3 Celeb Couples Who Broke Up And Still Had To Work Together

Someone once said that you should never mix business with pleasure, but clearly that person didn’t work in Hollywood. When you’re pulling 17-hour days and filming on location nine months out of the year, there’s not really a whole lot of time to casually date. Unless, of course, you find love on set. But what happens when that that love turns sour?

It’s bad enough bumping into an ex around town, but having to work with them on a daily basis for an extended period of time? For most people, that’s the definition of hell. But as someone else once said, the show must go on — and unfortunately for these celebs, that person really did know what they were talking about. Here are 11 celebrity couples who broke up and had to continue to work together. (Awkward.)

1. Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder

   
    On The Vampire Diaries, Elena Gilbert (Dobrev) was constantly torn between brothers Damon (Somerhalder) and Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). IRL though, Dobrev was totally Team Somerhalder, dating him for three years before the couple broke things off in 2013 — proving that while Damon and Elena are totally endgame, Somerhalder and Dobrev sadly were not. They shared (very intimate) scenes for two more years before Dobrev finally left The Vampire Diaries in 2015. 
    

2.  Blake Lively and Penn Badgley

   

    

    This Gossip Girl couple dated for three years while filming the teen soap until they broke up in 2010. In the series finale, though, their characters ended up getting married during a flash-forward sequence. Art doesn’t always imitate life, I guess.
   
   

   3. Bella Hadid and The Weeknd

   

    

    OK, so maybe Bella and The Weeknd didn’t have it as bad as some exes who had to see each other every damn day on set. But they did have an awkward (and extremely meme-able!) encounter at the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show following their breakup just a few weeks prior.