10 Broken Celebrity Engagements You Probably Forgot
In Hollywood, getting down on one knee barely ever ends in a Happily Ever After-like wedding.In [...]
Britney Spears and Jason Trawick
Engaged for more than year, the singer and the former CAA agent split in January 2012.
"I'll always adore him and we will remain great friends," Spears told Us Weekly in a statement.
"As this chapter ends for us a new one begins," Trawick added. "I love and cherish her and her boys and we will be close forever."
prevnextKat Von D and Jesse James
Breaking the news via Twitter, the L.A. Ink tattoo artist let the world know she and her fiancé called it quits.
"I am no longer with Jesse, and out of respect for him, his family and myself, that's all the info I'd like to share. Thanks for respecting that."
prevnextJake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi
After a televised romance and a six-month engagement, the two Bachelor alums split, with Girardi selling the story to a tabloid.
The couple had been in trouble for a while, fighting over everything from his lack of intimacy to her spoiled dog.
prevnextJennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
Who doesn't remember "Bennifer"? The epic Hollywood couple's romance was a whirlwind for lovers of celebrity gossip.
Affleck made headlines when he visited a strip club, which reportedly made Lopez unhappy, and three days before they were set to tie the knot, the event was canceled.
prevnextKarina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy
After getting engaged New Year's Eve 2008, the Dancing With the Stars celebs called it quits in September.
He said on Twitter, "What was meant to be a 'life long book', turned into a 'chapter'.......and now that 'chapter' is finished."
prevnextMelissa Rycroft and Jason Mesnick
The first Bachelor change-up almost more traumatizing than what happened to Becca Kufrin.
The Bachelor gave the former Dallas Cowboy the final rose, and proposed, only to break things off six weeks later in a taped special. He decided to instead try to start a relationship with rejected finalist Molly Malaney.
prevnextJason Wähler and Katja Decker Sadowski
Wahler announced the split on Feb. 26.
"I have decided to end my engagement, and it's an amicable split," the former Hills star told Us. Wahler, who has also dated Lauren Conrad, says they're still good friends: "We agreed we are both just too young to be considering getting married right now."
prevnextJennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall
The Ghost Whisperer veteran pulled the plug on her wedding to the Scottish actor -- even after she'd bought a wedding dress, and set a date and location for her Spring 2009 destination wedding.
"We are working it out," McCall said of their drama-filled engagement. "We are both still wearing our rings."
She later married Brian Hallisay in 2013.
prevnextNicolette Sheridan and Michael Bolton
The couple ended their engagement after two years back in August 2008.
The couple, who dated for five years beginning in 1992, had rekindled their romance after Sheridan's split from fiance, Nicklas Soderblom in 2005.
"For me there's only been one person, and that's Michael," she said at the time.
prevnextKanye West and Alexis Phifer
A source close to the couple — who ended things in April 2008 after six-years together — told Us Weekly that Kanye "just couldn't keep it going — they are still friends and have broken up and gotten back together before, so it could work out."
West proposed to Phifer in 2006 while they vacationed in Italy and had said he wanted to honor his late mother's wishes to make their relationship official.
He'd later marry the love of his life Kim Kardashian West.
prev