Lady Gaga & Taylor Kinney Are on a Break: 5 Couples Who Got Back Together After Splitting

The pop star confirmed on July 19 they "have been taking a break"

By Corinne Heller Jul 20, 2016 5:33 PMTags
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It is over over for Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney?

The 30-year-old pop star confirmed on Instagram late Tuesday she and her Chicago Fire star fiancé "have been taking a break," some five years after they began dating and more than a year after they got engaged. He has not commented about their separation.

The news comes following several weeks in which Lady Gaga has been spotted without the giant heart-shaped diamond engagement ring Kinney, 35, gave her when he proposed. 

Her statement of course stirred speculation the pair, one of the most popular in Hollywood, may reconcile.

Check out 5 other celebrity couples who have gotten back together after breaking up.

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1. Patrick Dempsey and wife Jillian Dempsey: In January 2015, she filed for divorce from the 50-year-old actor, with whom she shares three children, after 15 years of marriage. The two were since been spotted together several times, including in February, when they packed on the PDA during a vacation in St. Barts.

This past May, the court told Jillian she must file additional documents to complete the divorce proceedings or the case will be thrown out. In an interview published in the U.K. newspaper The Evening Standard's ES magazine that month, Patrick was asked if the two had reconciled.

"Yeah, I think so," he said.

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2. Kylie Jenner and Tyga: The 18-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star and 26-year-old rapper started dating in October 2014 and have undergone two super short public breakups.

Last November, around the time of the rapper's 26th birthday, a source told E! News at the time that the two "were on a break." Kylie and Tyga soon reconciled and appeared cozy in one of her Snapchat photos. She later said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show she and her beau were not "broken up."

In May, E! News learned the two had split again. A source said, "It was a long time coming." A month later, a source said Kylie and Tyga had "started seeing each other again romantically" but were "not back together officially."

However, the two appeared to grow closer over the next few weeks, showing some PDA on Snapchat and at her sister Khloe Kardashian's 32nd birthday party, at the Los Angeles premiere for her brother-in-law Kanye West's "Famous" music video, on a movie date and en route to a flight out of Los Angeles International Airport.

Kylie even referred to Tyga as her "husband" in a Snapchat video. Earlier this month, she posted a photo of the two with the caption, "Mr. and Mrs." She also shocked fans when she stepped out with a giant diamond ring. Two sources told E! News the reality star is not engaged.

"Kylie has brought up marriage with Tyga to her friends lately, both jokingly and seriously," one of them told E! News, adding that the two "have talked about it before too."

The two are "doing really well again," the source added. "They are super in love! Every time they take time apart, they come back closer than ever."

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3. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth: The 23-year-old pop star and actress and 26-year-old actor two met in 2009, when she was 16, on the set of their romantic drama film The Last Song and soon began dating, making their red carpet debut as a couple at the movie's Hollywood premiere in March 2010. They broke up months later and got back together the following year.

In March 2012, they sparked engagement rumors when Cyrus debuted a diamond ring. In June, their engagement was confirmed.

In February 2013, they spurred breakup rumors and Cyrus said a month later she did not call off their wedding. The rumors continued for months.

Meanwhile, Cyrus shocked the world with a racy, twerking performance at the 2013 MTV VMAs, which "embarrassed" Hemsworth, a source told E! News, adding, "He had no idea she was going to go that far."

Weeks later, in September 2013, the two split and engaged their engagement. A source told E! News the breakup was "Miley's decision" and that the singer believed her fiancé had been "less than faithful to her." Hemsworth did not comment at the time. He said in an interview with GQ Australia several weeks ago that their breakup was "hard," "but at the time we were going in different directions and it's just what needed to happen."

"We were both super young and it was a good decision at the time—we both needed that," he said.

Fans had speculated Cyrus' hit ballad "Wrecking Ball" was about Hemsworth and confirmed via an expletive-filled rant at London's G.A.Y. club that the track was about heartbreak.

In 2014, Miley sparked a relationship with Patrick Schwarzenegger. They called it quits after several months.

In September 2015, Cyrus told Elle U.K. magazine, "Me and Liam are still so close and we love each other." This past January, she and Hemsworth were spotted "cuddling and kissing" at the Falls Music Festival in Byron Bay in his native Australia. She returned to the United States wearing the Neil Lane engagement ring Hemsworth had given her originally. Sources told E! News the two had gotten re-engaged.

Over the next few months, Cyrus and Hemsworth's sister-in-law Elsa Pataky would hang out together, and even get marching tattoos. In April, she and her beau attended the premiere of Pataky's husband and Hemsworth's brother Chris Hemsworth's film The Huntsman: Winter's War together.

The two have since been spotted out together several times, including last weekend, when they stepped out of a restaurant and gleefully made obscene gestures at the paparazzi. Cyrus also recently posted on her Instagram page the first photo of Hemsworth since they got back together. In the pic, the actor appears with a dog the singer helped him adopt back in November 2015.

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4. Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik: The 21-year-old model and 23-year-old former One Direction singer got together in late 2015 and made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 2016 Met Gala in May. They broke up soon afterwards after dating on and off. They most recently reconciled in June. That month, Malik canceled a show at London's Capital Summertime Ball, saying he had "suffered the worst anxiety of my career." Hadid took to Twitter to voice her support and love for him.

"Things are back to normal with them," a source close to Malik told E! News exclusively at the time. "They got through a rough patch that Zayn was facing personally and it started to put a dark cloud on their relationship. Gigi was there for him when he needed her the most and that brought them closer than ever."

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5. Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green: The 30-year-old Transformers actress and the 43-year-old Beverly Hills, 90210 alum soon began dating in 2004 after meeting on the set of her show Hope & Faith.

They got engaged in 2006 and called it quits in 2009. In June 2010, they got back together and got re-engaged. The couple wed that month and welcomed their first child together, son Noah, in 2012. His younger brother Bodhi was born in February 2014.

In August 2015, Fox filed for divorce from Green after five years of marriage. They were spotted together a couple of months later and this past April, Fox shocked onlookers when she debuted a baby bump at a red carpet event. It was soon confirmed Green is the dad and a source told E! News he and the actress are not getting divorced "anytime soon."

"Brian and Megan been working on themselves as individuals and things have gotten better between them as a couple," the insider said. "They admire each other on how they are as parents and are looking forward to bringing their third child into this world. Megan's favorite thing is being a mom and spending time with her family. They are living together not separately."

"They have been getting along great," the source added. "They are best friends and know each other very well." 

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