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Some celebrity romances manage to slip past even the most dedicated gossip sleuths. Join us as we look at famous pairs who kept their love lives out of the headlines, dodging the spotlight and surprising fans with secret engagements, exclusive ceremonies, and hidden partnerships. Which A-list duo’s secret romance caught you off guard? Share your favorites in the comments below!
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00:00Okay, I'm not sitting like that with anybody except for somebody I'm booed up with.
00:07Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the celebrities who somehow
00:11managed to keep their major relationship updates under the radar.
00:14You know what you do after you're married to Tom Cruise?
00:17Engage Lenny Kravitz.
00:17Date Lenny Kravitz.
00:20Number 10, Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.
00:23I've been bitten.
00:28It's all right.
00:30The Spider-Man co-stars were far from the first to fall in love on set, but the relative
00:34mystery surrounding their relationship, including the fact that it existed, made it pretty remarkable.
00:39Presumably, they began dating during the making of The Amazing Spider-Man in 2011.
00:43It wouldn't be until 2014 that the two even seemed to acknowledge the relationship publicly.
00:47By 2015, the pair had broken up.
00:49I break up with you.
00:53I break up with you.
00:55Since then, the media goes wild when the two even make casual mentions of each other,
00:59maybe they're trying to make up for all the juicy clicks they didn't get when they were
01:03actually dating.
01:04I say great acting.
01:06It is.
01:07It's amazing.
01:08That's what I'm saying.
01:09Amazing acting.
01:10Because it's like they're together or something.
01:12Number 9, Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts.
01:14The queen of the 90s rom-com and the star of one of the decade's biggest sitcoms had a brief
01:19fling at the height of their fame.
01:21Julia Roberts is doing all kinds of publicity about her movie and saying all kinds of wonderful
01:25things about you.
01:26How do you feel about that?
01:27How would any guy feel about that?
01:30I feel great about that.
01:32And she is a terrific, wonderful person.
01:35Julia Roberts guest starred on Friends in its second season.
01:38She only did so on the condition that she could be part of Matthew Perry's storyline.
01:42Now, what's the deal?
01:42Are you dating this Matthew Perry guy?
01:45I am dating this Matthew Perry guy.
01:47Outside of a few paparazzi snaps, the two were pretty low-key despite their intense fame.
01:52How did they keep their relationship so hidden?
01:54It was the 90s.
01:55They used a fax machine, of course.
01:57How did we meet?
01:58We met, um, you know, he called me up and...
02:02Just out of the blue he just called you up?
02:03Out of the blue.
02:04It wasn't until Perry's revealing 2022 memoir that the details of their relationship became
02:09public knowledge.
02:10Perry cited his insecurity as the reason he broke it off after only a few months.
02:15She's an amazing person.
02:16She's everything every guy thinks she is, basically.
02:21Number 8, Beyonce and Jay-Z.
02:23This is a marriage so high-profile, it seems like even the small glimpses we get dominate
02:28weeks of entertainment news.
02:30So I was really young and, you know, I feel like it's important for women and men to have
02:34their goals and their own life before they can complete someone else.
02:38So, you know, we took our time.
02:39But back when they began their relationship in the early 2000s, Beyonce and Jay-Z were
02:44collaborators before they were one of the most famous couples.
02:47Jay-Z and deranged, crazy and deranged.
02:50They can't figure my thing like, has he insane?
02:52Details of their relationship were relegated to paparazzi snaps.
02:56But even after their surprise 2008 nuptials, the pair remained private.
03:00Celebrity couple.
03:01We were a couple who just happened to be celebrities.
03:05Even when scandal, infidelity and elevator fights threatened to expose some buried secrets,
03:10what did they do?
03:10They turned it into art, further blurring the lines between what is real and what isn't.
03:16And your heart is broken.
03:21Number seven, Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin.
03:24On June 4th, multiple outlets reported that the couple who first sparked dating rumors in
03:292018 had gone their separate ways.
03:31In the 2010s, the Coldplay frontman jumped from one highly publicized celebrity supercoupling
03:36to a more low-key celebrity supercoupling.
03:39Three years after Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow divorced, he began seeing Fifty Shades of
03:43Grace star Dakota Johnson.
03:45We've mostly gotten little nuggets of info about their relationship.
03:49But amid a breakup in 2025, it was revealed that the two were on-again, off-again partners
03:53for much of their time together.
03:55Multiple outlets report that the Coldplay artist and the Fifty Shades actress, who first
03:59sparked romance rumors in 2017 and later got engaged, have called it quits after nearly
04:05eight years together.
04:06On top of that, they had actually been engaged for years.
04:09This was news to some fans, as the two had previously dodged questions about exchanging
04:14vows.
04:14Anyway, hold on, this is really important.
04:16I'm sad about my gap tooth too, so I'd really appreciate some privacy in this time.
04:21Wait, what?
04:22Number 6, Chris Evans and Alba Baptista.
04:25The Captain America star tied the knot over the weekend with girlfriend Alba Baptista.
04:30Yeah, the duo reportedly exchanged vows in a low-key ceremony.
04:35Somehow, Marvel star Chris Evans and Portuguese actress Alba Baptista kept things relatively
04:40underwrapped before their wedding in 2023.
04:42The star-studded guest list aside, their ceremony was a lot like the rest of their courtship.
04:47While their involvement first became known in 2022, outside of social media
04:51interactions and event appearances, they enjoy more secrecy than your average celebrity
04:56couple.
04:57Chris captions the adorable video, A Look Back at 2022, with three heart emojis.
05:03Despite the jump scares, these two are looking very unafraid together.
05:07Evans and Baptista are especially low-profile when compared to some other A-list heavyweights.
05:12Public sightings of the two are scarce.
05:13Apparently, they prefer the quiet life in rural Massachusetts to the rat race of Hollywood.
05:18She's as big of an animal lover as I am.
05:22I knew she was the one pretty early on.
05:25Number 5, Ava Mendez and Ryan Gosling.
05:28These two are so low-profile about their relationship that even a simple public statement of support
05:33is a media event.
05:35Describe the rest of your life in five words.
05:39Run it by Ava first.
05:42In 2025, Ava Mendez shared a rare comment about Ryan Gosling and it made headlines.
05:48She was congratulating him on his campaign to get stunt people recognised at the Oscars.
05:53That's it.
05:54That's how rare an event this is.
05:56She's not here tonight.
05:57No, she's with the girls.
05:58And, you know, when she works, I stay home with the girls too.
06:01And, yeah, I couldn't, I mean, be her without her.
06:06The two co-stars began seeing each other after starring in The Place Beyond the Pines.
06:11Mendez retired from acting, citing the limited roles for Latina actresses and her desire to
06:15raise a family.
06:16Outside of a casual mention here and there, the public knows very little about the relationship.
06:20If anything, that probably indicates that it's about as normal as any non-Hollywood partnership.
06:25An airplane.
06:26We actually met on an airplane, like, a very long time ago.
06:29Number four, Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx.
06:31This is the photo which reignited those rumours.
06:34Taken right here in the studio, Jamie and Katie appear to hold hands, but Jamie says it's
06:38taken out of context.
06:40After being plastered across tabloid front pages during her six-year marriage to Tom Cruise,
06:44it's no wonder Katie Holmes would be more protective over her next romance.
06:48In one of the more elusive celebrity couplings, Holmes began dating superstar Jamie Foxx in 2013.
06:53The actress was beaming as Jamie put his hand on her shoulder and leaned in to whisper
06:58something into her ear.
07:00The clandestine couple were surrounded by partiers, but the two seemed to be sharing a very happy
07:05moment together.
07:06The only clues came from sporadic displays of affection in public and some inside sources
07:10discussing their strong bond.
07:12Their privacy was so guarded that Foxx even walked off a 2018 ESPN interview when asked about
07:18Holmes.
07:18I saw pictures.
07:19Did you and Katie Holmes play basketball for Valentine's Day?
07:22Like some real loving basketball game?
07:27Uh-oh.
07:28The two were no longer together as of 2019.
07:30Several years on, the two have yet to speak at length about their time together.
07:34The closest Foxx has come to commenting was in his 2024 Netflix special.
07:38But sisters, I'm here to tell you, I've been cured.
07:42I've been cured everything.
07:44I've been cured.
07:45No more white girls.
07:46Number three, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
07:49These frequent co-stars met on the set of Hamon Hamon in the early 1990s.
07:54However, they didn't begin dating until over 15 years later, when they starred as tempestuous
07:58lovers in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
08:01Please, here in this house, speak English.
08:03That's all I ask.
08:03All right?
08:04No, it's así.
08:05Why are you getting so angry at me?
08:07Even so, their public appearances together are not plentiful.
08:10In 2021, Cruz offered a rare glimpse into their marriage and family dynamics.
08:15She told CBS Sunday Morning that protecting their children's privacy is important to them.
08:19That explains a lot.
08:20Not phones until they are much older.
08:23No social media until at least 16.
08:26Like, I really see that that is, like, protecting mental health.
08:31Basically, their marriage seems to only make headlines when they make appearances at
08:34ceremonies or in the occasional film together.
08:36Did you like him with that mustache and that weight on?
08:39No.
08:40Not at all.
08:41No.
08:41At the end of the shooting, I didn't want to see him like that ever again.
08:44Number 2.
08:45Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz
08:47Only those who are truly up on their pop culture knowledge knew about the connection
08:51between Nicole Kidman and her Big Little Lies co-star, Zoe Kravitz.
08:54Kidman once dated her colleague's father, Lenny Kravitz.
08:57I knew Zoe because I was engaged to her father.
09:00It's all in the family.
09:01After her marriage to Tom Cruise, Kidman dated the Flyaway Rocker and Future Hunger Games
09:06star all the way back in 2003.
09:08The big shocker was that they were engaged at one point.
09:10Nicole told Vanity Fair that she was once engaged before she met her current husband,
09:15Keith Urban, and after her divorce from her ex-husband Tom Cruise, but she never mentioned
09:19who.
09:20Hilariously, it was Kidman herself who dropped that news publicly for the first time in 2017.
09:26Either she forgot it had been a secret or it was so long ago that it didn't seem to matter.
09:30Nicole Kidman, I forgot this, was engaged to your dad in the early 2000s.
09:35Was that weird working with her, having that history?
09:39Or were you like, hey Nick, you're almost my stepmom?
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09:571. Tom Holland and Zendaya
10:01Fan speculation was rampant about these two from the jump.
10:04With how hard the internet was sniffing around them, it's amazing they waited so long to publicly
10:08confirm their romance.
10:09I really like you.
10:12I really like you too.
10:13The Spider-Man Homecoming co-stars kept up the pretense of being just friends for nearly
10:18five years.
10:19They set the rumor mill ablaze again at the 2025 Golden Globes, when nominee Zendaya was
10:24spotted wearing a telltale ring on the red carpet.
10:27ET can confirm the news after the actress rocked a sparkler on that finger at the 2025 Golden
10:33Globes.
10:34The two had become engaged a few weeks prior.
10:36As it should be when major developments happen between these two, we're always the last to know.
10:41It's far away, they're both making a bunch of movies this year, and there's a lot of
10:45premieres next year, so you'll see a lot of red carpets, so, you know, I'm resting up
10:50for 2026, but the wedding, you know.
10:54Which of these luminous pairings is hashtag couple goals to you?
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