If there’s one definite truth about becoming a celebrity in today’s culture, it’s that your personal life will become the business of your adoring (and disparaging) fans. As each and every celebrity is well aware of this, they do try, on occasion, to keep their personal lives personal. You can’t blame them for trying, but in many cases, details leak with photos and on-set rumors, which tell the world who everyone is dating, fooling around with, marrying, and divorcing.
Some of the celebrity couples we found for this list did a pretty good job of keeping their relationships secret from the public while others didn’t do the best job. For whatever reason, they just wanted to keep their private lives private, which is how most people choose to operate, but given they live their lives in front of cameras for everyone to see, doing so has never been easy for them.
For this list, we are focusing on relationships that were kept secret from the public up until the point they ended. While many of these examples feature relationships the public believed were going on, they were either unconfirmed at the time or flatly denied by those involved. Looking back on some of these may seem obvious now, but when they were happening, they were all speculation and rumor.
Here are 15 Celebrity Couples That Denied Being Together (Until They Broke Up)
15 VANESSA HUDGENS & JOSH HUTCHERSON
You know a situation is awkward when you have to admit that you were not only dating someone, but that you also broke up with them while promoting the movie you worked on together with that person. That happened when Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Hutcherson were together on the Australian morning television show Today promoting the movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.
When asked how long they had been dating, the couple shared an awkward glance and simply admitted “We’re not” before going on to admit “We were at one point” before Hutcherson joked she had broken his heart. At the time, Hudgens was in a relationship with Austin Butler so the host of Today may not have been as up-to-date as the pair would have liked.
It was long speculated the couple were dating after they were spotted together at a Lakers game in March 2011. They never admitted to it and kept their relationship status to themselves. Hudgens even said she was single in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show at least a month into their secret relationship. Her reply, “Can’t a girl have friends?” shut down the comments, but their admission on Today suggests otherwise. Since the split, both actors remain friends and have gone on to date other people.
14 MILEY CYRUS & NICK JONAS
Fans of these two former Disney stars are well aware of their relationship history, but when the couple began dating, they kept it as secret from the public as possible. This was one of those secrets everyone simply assumed to be true, which turned out to be the case once they broke up, but if you were to ask a teenage Miley and Nick if they were dating, they would change the subject and talk about anything else.
Miley’s 2009 book, Miles to Go, referred to a young man as Prince Charming, whom she eventually admitted to being Nick. They met at a 2006 charity event for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Foundation. They started dating in secret soon after though they were photographed together numerous times, but never doing anything overtly romantic or couple-y. Of course, it wasn’t meant to be and the pair broke up the following year.
Their relationship came to an end at the same time as Miley’s The Best of Both Worlds tour, which featured the Jonas Brothers as her opening act. She wrote in her book, “Prince Charming and I broke up on December 19, 2007.” Miley finally spilled the beans and revealed the name of her Prince Charming in an interview with Seventeen Magazine in 2008.
13 JOHNNY GALECKI & KALEY CUOCO
The Big Bang Theory has wrapped its 11th season, which has let fans see the on-screen romance between Johnny Galecki’s Dr. Leonard Hofstadter and Kaley Cuoco’s Penny develop since 2007. While the couple has had an on-again-off-again relationship until recently on the show, many fans were surprised to learn the actors actually dated one another when the series first began.
Cuoco and Galecki prefer to keep their private lives to themselves, so they kept their relationship a secret from pretty much everybody while it was going on for a period of nearly two years.
Not only did they avoid speaking about their romance, they never went anywhere together so they couldn’t be photographed in an intimate setting. It wasn’t until three years after they couple had broken up that they really began to speak about it publicly.
Part of the reason for the secrecy had to do with them wanting to keep their lives private from the public eye, but a lot of their reasons for hiding it had to do with protecting the show. The Big Bang Theory was still in its infancy when they began dating and rumors of a relationship and breakup might have hurt the series in the eyes of the fans. They may have made the right choice seeing as the series is one of the most popular on television
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