Best Celebrity Couples, Real AND Make Believe

I hate to admit it, but when I hear about celebrity breakups, I can’t help but be a little bummed.

That’s not always the case, of course.

I mean, Charlie Sheen and Denise Richard’s breakup didn’t even register on my emotion meter.  The same can be said for Heidi and Spencer, Jake and Vienna, Britney and KFed.

You get the idea.

BUT, tell me Jake and Reese broke up and it’s as if someone ran over my puppy with their Hummer.

I’m not strong enough to deal with the heartbreak that comes with getting emotionally invested in these high profile romances.  At least when Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughan broke up in The Breakup you A) expected it, thanks to the title and B) could reason with yourself that it was a movie and therefore not a REAL breakup.

Until they split in real life and then, WTF, UNIVERSE?!  Can no one  be happy?

So now I live in fear of news of yet another fallen romance.  Who will be next?

There are some you think are safe, seeing as they’ve been together for years and years, like John Travolta and Kelly Preston or Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks. But then you hear about Al & Tipper Gore and that happy little bubble bursts like one of Jenna Jameson’s overfilled breast implants.

Who, coincidentally just split from HER boyfriend/partner/husband whatthefuckever Tino Ortiz.

All of this has me thinking, who would I be really bummed to see breakup?

• Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi
• Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
• Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
• Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr.
• Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
• Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale
• Courteney Cox Arquette & David Arquette
• Amy Poehler & Will Arnett
• Faith Hill & Tim McGraw
• Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith

And then there are the movie couples.  The ones that aren’t real, but if there had been a sequel and they’d split up, I’m pretty sure I’d need therapy:

• Princess Buttercup and Wesley, aka The Dread Pirate Roberts, aka Farm Boy (from The Princess Bride)
• Baby and Johnny (from Dirty Dancing)
• Sam and Annie (from Sleepless in Seattle)
• Nickie and Terry (from An Affair to Remember)

My all time favorite celebrity couples?

It’s a tie between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

What couples do you love?

Or, if you’re in a “love is stupid” kind of place, what couples do you hate?

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