Sometimes a random Twitter troll slams a famous relationship. And sometimes,
somebody in a celeb's inner circle tries talking them out of their latest love affair.
What a tangled web! Here are some celebs who were warned about their
significant others… but ignored the haters and followed their hearts.
Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik have dated off and on since 2015.
"We never actually went on a first date until each other so that was
new for us but it worked out nicely."
As of the making of this video in August 2020, the couple is expecting their first
child together, so hopefully their latest reconciliation will also be their last.
Of course, most people know having a kid isn't the way to solve your relationship woes. And if
reports can be believed, the Hadid family isn't exactly sold on Zayn as a son-in-law. According
to one tabloid, Hadid's family is urging her not to rush too quickly into marriage with Malik.
A shadowy source who's supposedly close to Hadid told Life & Style:
"It's all so sudden - especially given Gigi and Zayn's volatile history.
Her mom, Yolanda, is urging Gigi not to jump into anything
and to wait until after the baby is born. She's wary of Zayn, and who can blame her?
She witnessed first-hand the heartache and tears he caused her daughter in the past."
Right now, it's unclear whether the model will heed her family's advice.
According to the same shadowy source:
"Gigi has told her loved ones that she couldn't be happier about the pregnancy.
She says her relationship with Zayn is stronger than it's ever been."
In June 2020, Zayn seemed to hint that he was planning to pop the question.
His friend George the Jeweler shared a photo in a since-deleted Instagram Story,
which revealed a new tattoo on the singer's left forearm.
It prominently featured several lines of poetry about marriage. So… make of that what you will.
Hailey Baldwin and Justin Bieber surprised a lot
of people when they tied the knot on September 13th, 2018.
"Relationships at this age are already
complicated, but I don't like to really talk about it because it's between me and him."
And some members of the Baldwin family were reportedly quite surprised.
Hailey's famous uncle Alec Baldwin weighed in on the engagement just days before the
couple's courthouse wedding. He told the Canadian outlet etalk,
"People who get married young,
and they are very young, I want them to just spend time with each other."
Baldwin then went to great lengths to explain exactly why he felt quality time was important,
particularly when you're in the public eye. As he puts it:
"Obviously, [Justin Bieber] in particular has this crazy superstar career. When you're married...
Like right now, I'm quite a bit older than both of them but I got married recently a few years ago.
And my wife and I had four kids in four and a half years. We have a lot of little kids.
The thing is, all the work I do now is based on my family."
Baldwin goes on to explain that he's often offered projects that would require him to
leave town for several weeks at a time… and why he always turns those projects down. As he puts it:
"[It's] because I don't want to be away from my family. And I hope that they realize that!
If you want to have a successful marriage, you have to be together. You gotta stay together."
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' whirlwind romance began in May 2017, after a few months of
long-distance flirting. In a 2018 Vogue interview, Chopra revealed that Jonas is the one who made the
first move. He reportedly reached out to her Quantico co-star Graham Rogers and expressed
an interest in her. Then, on September 8th, 2016, Jonas slid into her Twitter DMs, writing,
"I'm hearing from a few mutual friends that we should meet."
Chopra reportedly replied:
"My team can read this. Why don't you just text me."
Then she gave Jonas her digits. The rest, as they say, is history. But here's an interesting
wrinkle in their relationship: Chopra's crew was reportedly rather wary of Jonas…
at least if a certain Hollywood Life source can be believed. The source claims that
"[Chopra's] friends are all warning her that he is a total player, and not to get too close cause he
will break her heart. So she is keeping everything light and easy and trying not to get too attached
to him, but she thinks he is really sexy, talented and their chemistry in the bedroom is undeniable."
Well, things clearly didn't stay "light and easy" for long:
Chopra and Jonas opted for a lifetime commitment in December 2018,
tying the knot in two lavish ceremonies that celebrated both their Hindu and Christian faiths.
"I always wanted to add his name to mine because I feel like… you know,
we're becoming family and I'm a little traditional and old school like that."
Two questions: Are you familiar with the work of Ana de Armas, the breakout star of Knives Out?
Also... did you know that she happens to be dating actor Ben Affleck? It's true: The pair reportedly
met in late 2019 on the set of the erotic thriller Deep Water, and they apparently hit it off
instantly. In March, they were allegedly spotted making out in the airport before
boarding a private jet together and heading off to Havana, Cuba. At the time, a source told People
"They are definitely dating."
Apparently there are a few people out there who aren't too thrilled about this particular
relationship. In April 2020, de Armas shared a series of pics on Instagram in which she's
celebrating her 32nd birthday alongside Affleck. Because this is social media we're talking about,
commenters were grotesque and pointlessly unkind. One such commenter even warned,
"Stay away from Affleck!"
Another proclaimed,
"This is bulls---."
As of the making of this video, de Armas has decided to take these comments in stride…
and that's probably wise. What the hell does the Internet know? Nothing!
Not everyone was happy when Kim Kardashian
and Kanye West started dating… and some folks in West's camp were apparently quite
displeased about the development. In her E! True Hollywood Story, Kardashian revealed,
"Everyone would tell him, 'You can't be with her, she's a reality star.
She's going to sink your career!' And he was just like, 'But I love her. Like, I don't care.'"
In 2019, West revealed some intimate details to James Corden during a Carpool Karaoke segment,
which was renamed Airpool Karaoke since the bit took place
on an airplane. At one point, West told Corden,
"People thought it would be uncool to be married, and then I got married and people were like,
'Oh, that looks cool [...] [Married life is] more than cool,
more than cool as hell or something - it's heavenly, it's great, it's magnificent."
But what does he think about all those critics… the ones who thought marrying
a reality star would taint his image? He told Corden that he doesn't care.
"I don't like going out at nighttime. I like being at home with my family
at night as much as possible."
He goes on to say:
"We'll eat dinner and we'll play with the kids and we'll put the kids to
bed and then we'll go to bed and my wife watches Dateline [...] I read The Bible."
Joining the royal family isn't easy... and Meghan Markle learned that the hard
way after she married Prince Harry. By most accounts their marriage is
amazing… but royal relationships all have to wrestle with the press and paparazzi,
and the British media is notoriously rough on people who marry into the royal family. During
her candid interview for the October 2019 ITV documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey,
Meghan admitted that her British friends had warned her against her royal romance. She said,
"In all fairness I had no idea, which probably sounds difficult to understand here.
But when I first met my now-husband, my friends were really happy because I was
so happy but my British friends said to me, 'I'm sure he's great,
but you shouldn't do it, because the British tabloids will destroy your life."
"And I very naively - I'm American. We don't have that
there. ''What are you talking about? That doesn't make any sense. I'm not in tabloids.'"
She goes on to say:
"I didn't get it. So it's been, yeah, it's been complicated."
Of course, just months after the documentary aired,
Harry and Meghan shocked the world with their so-called "Megxit," in which they announced,
"[We will] step back from Royal duties
and not undertake representative duties on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen."
Harry has been very open about the decision,
claiming it was a necessary move to safeguard his young family.
After divorcing Caitlyn Jenner in 2014, Kris Jenner began dating Corey Gamble,
a road manager for SB Projects, Scooter Braun's entertainment and marketing company.
At the time, much ado was made of the fact that he was 25 years her junior.
Gamble's ex Sheree Buchanan spoke out against the coupling, openly warning
Jenner against settling down with Gamble in a 2015 interview with Life & Style. As she put it,
"She should be careful and sleep with one eye open. My advice to Kris is don't marry Corey. He
looks for these broken women and he's great at knowing what to say to build your confidence."
Well… that's a pretty dire warning,
isn't it? And Buchanan had more sinister advice to share. She told Life & Style that,
"Corey's temper is another thing Kris needs to watch out for.
He can fly off the handle over anything if he doesn't get his way."
And when they broke up? Apparently things got even darker. Buchanan claims that:
“He showed up at my house. I had changed my locks but somehow he got a key! [...] Kris has a lot
of power and money, and he wants to be a part of that. Get a prenup first! But given the position
that Kris is in, she could have been Betty White and Corey would still have [hit on] her."
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry? They aren't the only prominent members of the royal family to face
scrutiny and skepticism before and after tying the knot. According to royal biographer A. N. Wilson,
Queen Elizabeth was instantly smitten with Prince Philip, but she was warned more than
once not to marry him! The reason? Apparently, it was felt that Philip's dry sense of humor
wasn't a good match for Queen Elizabeth. According to The Telegraph, Wilson says that,
"When [Elizabeth] made it quite clear from the age of about 14 that she was
in love with Prince Philip, who was a beautiful German Prince with blond hair,
all the courtiers said he was entirely the wrong person to choose. They said
it for lots of reasons, but the fact is he was wrong. The Queen is a very reserved,
diligent person. He isn't. He was a naval officer and he was also quite funny."
Elizabeth and Philip reportedly faced quite a bit of resistance from Elizabeth's parents,
who evidently didn't approve of their relationship one bit. Lady Pamela Hicks,
the Queen's third cousin, told Vanity Fair:
"The King and Queen were appalled. The thought that he might become a
son-in-law was most unwelcome. Why wasn't she marrying some respectable English duke?
Yes, he was a Prince of Greece and Denmark. But very suspect,
Greece - they get rid of their royal families regularly. And he had no money."
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott's relationship moved at lightning speed. They were first
romantically linked in April 2017 after meeting at Coachella. In a 2018 interview with GQ,
Jenner opened up about the origins of their relationship, saying that,
"Coachella was one of the stops on his tour.
So he said, 'I'm going back on tour - what do we want to do about this?'
Because we obviously liked each other, and I was like, 'I guess I'm going with you.'"
The young couple quickly conceived their daughter, Stormi Webster. She was born in February 2018,
just ten months after their music festival meet-cute. When news broke that Jenner and
Scott were expecting, notoriously outspoken talk show host Wendy Williams offered an on-air
warning to the young reality star… a warning that basically boiled down to: Don't count on Scott!
"At 20-years-old, being pregnant, and I don't care how much money you have, it's got to be hard."
Williams went on to say,
"The next reality show might be in the working right now. I got a name for you,
Kylie Goes It Alone. Travis Scott is not sticking around."
Williams seems to have called it on this one. Jenner and Scott split up in October 2019,
but according to People,
"[They] have continued to spend time together and co-parent daughter Stormi."
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