We all love following our favorite celebrities, and it’s especially fun to get all the details about famous celebrity couples.
Sometimes they are endearing and totally goals while other times they have shocking scandals that we can’t stop reading about.
Even if you love celeb romances, you might not know these 10+ weird facts about these famous celebrity couples from scandals to the just plain random.
1. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas share a birthday.
While some celebrity couple facts are salacious, others are just interesting and totally random.
It’s a funny coincidence that these two, who got married back in 2000, share the same birthday! Not the same birthday year though, as Douglas is 25 years older than her.
2. David Arquette and Courteney Cox started a production company.
After the Friends star married David Arquette, they started a production company together that they named Coquette Productions , combing both of their last names.
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The company produced Cougar Town which Cox starred in. Even after their divorce in 2013, they continued to work together on projects.
3. Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton twice.
Elizabeth Taylor is well-known for having multiple husbands. She was married to eight different men over the course of her life!
The only man she married twice, however, was Richard Burton. The first time was in 1964 and they then divorced in 1974. Then they wed again in 1975 only to divorce for good in 1976.
4. John Krasinski gushes about his wife on Instagram.
John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are definitely a Hollywood power couple at this point.
They are both beautiful and talented, but one of the cutest things about their relationship is how Krasinski is always posting photos of them with endearing Instagram captions.
5. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt didn’t agree on how to parent.
While these two made waves when they got together, they didn’t last.
Part of the reason for their divorce was a difference in parenting styles . Sources close to them said Pitt wasn’t as involved with the children as Jolie.
6. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger had a long custody battle.
The couple finalized their divorce in 2002, but things didn’t end there.
They then had a very fraught custody battle regarding their daughter, Ireland. This battle was messy and lasted until 2008. It also cost both of them millions of dollars in legal fees.
7. Amber Heard donated the money from her divorce.
The relationship between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is full of allegations of abuse, and many accused Heard of being a gold-digger when she got $7 million from the divorce.
She ended up donating this money to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles as well as the American Civil Liberties Union.
8. Seal announced the end of his relationship with Heidi Klum in a tweet.
Heidi Klum and Seal broke up in 2012, and before they made an official announcement of their upcoming divorce, Seal posted a strange and mysterious tweet alluding to the split.
The tweet simply said “The End.” Luckily there was more clarification later to help confused fans.
They also had a major cheating scandal.
Cheating scandals aren’t uncommon in Hollywood, and this messy relationship was just one of many that had accusations of infidelity.
Seal alleged that Klum had an affair with her bodyguard. Klum and her bodyguard did date, but she said the relationship only started after her breakup with Seal.
9. Jon and Kate had a hugely public split.
Jon & Kate Plus 8 was popular in the early 2000s, and while they seemed like a regular, although bigger than normal, American family, things went off the rails.
The couple had a public and intense breakup, and Jon then quit the show by citing moral reasons.
10. Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally had a touring show.
Celebrity scandals can be enticing to read about and watch, but sometimes it’s more enjoyable to see successful celeb pairs who make things work.
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullaly are basically perfect together, and they even had a touring variety show called Summer of 69: No Apostrophe .
11. Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem had a very chill wedding.
When thinking of celebrity weddings, you probably imagine a lavish, expensive gathering, but not all celebs go this route.
This gorgeous couple got married in the home of a mutual friend. However, it was still in the Bahamas, so it clearly wasn’t that cheap.
12. Justin Timberlake had a Britney Spears lookalike for a music video.
This relationship was a huge deal in the early 2000s even if it didn’t last long.
After their split in 2002, Timberlake made his “Cry Me A River” music video which was rumored to be about Spears. He even included an extra that looked a lot like her.
13. Sandra Bullock and Jesse James divorced while in the middle of adopting.
Bullock and James were married when they started going through the adoption process but then divorced before the adoption was finalized.
Bullock was the one who filed, and she went ahead and adopted her son as a single parent. She also adopted a daughter a few years later.
14. Sarah Paulson gave an endearing tribute to Holland Taylor.
Sarah Paulson gave a romantic shout out to her partner Holland Taylor when she gave her speech after winning an Emmy in 2017.
While thanking a partner is common in these speeches, it’s important to see LGBT+ couples being able to be open in this way. It was also great because Paulson had been advised early on to hide this relationship but refused to.
