Hookin’ up with coworkers isn’t a bad idea — if it lasts. While we’re waiting for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to confirm their status, celebrate these 20 couples that met at work — over half of ‘em are still together!
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True Blood
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer
Gratifying our vampire bloodlust onscreen in ways Edward and Bella never dreamed of, Anna and Stephen see to each other’s real-life needs as well. The couple is going strong — they’re the handsy type even in public — after first getting together on the steamy True Blood set a year and half ago.
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High School Musical
Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron
The cutest, cleanest, glossiest Disney teen dream power couple since Justin hearted Britney, High School Musical’s Zac and Vanessa rule as king and queen of the tween empire. We imagine their thrones are located somewhere inside the Beverly Center.
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The Notebook
Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling
In The Notebook, Rachel and Ryan made hysterical, soggy-Kleenex-clutching fans believe in the beauty of ‘Til Death Do Us Part. The couple’s real-life stormy relationship, (engagement, breakup, rumored reunion, then … not), makes us believe that screenworthy epic love might actually exist. For a little while at least.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Freida Pinto and Dev Patel
With no lack of whimsy, Slumdog Millionaire reminded us that fairytales can come true, and Dev and Freida’s real-life romance puts an exclamation point on this possibility of happily ever after. Normal/sweet guy Patel’s onscreen luck crosses over to reality, too; his gal Freida is beautiful on an insane level.
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Flatliners
Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland
Julia’s eclectic romantic history includes Liam Neeson, Ethan Hawke, country-crooner Lyle Lovett and her current cameraman husband Danny Moder. Sutherland may be a famous hothead, but it was Julia that ended their year-long relationship, which had bloomed on the set of Flatliners, by running off with Sutherland’s best friend Jason Patric days before the couple was to wed. Runaway bride, indeed.
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Gossip Girl
Blake Lively and Penn Badgley
Oh, to be young, hot and famous — and the subject of a gossip blog. For (on and off again) onscreen and off-screen couple, Blake and Penn, such charmed circumstances are the realities of life on and off the Gossip Girl set. What’s also a reality: The hot girl falling for the awkward guy.
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Dick Tracy
Madonna and Warren Beatty
Warren is a 1000-watt movie star and legendary ladies’ man who has bedded the likes of Cher, Diane Keaton and Brigitte Bardot. She’s Madonna. It’d be news if they hadn’t hooked up on the Dick Tracy set.
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Jumper and New York, I Love You
Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen
Rachel was kinda cute on The O.C., while Hayden managed to retain a bit of credibility after slogging through the dreadful Star Wars prequels. Together, they made the sorta-OK Jumper. Now they’re engaged. We’d celebrate, but everything they do fills us with apathy.
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Something’s Gotta Give
Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves
Diane and Keanu had a brief fling after playing onscreen lovers in 2003’s Something’s Gotta Give. When Keanu discovered Diane to be 18 years his senior, the actor — in classic Keanu form — reportedly told friends he was all like, “Whoa, dude, no way! She’s old enough to be my mother.” Yeah, dude, it’s true. Like, totally.
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Rendition
Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal
Get cuter, guys. Get better-looking and more talented. Seriously. We dare you. Bet you can’t. Bet Jake will still look like the world’s most adorable stepdad to Ryan Phillippe’s kids.
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Dexter
Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall
Michael and Jennifer eloped in Big Sur on New Year’s Eve after a secret year and a half romance, and suddenly, watching them play brother and sister on TV gave Dexter an even creepier twist. As if the show needed it.
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Gigli
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
This classic celebrity hookup incited both billions of camera flashes and the inception of the celebrity couple name mashup phenomenon. Bennifer’s ultra-hyped romance got serious — and seriously ridiculous (there were plans for several stand-in brides to trick the paparazzi on their wedding day). It was then crushed under the immense disaster that was Gigli.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Forget Brangelina and the fleet of babies. Forget the immaculately coordinated outfits and Brad’s at-home pictures of Angelina breastfeeding the twins. Before the perpetual coverage of the untouchable jetsetters/humanitarians/movie stars, there was the most scandalous on-set hookup of our time. The magnitude of the hookup still resonates; four years, thousands of headlines and one tumultuous relationship with John Mayer later, the camera still cuts to Angelina when Jen is onstage at the Academy Awards.
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The Break-up
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston
Jen needed a big-time relationship comeback after getting her skinny ass dumped in front of the entire world by Brad Pitt. Her Break-up costar Vince was the perfect rebound. Not only was he conveniently around all the time during filming, Vince’s regular-dude persona and mass appeal provided Jen with a comfortably ideal post-Pitt romance — until Vince cheated on her with that college student in Europe.
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Entourage
Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Jerry Ferrara
It makes sense that Jerry and Jamie-Lynn hooked up after she did three episodes of Entourage in 2008: They both share onscreen East coast pride (she’s Jersey girl Meadow Soprano, and he’s Queens-bred Turtle) in addition to their real-life love for New Yawk — she hails from Long Island and he from Brooklyn.
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Cold Mountain
Renee Zellweger and Jack White
Jack is one of the most influential musicians of our time; Renee carried a fine tune as Roxie in Chicago. The duo made sweet music together after hooking up on the set of Cold Mountain. They broke up a year and half later, but listening to The White Stripes’ Get Behind Me Satan is more fun if you pretend it’s all about her.
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Paper Heart
Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera
We can say endearing. And then we can say it again. But we can’t say it enough. These two charming young stars of comedy hooked up on the set of their forthcoming film Paper Heart. We hope they never part.
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Days of Thunder
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise
Cruise was taken by Kidman when he saw her in the 1989 film Dead Calm and arranged a role for her in his racing flick Days of Thunder. The power couple was married for nearly 10 years before divorcing in 2001. Kidman later revealed she was twice pregnant by Cruise — first when she was 23 and once more after they’d already separated — but she miscarried both times. Each have had children with their new and current spouses, but only Tom has gone crazy.
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Gossip Girl
Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick
Neither Ed or Jessica’s Gossip Girl characters are the most popular or attractive of the upper-crust New York crowd they run with, and neither Ed nor Jessica are the most popular or attractive of the GG cast members in real life. This, by high-society standards, makes them perfect for each other.
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Titanic
Suzy Amis and James Cameron
While millions of emotionally messy teenage girls longed for a real-life Jack and Rose hookup, the Titanic director was romancing cast member Suzy below deck — and he was still married to Terminator 2 star Linda Hamilton! Eleven years and $1,835,300,000 later, Cameron and Amis are still solid. Their hearts, it seems, will go on and on.