Wedding! Divorce! Scandal! And taking celebrity relationships seriously… (original) (raw)

A decade after her divorce with Brad Pitt was finalized, Jennifer Aniston -the world's most famous single woman of a certain agefinally married again last month. And yet, even as her wedding to Justin Theroux took center stage on celebrity gossip news sites and made headlines on established news outlets like CNN and the BBC, 2015 might instead be remembered as the best year in ages for celebrity breakups. Like any other year, there has been a spate of routine splits -Megan Shelton. But the last few months have witnessed a number of more meaningful separations of high profile, long-lasting relationships. The second iteration of Bennifer (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner) ended amid allegations of an affair between Affleck and their children's nanny; the long-time rockstar couple Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale parted with gossip about his infidelity; and the 20year marriage of veteran Hollywood partners Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith ended in divorce. Perhaps the most upsetting news of 2015, however, was the bombshell that, after 40 years, the romance between Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog was overpossibly forever.

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