In June 2019, the duo announced their separation and the Originals alum filed for divorce one year later. Roerig was previously linked to Accola while working on the CW series. He made headlines in 2013 when he sought sole custody of his daughter, Fiona, who was born in 2011, after his ex Alanna Turner was incarcerated for multiple crimes. At the time, White also revealed how the couple managed to celebrate their anniversary during the coronavirus pandemic. In January 2019, Dobrev admitted that she didn’t find it “weird” that she was friends with Somerhalder and Reed despite her history with the Smallville alum.

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Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder played on again, off again, lovers on CW’s The Vampire Diaries—the duo dated for about three years, from 2010 to 2013. But Cline and Stokes aren’t the only actors who have had to fake being in love despite breaking up. Dobrev’s Elena and Davis’ Alaric wouldn’t have made it far on the show (even if he didn’t die). While “The Vampire Diaries” pretty much lets anything go, and student-teacher relationships isn’t something that TV has been shying away from recently (cough “Pretty Little Liars” cough), Alaric did end up becoming Elena’s guardian. Ian and Nina have a great relationship because they are totally committed to each other. They also use the Jay Z and Beyonce method of keeping their relationship on the down low.

Although there’s nothing wrong with shipping a celeb couple, perhaps the fandom put too much pressure on the pair, making their relationship more work than fun. Our suspicion rests on what Somerhalder had to say about Delena fans in September 2019 at a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of the series’ premiere, during which he talked about the popular ship. “Yeah, they were mean to like my family and me, and it just got really weird for a little while. I shipped Elena and Damon like crazy until the ship just got negative.” Yikes. It’s actually fairly common for people to meet through work and fall in love. In fact, Mic revealed that 17 percent of the respondents to their survey met their significant other at a job.

It’s likely the two were at very different places in their lives due to their big age difference, and that can definitely cause waves in a relationship. They are currently still married and had a daughter in July of 2017. It was about a year after breaking up with Dobrev that Somerhalder started dating Reed. After Dobrev posted the dinner picture, Reed took to Instagram for a similar follow-up.

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He continued, “I’ve never seen anyone so capable and inspiring. Thank you my beautiful wife for showing us all that our dreams are possible with hard work, determination with purpose. I’m in awe…” Ahead of the opening of Reed’s holiday pop-up shop for her sustainably jewelry collection, Bayou with Love, Somerhalder took a moment to honor his wife’s hard work on Instagram. Reed had previously shared that she and Somerhalder would take “one month of silence” after the birth in her cover story for Fit Pregnancy and Baby.

May 2013: Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev split after three years together

Fans of the CW series will remember Jow from the first three seasons when she played a vampire named Anna, and later a ghost. Post breakup with Somerhalder, rumors were circulating that the split occurred because the actor was ready to settle down but Dobrev wasn’t. Tweets from the pair had other fans speculating that some bigger drama occurred between the two – possibly cheating. Claire — who played Rebekah Mikaelson on TVD and its spin-off, The Originals – said that Nina and Ian were able to maintain a positive work environment after their breakup.

After Dobrev introduced her to Joe King at a 2012 Super Bowl event, the duo started dating and became engaged the following year. The Vampires Diaries, which aired from 2009 to 2017, focused on the inhabitants in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. Fans quickly found themselves invested not only in the romantic relationships explored on the show, but also the ones in real life.

Speaking of Dobrev’s meetups with Somerhalder and Reed, the trio grabbed dinner in 2017, with both ladies sharing messages about the experience. Well, it turns out that there were several reasons these TV actors didn’t work as a couple. “Still hurt abt Nina and Ian’s breakup tbh,” one fan tweeted in 2014 about the split, while someone else wrote in 2018, “It’s been 4 Years and I’m only sad and obsessed with Ian and Nina’s breakup now.” See?

Possibly the most adorable BFFs in this list, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki are brothers on Supernatural and very much like real brothers in life. As much as bad boy Dean gives studious Sam a hard time on the show, it’s quite the opposite with the outgoing IndonesianCupid Padalecki and shy singer Ackles. Most of us know what it’s like to work with a difficult coworker, but having to pretend to be that person’s BFF or lover onscreen every week has to be a lot harder than bearing an annoying person’s presence at a meeting.

Their relationship was rocky, but behind-the-scenes the actors Candice Accola and Zach Roerig really hit it off. After Ian and Nina split, they still had to portray themselves as lovers in the series. Of their relationship, Dobrev said that she ‘fought her feelings’ for quite some time before finally giving into Somerhalder. It was her choice to avoid dating her co-stars, and she said above all, she wanted to maintain a level of professionalism when it came to relationships both and off-screen.

A photo was seen of the two of them snorkeling in Australia at the Great Barrier Reef, and another snapped at Daintree Rainforest. On their second travel adventure, they even brought some family along with them. Looking back, it’s also been rumored that Dobrev has dated co-workers in the past – including one actor from her time on Degrassi. The two knew each other for roughly a year before beginning to spend time with one another outside of the set. Even though they were seen in multiple locations (around the world!), neither of them would confirm a relationship until the following year. They welcomed their daughter, Charlotte, in 2013 and their son, Theodore, in 2015.

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Despite being broken up, the two put aside their differences to film the very steamy season 5 premiere episode. Holt clearly shares Rebekah’s maternal side as the proud mother of two children whom she shares with her husband Andrew Joblon. The actor revealed she was dating the real-estate executive in July 2017 while they were enjoying an Italian getaway, according to People.

Weeks later, they were photographed while going for a bike ride together in Malibu. One month later, a source told Us that the twosome have been “living together” amid the coronavirus pandemic. They were spotted on a romantic trip in Tulum, Mexico, in August 2020. Despite the fact that Elena was completely in love with Stefan, Damon’s brother, on the show, Ian Somerhalder is the vamp who won her real-life heart.

When asked about their relationship, Graham said that like the show, the two have always been more like friends than mother and daughter. Even writer/co-producer Joshua Safran said of the pair, “Blake and Leighton were not friends. They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair. Yet the second they’d be on set together, it’s as if they were.” It’s one of the most famous cases of frenemy-ship on television. Gossip Girl stars Blake Lively and Leighton Meester may not have been the fangs bared, claws-out, hated enemies of one another that the tabloids made them out to be, but the two were definitely not friends. They’ll probably still make goofy videos together as octogenarians, and hopefully we’ll get to see them onscreen together more often by then. Some speculated the statement was made just to put down any rumors that the two had a relationship but others say it indicates just how unfriendly the pair may have been off screen.