17 Celebrity Couples That Everyone Thought Were Faking It For the Cameras

Lively had been spotted out with Leonardo DiCaprio just before she started dating her Green Lantern co-star Ryan Reynolds, making fans suspicious of the new romance. But it looks like Lively and Reynolds’ love was true: they’re currently married and expecting their first child together.

One easy way to drum up publicity for yourself (and your famous family?): start dating a member of One Direction. Allegedly, that’s just what the reality star did.

The boy bander was spotted out with Jenner in public, looking all sweet and teenager-y and stuff. While some 1D fans went “Aww!,” most rolled their eyes, figuring that this was just another way for the Kardashian-Jenner clan to keep their names in the tabloids.

After a very public divorce from Brad Pitt (maybe you’ve heard of that whole Brangelina thing?), Aniston was spotted cozying up to her rom-com co-star.

The stars of The Breakup began dating in 2006 while promoting their film, but certain media outlets claimed that their romance was all for show. To be fair, would you blame Aniston for wanting to show off a new dude in response to the love triangle the press wrapped her up in with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?

People had suspicions about the validity of Cruise’s relationship with this younger actress for years.

Rumor has it that Holmes and Cruise didn’t start dating organically — the Top Gun actor allegedly had several actresses “try out” for the role of his wife before Holmes was selected. The Dawson’s Creek actress also allegedly signed a nondisclosure agreement during their courtship, which is just a tad odd, considering they were both in the public eye.

Here’s one way to piss off your reality star ex: start dating her lookalike.

Model Molinaro is a dead ringer for the football player’s ex, Kim Kardashian, and even parodied her for an Old Navy commercial. (Kardashian must have died over that one.) Obviously it’s just a tad suspicious for a guy to date someone who looks like his ex for a living, which is why this romance seemed like more of a PR stunt than anything else.

The former Disney darling was spotted out with this up-and-coming starlet in 2012.

According to Blind Gossip, this short-lived relationship was a total sham set up by their shared agent to promote Collins’ film The Mortal Instruments. No big deal — it’s not like anyone was shipping “Lilac” that hard to begin with.

It was inevitable for the stars of Twilight to get together, but that doesn’t mean that their relationship had to be real.

Stewart and Pattinson were the romantic leads of Twilight (you know, just in case that slipped your mind) and began dating just before the film hit theaters. Critics accused the couple of using their fauxmance to promote the movie, but Pattinson fired back, saying that if their love was a marketing tool then the notoriously private couple wasn’t utilizing it very well.

The American Idol host made people skeptical of his relationship when he gave his ex a very expensive gift.

According to reports, Seacrest gifted Safe Haven actress Hough a mansion after they announced that they were splitting up after three years together. People instantly started speculating that perhaps the house was a “thanks for being my fake girlfriend” gift — in which case, I’ll totally fake-date you, Seacrest.

I had so prayed that the romance between these two teen stars was a sham…

…Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it is. When Gomez and Bieber first hit events together, I assumed it was because both were young, hot stars trying to look young and hot together. And then all the drama happened, which made me think that, as terrible as this couple was and is together, they probably were really dating.

The Big Bang Theory star was spotted out and about with this up-and-coming actor.

The Man of Steel star was spotted hand-in-hand with the sitcom actress, but 12 days later the pair announced that they had split. Just a tad suspicious, no?

No one thinks that the reality star’s second marriage was more fake than her now-ex.

Kardashian called off her marriage to Humphries only 72 days after their “fairytale” wedding. The basketball star has since gone on the record to say that he felt used by Kardashian and that their marriage was nothing more than a sham — too bad he didn’t get the memo 72 days sooner.

The former Hannah Montana star met her then-fiancé on set of a Nicholas Sparks movie.

Hemsworth and Cyrus met in 2009 while playing romantic leads in The Last Song and quickly jumped into a relationship. They were on and off for years before getting engaged, but never walked down the aisle. Fans long speculated that the relationship, if it started out as real, became more and more artificial over time. Once Hemsworth scored one of the starring roles in The Hunger Games, the relationship fizzled out, which some suggested may have been because he was using Cyrus for fame. But hey, those are just the rumors.

The relationship between Goodwin and her now-husband seemed like a fairytale — as in, maybe too good to be true.

The Once Upon a Time co-stars play Snow White and Prince Charming on the show, so, duh, they should date offscreen. But while many fans thought it was weird that the couple fell hard for one another while playing such a romantic couple onscreen, this romance appears to be the real deal. The co-stars recently wed and had their first child together… just like their characters did on the show.

Paquin raised eyebrows when she started dating her True Blood love interest offscreen.

Whether you shipped Bill or Sookie or not (ugh, why would you?!), you have to admit that the now-married couple is pretty cute together. Still, fans speculated at the beginning of their relationship that their offscreen romance was all for the cameras — it was just too good to be true.

The Gone Girl actor met his now-wife when they were co-stars in a truly terrible superhero movie, Daredevil.

He was playing Daredevil. She was playing his love interest Elektra. The quick relationship between the co-stars screamed publicity stunt, but it couldn’t have been further from the truth — the couple is now married with two adorable kids, and even makes it a point to not do too much press together.

The Vampire Diaries star was spotted getting cozy with her pal’s brother — and the press screamed “fraud!”

Shortly after Dobrev and her co-star Ian Somerhalder ended their relationship, the CW star was spotted out with Julianne Hough’s younger brother and Dancing With the Stars pro Derek Hough. The six-week relationship was super PDA-heavy, making people wonder what the so-called couple was really trying to prove.

The youngest Jenner was accused of having her own mother orchestrate her dates with this A-Lister’s son.

Jenner firmly denied that momager Kris had anything to do with her dating Will Smith’s son, Jaden, and tweeted that she would never “waste her time” dating anyone for a “publicity stunt.” Whatever the relationship really was, it didn’t last very long.