Rachel McAdams & Ryan Gosling
Can you blame us for still shipping these two when Gosling is out here calling their two-year romance "a hell of a lot more romantic" than the one that took place onscreen between their counterparts in The Notebook? But sometime after giving us the kiss we all wanted at the MTV Movie Awards, "we both went down swingin' and we called it a draw," Gosling told GQ. Thankfully, they've each gone on to their own romance movie-worthy happy endings.
Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
Technically, we haven't actually had to miss seeing these two together. Skilled at conscious uncoupling before it was part of our lexicon, the actors, their three daughters, his new bride Emma Heming and their two daughters are a group vacationing, joint quarantining, one big happy family type of crew. Or, as thrice-wed Moore put it during Willis' 2018 Comedy Central roast, "You've been a great friend, a great father and easily one of my top three husbands."
Heidi Klum & Seal
Two words: Vow renewals. Ultimately, no amount of saying "I do" could secure the supermodel's seven-year marriage to the "Kiss From a Rose" singer. But it sure was fun to watch while it lasted. And if Klum and guitarist husband Tom Kaulitz want to continue the tradition, we're here for it.
Elizabeth Hurley & Hugh Grant
We get why they split. (For those not in the know, Google "Hugh Grant scandal.") But we appreciate the fact that more than two decades after they cornered the market on rom-com-style romance, Hurley and Grant remain each other's most ardent fans. As the Love Actually actor put it on Watch What Happens Live, "She's my absolute best friend—number one person I call in a crisis.""
Rachel Bilson & Adam Brody
No choice but to stan a pair that understand their importance in pop culture history. ""IM SORRY!!!!" Bilson joked in an Instagram comment when InStyle featured her and her O.C. costar in their "Breakups That Broke Us" column. Though, as she noted, Seth Cohen did end up with Blair Waldorf (a.k.a. Leighton Meester) and you know you love me that. As Bilson put it, "He fared really well!"
Will Arnett & Amy Poehler
No joke: We're here for the Parks and Recreation alum's take on her romance with the BoJack Horseman star. "As you know, Will and I are very, very good friends," she told Howard Stern in a 2014 interview, referencing their partnership in raising sons Archie and Abel. "We are doing a really good job. I don't think a 10-year marriage constitutes a failure. I think relationships are really tough."
Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth
We'll always have "Malibu," Cyrus celebrating the track's fourth anniversary this past May by calling it "a song about a place and person that at the time I loved very much." As for the pop star, she'll hold tight to this lesson learned. Describing her relationship postmortem on the Call Your Daddy podcast—a process that involved making "a list of what you were gaining and what you were losing," and assigning everything a value—she shared, "If the person was adding more to your life, then you know what is expected for your next relationship and, what they were subtracting, you know what you will not accept ever again."
Fergie & Josh Duhamel
D-E-V-A-S-T-A-T-E-D. That's how we felt when the "Glamorous" singer and the Transformers alum announced their split back in 2017. But things are still, uh, flossy, flossy between the parents to 7-year-old Axl. "Fergie and I have a great relationship," Duhamel has said. "I love that girl and I always will. Unfortunately, we didn't work, but I will always have her back."
Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon
Okay, we're not necessarily saying these friendly exes belong together, we're just saying Cannon doesn't totally seem opposed to it. While The Masked Singer host's relationship status isn't totally clear, there's one thing he's certain about. "I know I'll never be married again... [I don't] want to have to answer to anybody," he revealed on T.I.'s ExpediTIously podcast in 2019. "If I was to do it again, it would be to her. It would be Mariah."
Leonardo DiCaprio & Gisele Bundchen
Perhaps this was just too much beauty for one romance? You know, ignoring the fact that the supermodel went on to wed Tom Brady not long after her six-year relationship with the actor came to an end in 2005 and DiCaprio's list of exes reads like a dream lineup for New York Fashion Week.
Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens
It's the rare teenage romance that makes it all the way to adulthood. And yet we're still sad that two years after the pair graduated from High School Musical, they outgrew their five-year relationship as well. Then, as Hudgens revealed on Access Hollywood, "I completely lost contact with him." Perhaps they'll reconnect at the 20-year reunion?
Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey
Their music was melodious, their connection deep. "With Nick, I was madly in love," Simpson confessed to Entertainment Tonight last year. "I mean, I loved everything about the guy and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him." And if it weren't for an ultimately disastrous three-season stint as MTV's Newlyweds...they probably would have split anyway. Now what's left of this pair largely amounts to some still pretty funny Chicken of the Sea jokes.
Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston
We get it: No matter how many innuendo-filled virtual readings they agree to or public embraces they engage in, everyone's favorite golden couple are now just friends who have long since moved on. But clearly we haven't.