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Five Celebrity Couples I Had No Goddamn Clue Existed Until Recently

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (82)



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It was a slow news weekend, aside from the sad passing of Pete Postlethwaite, so when I woke up this morning, the other only decent headline was that Mila Kunis and Macauley Culkin had broken up after a seven-year relationship.

What? Mila Kunis and Macauley Culkin were together? Dating back to Kunis’ “That 70’s Show”? How do I not know these things? I only discovered this morning that Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem were married six months ago. Who knew?

Probably everyone.

Mrs. Pajiba-hyphenate also told me over the holidays that Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal were dating, which I refused to believe until I saw the pictures. Can you imagine the Christmas dinner? The look of disbelief that Peter Sarsgaard must have given Gyllenhaal? “I’ll be starring in Chekhov’s play Three Sisters this spring, what are your plans for 2011, Taylor?” “Oh, didn’t you hear? I just did a documentary for MTV about me! Did you know I write all my own songs?”

Criminy.

So, I did some research to catch up on what all I must be missing in the celebrity dating world. Turns out, not so much. But in addition to Kunis and Gyllenhaal, here are 3 other couples about which you might have been as blissfully ignorant.


Mila Kunis and Macauley Culkin

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Bradley Cooper and Renee Zellwegger

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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer

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Amber Tamblyn and David Cross (I must have known this at some point, but I completely forgot or blocked it out)

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift

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Comments

You mean to tell me that Caulkin isn't gay?! oh wait..........that's his brother.

Posted by: Lordninja at January 3, 2011 12:04 PM

I heard* that Mila came home smelling like Miss Portman's sweet nethers some months back and Macauley accidentally called her "Natalie" during a spirited session of love-making. They tried to make it work, but alas.

*No I didn't.

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 12:07 PM

Hugh Hefner is engaged. Ah, who cares?

Posted by: BWeaves at January 3, 2011 12:09 PM

Just imagine if Cooper and Zellweger have a child. An emu face crossed with a scrunch face. Wild maniacal eyes crossed with permanently squinty eyes. Please God let them be using birth control.

What? Didn't you hear: I'm the second bitchiest person in the history of Pajiba. I have a reputation to maintain.

Posted by: PaddyDog at January 3, 2011 12:09 PM

HURRAY! PaddyDog is back!

Amber Tamblyn and David Cross?

Seriously? Beyond the age difference, he is clearly such a miserable, misanthrophic, self-hating schmuck that it makes me wonder about her past and about her present sanity.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 12:15 PM

AMBER TAMBLYN AND DAVID CROSS??????

What in the fuckity-fuck is going on there?

Also, you forgot....

John Mayer and all white celebrity vajajays

Kim Kardashian and her ass

Valerie Bertinelli and the guy who is NOT a Van Halen

Posted by: dammitjanet at January 3, 2011 12:16 PM

How fucking old is Taylor Swift? Jesus Jake your the PRINCE OF PERSIA.

Posted by: DangadaDang at January 3, 2011 12:17 PM

Then it seems fitting he should score a Pop Princess.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 12:19 PM

Oh, come on, Mrs. Julien. You're better than that.

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 12:22 PM

There were a bunch of blind items a few months ago about a rising tv-to-film starlet cheating on her long-term former child-star boyfriend with a singer-turned-actor on the set of their new film while said boyfriend was on the other side of the country. I knew it had to be Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, but I didn't remember she was dating Macauley Culkin until this morning.

Posted by: Robert at January 3, 2011 12:22 PM

Yes, I'm back. Despite the best efforts of weather systems and Heathrow airport to prevent me from ever getting to a computer again, I have prevailed. How many cookies did I miss?

Posted by: PaddyDog at January 3, 2011 12:23 PM

Thank you for thinking so Kballs, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 12:23 PM

Well the Prince of Persia does have an awfully special "dagger."


Oh yes, I paid full price to see that film in the theater and I'm going to wring every last miserable joke out of it that I can.

Posted by: coveredinbees at January 3, 2011 12:24 PM

And so the battle for elegant eloquence of 2011 begins. . .

Don't get in their way - PaddyDog and KBalls will cut you and bag you up Dexter style only to dump you off the coast of Miami in trashbags as they sings songs of victory aboard their vessel, A Big Ass Slice of Life, as a Godtopus flag waves in the wind that reads "All Hail Some of the Bitchiest People in the History of Pajiba."

I just hope we don't have any Liddy's taking shots from the shore because we all know what happens to Liddys who go too far. . . You know who you are.

Posted by: TVConnoisseur at January 3, 2011 12:24 PM

Shit, I was Just wondering if Mila Kunis was still with Macauley Culkin after watching Black Swan this weekend. Oh well, after 7 years that's kind of a sad break up to hear about.

Posted by: valerie at January 3, 2011 12:24 PM

Then it seems fitting he should score a Pop Princess.

Oh god, that was painful. Well played, Madame J.

I was momentarily stymied by the Cross/Tamblyn thing, but then I remembered that I don't give a plummeting fuck about either of them. They are an exercise in irrelevance.

Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at January 3, 2011 12:25 PM

I cannot stop giggling at the picture of that bird -- Bradley Cooper and Renee Z's love child? -- gazing at Anna Paquin's cleavage. The look on Moyer's face is priceless. As is the look on the bird's.

Posted by: Another Kate at January 3, 2011 12:28 PM

I still find it hard to believe that Emily Deschanel and Rickety Cricket are married.

Posted by: Stacey at January 3, 2011 12:28 PM

Jesus, no WONDER you're no good at writing Love!


Haw Haw!

Posted by: Jay at January 3, 2011 12:30 PM

There were a lot of cookies. In the Pajiba cookie to commenter ratio, I think I handed out at least 6.

Clarification: Gyllenhaal has gone from being the supposedly-closeted gay man to cradle robber. How is this transition measured? Progress? Regress? Stasess?, but I digress. Where is the egress?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 12:31 PM

Dustin how do you maintain an entertainment-based RSS feed and not know these things?

Also, Jeff Goldblum is banging Lydia Hearst. Discuss.

Posted by: Stacey at January 3, 2011 12:32 PM

Just imagine if Cooper and Zellweger have a child. An emu face crossed with a scrunch face.

And now we know the origins of the majestic platypus.

That's really mean. Sorry, platypus, I shouldn't have gotten you mixed up in this. Maybe we can work this out over a nice frittata.

Posted by: Kayanne at January 3, 2011 12:35 PM

Take some deep breaths TVConnoisseur. you've got to pace yourself. Kballs will fuck you up. Climb into the deer-in-headlights blind and hunker down. This is how you bag the big ones:

Ford's technique seemed to consist mainly of standing still for a while and smiling... After a while an animal - a deer perhaps - would appear from out of the trees and watch him cautiously. Ford would continue to smile at it, his eyes would soften and shine, and he would seem to radiate a deep and universal love, a love which reached out to embrace all of creation. A wonderful quietness would descend on the surrounding country side, peaceful and serene, emanating from this transfigured man. Slowly, the deer would approach step by step, until it was almost nuzzling him, whereupon Ford Prefect would reach out to it and break its neck.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 12:36 PM

For the last time, I AM NOT A DEER!!!!!

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 12:39 PM

For what it's worth, I would totally read a column titled, "Dustin is a cranky old man who maintains an entertainment-based RSS feed and doesn't know these things."

Future Columns:
"Kanye West: You Call this Music?!"
"Who is this Timberlake Character? Justin is a Funny Name for a Girl."
"You Know What I'm Looking Forward to? That Yogi-Boo."

Posted by: internetmagpie at January 3, 2011 12:41 PM

Nor a dear either!

BAM! Another bad pun.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 12:44 PM

You forgot....

something relevant.

Posted by: Recondite at January 3, 2011 12:54 PM

1) Mila, there's no way Culkin is fucking you the way you need to be fucked.

2) Bradley you can do better.

3) I thought Anna Paquin was into eating pussy?

4) Amber Tamblyn and David Cross, who cares.

5) I didn’t know Jake Gyllenhaal liked women?

Posted by: Pookie at January 3, 2011 12:57 PM

I could've sworn Anna Paquin said she was a lesbian...

Posted by: Leaf at January 3, 2011 12:59 PM

Amber Tamblyn and David Cross??? I did not know that one. Wow, what an um interesting? mix.

Posted by: Sarah at January 3, 2011 1:00 PM

Oh Squints MaGoo and Jakey-G too! You are srsly so q-t! omglolz 4-ever!

If, at any point, I had a morsel of respect - nay, willingness to tolerate Jake Gyllenhaal as an...actor (celebrity?), it has completely been shot to shit. I simply cannot fathom how anyone with half a wit could possibly spend more than 30 seconds with an insufferably sniveling little child, such as Taylor Swift, without promptly removing her wretched tongue to quell her disgustingly callow reign over the (pathetic) music industry/life in general.
I would tots Beatrix Kiddo the shit out of that Elle Driver!

Wait...what was I saying again? Oh yeah: Rickety Cricket and Bones? Who knew?

P.S.
Charlie Day and The Waitress/ Rob Mac Elhenney and Kaitlin Olsen were both definitely an "omg! fer realz?" response on my part. I guess I'd be less surprised by Glenn Howerton and Danny Devito getting their hook-up on.

But not really.

Posted by: beet salad at January 3, 2011 1:03 PM

Bad timing, my friend. Mila and Macauley have split! Perhaps we could do a "celebrity break-ups we had no goddamn clue existed until recently slow news day."

http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/2011/01/mila-kunis-macaulay-culkin-are-dunzo

Posted by: Ruthie at January 3, 2011 1:18 PM

Paquin has said she's bi. So she gets to choose from both sections of the sex menu.

Posted by: Wednesday at January 3, 2011 1:18 PM

I could've sworn Anna Paquin said she was a lesbian...

Great, that's all the world needs: Another dopey-faced lesbian.

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 1:22 PM

I knew about Kunis and Culkin, and call me sentimental (don't) but that breakup makes me kind of sad.
Now I'll have to finish off this entire pizza in an empathetic way.

Posted by: SPAGHATTAH NADLE (formerly popejenm) at January 3, 2011 1:29 PM

I was bummed to realize I already knew about all of these. Jesus christ that's a lot of wasted brain space.

Posted by: nosio at January 3, 2011 1:30 PM

Hey, Pajiba! Ditch the fucking, talking Lysol ads! It's fucking shite. I like the site, have been a longtime reader, but lose the ads, or I'll be leaving.

Posted by: DOOM70 at January 3, 2011 1:53 PM

Taylor Swift will nibble Jake G. until he is ready to add to her dam.

(there's a lot going on in there -- see if you can find it all)

Posted by: superasente at January 3, 2011 1:54 PM

Also, Jeff Goldblum is banging Lydia Hearst. Discuss.

And before that, he was banging that chick ohshitIforgothernameohshituhhh UMM Alex! from Lost. Now, I loves me some Jeff Goldblum, but that chick was young. Y-O-U-N-G.

Posted by: MM at January 3, 2011 1:58 PM

Hey DOOM70,

Dustin doesn't control the content of his ads, as mentioned about 7,438 times in previous comment threads. If you're such a "longtime reader," howze come you don't know dat?

So keep spamming every post and hating the thing that keeps one of your "favorite" websites functioning at a high level*, and we'll pretend you don't need to fuck all the way off.

The exit's right over there, assdouche.

'Balls Out.

*subject to interpretation

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 2:14 PM

I ♥ grumpy Kballs. Could someone please poke him with a pointed stick? I'm bored at work.

Fine! I'll do it.

Andy Rooney is a wise old man. I welcome his refreshing take on popular culture.

The Twilight films are underappreciated gems.

I enjoy communism.

George Carlin sucks.

Elephants are are tasty.

If only the world could have more Regis and Kelly.


Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 2:35 PM

Rowles, it's MacaulAy, not MacaulEy. I'm sure his parents agonized over that spelling. As a responsible journalist you should be ashamed. Perhaps you should send a fruit basket to him in atonement. Yes, I'm sure he would enjoy that.

Posted by: ed newman at January 3, 2011 2:37 PM

Does Bradley Cooper not know he's Bradley Cooper? I mean he could be having sex with attractive women.

Posted by: logan at January 3, 2011 2:39 PM

Attractive emus, you meant to say. And the odd ostrich for variation.

Posted by: Ian at January 3, 2011 2:49 PM

Odd Ostrich Variation would be an awesome indie band name.

Posted by: Ian at January 3, 2011 2:49 PM

First of all, I'd eat the shit out of an elephant. Dive right in like a goddamned badger.

Second, Andy Rooney sucks dead commie tits. I want to burn that dingleberry off his lip, but not before I ask him how one acheives such a stomach-churning adornment.

Third, Twilight is beyond my notice . . . no it isn't. It's saccharine garbage geared toward teenagers with no self-esteem and housewives that wish they were still teenagers with no self-esteem. You want to be banged by a dead guy and a dog? Prove it. Fuck this dead dog. Look, it has a death boner and everything. DO IT!!! Yeah, that's what I thought. Get out of my face. You disgust me.

And finally, George Carlin is beyond reproach. I'll brook no guff here, you ungrateful turkeys.

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 2:58 PM

So... you Like Regis and Kelly, then?

Posted by: Rykker at January 3, 2011 3:01 PM

Pookie is right. There is no way Mila Kunis has had a good fuck in 7 years unless she cheated on Culkin.

Posted by: Dave at January 3, 2011 3:07 PM

Regis overwhelms any lesser human that graces his presence. The man's a national treasure.

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 3:14 PM

YAY!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 3, 2011 3:20 PM

Funny you put Tamblyn and Cross on this list. I was surprised to discover that one myself when I saw them at a show together a few months ago.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at January 3, 2011 3:20 PM

If I must choose between "sucks" and "beyond reproach" for Carlin, then I am in the "beyond reproach" camp.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at January 3, 2011 3:23 PM

“And finally, George Carlin is beyond reproach. I'll brook no guff here, you ungrateful turkeys.”

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 2:58 PM

No! His ass isn’t beyond reproach. He wasn’t funny, he as angry, like most mediocre comedians. The next time I laugh at anything he’s ever done will be the first time I laughed at anything he’s ever done.

Posted by: Pookie at January 3, 2011 3:24 PM

Dustin, you have forced Mila and Culkin to call it a day.

You jerk.

Posted by: Brian(brian) at January 3, 2011 3:36 PM

Yeah, Pookie, but you hate all things Whitey. It's your job to hate talented honkies like George (Carlin, that is; not that odd little boy who used to comment around here; that kid was crazy).

Posted by: Kballs at January 3, 2011 3:38 PM

I did not know that Mila and Macaulay were dating, and now that I do, I am REALLY SADDENED that they have broken up, because I LOVE the idea of that pairing. LOVE IT.

Please get back together, kids. Do it for me!

Posted by: Anna von Beav at January 3, 2011 3:49 PM

Wait, I thought Taylor Swift was dating that he-Taylor from the Twilight crap? Did I make that up or am I just way behind on the celeb gossip times?

Posted by: Gabs at January 3, 2011 4:04 PM

I wonder* if Fes introduced Mila to Culkin when they were making that god awful Party Monster movie.

*By wonder, I mean "Don't give a fuck". I just wanted everyone else to be reminded of that movie too.

Posted by: Paultera at January 3, 2011 4:13 PM

Either you live under a rock or I read one too many gossip sites because I was aware of all these couples.

Posted by: Az at January 3, 2011 4:29 PM

I could've sworn Anna Paquin is barely out of childhood

Posted by: idleprimate at January 3, 2011 4:35 PM

@idleprimate

You only say that because she's not much taller than a hobbit.

Posted by: bignick at January 3, 2011 5:14 PM

I didn’t mean it like that Kballs, the older folk in my family love Carlin. I’m from a different generation, a generation that thinks farts are high comedy. Please accept my apology, I was misquoted, I don’t want to get sideways with you.

Posted by: Pookie at January 3, 2011 5:34 PM

Major love to Kballs for the best review of Twilight I've ever fucking heard. I will now quote that (with permission only) if anyone ever freaking asks me why I avoid that hideous pile of crap.

Posted by: Nessun at January 3, 2011 6:02 PM

that god awful Party Monster movie.

(I secretly love that movie. Shhhh sh sh sh sh.)

Posted by: Anna von Beav at January 3, 2011 6:06 PM

@Gabs - yes, she WAS dating him but apparently broke up with him last december? i only know this because she apparently has a song on her album written about him called...wait for it...December. clearly i've been watching too much mtv if i know all of this. augh.

Posted by: tbiggs at January 3, 2011 6:38 PM

Bless you Dustin. Ignorance must have been bliss. But now you are one of us.

Posted by: greer at January 3, 2011 6:46 PM

So Amber likes them old, bald, fat AND dressed like they're blind?

I'm gonna score.

*Elbows whoever's No. 2 in line out of the way*

Posted by: , at January 3, 2011 6:53 PM

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tyrone.

FTFY

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at January 3, 2011 7:33 PM

"Also, Jeff Goldblum is banging Lydia Hearst. Discuss."

She must have heard that sleeping with Jeff Goldblum is like getting caught in a fleshstorm with a 90% chance of satisfaction.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at January 3, 2011 9:24 PM

I knew about all of these relationships because I visit all the sparkly, shiny gossipy blogs and the only one that had me going Fuck the What?! was Amber and David (because she went from tall, built random dj dude with mad skillz to---HIM). I mean, I loved the living f*ck out of Tobias in AD but I never, and I do mean NEVER, wanted to f*ck the loving life out of Tobias. Just, Joan of Arcadia and Tobias together is just not right!

Macaulay and Mila was another head-scratcher for me but only because I too was certain that he was so very gay. And because he always looks like he has had nary a drop of sunshine hit his skin and he's just so very unattractive. I mean, there's the quirky attractive and the goofy attractive and even the awkward looking attractive, etc. I can find ways to look at ya and think that there's something about ya but good old Macaulay? I draw a blank every time.

Taylor and Jake? Godtopus (another shot!), he must have been drawn to her sparkly youth and Lisa Frank appeal but even then? You know what, f*ck it. He dated Kirsten "Floppy Tits" Dunst so I shouldn't be surprised.

Yes, I am drinking of the Haterade but I am doing so because I have a taste for it.

Posted by: Slappysquirrel at January 3, 2011 10:08 PM

To everyone shocked at David Cross and Amber Tamblyn:

David Cross is a funny fucker. Some of us only have our humor to attract the opposite sex with and sometimes that's plenty.

Posted by: Paultera at January 3, 2011 10:28 PM

Indeed.

Posted by: Ian at January 4, 2011 2:54 AM

Jake even looks guilty in that photo. Seriously, Taylor Swift? She's like 15 years old. That's messed up, Jake. Seriously messed up.

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at January 4, 2011 3:06 AM

Not that I want to give a rat's left nut, but Taylor Swift is 21 and 'ol Jake is 29. Not too nasty hmmm?

Posted by: ellinad at January 4, 2011 4:19 AM

And before that, he was banging that chick ohshitIforgothernameohshituhhh UMM Alex! from Lost. Now, I loves me some Jeff Goldblum, but that chick was young. Y-O-U-N-G.

So what you're saying is that I totally have a shot.

Posted by: Uda at January 4, 2011 4:36 AM

Where is the egress?

I believe it is attempting to leap from Stephen Moyer's arms into Anna Paquin's cleavage.

Jake Gyllenhal is merely living out his boyhood fantasy of banging a kewpie doll. This, too, shall pass.

Posted by: Reba at January 4, 2011 10:16 AM

HA! I love the idea of Saarsgaard being shocked, SHOCKED at that tweeny bopper little dork in his house. He'd probably ban her from his extensive library in the fear she'd touch his precious antique books.

The image of him as an aloof intellectual is so brilliant. This will keep me entertained for hours

Posted by: Nadine at January 4, 2011 10:48 AM

Daria,

Kisses,
Mrs. Julien

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 4, 2011 2:51 PM

Anna P and Stephen M got married a couple of months back.
Read it in the Peoples magazine, I did.
More useless info for y'alls.

Posted by: Ms MoMo at January 4, 2011 3:17 PM

Does Bradley Cooper not know he's Bradley Cooper? I mean he could be having sex with attractive women.

I'm pretty sure he does. He has a douche face. One look at him and you can just tell he's a jackass.

Posted by: Maggi at January 4, 2011 9:46 PM

All hail Dustin, the ultra-powerful celebrity couple destroyer! Word has come down that Jake Gyllenhal and Taylor Swift have broken up.

Well done, sir. Well done, indeed.

Posted by: Reba at January 5, 2011 11:14 AM

.....ummm

Amber Tamblyn and David Cross?

.....ummm

Posted by: KC at January 8, 2011 8:30 PM