It's hard to imagine certain celebs together, but A-listers, just like the rest of us, have
hidden romantic pasts.
Sometimes these relationships even pre-date their time in the limelight... meaning that
some stars dated one another long before either one of them became household names.
Neil Patrick Harris came out as gay in 2006, but it was a relationship he had years earlier
with a now-famous woman that made him realize he wasn't attracted to the ladies.
In an interview with radio shock jock Howard Stern, Harris revealed that dating actress
Christine Taylor, who married Ben Stiller in 2000 before they later divorced, made him
realize that he was into men.
He said:
E! News reports that Harris and Taylor dated back in 1997, after Harris became famous from
Doogie Howser, M.D., but before he became relevant as an adult actor.
But Taylor doesn't get all the credit for having helped Harris realize his sexuality:
In Harris' autobiography, the How I Met Your Mother star shared that a joking kiss from
Burt Reynolds also did the trick.
Yeah that'll do it!
January Jones dated Ashton Kutcher before hitting it big as Betty Draper on Mad Men,
and there were rumors for years that he was the subject of a remark she made in a 2009
GQ profile about an ex.
In the article, Jones griped that her first boyfriend since moving to Los Angeles, quote,
"was not supportive of my acting."
She said:
Years later, Jones appeared on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, where a caller
asked, quote, "January, have you ever talked to Ashton Kutcher since he said you couldn't
act, and what do you think about his acting skills?"
Jones replied:
"I don't know if that person had ever actually seen me act."
"Got it."
"But the person who wrote the interview did the math and thought it might be him."
Jones never confirmed that Kutcher was the jerk in question, but she did quip:
"But I haven't talked to him, but I'm super happy for him and his family, to be political
and all that."
"Okay.
Okay, good."
Could there possibly be a funnier couple than Conan O'Brien and Lisa Kudrow?
The Friends star revealed that she and Coco dated before they each hit it big in television.
She revealed to More magazine that she and O'Brien dated briefly but were better off
as, wait for it, friends.
"Oh, okay, I see what you did there."
They were such good pals, in fact, that she said she credits him with her sticking it
out in improv classes when she wasn't too thrilled with them.
She recalled:
But regarding improv, she added:
Eventually O'Brien convinced her to join the Los Angeles-based improv group the Groundlings,
and she, as we all know, later became a TV legend playing Friends' Phoebe Buffay.
And O'Brien might be just as indebted to Kudrow for getting his start in late night television,
which she confirmed to The Saturday Evening Post.
She told the publication, cheekily:
Actress Megan Fox began dating her now-husband, Beverly Hills, 90210 star and former teen
heartthrob Brian Austin Green, when she was 18 years old and he was 30, but before that,
she was in a much more age-appropriate relationship with a fellow young actor.
Long before Fox became a household name with the 2007 Transformers movie, she had a role
in the TV series Hope & Faith, starring Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa, and a small part in a
2001 direct-to-DVD Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen flick called Holiday in the Sun, among other
tiny gigs.
During this period of her career, Fox dated 7th Heaven actor David Gallagher, who played
Simon Camden on the '90s family-friendly series following a minister and his large family.
According to E! News, Gallagher and Fox were an item from 2003 to 2004, when she was 17
to his 18.
Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt, who starred together in 1993's Kalifornia, dated for a
few years.
She revealed to the Daily Mail:
The two are still friendly.
Pitt told Vanity Fair in 1995:
He added:
In 2010, Lewis told Fox News that she and Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston were pals,
and noted that she and Pitt would, quote, "run into each other" every so often, which
was, quote, "really nice."
Back when pop star Katy Perry was still a fledgling Christian singer in the early 2000s,
she dated Christian pop-punk artist Matt Thiessen, frontman of the band Relient K. Thiessen told
Songfacts:
He added that she became a star while he was working with Owl City, noting:
Perry was such a supportive girlfriend to Thiessen that video footage resurfaced a decade
later of her failing epically to stage-dive at a Relient K show.
The two even wrote the song "Long Shot" together, which was eventually recorded by Kelly Clarkson
for her All I Ever Wanted album.
Celebs Colin Hanks and Busy Philipps dated when they were classmates at Loyola Marymount
University in the 1990s, and they're still close friends today.
In fact, in 2017, Philipps was a guest co-host on Live With Kelly when Hanks was a guest
on the show and gushed about their prior relationship, saying:
"He was my college boyfriend, but we are very, very close friends now, his wife and I are
very tight, he and my husband hang out.
We go on vacation together."
The two met when Philipps was 18 and Hanks was 19.
After noting that they'd known each other for 20 years, Philipps shared:
"I do have moments where I think, 'How cool..."
"Yeah."
"... that we knew each other at this formative moment in our life?'"
Hanks added, quote, "We got our first televisions shows within the same week.
We got our first movies within the same week."
"Like we were able to go through all of these really special moments in young actors' lives
together."
Way before Chris Evans became Captain America, he was pretty much relegated to being 7th
Heaven star Jessica Biel's plus-one on red carpets.
The couple dated for roughly five years, from 2001 to 2006.
Neither of them has spoken too much publicly about their relationship, though what they
have said has been pretty damn sweet.
Biel once gushed to Cosmopolitan in 2005:
Evans, meanwhile, revealed to Esquire in 2017 that he and Biel once went skydiving for Valentine's
Day.
When they called it quits in 2006, reports circulated that Evans had been spotted with
brunette PR exec Joyce Sevilla.
Biel, on the other hand, moved on later that year with Derek Jeter, before getting together
with Justin Timberlake in January 2007.
She and Timberlake ended up marrying several years later.
Who knew Will Schuester got around?
Glee star Matthew Morrison briefly dated co-star Lea Michele during their Broadway days back
before they ever shared screen time in the musical dramedy series.
Michele revealed in her memoir, Brunette Ambition:
But Michele wasn't the only celeb Morrison dated before hitting it big.
In 2010, Kristen Bell shared that Morrison was an old college flame, telling Us Weekly:
Sounds like the Veronica Mars actress must have some great memories of that relationship,
huh?
When Melissa Joan Hart was first rising to fame on Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 1996,
she had then-unknown actor Ryan Reynolds smitten.
She revealed on Chelsea Lately that he tried to win her over with a Beluga watch, telling
host Chelsea Handler:
It was just a fling for Hart, though.
She told Australia's Studio 10:
"He was sweet, he was very sweet. I had a boyfriend at the time, but we were smitten and cute, and, you know…"
"Awwww."
She added, quote, "[Reynolds] probably would have been a great boyfriend, and I didn't
end up with the other guy, so maybe I should have taken a chance."
Before he had Robin's tights, Chris O'Donnell had Reese Witherspoon's digits.
He was around 22 years old when he dated the future Legally Blonde star, who was just a
teenager in 1992, as Rolling Stone reported.
According to E! News, the two were an item when Witherspoon first moved to Los Angeles,
but little else is known about their relationship.
O'Donnell and Witherspoon were reportedly together for a few months, but their romance
didn't last.
The following year, the future NCIS: Los Angeles star met a woman named Caroline Fentress,
a college pal's younger sister who would later become his wife.
O'Donnell married Fentress in 1997, as noted by People magazine, and, as of making this
video, the two have since welcomed five children.
Since dating O'Donnell, Witherspoon moved on to relationships with Ryan Phillippe and
later Jim Toth.
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