50+ Celebrity Couples You Totally Forgot Were Married

The Dawson's Creek alum has always tried to keep her relationships quiet, as evidenced by the secret wedding to indie musician Elverum in July 2008. Even their split was kept on the down low, with news spreading in April 2019 that they ended their marriage earlier in the year. Michelle has since married and welcomed her first child with director Thomas Kail. They worked together on FX's Fosse/Verdon.

Sometimes couples never make it out of the honeymoon phase. Murphy married film producer/record executive Tracey Edmonds in a New Year's Day ceremony in Bora Bora at the start of 2008. Things allegedly fell apart within days (before they even left the island) and they ended the marriage two weeks later. The comedian is now engaged to Australian model Paige Butcher.

Former SNL cast member Chris Kattan married model Sunshine Tutt in June 2008 after proposing on Christmas Eve 2006. The relationship ended eight weeks after the wedding, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the break-up.

The Kill Bill badass married Gary, who is 12 years her senior, back in 1990. They divorced two years later, and Gary is now on wife number five, Gisele Schmidt. Uma wed Ethan Hawke in 1998, but they split in 2005.

Helen, who you should never forget starred in Twister, wed the controversial Simpsons voice actor in 1999 after dating for five years. They split in 2000 following 17 months of marriage. “Getting over someone is a grieving process,” Hank told Elle in 2012. “You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that’s only expedited by ‘out of sight, out of mind.’ But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It’s a high-class problem, but it’s real.”

The action star said “I do” to the Oscar-winning actress back in 1995, following a strange courtship that supposedly included a proposal from Nicolas the same day they met. After five years, they announced their separation, and the divorce was finalized in 2001.

Angelina’s marriage to Brad Pitt is well-documented, but it’s often forgotten that her first husband was Jonny, who currently stars as Sherlock Holmes on the CBS procedural Elementary. After appearing in the 1995 movie Hackers together, they got hitched in 1996 with Angelina wearing black rubber pants and a white shirt with Jonny’s name written in her own blood on the back. “It’s your husband,” she explained to the New York Times that year. “You’re about to marry him. You can sacrifice a little to make it really special.” They divorced in 2000, but in May 2014, Angelina called him “still a great friend.”

Long before Jennifer and Ben Affleck’s #Nannygate drama, Jennifer was married to Scandal hunk Scott. They met on the set of Felicity and wed in October 2000, but by March 2003, they had separated. “We didn’t have a shot,” Jennifer later told Allure. “He’s a really good guy, and we just imploded.”

Mario was married to Ali “Doritos Girl” Landry for less than two weeks in 2004. They had the marriage annulled, and in 2011, Mario publicly copped to having cheated on her before the wedding. “At that point,” he told Howard Stern (via Us Weekly), “I was not ready to settle down. I wasn’t man enough to know how to go about handling it.”

Only three days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, Cher tied the knot with Gregg of The Allman Brothers Band. Nine days later, Cher filed for divorce from him, reportedly because of his issues with heroin and liquor, but they reconciled and stayed together until 1977.

Back in 1993, Julia and country singer Lyle had a surprise wedding, with Lyle’s manager telling the Washington Post at the time that “it happened rapidly, very rapidly.” “I feel liberated in a way,” Julia reportedly told Premiere magazine while married. “I feel like this really pleasant calm has descended upon my life.” The calm didn’t last—the couple split after 21 months together.

We’re all still mourning the demise of Will’s marriage to Amy Poehler, but the Parks & Rec star was actually his second wife. He and Adventures in Babysitting actress Penelope were married for less than a month after getting hitched in December 1994.

Before J. Lo got hot and heavy with A-Rod, she was married to Marc Anthony, and before that, dancer-choreographer Cris Judd. But first came Ojani, then a model/actor, whom Jennifer wed in 1997 and divorced in 1998. In 2016, Ojani appeared on Patti Stanger’s show, Million Dollar Matchmaker.