Love lives of celebrities are often too tumultuous for them to stay with a partner for a long time; it’s little wonder that for a number of them divorce follows marriage closely. But there are a few who were heading for the aisle but never made it, stopping halfway and breaking apart.
Brad Pitt & Gwyneth Paltrow
Now it may look as if Brad Pitt got entangled into a public scandal with Angelina Jolie just in order to hook up with Gwyneth Paltrow – and have his new relationship going up in smoke. It’s a question how much the 24-year-old actress wanted to marry Pitt in the first place, but their engagement lasted for only 6 months before she opted out.
Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck
Jennifer Lopez is far from being a newbie in the love-and-quit game, and some of her affairs that are now history may have been happy at the start, but hardly the one with Ben Affleck. They were unlikely to make it as far as an engagement, but they did. Well, it was off in 2004, two years together proved enough for them, and Affleck did marry soon after that. His wife is actress Jennifer Garner.
Britney Spears & Jason Trawick
Britney Spears and her three-year-plus-long fiancé Jason Trawick, on the other hand, looked in harmony with one another, Trawick bonding with her two kids as well. But at some point in time things went wrong, Spears was through with judging the X Factor and on the heels of it came the news that she was also through with Trawick. Now Spears has a new boyfriend, one David Lucado, will it grow into something bigger?
Johnny Depp & Vanessa Paradis
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis had an impressive span of nearly 15 years together behind them and two children, a teenage girl Lily-Rose and 11-year-old Jack; in many people’s eyes they were the couple who were going strong. Nevertheless, the bliss ended as Depp allegedly preferred to make love to his co-star Amber Head. It was reported that Head threw him up for a woman, does he regret his fling?
Sheryl Crow & Lance Armstrong
Sheryl Crow was able to stand Lance Armstrong for three years as her boyfriend, but for only a few months as her fiancé. Armstrong struck it up with Crow shortly after his divorce, revving things up to an engagement in the fall of 2005, but it didn’t last through the winter, the following February she was having none of it.
Alanis Morisette & Ryan Reynolds
Alanis Morisette dated Ryan Reynolds for four years, but they were not destined to tie the knot. They broke up and found other partners to take them down the aisle, Morisette is married with a boy of three, and Reynolds has done it twice since they had come apart.
Zoe Saldana & Keith Britton
Zoe Saldana had to wait for 11 years before her boyfriend actor Keith Britton came round to asking her for an engagement, and one more year after that, but there were no wedding bells! Back in 2011 it was over, with Saldana trying to make it with Bradley Cooper, with little success. Now she is waiting for a good man to come along.
This is a more or less complete list so far; how much do you think it can grow by the end of this year? Of this decade? Make your stakes!
