Hookups, Breakups & Hottest Flings! The 40 Most Shocking Celebrity Love Moments Of 2014

In March 2014 Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin announced they were “consciously uncoupling” after more than a decade of marriage. A statement on the actress’ Goop website read, “It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.” And the rest of the world was left scratching their heads as to what it means to consciously uncouple.

Another woman’s rubbish is another girl’s treasure? That’s what Paltrow was to learn when – months after she ditched her rock star husband – Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence snapped him up. The Hunger Games actress started stepping out with the “Yellow” singer in the summer.

Jennifer Lawrence nosedived into her relationship with Chris Martin shortly after ending her on-again, off-again romance with British actor Nicholas Hoult. The X-Men co-stars finally parted ways in 2014 after rekindling their romance the year before.

There’s nothing like hearing your man has, allegedly, been exchanging sexy messages with a transsexual model to scupper a relationship. And so Jennifer Lopez said goodbye to her toy boy lover Casper Smart in the summer after a two-year romance.

In May the Kimye union finally became official when Kim Kardashian and Kanye West exchanged vows in Florence, Italy. A decade after she divorced her first husband and two years after she married her second, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star became Mrs. West.

Somewhere hell must be freezing over because in 2014 Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor did something he vowed never to do again – get married. In September George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin in a lavish ceremony in Venice, Italy after a whirlwind romance that saw the Oxford graduate and high-powered attorney knock him off his feet. At a charity dinner, a couple of weeks before they wed, the actor publicly gushed to his future wife, “I love you very much and I can’t wait to be your husband.”

Unfortunately “dem babies” were not able to keep Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon together. In August the TV presenter confirmed he had split from the singer months earlier after six years of marriage. They are currently reportedly hashing out (among other things) custody of their twins Monroe and Moroccan.

For Sofia Vergara 2014 was all about out with the old and in with the new. Months after calling off her engagement to on-again, off-again love Nick Loeb, she started dating True Blood actor Joe Manganiello, making them quite possibly the most ridiculously good looking couple in Hollywood.

No amount of pleading, hand wringing or public crooning was going to make Paula Patton change her mind about ending her marriage to singer Robin Thicke. As far as she was concerned there were no “Blurred Lines” and she filed for divorce in October, ending a romance that began when they met in high school.

John F Kennedy had Marilyn Monroe; his son had Madonna and now Patrick Schwarzenegger is following in the Kennedy tradition by hooking up with a Hollywood star. In October the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver started dating singer Miley Cyrus.

In December Kate Hudson stunned the showbiz world by announcing she had ended her engagement to her fiancé – and baby daddy – Matt Bellamy. The Muse front man and the actress had been together for four years.

She has been sporting a ring on her wedding finger so rumors have been flying since November that Cameron Diaz is engaged to her beau Benji Madden. The two became a couple in the spring.

The old adage that you should never go back to an old relationship must have passed Katy Perry by. But the singer finally learned and in February broke off her on-off relationship with John Mayer. She told the July issue of Cosmopolitan, “You have to go through the mud in order to find that peaceful place.”

At the time of writing this post Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran had broken up for the umpteenth time. Within days of their December split being announced, the singer commented on their failed romance on stage at a Los Angeles concert saying, “F**k that b****h.”

Celebrities who publicly gush about their love are usually left with egg on their face when they eventually call it quits. For months Sherri Shepherd was surprisingly tightlipped about splitting from her husband Lamar Sally in the spring. The actress – who once shared every minutia of their relationship with TV viewers – was still a co-host on The View when the marriage fell apart.

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber just couldn’t make their young love last and in 2014 they split for good after making up and breaking up several times over. In an interview with a Norwegian radio station in December, Gomez said of her former beau, “I definitely have so much respect and love for him.”

After nine years – and six kids – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie finally got married in a surprise ceremony in August. The sneaky couple pulled off their secret wedding two years after they got engaged, exchanging vows at their French chateau in the village of Correns.

“My kids are almost grown. I’m getting divorced. I’m just happy.” So said Melanie Griffith in an August interview months after she announced she had split from her husband of more than two decades, Spanish actor Antonio Banderas.

Kisses, cuddles, lovey-dovey Instagram pix and a musical collaboration. That sums up the nature of Ariana Grande’s relationship with Big Sean so far. The rapper and the singer got together this year on the heels of his break-up from fiancée Naya Rivera in April, who – in turn – went on to marry actor Ryan Dorsey in July.

They made a cute couple but in May actress Evan Rachel Wood revealed she had split from husband Jamie Bell. The couple has a son together. He was just 10-months-old when Bell and Wood split after 19 months of marriage.

In October Ricki Lake filed for divorce from her second husband Christian Evans. The couple – who started dating in 2010 – married in 2012. The mom-of-two is apparently “devastated” by the split.

Jordin Sparks and Jason Derulo – perhaps pop music’s sweetest couple – broke up in September. But, what at first seemed like an amicable split, was revealed to be anything but when the American Idol star released a sample of a new song (a remix of Drake’s “How Bout Now”) slamming the singer. In December Sparks told E!, “I’m dating myself for sure.”

In the summer Michael Strahan’s rep confirmed that his five-year engagement to Nicole Murphy was no more. A source told People magazine, “They’ve been having problems for two years and have been off and on throughout.”

Call it puppy love but Brooklyn Beckham and Chloe Grace Moretz looked a-dor-able when they started stepping out with each other in Los Angeles in the summer. While the actress hasn’t confirmed that David and Victoria’s firstborn is her boyfriend, she did tell Andy Cohen during an interview on Watch What Happens Live, “I enjoy hanging out with him.”

He may still look dark, brooding and like he is in desperate need of cheering up, but in 2014 Robert Pattinson acquired a new girlfriend. Her name is FKA Twigs and she is a British singer. They were first linked to each other in September.

Fans of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo may have mourned the news that Mama June and Sugar Bear split in September. But that’s nothing in comparison to the uproar that emerged when it was revealed that she allegedly rekindled her romance with convicted child molester Mark Anthony McDaniel, a man her own daughter, Anna Cardwell, accused of sexually abusing her when she was just eight.

In September Amber Rose announced she had split from husband Wiz Khalifa and rumors that both parties had been unfaithful swiftly followed. As the couple hurtled towards a divorce the model took to Twitter to write, “I would never ever ever cheat on my husband in a million years I think u guys know this. Unfortunately my now ex husband can’t say the same…” He also denied cheating.

In November – two months after she split from boyfriend David Lucado – it was revealed that Britney Spears is dating again. Her new beau is producer and writer Charlie Ebersol. “They met through friends,” a source told E! News.

Kelly Osbourne started 2014 by announcing she had ended her engagement to chef Matthew Mosshart. The TV presenter told E! News, “It was a mutual decision. We love each other very much. It just wasn’t the right time for us…”

She may still be nursing the wounds from her split from estranged husband Lamar Odom but that didn’t stop Khloe Kardashian from dating – on and off – French Montana. She parted ways with the rapper for the second time, in December. A source told Us Weekly, “Khloe just wasn’t ready after Lamar and it was getting too serious.”

In January Pamela Anderson revealed she had secretly remarried her ex-husband Rick Salomon. In July the Baywatch star filed for divorce, only to change her mind and reconcile with her husband in August. As of December they’re still together.

Not only did Sarah Hyland break up with boyfriend actor Matt Prokop in 2014, she was granted a temporary restraining order against him amid allegations that he had assaulted and threatened her.

Hot on the heels of the announcement that he had split from his wife of 36 years, rocker Neil Young was spotted snuggling up to actress Daryl Hannah. The lovebirds have been openly cooing at each other in public since September.

The unusual pairing of Zac Efron and Michelle Rodriguez was enough to make your head spin. But as quickly as their summer romance began, it abruptly ended. And that hot and heavy relationship happened shortly after her rumored love connection with model Cara Delevingne reportedly fizzled.

John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan apparently can’t get enough of each other. They reportedly ended their three-year romance in August but rekindled the relationship in October.

Uma Thurman called off her engagement to Arpad Busson for the second time, ending their relationship in April. The actress and the French financier are parents of a toddler who was conceived shortly after they reconciled following their 2009 split.

In contrast Adam Brody and Leighton Meester did make it down the aisle. The actors secretly wed in February, a year after their romance was made public and three months after they got engaged.

Scarlett Johansson apparently also likes secret weddings. In 2014 the actress became a mom for the first time and a wife for the second time when she married French journalist Romain Dauriac in a ceremony that took place in October but was only revealed in December.

So far Hank Baskett and Kendra Wilkinson are going to end 2014 as a couple. But they’ve had a bumpy ride this year with allegations that the former NFL star cheated on his Playboy Playmate wife with a transsexual model. Although Wilkinson considered splitting from Baskett, they are apparently soldiering on with their two children in tow.

Tumultuous does not begin to describe Johnny Weir’s failed marriage to estranged husband Victor Voronov. The figure skater announced their split in March, after divorce papers had been filed a month earlier. Meanwhile, domestic violence and a leaked nude photo of Weir marred their marriage.