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Some of Hollywood’s sweetest romances began long before the first kiss, with years of friendship, shared projects, and serious chemistry building behind the scenes. Join us as we count down the celebrity pairs who turned close bonds into lasting love, from teen meet-cutes to music-world soulmates and power-couple fairytales. Which friendship-turned-romance had you rooting for the longest? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00The family matter and the truth for the matter, here was God's plan to show y'all the liar.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most famous pairs who
00:09discovered that their perfect match had been beside them all along.
00:18Number 20. Jordan Fisher and Ellie Woods.
00:22Birmingham quietly hosted a rom-com setup years before either half of this pair recognized it.
00:26They met when he was 13, became best friends, and never lost touch before deciding as adults
00:32to test their chemistry. The turning point came during his Hamilton run when he invited her to
00:36New York for dates. Within roughly two months, he believed she was the one. For his 2019 proposal,
00:43he spent two months planning a flower-filled surprise on a deck overlooking a pond at her
00:47family's beach home. Their original wedding plans were derailed by the pandemic, but a private
00:52after-hours ceremony at Walt Disney World followed in November 2020. With son Riley arriving in 2022,
00:59their slow-burn friendship became the foundation for a family.
01:05Number 19. AZ Fudd and Paige Beckers.
01:08Their first matchup came with a side of competitive disbelief.
01:12Pro of having a rival as a best friend is just having someone to talk to.
01:17It's really nice having Paige as my best friend. She knows how to motivate me and pick me up.
01:21The guards met at a 2017 USA Basketball Under-16 tryout, where Fudd initially underestimated
01:26Beckers before both made the team and quickly became close. Beckers later launched an adorably
01:31persistent recruiting campaign, even showing Fudd's family a highlight reel of her passes to demonstrate
01:36the open shots awaiting her at UConn. Their shared resume eventually included years as teammates
01:41and a 2025 NCAA championship, with Fudd named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
01:47After months of speculation, Fudd's Paige Beckers girlfriend phone case fueled romance rumors,
01:53and Beckers confirmed their relationship during an interview in July 2025.
01:57We complement each other perfectly. I'm not going to say perfect.
02:00I would say we don't complement each other perfectly, but we adjust to each other's
02:06compliments, if that makes sense.
02:07In 2026, the Dallas Wings reunited them as consecutive number one draft picks.
02:13Number 18. Billie Eilish and Nat Wolfe
02:16Their romance grew from a friendship strengthened by music, touring, and mutual understanding.
02:21I saw you two getting on the carpet, taking pics, you know. It's an exciting night.
02:26By October 2024, Eilish was calling Nat and his brother Alex among her best friends in the world.
02:32The trio bonded over Tourette's Syndrome and the ease of being themselves around one another.
02:36Nat co-starred in her Chihiro video while he and Alex opened select North American dates on her Hit
02:41Me Hard and Soft tour. By March 2025, their appearances together were generating dating chatter.
02:47But the clearest reveal arrived that June, when cameras captured the pair kissing on a Venice
02:51balcony. They made their red carpet debut at the May 2026 premiere of her concert film,
02:57a fitting milestone for this creative slow burn.
02:59I just feel so protective over them and so in love with them every single day.
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03:13Number 17. Noah Beck and Dixie D'Amelio
03:16Their will-they-won't-they dynamic quickly became a public storyline on social media.
03:21Uh, who is Noah Beck dating?
03:22The creators began posting together in July 2020, while both insisted they were only friends as viewers
03:28scrutinized every affectionate moment. She then cast him as her love interest in the Be Happy
03:34remix video because working with someone she knew felt less awkward, and their on-screen kiss
03:39intensified the chatter. Beck confirmed their romance in October, and they dated for two years,
03:44eventually taking their relationship offline to escape public scrutiny.
03:47Have you gotten over that relationship?
03:52Define gotten over.
03:53Although they split in November 2022, his representative said they remained close friends,
03:59bringing their story neatly back to its starting point.
04:01Number 16. Kendrick Lamar and Whitney Alford
04:04Long before the spotlight arrived, this bond was already taking shape in a Compton high school.
04:09Yeah.
04:11Mmm.
04:12The pair met as students at Centennial High School, began as friends, and eventually started dating.
04:18Lamar later described Alford as his best friend, and the person he could trust with his fears,
04:23making their 2015 engagement feel like a natural extension of that foundation.
04:28Their connection has also entered his music.
04:30She contributed vocals to To Pimp a Butterfly, and narration across several Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers tracks.
04:36They share two children, Uzi and Enoch, who joined them in the 2024 Not Like Us video.
04:42Fan here, fan here, fan.
04:43Mmm.
04:44Here, fan here, fan here.
04:45After years together, their journey from classmates to collaborators remains one of hip-hop's most quietly
04:51enduring love stories.
04:52Number 15. Leighton Meester and Adam Brody
04:55A Los Angeles deli, two teen dramas, and several years of mistimed encounters set this story in motion.
05:01The best thing about co-starring a film with my wife is carpooling.
05:06Brody first encountered Meester at Cantor's, where the OC and Gossip Girl producer Josh Schwartz
05:11introduced him to the latter show's cast.
05:13He later admitted he was instantly smitten.
05:16They kept crossing paths through mutual work friends and co-starred in The Oranges,
05:20but he was seeing someone else, so nothing romantic happened then.
05:23By early 2013, they were dating.
05:26An engagement followed that November, then a private wedding in February 2014.
05:30Seth and Blair ended up together.
05:33Do you guys ever laugh about that?
05:35Occasionally.
05:36Yeah, maybe occasionally.
05:37Two children and several shared projects later,
05:40Meester says their longevity comes down to genuinely liking each other.
05:44Number 14. Justin and Hailey Bieber
05:46One awkward handshake eventually led to a happily ever after.
05:52Hi. This is my wife.
05:55Introduced backstage at a 2009 Today appearance by her father Stephen Baldwin,
05:59they reconnected through church in 2014,
06:02and she later recalled that he became her, quote,
06:04best guy friend.
06:05After denying dating rumors, they shared a kiss at the start of 2016,
06:10and reportedly explored a non-exclusive romance before a dramatic breakup left them estranged.
06:15When they met again at a Miami church conference in June 2018,
06:19she proposed restoring the friendship,
06:21but his response was that friendship was no longer the plan.
06:29They were engaged in the Bahamas the next month and married at a New York courthouse that September,
06:34later celebrating with a South Carolina ceremony and welcoming son Jack Blues in 2024.
06:40Number 13. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
06:42A guest spot on an ABC sitcom started the story years before romance entered the picture.
06:47I've told this story, and I will tell this story till the cows come home,
06:51because it's really, like, the most amazing thing that someone did for me.
06:55Wilson met Hanks while appearing on Bosom Buddies in 1981,
06:58and she later said they got along instantly.
07:01They started as friends, then reunited as on-screen love interests in the 1985 comedy Volunteers,
07:07where Hanks said their mutual attraction could no longer be denied.
07:10They went public in 1986 and married in 1988.
07:14They later welcomed sons Chet and Truman and expanded their partnership behind the camera,
07:19producing My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its two sequels.
07:22More than three decades into their marriage,
07:24the easy rapport formed on a sitcom set has become an enduring creative and personal partnership.
07:30I thought, oh, this is what it's supposed to be like when you're married to somebody.
07:33It's supposed to be this carefree and easy and, oddly enough, weighty.
07:39Number 12. Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher
07:42This friendship-to-romance arc arrived with grief and a tabloid firestorm.
07:46Fisher and his then-wife, Debbie Reynolds, were close friends with Taylor and her then-husband,
07:51producer Mike Todd.
07:52At the couple's 1957 wedding, Fisher served as best man and Reynolds as matron of honor.
07:58After Todd passed away in a plane crash the following year,
08:01Fisher spent long hours consoling his widow, and their shared mourning became a romance.
08:06He left Reynolds, while Taylor's public image swung from sympathy widow to supposed homewrecker.
08:11They married in Las Vegas in May 1959, although Taylor later said she already knew it was a mistake.
08:17She divorced him in 1964 after falling for Richard Burton during Cleopatra,
08:22leaving behind a scandal far more enduring than the marriage.
08:25It was like he didn't like me to mingle with other people.
08:29And it was like being locked up.
08:32Number 11. Beyonce and Jay-Z
08:44Beyonce said she met Jay-Z at 18 and began dating him at 19 after a year and a half
08:50of friendship,
08:51a foundation she later emphasized can be vital in a relationship.
08:54Their chemistry soon became audible.
08:57O3 Bonnie and Clyde arrived in 2002, followed by Crazy in Love in 2003.
09:08They married privately on April 4th, 2008, and later welcomed Blue Ivy and twins Rumi and Sir.
09:14The pair also co-headlined two on-the-run tours and released the 2018 joint album Everything Is Love as
09:20The Carters.
09:21The story beneath the superstar spectacle is surprisingly simple.
09:25They spent time talking, became genuine friends, and built outward from there.
09:35Number 10. Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes
09:46Cabello and Mendes first met while they were both opening up for Austin Mahone
09:49back in the mixed Prince and Bomber Jacket era of 2014.
09:53At the time, Mendes was just starting to find fame after his success on Vine,
09:58and Cabello was still part of Fifth Harmony.
10:00They became close friends and would later put out I Know What You Did Last Summer the next year.
10:05Kiss him to let you go. Kiss him to keep you close.
10:09Only close.
10:10Their 2019 collab Senorita is where the speculation of something more between them began,
10:15and they eventually confirmed they were dating,
10:18after they were spotted kissing on the 4th of July the same year.
10:21The couple has since broken up, but remain friends.
10:23So, maybe we can get on board with a new trope.
10:26Friends to lovers, back to friends.
10:33Number 9. Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance
10:36This one's pretty adorable.
10:39I like you, you like me. Check yes or no.
10:43Bassett and Vance were theater classmates at the Yale School of Drama during the 80s.
10:47Vance had a girlfriend at the time, which probably explains why he doesn't remember Bassett.
10:52Bassett, on the other hand, apparently remembers thinking Vance was quite the attractive guy.
10:56He was tall, lish, dark, skinny, and just alluring.
11:05I don't have a clue.
11:07I don't remember her at all.
11:10After they graduated and each went down their own paths,
11:12they eventually reconnected 14 years down the line,
11:16and went on a few dates before falling in love.
11:19Courtney was a good kisser.
11:20He has good pillow lips.
11:22Very nice.
11:24Then did you know? Then did you know?
11:26Yeah, it was pretty nice.
11:28Sometimes, things just take time.
11:30And this couple is proof of that,
11:32with a marriage hitting the 25-year mark in 2022.
11:36Congrats to the happy couple.
11:38Number 8. Carrie Mulligan and Marcus Mumford
11:41Can we get a based-on-a-true-story rom-com with these two, please?
11:45Their relationship timeline is straight out of a movie.
11:48So when something like that happens and the whole world is watching,
11:51do you know that you were on camera, that he was on?
11:54Mulligan and Mumford started out as childhood pen pals
11:57who wrote letters to each other through their church.
11:59Like many of us and the friends we had from when we were kids,
12:02Mulligan and Mumford grew up and lost touch along the way.
12:05But they reconnected years later in 2011 at a party in Tennessee.
12:21Things must have moved pretty quickly
12:23because the couple tied the knot only a year later.
12:26They now live in a stunning English farmhouse with their three children.
12:29A love story for the ages, this one.
12:32Go on, Marcus.
12:33Yes, Mumford.
12:34Go on, Marcus.
12:35He's genuinely pleased with us.
12:37Look how ruffing he is.
12:38I love it.
12:39Number 7. Ben Platt and Noah Galvin
12:42I'm here with two Evan Hansons on one couch.
12:45And he's totally taking advantage of me.
12:46One's emotionally stable, one is done.
12:48Broadway's Dear Evan Hanson stars Ben Platt and Noah Galvin
12:51got together when quarantining together at the height of the pandemic back in 2020.
12:55It's a beautiful thing to come out of such an awful time,
12:58and we couldn't be happier for the duo.
13:01The fact that he made all this like really mundane kind of same thing
13:05we were all having to deal with of being inside,
13:06being in the same room for like a year,
13:08he made it feel like really magical and special and exciting.
13:11They were friends for a whole five years before their friendship became romantic,
13:14and we have no doubt they're in it for the long haul.
13:18According to Galvin,
13:19it all started with a birthday video Platt made for him over the course of three months,
13:24consisting of his favorite drag queens and friends in drag wishing him a happy birthday.
13:28I know, I love that story though, that it,
13:30oh, this is a movie, you should write this one too,
13:32and star in it and sing in it.
13:33While they historically kept their relationship private,
13:36Platt and Galvin officially tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony in Brooklyn
13:39on Labor Day weekend in 2024.
13:42Number 6. Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton
13:45If you're a longtime fan of The Voice,
13:47there's a good chance you'll already know this love story.
13:50I only started this song just to try to impress you.
13:53So, uh,
13:55and I sent her like half of the song and then she wrote the other half, so, uh.
14:00It worked.
14:01It worked.
14:02Oh, yeah!
14:03The pair met on the NBC competition show when Stefani replaced Christina Aguilera in 2014.
14:09Shelton and his now ex-wife Miranda Lambert filed for divorce only a year later,
14:14and only a month before Stefani's long-term marriage ended with Gavin Rossdale.
14:18The two supported each other through their divorces,
14:21checking in on each other once a week,
14:23which eventually progressed to every day.
14:25Late night when you need my love,
14:29and I know when that hotline blink,
14:31yeah!
14:31Blank.
14:32By October of the same year,
14:34their performance on Fallon opened the floodgates for speculation,
14:37and in November,
14:39the couple announced they were officially dating.
14:41For me, it's just that big old heart and that sense of humor and just such a,
14:46you know,
14:46he doesn't even like take himself seriously,
14:48and he's just so,
14:49such an incredible person.
14:50Number five,
14:51Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker.
14:54I'm,
14:54you know,
14:55spending time with a woman who's like a great mom,
14:59who's like a great friend,
15:02and I just,
15:04you don't have to worry about any of those things.
15:05It just comes natural.
15:07It's like a maturity thing.
15:08Although rumors only sparked in 2019,
15:11when Kardashian and Barker were seen getting dinner in Malibu,
15:14the two had actually been friends for years prior.
15:17The source adds that the two live on the same block,
15:21and things are,
15:22super easy between them.
15:24They know each other so well,
15:25and just click,
15:27and get one another.
15:28They officially confirmed their romantic relationship around Valentine's Day of 2021,
15:33with a cute Instagram post of the two holding hands.
15:35Kourtney Kardashian also posted a few photos confirming the news that Kravis is now married.
15:41As per her Insta caption,
15:43they got hitched in Las Vegas in the only open chapel at two in the morning,
15:47and their wedding was officiated by an Elvis impersonator.
15:51Well,
15:51you don't get more of a Vegas wedding than that.
15:54A closer look into their partnership,
15:56and multiple nuptial ceremonies,
15:57are documented in the Hulu series,
15:59Till Death Do Us Part,
16:00Kourtney and Travis.
16:15This is a story so true to the hilarious characters that are Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
16:21Leave it to these two to find love on a double date with other people.
16:24And that was the most awkward date for their respective party,
16:27because we were just like fireworks coming across the...
16:29Went well for him.
16:30There were no fireworks for me.
16:33They made their debut together in Green Lantern,
16:36but both parties were in relationships with other people at the time.
16:40Those people, of course,
16:41being none other than Scarlett Johansson and Penn Badgley.
16:44A year after the movie's release,
16:46Lively and Reynolds found themselves single,
16:48and on that terribly awkward date.
16:50But they soon went from close friends,
16:52to partners,
16:53to spouses.
16:54But in everyday life,
16:56he is my friend first,
16:57and that's...
16:58I think that's the secret to happiness.
17:02They now have four kids,
17:03and are definitely one of Hollywood's most well-known couples.
17:07Number 3.
17:07Zendaya and Tom Holland
17:09You remember when their pictures broke the internet, right?
17:12Yeah, us too.
17:14Zendaya and Holland became fast friends on the set of Spider-Man Homecoming,
17:18and it didn't take long for fans to start shipping the duo.
17:22What are you hiding, Peter?
17:26I'm just kidding, I don't care. Bye.
17:28After insisting they were just friends,
17:30things dialed down for a little while.
17:32But just when we thought all hope was lost,
17:35summer of 2021 rolled around,
17:37and with it came some Tom Dea car kisses.
17:40I think, you know, right now,
17:41it's just the beginning of this really adorable romance
17:44that we're watching kind of bloom on camera.
17:46While we're not sure when exactly the couple got together,
17:49a producer of Marvel's first Spider-Man installment
17:52said their chemistry was so obvious,
17:54she had to warn them not to date.
17:56Their engagement was confirmed in 2025,
17:59and since then,
18:00the pair has kept their official status close to the chest,
18:03playing coy on whether they've already married or not.
18:06I really like you.
18:08I really like you, too.
18:12No. 2. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher
18:21Yet another fan-favorite pair
18:24is That 70s show stars Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher.
18:27You have just made me the happiest man in the world!
18:32The two met on the set in 1998,
18:35back when Kunis was 14 and Kutcher was 19.
18:38There were no romantic feelings at the time,
18:41and we would hope there wouldn't be,
18:43even though Kutcher was actually Kunis' first kiss,
18:45and they spent quite a lot of time together
18:47as an on-screen couple.
18:48It was only way later in 2012
18:50when the two reconnected at a party
18:52that they began seeing each other.
18:54And at first, I was like,
18:55wow, that guy's really tall.
18:56Like, that's what I thought.
18:58And then he turned around,
18:59and I went,
18:59and then that moment that you hear or see movies
19:03where, like, your heart skips a beat,
19:04and it happened with Ashton,
19:05and I was like,
19:06stop it!
19:06The idea was that they would keep things casual,
19:09but that plan quickly went out the window
19:11when they both realized they shared deeper feelings.
19:13Three months later, we're living together.
19:15Six months later, we're, like, married and have a kid.
19:17Like, literally,
19:18we clearly didn't watch the end of either one of our movies.
19:21The two got married in 2015,
19:23and, contrary to tabloid rumors,
19:26they never split up.
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19:44Number 1.
19:46Rihanna and A$AP Rocky
19:47Rihanna and A$AP Rocky
19:49are another couple who have a ton of history.
19:51They first met during their 2012 collab,
19:54Cockiness, Love It.
19:56Their performance at the MTV VMAs the same year
19:59didn't go without fan speculation
20:01that there might be something more between them.
20:09It wouldn't be until 2019, however,
20:12that sparks would fly.
20:13Official confirmation came in 2020,
20:16and Rocky went on to call Rihanna
20:18the love of my life in a GQ interview.
20:20Thank you for identifying my beauty as a man,
20:23you know what I'm saying?
20:24I appreciate you.
20:25Like, for real, for real, though.
20:27Cue the awes.
20:28The pair have three children,
20:30and have spoken out about
20:31how transformative parenthood
20:33has been for the both of them.
20:34What are you enjoying about this journey
20:35with three right now?
20:36Everything about it.
20:38I'm loving it.
20:39Which celebrity friendship
20:40had you secretly rooting for romance
20:42long before they made it official?
20:43Let us know in the comments.
20:44Let us know in the comments.
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