29 Celebrity Couples That People Forgot About Really Quickly

Uma Thurman and Gary Oldman were actually husband and wife for a brief two-year stint. The pair connected while filming State of Grace and rushed down the aisle in 1990, despite a twelve-year age gap. Thurman was just twenty at the time, while Oldman was thirty-two.

The marriage burned out quickly, ending in 1992, and both stars have since looked back on the relationship as a "mistake," chalking it up to the chaos of youth and being at completely different stages in their lives.

It started with laughs on the set of Saturday Night Live in 2008, but the romance between Fred Armisen and Elisabeth Moss ended in anything but a comedy. The pair moved at lightning speed, announcing an engagement in January 2009 and tying the knot that October. The marriage collapsed just as quickly as it began, however, with a separation in mid-2010 and a finalized divorce in 2011.

Moss certainly didn't mince words when looking back on the union, famously describing the experience as "extremely traumatic and awful and horrible," though she did eventually concede that the split turned out for the best.

It felt like the ultimate early-nineties crossover when pop sensation Paula Abdul tied the knot with Brat Pack staple Emilio Estevez in April 1992. However, the marriage hit a wall just two years later, ending in mid-1994 over a fundamental disagreement about their future family.

While Abdul was eager to become a mother, Estevez was already raising two children from a previous relationship and realized he simply wasn't up for starting that chapter over again. It was a painful admission that ultimately drove them apart, with Abdul later describing the split as a heartbreaking necessity for both of them.

The unlikely worlds of rock and roll and professional cycling collided when Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong got together in 2003. For three years, they were one of the most talked-about couples in the public eye, a romance that seemed destined for the altar after they announced their engagement.

The ride came to a sudden halt when just five months after he popped the question, the pair announced their split in February 2006, ending a relationship that Armstrong later described as a surreal chapter in his life.

Nothing screams peak Y2K pop culture quite like the romance between American Pie star Tara Reid and MTV host Carson Daly. The two connected on the set of Total Request Live back in March 2000 and wasted no time getting serious, quickly moving into a New York City apartment together.

Daly popped the question on October 29 of that same year, but the engagement didn't last long enough for wedding bells to ring; by June 2001, the couple had officially called it quits.

There was a brief moment in 2002 when Janet Jackson and Matthew McConaughey actually crossed paths romantically. The spark lit up when the pair presented together at the Grammys, leading to swapped numbers and a dinner date.

While the actor insists it didn't go much further than that one meal, Jackson remembers it as a short-lived fling, admitting they dated "for a minute." Either way, it remains one of those incredibly random, blink-and-you-missed-it pop culture crossovers that we wish had lasted longer.

It feels like the ultimate collision of pop culture dynasties: Nicolas Cage, a man famously obsessed with Elvis, actually married the King's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. After crossing paths in 2000, the pair embarked on a romance that culminated in a Hawaiian wedding in August 2002.

The union burned hot and fast and Cage filed for divorce just 107 days after the ceremony, meaning the legal proceedings to finalize the split in 2004 took significantly longer than the marriage itself. Despite the chaotic, high-drama nature of their short-lived time as husband and wife, they managed to cool things down enough to remain friends afterward.

Way back in 1996, there was a brief moment when Seal and Tyra Banks were a standout item. The British singer and the American supermodel managed to keep their fling mostly under the radar, avoiding the usual tabloid frenzy.

They didn't hide completely, though. The pair famously stepped out together for the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo that May, offering a rare public glimpse of a romance that burned out after just a few months.

Talk about a cinephile’s dream match. From roughly 2003 to 2005, the film world watched two of its most distinct voices, Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino, become a romantic item. Their relationship coincided with a massive year for both directors, as 2003 saw the release of Coppola’s Lost in Translation and Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1.

The support between them was visible, too; Tarantino was famously photographed wearing a promotional t-shirt for Coppola’s film, proving that even while they were competing for box office attention, they were still each other's biggest fans.