12 Celeb Couples Who Worked Together After Breaking Up

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Outer Banks' Chase Stokes & Madelyn Cline connected Filming Post-Breakup

Once a Pogue, ever a Pogue—even aft a break-up.

That's the mindset Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline had erstwhile they filmed the 3rd play of their deed Netflix bid Outer Banks aft ending their two-year relationship. While E! the mates called it quits successful November 2021 and they've some moved connected romantically—Stokes recently confirmed he's dating state singer Kelsey Ballerini, portion Cline said she's "happily taken" aft being linked to instrumentalist Jackson Guthy—that didn't forestall them from inactive bringing the spark with their on-screen counterparts, John B. and Sarah.

Of course, Stokes and Cline are acold from the archetypal TV co-stars to proceed moving unneurotic aft ending their real-life romances. Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson famously got fictionally joined connected The O.C. aft devastating fans with their split, portion Penn Badgley recently opened up astir however his narration with Blake Lively "saved" him during their clip connected Gossip Girl

Prepare for a stroll down representation lane arsenic we look backmost connected each of the TV co-stars who kept it profesh aft splitting IRL: 

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Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline, Outer Banks

Despite their real-life breakup successful November 2021, the Netflix stars are inactive Pogues for life. 

Though Cline admitted that determination were "some aspects" of playing Sarah—who is inactive precise overmuch dating Chase's John B connected the show—that were antithetic aft their split, the histrion told People that "at the extremity of the day, there's ever been a harmless abstraction with the job."

"We've said from time one, our occupation is ever to permission the amusement and the play amended than erstwhile we near it last," Cline explained. "And everybody is inactive precise overmuch a family. Outer Banks has ever been a family. And I'm conscionable blessed that we are capable to stay professional."

As for Stokes, he revealed to Entertainment Weekly that helium and Cline "made a committedness to each different earlier we adjacent started dating that the enactment was ever going to travel first. No substance what happens successful our idiosyncratic lives, and the ways that beingness sometimes takes you successful antithetic directions, that we're ever going to grant the work."

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Penn Badgley and Blake Lively, Gossip Girl

Spotted: Lonely Boy and S dating IRL for the archetypal 3 years of the CW deed series' tally earlier Badley and Lively called it quits successful 2010.

"Beyond our relationship," Badgley recently told Variety, "I don't deliberation anybody was going to beryllium funny successful maine publicly." The You prima opened up astir how life successful the spotlight wasn't ever arsenic glamorous arsenic it seemed, describing his six-year tally connected GG arsenic being some "fun and fast-paced" arsenic good arsenic having a "dark undercurrent that would bottommost retired successful my aboriginal 20s."

While helium noted that the feeling wasn't related to immoderate substance use, helium credited Lively with being a affirmative power connected him. "To beryllium honest, I ne'er struggled with substance," Badgley explained. "Blake didn't drink, and I deliberation our narration successful immoderate ways saved maine from forcing myself to spell down that road."

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Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson, The O.C.</>

Brody and Bilson's longtime romance was arguably much beloved than their onscreen counterparts' Seth Cohen and Summer Roberts series-spanning relationship. So fans were devastated erstwhile they called it quits successful 2006 up of the Fox drama's 4th and last season. 

But determination is nary atrocious humor betwixt the erstwhile co-stars, who nearly broke the Internet successful 2019 erstwhile they documented their unexpected reunion astatine the airdrome connected societal media. "Ran into my ol buddy from JFK to LAX," she shared connected Instagram, on with an adorable selfie with Brody, who joined Gossip Girl prima Leighton Meester successful 2014. "#CaliforniaHereWeCome."

Two years later, Rachel told Dax Shepard connected the Armchair Expert podcast that she and Brody "still get on truly well" aft each these years.

"I had truthful much, and inactive do, emotion and respect for Adam," she explained. "We went done truthful overmuch together, being truthful young and everything with the show. And I'm truthful blessed for him with his household and his beauteous woman and kids and everything."

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Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart, Riverdale

Reports of a real-life romance betwixt Jughead and Betty Cooper archetypal dispersed successful July 2017, though the couple make their archetypal reddish carpet quality unneurotic until the 2018 Met Gala. After 3 years of dating, the CW stars called it quits, with Sprouse confirming their "permanent" separation successful a uncommon nationalist connection astir their relationship.

"What an unthinkable acquisition I had, I'll ever consciousness fortunate and cherish that I had the accidental to autumn successful love," Sprouse wrote connected Instagram successful August 2020. "I privation her thing but the utmost emotion and happiness moving forward. All I'll accidental astir it, thing other you perceive doesn't matter."

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Charles Melton and Camila Mendes, Riverdale

There indispensable beryllium thing successful the milkshakes astatine Pop's due to the fact that Sprouse and Reinhart weren't the lone co-stars to day successful real-life. Mendes and Melton, who play Veronica and Reggie connected the teen drama, dated on-and-off for 3 years earlier yet breaking up successful 2021.

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Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev, The Vampire Diaries

While their characters Damon and Elena ended up surviving happily ever aft connected The CW's deed vampire drama, Dobrev and Somerhalder divided successful 2013 aft dating for 3 years. Despite Dobrev's aboriginal exit from the bid aft play six, the erstwhile mates remained friends and joked astir their on-and-off surface romance portion accepting the grant for Best Chemistry astatine the People's Choice Awards backmost successful 2014—and adjacent ended their acceptance with a affable smooch connected the cheek.

"I've said this before, that we didn't interruption up due to the fact that thing atrocious happened oregon due to the fact that determination wasn't emotion oregon friendship," Nina told E! News in 2015. "I emotion him and the relationship is inactive beardown and I deliberation he's large and I attraction astir him. And that didn't change. Yes, we're nonrecreational and that's fine. We were friends agelong earlier we dated and we inactive are now."

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BJ Novak and Minday Kaling, The Office

The Office co-stars and writers are redefining what it means to beryllium affable exes successful Hollywood, continuing to beryllium BFFs contempt their romance successful the mid-aughts during the iconic NBC sitcom's run. In fact, Novak is the godfather to some of Kaling's kids and the brace often be events together.

And erstwhile Novak paid tribute to Kaling astatine the 2023 Producers Guild Awards, wherever she received the Norman Lear Lifetime Achievement Award, helium reflected connected their "tumultuous, romantic, toxic, boundaryless mess" relationship.

"We were successful emotion with each other, and we were reckless idiots," Novak noted. "And the 2 of america would reason astir each of these things forever—grinding the writers' country to a halt until we got excessively upset and we'd spell to our respective offices and slam the door, wherever we'd proceed arguing implicit AOL Instant Messenger. It was 2005." He went connected to say, "She cares truthful overmuch astir everything and I attraction truthful overmuch astir her."

In her acceptance speech, Kaling gushed, "I'm truthful fortunate that my favourite writer is besides my champion friend. I emotion you."

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Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes, Dawson’s Creek

Before their iconic characters Pacey and Joey got unneurotic on-screen, the Dawson's Creek co-stars day for from 1998 to 1999. "I'm conscionable going to accidental that I met idiosyncratic past year," Holmes coyly told Rolling Stone in 1998. "I fell successful love, I had my archetypal love, and it was thing truthful unthinkable and indescribable that I volition treasure it always."

When asked if she was referring to Jackson, the mag reported the then-19-year-old buried her look successful her hands earlier saying, "I consciousness truthful fortunate due to the fact that he's present 1 of my champion friends. It's weird. It's astir similar a Dawson-and-Joey benignant happening now. He's been successful the concern truthful long, and he's truly helped me. I respect him arsenic a person and arsenic a professional."

Remaining existent to her word, the brace continued their friendship long after the iconic WB series came to an extremity successful 2003.

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Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang co-star's narration aboriginal successful the CBS sitcom's 12-season tally was a large concealed connected set, with conscionable a fewer colleagues knowing astir their two-year romance astatine the time. 

"All the scenes up until we really got unneurotic successful existent life, it was evident determination was ever thing there," Cuoco recalled of their romance, arsenic quoted in Jessicas Radloff's oral past of the show. "There was chemistry, and we were crushing connected each other. That was the full archetypal play until we really got unneurotic for real."

At Comic-Con, they'd unreal to accidental goodnight successful the edifice lobby with a affable hug, and then, Cuoco said, "we were similar small mice successful the night, moving backmost and distant to each other's rooms, trying not to beryllium noticed. I mean, who did we deliberation we were?"

Even though their real-life romance yet burned out, Penny and Leonard's chemistry wasn't affected successful the slightest, acknowledgment to Cuoco and Galecki's enduring affection for 1 another

"Johnny is really 1 of my champion friends," Cuoco said on Watch What Happens Live in 2015. "It's a concern that ended well. I recognize sometimes it doesn't. It could person gone horrible."

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Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray, One Tree Hill

Tying the knot successful 2005, Bush and Murray separated aft conscionable 5 months of marriage, though their characters continued to person a romanticist narration connected the CW drama. 

"There was nary abstraction to self-reflect," Bush said successful a 2018 occurrence of Armchair Expert, telling Dax Shepard that the show's producers were "really profoundly inappropriate" to some her and Murray aft their breakup.

"They ran, like, TV ads astir it, it was truly ugly," she explained. "They made signifier of taking vantage of people's idiosyncratic lives, and not conscionable for maine and for my ex, for different actors connected the amusement who would stock arsenic you bash erstwhile you get adjacent to people. Deeply idiosyncratic things that were happening successful their lives and they would upwind up successful storylines. It wasn't OK."

"It was opportunistic and ugly," Bush continued. "When you tally a show, you're similar a parent, you're expected to support your flock, and it was the other of that. And I ideate that was hard for him arsenic well, you know? It was a precise disfigured concern connected their part. I deliberation they benignant of lived for the drama."

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Sophia Bush and Jesse Lee Soffer, Chicago PD

Though the NBC procedural brace kept their narration connected the down debased for the archetypal fewer months of their relationship, connection yet got retired that they were romanticist successful 2014.

 "They've been secretly dating for implicit 3 months, but lone their adjacent friends knew," a root told E! News astatine the time. "Jesse is super-sweet and they are truly cute together."

Bush and Soffer broke up the pursuing year, with the One Tree Hill vet yet leaving Chicago PD successful 2017 aft 4 seasons. 

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Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere, Heroes

While they played uncle and niece connected NBC's superhero drama, the co-stars softly dated for a twelvemonth earlier breaking up successful 2009.

Asked what helium learned from the experiene successful an interrogation with MR PORTER's mag The Journal, Milo said, "Never bash it again. There are things that hap to you successful your beingness that signifier who you are. Everything I've been done from jobs to friendships to partnerships, everything has built maine to who I am. You larn from it. You larn a amended mode of doing things. It wasn't until my mid to precocious twenties that the occupation wears connected you, relationships deterioration connected you."

However, the This Is Us prima added, "I wouldn't alteration a thing. When you get knocked implicit the caput successful life, it builds your perspective."

Panettiere wasn't the archetypal co-star Ventimiglia dated arsenic helium antecedently was successful a narration with Gilmore Girls' Alexis Bledel for 3 years.

"Bad idea," Ventimiglia told E! News successful October 2022 of dating co-stars. "Don't s--t wherever you eat."

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