Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, who were recently caught canoodling backstage at the Golden Globes, fueled the rumor mill of their co-star romance — the pair star together in the upcoming romantic comedy “The Bounty Hunter” — when Butler joined Aniston and 50 of her closest friends to celebrate the mega-star’s 41st birthday in Cabo San Lucas. (READ THE PAGE SIX STORY HERE)
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Gerard Butler isn’t the first co-star that has been romantically linked with Jennifer Aniston. The “Friends” star and Vince Vaughn went through a real-life split after the two became close while filming the 2006 comedy “The Break-Up.”
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Mr. and Mrs. Pitt, aka Brangelina, met while working on the movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” After playing married spies in the movie, the two became a couple shortly after Brad Pitt left girl-next-door Jennifer Aniston to take up with the sultry Angelina Jolie. Click on to see which other co-stars listened to their on-screen chemistry.
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Angelina Jolie has a knack for finding her beaus on set – her and Billy Bob Thornton, who made headlines for wearing each other’s blood-filled vials as necklaces, worked together on the film “Pushing Tin.”
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Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams met while filming the ultimate couple’s film “The Notebook.”
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner played respective screen superheroes “Daredevil” and “Elektra” before becoming an item.
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“Gigli” wasn’t exactly the best career move for either Jennifer Lopez or Ben Affleck when the twosome took their romance on-screen in the 2003 bust.
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Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan met while working on ABC’s hit spy show “Alias.”
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“Gossip Girl” stars Blake Lively and Penn Badgley met while working on the set of one of the hottest shows on TV.
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“Heroes” Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere shed their on-screen alter-egos and fell for each other on the set of NBC’s superhero drama.
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Evangeline Lilly and Dominic Monaghan met while filming JJ Abrams’ “Lost.”
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Kate Hudson chose Owen Wilson over on-screen hubby Matt Dillon in “You, Me and Dupree.”
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Jake Gyllenhaal…
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and Reese Witherspoon met on the set of “Rendition.”
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“Cruel Intentions” brought together exes Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe back in 1999.
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“Scooby Doo” stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr., who met and began dating on the set of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” solved mysteries together in the films based on the popular cartoon.
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Susan Sarandon went for baseball player Tim Robbins in “Bull Durham” both on and off the screen.
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Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger played husband and wife in the critically acclaimed “Brokeback Mountain.”
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Warren Beatty and Annette Bening were one of the first to take their on-screen relationship (“Bugsy”) into the real world.
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Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty became a real-life “Bonnie and Clyde,” after they worked together on the 1967 film about the bandit couple.
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Penelope Cruz met Tom Cruise while the two worked together on the set of “Vanilla Sky.”
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Tom first fell in love with the mother of his children, Nicole Kidman, on the 1990 set of “Days of Thunder.”
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Courteney Cox and David Arquette played a reporter and a cop who fell in love during a murdering spree in “Scream.” The two took their on-screen romance and ran with it, as they are now happily married.
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor met while filming “Doctor Faustus.”
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Matt Damon and Minnie Driver became a couple after “Good Will Hunting.”
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Two of the pop icons of the 1940’s, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, fell in love while filming “Woman of the Year.”
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Teen Idols Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens met while starring alongside each other in the wildly popular “High School Musical” series.
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I want to hold your… scissorhands? Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder became a couple after they worked together on Tim Burton’s “Edward Scissorhands.”
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Rachel Bilson and Adam Brody were high school sweethearts on “The O.C.”
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Rachel Bilson also met current beau Hayden Christensen while working on the 2008 film “Jumper.”
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Meg Ryan left her husband for her “Proof of Life” co-star Russell Crowe.
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Jude Law and Sienna Miller fell in love while filming “Alfie.”
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Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin made their romantic escape after the remake of “The Getaway” — the original coupled co-stars Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw.
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Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson, who is now married to Ryan Reynolds, got steamy during and after “The Black Dahlia.”
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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman were a couple in “A Long Hot Summer.”
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Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon became a couple after working together on “The Woodsman.”
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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell met while the two filmed “Swing Shift.” Once they became a couple, they also did the 1987 comedy “Overboard” and have remained one of Hollywood’s few long-lasting loves.
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Robert Rodriguez directed girlfriend Rose McGowan and her machine-gun leg in “Planet Terror.”
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The marriage of Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray, who fell in love on “One Tree Hill,” failed to outlast the still-running CW drama.
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Clark Gable and Loretta Young answered “The Call of the Wild” as they dated after working on the movie adaptation of the Jack London classic.
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Claire Danes and Billy Crudup met on the set of “Stage Beauty.”
