We can’t get enough of famous besties!
Most of the time these BFF pairings are pretty obvious, but every now and again a celebrity
friendship seems so unlikely, it just can't be real.
(Or can it!!?!)
Ed Sheeran and Courteney Cox
Sheeran and Cox went public in 2013 when the singer posted, quote, "My friend Courteney
is nominated for a People's Choice Award...She's never won one before and she lets me live
in her beach house, so how's about we all vote for her and win her the damn thang eh?"
Sheeran lived in Cox's Malibu property, rent free, while he worked on his 2014 album Multiply.
He explained to Bizarre, "There was no rent but I made the bed and cups of tea and things
like that."
Looks like a real-life Friends on location in Malibu!
Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart
Snoop and Stewart have been buds since 2008 when the rapper appeared on Stewart's show
Martha.
Their inexplicable chemistry didn't go unnoticed by VH1, who then brought the two together
for Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party.
While the Doggystyle rapper might be an odd fit for the kitchen, special guests Whiz Khalifa,
Rick Ross, and Fat Joe make him seem right at home.
And speaking of the kids at Camp Snoop-y...
Snoop Dogg and David Beckham
When Becks was transferred to the LA Galaxy back in 2007, the Brit made one of his first
TV appearances on Snoop's now-canceled reality show Snoop Dogg's Father Hood.
Beckham was tapped to show Snoop's kids how to play soccer, and "D-Beck" (as Snoop calls
him) instantly became part of the family.
Snoop told the BBC, "Some people in life just come together for some odd reason.
Me and [Becks] came together on one night and we just became friends and we've just
been friends ever since."
BeckDogg, never change.
​50 Cent and Bette Midler
Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson still has plenty of friends in high places, they just aren't
the ones you might expect.
The rapper met Midler when she convinced him to sponsor a garden in Queens, as part of
her New York Restoration Project.
Midler told the NY Daily News, "He's really made my life worth living.
[50] has been with me through thick and thin."
As far as a musical collab, 50 is totally down, sayi ng, "Me and Bette would be really
hot.
For the right song, we'd definitely get together."
Go shorty, cuz, y’know…
“You are the wind beneath my wings.”
​Ron Howard and Jamie Foxx
Howard and Foxx got to know each other while celebrating Obama’s victory in 2009 when
Foxx convinced Howard to join him on set.
Howard told EW, "We were at the inauguration...Jamie came over and said, 'Hey, I'm shooting a video
in L.A., will you come by?'...So I showed up, and Jamie said, 'It's this party scene,
and you're going to drive up with Jake Gyllenhaal and Forest Whitaker and me.
The only thing is that you've got to wear your party face.'"
Howard shot his scenes and the rest is history.
Guess this is Howard’s “party face”!
“Blame it on the a-a-a-alcohol.”
​Russell Brand and Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren and fellow Essex-born actor Brand first met in Hawaii back in 2009 during
the filming of The Tempest.
Brand described the pairing to the Daily Mail, saying, "It's an unconsummated love affair.
An erotic, intellectual tangle of emotions between a Dame and a vagabond.”
Mirren admitted to US Weekly that they are, quote, "really close friends — I wear the
safety pin that he gave me around my neck all the time!"
OK, so now we’re a little bit jealous of Helen Mirren’s friendship pin.
​Clay Aiken and Tyra Banks
Idol runner-up Clay Aiken and model-host Banks have been BFFs for more than ten years now,
and even Aiken himself wasn’t sure exactly why.
He told People, "For some reason we just clicked when we first met, and we try to stay in touch
and see each other whenever we're in town.
She's such a real person, and...I think that's why we became friends."
Banks even set up a fundraising page for Aiken when he took a stab at politics, writing,
"Help my friend, Clay Aiken, as he tries to use his voice to improve the lives of many.”
Aiken was ultimately defeated, but we’re still Banks-ing on these BFF’s!
​Harry Styles and Zach Braff
Ten years after his directorial debut, Braff was back at it again with Wish I Was Here
— and the flick’s biggest fan was Harry Styles.
The One Direction star flew out to Sundance, as a guest of Braff, who later told Andy Cohen:
"No matter where I go now, people bring up Harry Styles.”
“He was cool enough to come to Sundance and see our movie, and then he tweeted out
that he cried during the movie… and then it went viral.”
“It was the best present we ever had."
​Eminem and Elton John
When Eminem performed with Elton John at the 2001 Grammy Awards, haters pegged it as a
stunt designed to take the heat off the rapper’s homophobic lyrics.
But Eminem later told MTV, "I didn't know [John] was gay…
But being that he was gay and he had my back, I think it made a statement in itself saying
that he understood where I was coming from."
John revealed to Rolling Stone, "I love him.
I don't see much of Marshall, but we speak a lot.
He's really worked very hard at [sobriety], and it's changed him so much…
When David and I had our civil partnership, he sent us a present... two diamond c*** rings.
So there's a homophobe for you."
But were they bestie c*** rings, or…?
​John Mayer and Andy Cohen
Watch What Happens Live host, and self-described “gold-star gay,” Andy Cohen, has chilled
at Mayer's Montana home and even has his own nickname for the singer songwriter—the Electric
Cowboy.
Cohen told Daily Dish, "I love him.
We're buddies and we bond over the Grateful Dead and he's just a great guy."
And this bromance is is a two-way street.
On Cohen’s show, Mayer said:
"When you walk in a gay club with Andy Cohen, he is the Beyonce of that whole...It is unbelievable."
Ok.
But who’s really the Beyonce of everything?
Half of this pair:
​Gwyneth Paltrow and Beyonce
G-Pal and Bey got close after getting drunk backstage at a Jay Z concert in 2006.
And Paltrow’s been tight with the couple ever since, attending their New York wedding,
and accompanying Beyonce to the 53rd Grammy Awards.
Paltrow told Daily Mail, "[Beyonce] is gorgeous, very feminine, very clever in that she knows
how to be powerful and yet demure."
Queen B dished back, telling Harper's Bazaar, “You go to [Gwyneth’s] house and she makes
you feel like you never want to go home.
She is what I strive to be one day."
Well, we’ve got some serious FOMO about that flawless GOOP-love!
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