Have you just spent an hour creating your internet dating profile, being as honest and straight-laced as you can about every element of your life? Well, it seems to me that you've earned a little bit of guilty pleasure. So onto the gossip!
Celebrities and movie stars live such glamour lives. They're beautiful, they're rich, and they have a lot of the things that you've always dreamed of having. So it can be refreshing sometimes to see that they're human, too-- and that they have just as many screwed up relationships as your average "normal" person. In fact, they probably have more. So read of for our top ten most shocking (aka satisfying) celebrity breakups. I promise, it'll make you feel a heck of a lot better about your own romantic history.
10. Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.
The most shocking thing about this celebrity breakup? The fact that these two get along so well. With three daughters together, these two seemed like the perfect stable couple until their split in 1998. Now Demi's with Ashton Kutcher and Bruce just got married, too... but the two remain good friends. Shocking, indeed.
9. Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin.
When Kim won her Academy Award in 1998, her hubby Alec was by her side, crying tears of joy. But after 11 years together, their marriage ended, shocking all of Hollywood. And while the split itself was an acrimonious one, Kim wasn't happy when Alec went on to write a book about their divorce, and went as far as getting a court order to keep him from talking to the press.
8. Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.
Ethan Hawke is no beauty; Uma Thurman is a great one. So this seems a bit of an odd couple right from the start. But they also seemed like a solid one, getting married in 1998 and having two kids together. But when it was reported that Hawke had an affair, the marriage ended just five years in.
7. Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland.
Who knew America's Sweetheart was such a bad girl? In 1991, she was just on the point of marrying the golden-voiced Kiefer Sutherland... but just a few days before the wedding, Roberts pulled out. And ran off with Sutherland's good friend, Jason Patric, leaving the groom brokenhearted.
6. Anne Heche and Ellen DeGeneres.
There's nothing like an on-again, off-again lesbian couple to cause whispers of glee in tinsletown. Especially when one of the women involved is an on-again, off-again lesbian herself. After making a vow that they would get married when allowed by law, the couple broke up... and Anne, after a lot of strange behavior and talking to aliens, decided she preferred men. Guess the lesbian thing didn't work out for her. It did for Ellen, though-- she's now with the gorgeous and funny Portia de Rossi. A step up if you ask me!
5. Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger.
Some of you might not be old enough to remember when these two got together in 1979. Jerry seemed made for Mick: beautiful and intelligent, she was even willing to put up with his skirt-sniffing ways. But after 20 years of marriage and four children together, enough became enough. A young new model told the world she was pregnant with Mick's child... and Jerry got out of there. It wasn't pretty, and a long court battle ensued.
4. Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
Oh, how the world loved Diana and Charles. But Charles didn't love Diana the way the world did, and after 15 years of marriage they split, shocking the world with their divorce. While Diana is sadly gone, Charles went on to marry the mistress who helped break up their marriage, Camilla Parker Bowles.
3. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Except for the fact that she towered over him, these two seemed like the perfect Hollywood couple. Married for 10 years, they had two kids together, great careers, and seems wonderfully happy. Until Tom broke the news that their relationship was over. Weirdest and most shocking of all? Tom's crazy behavior upon meeting and falling for Katie Holmes.
2. Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen.
It's not like anybody expected that a relationship between these two would last a lifetime. But what is shocking about their split is their behavior during and after. Their divorce and subsequent custody battle is considered by many to be the worst in Hollywood history. And that's really saying something.
1. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.
Here's another couple that, I have to say, I didn't have high hopes for. But it seems like everybody else in the world did, because they were shocked when this seemingly golden relationship ended. Most shocking about this split? How it happened, of course. Though nobody has ever given out any details, it's pretty clear that something happened between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie during the filming of the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith, leaving poor Aniston the eternal jilted lover.
