The breakup between Pete Davidson and AriannaGrande came as a big surprise to many of us who believed the two had found their best balance. They began dating in a whirlwind in 2018 after Grande left her relationship with longtime boyfriend Mac Miller and Pete ended his with Cazzie David. They embarked on a crazy tattoo adventure inking each other’s name. In June, they announced they were engaged. They started living together and had a pig. It was like a Disney movie in front of everyone’s eyes. Sadly, it ended shortly after the engagement, just as it began in a whirlwind. The end of the engagement suddenly brings us back to the many once-engaged celebrity couples,
Celebrity Couples Once Engaged
1. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
After her failed marriage to Chris Judd in 2001, Jennifer Lopez started dating Ben Affleck when they met on the set of the movie “Gigli.” In 2002, the pair were engaged in a September 2003 wedding plan. But they postponed their wedding indefinitely just four days before the wedding.
They both said excessive media interference was the reason for calling off the wedding. In January 2004, they announced that they had broken off their engagement. The same year, Lopez married Marc Anthony, from whom she separated in 2014 after 10 years of marriage, while Ben married actress Jenifer Garner in 2005 and they divorced in 2015.
2. Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow
Brad Pitt is famous for his movies, his looks, and his marriages to Jenifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. However, many seem to have forgotten that he was engaged to Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow and Pitt met while filming the 1995 movie “Seven.” They were in a relationship from 1994 to 1997 and were considered one of Hollywood’s most important couples of the 90s. They were so big that it was inspired by Shania Twain’s song “It Doesn’t Impress Me Much.”
Two years into the relationship, Brad Pitta proposed to Paltrow in 1996. In 1997, Paltrow called off the engagement, believing she was too young to marry, which was understandable considering she was 24 at the time. and 10 years younger than Brad. While Brad Pit would marry Aniston and then Jolie, Paltrow would marry Coldplay’s Chris Martin for 10 years before marrying Brad Falchuk in 2018.
3. Paris Hilton and Paris Latsis
While Paris Hilton is popular for her extravagant and social life, most people seem to have forgotten that she was engaged to a Greek shipping tycoon, nicknamed Paris Latsis.
She and the Parisian Greek started dating in June 2004 and after 7 months of love, the Greek offers the American to choose from 15 rings. This did not last, however, as the engagement was called off four months later.
4. Kerry Washington and David Moscow
Washington, who is better known as Olivia Pope on the ABC series “Scandal,” was engaged to David Moscow in 2004 after meeting in 2003.
In 2007, they decided to break off their engagement when Washington turned 30 and she said she wanted to re-evaluate her life as the relationship was not going well. Since then, Washington has kept her life a secret from the media and is currently married to NFL star Nnamdi Asomugha, while Moscow is married to Karen Riotoc.
5. Liev Schrieber and Naomi Watts
Naomi and Liev started dating when they met on the movie ‘The Painted Veil’ in 2006. Starting in 2010, Naomi announced to the media that Liev had proposed to her and she said she had said yes to him. actor born in San Francisco. They both claimed that even though they were engaged, they would not rush into marriage.
In 2007, they had their first child named Pete, followed by the birth of a second son, Samuel Kai, in 2008. In 2016, they announced that they had ended the 11-year relationship. They remain good friends for the sake of their sons and the media speculates that they are more than friends and could live together.
6. Selita Ebanks and Nick Cannon
Nick and Selita dated 6 months before Nick asked her to marry him in Times Square in glamorous fashion in 2007. They were together for the next five months but decided to end their relationship in order to focus on their individual careers.
Nick would later marry Mariah Carey in 2008, just a few months after getting engaged to Ebanks, he divorced her in 2016. On the other hand, Ebanks dated Terrence Jenkins before breaking up with him.
7. Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp
We can’t leave these guys out of this list of once engaged celebrity couples. At the premiere of ‘Great Balls of Fire!’ In 1989, Depp saw Ryder who was then 17 years old and for him it was love at first sight. They were then properly introduced by a mutual friend and it was after that that they started dating. He described the feeling of meeting her as the greatest feeling he had experienced in his 27 years. A year later, Depp proposed to her and even a “Winona Forever” tattoo on her arm.
Unfortunately, the relationship did not last long, it ended after 3 years. Winona is in a relationship with Scot Mackinsley while Depp has just been divorced from Amber Heard.
8. Charlize Theron and Sean Penn
Charlize had been living with her longtime boyfriend, Stuart Townsend, for over 9 years. Sean Penn was married to Madonna between 1985 and 1989 and to Robin Wright between 1996 and 2010.
The two met in mid-2013 and started dating towards the end of the year. They announced their engagement in December 2014, but in June 2015 Theron called off the engagement. She told the media that she cut her off because they weren’t who they were.
9. Iggy Azalea and Nick Young
In November 2013, Nick Young, a basketball player with the Los Angeles Lakers tweeted Iggy Azalea as his #WCW, which is social media lingo for #WomanCrushWednesday. The internet was excited about the prospect of becoming a couple.
A few weeks later they were seen together and for months there was speculation that they were dating. Later in April 2014, the couple confirmed that they were indeed a couple and that their relationship had lasted for over 8 months.
On June 1, Nick proposed to Iggy to appear in front of his family and friends, which coincided with his thirtieth birthday. The ring he offered was made especially for her.
Plans were starting in earnest for a wedding but Iggy had to go on tour and so the wedding was postponed. However, around March 2016, a video of Nick revealed that he believed he was cheating on Iggy with another woman who would turn out to be Keonna Green with whom Young had previously had a child. At first, Iggy did not break off the relationship, but the wedding plans were put on hold. In June 2016, a year after Young proposed, the rapper broke off the engagement.
10. Wladimir Klitschko and Hayden Panettiere
American actress Hayden Panettiere began to show in Klitscho fights since 2009. Soon after, she began to approach the ring during fights with the Ukrainian boxer and it was assumed that they were having an affair. They separated in 2011, then in 2013 they confirmed that they were reunited.
Klitschko proposed to Hayden in October 2013 and in December of the same year they traveled to Ukraine together where they spoke at the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. The boxer spent $500,000 to get an engagement ring for Hayden that same year. In December 2014, they welcomed a child together.
In August 2018, the couple had separated for the second time, but both claimed to be on good terms for the love of their daughter.
11. Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna
Although Rob isn’t the most popular Kardashian, his name carries weight with the reality TV family. He even got a little more popular by dating Blac Chyna. The whole relationship turned into real drama when Rob proposed to Blac Chyna three months into their relationship.
The relationship had so many whirlwind moments as many members of the Kardashian clan were against the relationship. They had an on-and-off relationship until they had a child together called Renee. They resumed their relationship on and off until Rob posted graphic images of Blac Chyna online in February 2018. By then everyone knew there was no going back and that the marriage was annulled.
Since the split, Rob has been shunned by the media and relatively low-key, while Blac Chyna has quit and broken up with 18-year-old rapper and Solja boy Almighty Jay.