Matthew McConaughey & Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson admitted that she had a brief fling with Matthew McConaughey after they met at the Grammys in 2002. He told a different story though: “I met her at the Grammys and found her to be a very very sweet lady. We swapped some good music and she’s a dear lady. She’s a sweetheart but we’re not dating, we’re just friends. That’s about all there is right now.”
Madonna & Vanilla Ice
Vanilla Ice dated Madonna for eight months in 1991. The rapper, or Robert Winkle as he is now known, even went as far as appearing in some saucy shots for the singer’s Sex book.
Helen Mirren & Liam Neeson
Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson lived together in the early 1980s after they starred and fell “in love” on the set of Excalibur in 1981. Who would have guessed it!
Julia Roberts & Daniel Day-Lewis
Julia Roberts and Daniel Day-Lewis were rumored to have been in a relationship in the early 1990s, at the height of the media interest in Julia’s relationship. She had just broken off her wedding to Kiefer Sutherland and fled to Ireland with his friend Jason Patric but they then split up too after he accused her of sleeping with Daniel Day Lewis. Friends say they just flirted but it’s rumored that Julia turned down Gwyneth Paltrow’s Oscar-winning role in Shakespeare In Love because Daniel Day-Lewis wasn’t interested in the part of Will Shakespeare so who knows!
Jennifer Aniston & Paul Rudd
After filming The Object Of My Affection, Paul Rudd became the object of Jennifer Aniston’s affections in 1998. If things ended badly there was no sign of it as they worked together again, on the set of Friends, when Rudd played Phoebe’s boyfriend Mike.
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