didn’t exactly work out for them afterwards…
Jesse James
It was 2010 when many different women came forward and admitted to having affairs with James, despite the fact he was still married to Sandra Bullock! It wasn’t long after all these revelations that the pair divorced.
Hank Baskett
Despite starring alongside his wife, Kendra Wilkinson on television, Baskett cheated on her while she was pregnant. Everyone was shocked to say the least. Baskett tried to explain the situation, citing a situation where he went to a bathroom and two transgender women were making out and tried to involve him. Since, the pair have reconciled and moved on, remaining together.
Alex Rodriguez
Rodriguez was married to Cynthia Scurtis at the time, having an affair with Madonna. Scurtis fled to Paris after it was all revealed and told People Magazine how the Madonna affair was the “last straw”. It all ended in divorce. Madonna was also married at the time but denied any affair.
Hugh Grant
Despite dating actress Elizabeth Hurley at the time, he was caught and arrested having sex with a sex worker inside of a car. It was in 1995 that this happened, where he reportedly paid $60 for oral sex. The couple tried to reconcile and move past this, but ultimately broke up 5 years later for good. On a lighter note, Grant and Hurley have remained friends since, with each of them being the godparent to one of their children.
Meg Ryan
Ryan was married to Dennis Quaid at the time of working on popular thriller, Proof of Life. Ryan’s co-star on the set was Russel Crowe, and their film chemistry clearly became real since they allegedly had an affair. It ended in a messy divorce for Ryan, while Crowe had also been in a relationship at the time, with Danielle Spencer.
Kobe Bryant
The late Kobe Bryant came under fire when he cheated on wife Vanessa, but also for sexual assault. The incident happened with a hotel concierge, when what apparently started off as consensual kissing turned into assault. The victim didn’t testify, so the case was dropped. A few days later Bryant’s wife was pictured wearing an enormous ring, worth $4 Million. The two remained married until his unfortunate death in 2020.
Kristen Stewart
At the time of her affair, Stewart was dating Twilight Co-star Robert Pattinson. She was photographed with Rupert Sanders and it all went south from there. Pattinson and Stewart swiftly broke up due to the event and Stewart was quite regretful when looking back on everything: “Speaking very candidly, it was a really traumatic period in my early 20s that kick-started something in me that was a bit more feral.”
Hulk Hogan
This one was a crazy scenario. In 2012 a sex tape was released of Hogan and Heather Cole, who at the time was married to his friend ‘Bubba the Love Sponge’. Hogan sued Gawker for releasing the tape and it was revealed in court that Cole’s husband had asked her to sleep with Hogan. We don’t fully understand this one either.
Katherine McPhee
McPhee, best known for her work on Smash was caught having an affair with the show’s director, Michael Morris. Morris was also married at the time, while McPhee was married to Nick Cokas. McPhee was not regretful of the situation, which ended in divorce. She told Ocean Drive Magazine: “I don’t have any regrets, all of the choices I made I learned from in a really deep way.”
Michael Morris
The other half of the affair mentioned on the previous page. Despite being married to actress Mary McCormack since 2003, he was pictured kissing Katherine McPhee in 2013. The couple have three daughters together and must have worked through their issues, as they are still married today.
Marilyn Manson
Manson met Evan Rachel Wood when the star was only 18. They dated despite the fact Manson was married to Dita Von Teese, and when Manon got a divorce later on, they continued to date. Having gotten engaged eventually, they called it all off before they got married. Wood revealed to Rolling Stone that at the time she hadn’t quite figured herself out, which led to the breakdown of the relationship.
Dean McDermott
McDermott was married to Mary Jo Eustace when he started working on the TV movie, Mind Over Murder. It was here that he met co-star Tori Spelling and started their affair. Both of them divorced their respective partners and got married. Interestingly, McDermott later cheated on Spelling and she said on True Tori: “Dean and I met when we were both married to other people, so now that this has happened to me, I know a lot of people are like, ‘Well, karma’s a b*tch,’”. Well, she’s not exactly wrong…
Frank Sinatra
Legendary Frank Sinatra had an affair with Ava Gardner while he was still married to first wife, Nancy. Eventually Sinatra ended things with Nancy and married Gardner in 1951. He was also unfaithful to her though, causing them to get a divorce in 1957.
Robin Thicke
Singer Thicke was married to Paula Patton when pictures of him accompanied by another woman light in a club came to. Due to a reflection in the mirror, people could see that Thicke’s hand was on her butt. The couple announced a split soon after. According to court documents in 2013 (Patton’s words), Thicke had attempted to be unfaithful in the past on a Valentines Day, only not going through with it fully because of cocaine affecting his performance.
Gavin Rossdale
Rossdale who was married to Gwen Stefani, was caught cheating with the nanny. Stefani discovered the affair because of the cloud on their iPad. One of the nannies discovered nude photos and explicit texts, taking them to Stefani. The nanny was fired and Stefani divorced Rossdale soon after.
Tiger Woods
Everything was quiet regarding Tiger’s private life until that one time where his wife Eli Nordegren chased him with a golf club. Woods tried to escape but crashed his 2009 Escalade into hedges. Later it was discovered that Tiger was having multiple affairs, thought to be up to as many as 13. It was three years after the scandal that the couple finally divorced.
Simon Cowell
Everyone was shocked when it was announced that Cowell was expecting a baby with his friend, Andrew Silverman’s, separated wife. The two began their affair in 2009, despite Lauren still being married to Andrew. The affair began four years before she fell pregnant. They got married in 2013.
Ozzy Osbourne
Having been married to Sharon Osbourne since 1982, everyone was shocked when it was revealed that he had an affair with a hair stylist. Sharon discovered the affair from Ozzy’s emails. Sharon told The Talk that “I’m 63 years of age and I can’t keep living like this. He’s given me an unbelievable life and he’s given me three gorgeous children and I love him.” They remain married to this day.
Brad Pitt
Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston when he began working with Angelina Jolie on Mr & Mrs Smith. Rumors circled that the two were having an affair, confirmed when Pitt and Aniston divorced in 2005. The pair dated for years before marrying in 2014. Jolie explained in 2016 how, “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. 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”.
Eddie Fisher
Fisher was originally married to Debbie Reynolds and the pair were good couple friends of Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd. When Todd passed away, Taylor sought comfort in Fisher. It all came out in the end, and Fisher announced that he was leaving Reynolds for Taylor. Reynolds didn’t reflect too well on the situation, citing that ‘Eddie [was] wanting everything that Mike Todd had — and to be Mike Todd. Didn’t work out. You can’t be somebody else.”
Ingrid Bergman
Bergman was originally married to Peter Lindstrom when she started working with Roberto Rossellini on Stromboli. Everyone was shocked when the affair was revealed, and that she was pregnant with his child! The pair divorced their respective partners in order to get married. Bergman experienced initial backlash from her fans, but won them back again after her second Oscar win for Anastasia.
David Letterman
It was revealed that Letterman had been having sexual relations with female staff when he was extorted into admitting it. Attempted blackmail said that if he didn’t pay $2 Million, it would all be revealed. Letterman was dating Regina Lasko at the time, who remain married to this day.
Anthony Weiner
Former politician Weiner came under fire when it was revealed he was sexting multiple women. It was 2011 when it came out that he was sending nude images to women, going by the name Carlos Danger. He resigned, getting in trouble again when he was caught sexting an underage girl. After this scandal, Huma Abedin filed for divorce.
Josh Duggar
Duggar starred with his family on reality TV show, 19 Kids and Counting. He is married to Anna Keller. Dating website, Ashley Madison, was eventually hacked and it came out that Duggar had many profiles on the website. Reportedly he had spent over $1000 on the website. Nobody knows for sure if he met anyone on the site, but he was looking everywhere apart from in his own marriage.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been married to Maria Shriver for over 25 years at this stage, but their relationship has been rocked by controversy. The controversy being that Arnold fathered a son with his maid, Mildred Baena! The couple separated in 2011 but remain married to present day.
