Wasilla is, apparently, not for lovers. Todd Palin reportedly offered his daughter Bristol a car to break up with her boyfriend Levi Johnston. After welcoming their son, Tripp, in December, Levi and Bristol split in March. But Levi has undoubtedly gotten the last laugh. While she’s at home with the baby, he’s out enjoying his 15 minutes of fame, and floating rumors that he’s penning a tell-all about the Palins.
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When you’re a tween pop star and you get dumped, there’s only one thing to do: Channel all that heartbreak into your guitar and sappy lyrics. Or at least that’s what Taylor Swift did when she was dumped by Joe Jonas during a 27-second telephone call. On “Forever and Always,” a single on her album, Fearless, Swift lamented: “I stare at the phone and he hasn’t called/ You can’t feel nothin’ at all.” The ultimate diss came, however, when the JoBros released a rebuttal, “Paranoid”: “Caught in a nightmare / Can't wake up/ That's why my ex is still my ex / I never trust a word she says / I'm running all the background checks / And she's freaking out."
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Rom-com’s go-to gal Jennifer Aniston is, yet again, unlucky in love. Sparks flew on set with Management costar Bradley Cooper, so they tried their love off the lot, going on a date at Manhattan’s Il Cantinori restaurant. But just a few weeks later, he was spotted out with Renée Zellweger, and called Aniston “just a friend”—a comment that apparently shocked and humiliated poor Jen.
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After just six months of marriage, Lost actress Emilie de Ravin separated from Josh Janowicz, and filed for divorce in June—right before shooting began for her New York-based film Remember Me. Now, she is rumored to be involved with co-star Robert Pattinson, Twilight’s vampire heartthrob, who’s four years her junior.
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When Nick Jonas first broke up with Miley Cyrus in 2007, the uber-poppy twosome had never gone public with their two-year relationship. Still, that didn’t stop Miley from feeling the pain: “At first I bawled for a month straight. I was so sad. I just went into this weird funk,” she told Seventeen magazine. But in June of this year, Miley found herself cast as heartbreaker—she ended her relationship with 20-year-old underwear model Justin Gaston, and is now supposedly “reconnecting” with Nick.
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The 23-year-old stunner is equally known for her tattoos and role in Transformers as she is for her mysterious love life. Though she was engaged to actor Brian Austin Green, the two called it off in July 2008—only to continue being photographed together, feeding rumors that they were back together. Still, it’s Fox who seems to be calling the shots—at the U.K. premiere of the second Transformers movie in June, the actress slyly told the media, "I'm what you would call single.” Her evasion hasn’t stopped rumors linking the beauty to Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf.
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America tuned in to Jon & Kate Plus Eight to watch the reality-TV duo’s strained relationship, so when their separation papers were finally inked at the end of June, few were surprised. Jon Gosselin, after all, had been cavorting with younger women, like 23-year-old schoolteacher Deanna Hummel. “Jon’s activities have left me no choice but to file legal procedures in order to protect myself and our children,” said Kate.
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When the twosome split after two years of dating in December 2008, the breakup was called “mutual and amicable.” However, some suggest it was rising-star Ginnifer who initiated the split, pointing to an interview Chris Klein did with Elle magazine in which he compared marriage to “being punched in the face.” But by starring on a hit HBO show— Big Love—and the perfectly timed He’s Just Not That Into You, Ginnifer is the clear winner here.
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One thing’s for sure: When Paris Hilton dumps someone, it’s anything but private. Though the heiress told E! in April that boyfriend Doug Reinhardt was going to be her future husband, she dumped him in a massive public spectacle. The couple reportedly got into a big fight at L.A. club Darkroom, where Hilton gave Reinhardt the boot before storming out of the club. But it was only until Doug made it back to Hilton’s gated community that he realized the breakup was final: Hilton had locked him out.
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Jessica Simpson will be relieved to know she’s not the only Newlywed without a partner: Her ex-husband, singer Nick Lachey, recently split from his girlfriend of two years, Vanessa Minnillo. But while the pair has officially stated that the breakup was mutual, rumors suggest it was Lachey who wanted to sing a different tune.
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LiLo seemed happy—for once—but then Ronson broke up with her in a way that shed new light on the words Mean Girls. The DJ and her family ganged up on Lohan in April, shutting her out of a party at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Ronson changed the locks on the house, and her family pursued a restraining order against Lohan. The redhead responded: “I’m just really hurt. The whole situation is sick.”
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When Jessica Simpson readied for her 29th birthday last week, she never could have guessed what she’d get from her boyfriend, quarterback Tony Romo: a big fat breakup. The Dallas Cowboys quarterback dumped “Yoko Romo”—as Cowboys fans call her—last Thursday, and she’s “heartbroken” as a result. According to a source, “She loves Tony. But its been difficult lately.” But evidently the feeling isn’t mutual: Romo was spotted at a Hollywood hot spot on Friday (the night of Jessica’s birthday, no less) with a posse of friends, where, according to sources, he chatted with ladies and sipped Grey Goose.
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