Talk about a second chance!
Love it like lightning – it rarely strikes twice. Most exes stay separate, but some people decide to give their relationship a second chance. Sometimes, divorced couples may make another attempt at their marriage.
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Is it always a good idea? no.
Here are 14 celebrity couples who broke up and then remarried:
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton met on the set Cleopatra in 1963.
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At the time, she was married to Eddie Fisher, and he was married to Sybil Christopher, whom he divorced that year. The Taylor and Burton case became such an international scandal that the Vatican condemned it.
In 1964, Taylor divorced Fisher and married Burton.
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Five years later, he gifted her the Taylor Burton diamond, which was worth $1 million.
In 1974, they divorced.
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However, they reunited and married again in 1975, only to divorce again in 1976.
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Pamela Anderson married professional poker player Rick Salomon in October 2007.
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They separated after two months, and their marriage was annulled in 2008.
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The couple got back together in 2013 and tied the knot for the second time in 2014.
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However, they separated again that summer, and then separated the following year.
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NeNe Leakes and Gregg Leakes married in 1997.
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They welcomed a son in 1999.
In 2010 – two years after joining The Real Housewives of Atlanta – They broke up. Their divorce was finalized in 2011.
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However, they engaged for the second time on New Years Eve in 2013.
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Five months later, they married again. Their wedding ceremony was broadcast on the series Bravo I dream about NeNe: the wedding.
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They were together until his death in 2021.
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Marie Osmond married professional basketball player Steve Craig in 1982.
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They had 4,000 guests in attendance.
Two years later, they welcomed their son.
People told Osmond that her career was over, and that her marriage “had some problems”. So in 1985, they divorced.
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After that, it made its way to the top of the country music charts. In 1986, she married Brian Blossell.
After Osmond and Blosel divorced in 2007, she “never wanted to marry again,” but reconnected with Craig through their son.
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They married again in 2011 – a few months before their son’s wedding.
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Sinbad was drafted into the Air Force when he met then-undergraduate student Meredith Fuller Adkins. They married in 1985.
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They divorced in 1992, and she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as an accountant while earning her bachelor’s degree.
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10 years after their divorce, they got back together and had a second wedding.
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Their family starred in a reality show called Sinbad: It’s just family in 2011.
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Jose Ferrer was married to Phyllis Hill when he started dating fellow actress Rosemary Clooney (George Clooney’s aunt). In 1953, Hill divorced and married Clooney.
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In 1961, Clooney divorced Ferrer because of his infidelity.
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He had an affair with Stella Magee.
However, three years later, Clooney and Ferrer married again.
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They separated for the second time in 1967.
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10 years later, he married Maggie.
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Dionne Warwick met actor/drummer William Elliott when she was a backup vocalist for his band. They married in 1966.
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In 1967, they divorced, but later that year, they got back together and married again.
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In 1975, they divorced again because her success hurt Ena.
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She told The Guardian, “I’ve been the main force for making money in the family, and that’s very difficult for my male ego. It became too much for my husband to bear, and we decided it would be best for us to part ways.”
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera first married in 1929.
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After several relationships on both sides, they separated in 1939.
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However, a year later, she agreed to marry him on two conditions – she would not accept any more money from him, and she would not sleep with him.
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They remained together until her death in 1954.
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Estée Lauder (née Mentzer) met Joseph Lauder in the late twenties. They married in 1930, moved to Manhattan, and both changed the family name to Lauder to correct a spelling mistake made when his father immigrated to the United States from Austria.
However, they married again in 1942, and then launched their cosmetics company in 1946.
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They were together until his death in 1982. They also had two children.
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love boatGavin MacLeod married dancer Patti Kendig in 1974.
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In 1982, they divorced.
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However, they married again in 1985. He wrote about their reunion in his 1987 book Back on Track: The Fascinating Story of a Divorce That Ended in Remarriage.
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They remained together until his death in 2021.
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Shortly after his divorce from Justin Wilson, Elon Musk met Talulah Riley at a bar. They married in 2010.
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In 2012, they divorced after a trial separation. At the time, he tweeted that he would “love her forever” and that she would “make someone very happy someday.”
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Just 18 months after their divorce, they remarried, but he filed for divorce again on New Year’s Eve in 2014.
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Seven months later, he withdrew the divorce papers, but she filed again shortly thereafter. They divorced in 2016.
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Paul Hogan was a teenager when he met Noelen Edwards at the pool where he was working as a lifeguard. They married in 1958.
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They had five children together.
The couple separated in 1981.
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They married again in 1982.
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However, they separated again in 1989.
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marry him Crocodile Dandy Costar Linda Kozlowski a year later.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme married actress/bodybuilder Gladys Portugues in 1987.
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They had two children together.
In 1992, they divorced.
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He then married Darcy LaPierre from 1994 to 1997.
They married again in 1999, then filed for divorce in 2015.
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However, they eventually decided to stay together, and withdrew the divorce papers.
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Finally, Judy Sheinlin (née Bloom) – also known as Judge Judy – married fellow Judge Jerry Sheinlin in 1977.
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After her father’s death in 1990, she was frustrated by her husband’s inability to take care of her in her grief, so she gave him an ultimatum—”If you can’t maneuver, I’ll divorce you.”
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“Oh, yes? I dare you,” he replied, and handed him the divorce papers the next day.
However, a year later, they got back together and married again. They’ve been together ever since.
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