Love act ually
CELEBS WHO FELL AT WORK
★ THIS Christmas party season, it is predicted that flings between work colleagues are set to soar to an all-time high.
As we reported yesterday, a third of women and 42% of men are desperate to get it on with a workmate, according to the survey by Illicit Encounters.
★ And romance has also blossomed between celebrities who’ve met through their jobs – with varying degrees of success.
Here KIM CARR looks at what happened to 10 famous couples who met at work.
Hollywood royalty Elizabeth
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Taylor and Richard Burton caused a scandal when they fell in love on the set of 1963’s Cleopatra as she was already married. Their turbulent relationship saw them wed and divorce twice but eventually they ended up friends – albeit with strong feelings for each other.
2 Life eventually imitated art
for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who played a married couple in 2005’s Mr and Mrs Smith – once he split from Jennifer Aniston. They are now divorced too and have three biological and three adopted children.
As a teenage girl who fell in
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love with a vampire, Kristen Stewart’s real-life romance with Robert Pattinson was as thrilling as their Twilight story. Then Kristen cheated with married director Rupert Sanders. Despite her public apology she got dumped, started dating women and is now engaged to screenwriter Dylan Meyer. Rob is dating model Suki Waterhouse.
Rapper Jay-z
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was hired to give Beyoncé Knowles street cred, featuring on her first solo single after
Destiny’s Child split, but they ended up Crazy In Love. The relationship was rocked when Bey’s Lemonade album hinted at infidelity but they weathered the storm and have three kids. Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz
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were in other relationships when they met on the set of Dream House but by the time the film was released in 2011 they had married. They have one child together. Holly Willoughby
6 could have her pick of fellas but it was producer Dan Baldwin
who stole her heart when they worked together on kids’ show Ministry Of Mayhem in 2004. They kept the relationship secret for months but have now been wed for 14 years and have three kids.
Mila Kunas and Ashton
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Kutcher met on the set of That 70s Show when she was 14 and he was 19. They had other relationships with the likes of Demi Moore and Macaulay Culkin before reuniting, marrying in 2015 and having two kids.
Jon Snow and Ygritte paired up
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in Game Of Thrones – but then actors Kit Harington and Rose Leslie got together for real. They wed in 2018 and now have a son together.
They now co-host The Hit List
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together but it was as a teen presenting on CBBC’S Smile that Rochelle Wiseman first met future hubby Marvin Humes. Then, while her band The Saturdays were at a showbiz party and he was with JLS, Marv called himself from her phone then they began texting before marrying in 2012. They have three kids.
Serenading Camila Cabello on
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their duet Señorita helped Shawn Mendes bag a lockdown lover when the pair fell for each other. After surviving shacking up together so soon after meeting, fans were stunned this week when they split, although they vowed to remain “best friends”.