5 Celebrities Who Almost Got Married

At the risk of sounding like the second-best song from Dirty Dancing, love is strange. Throw fame into the mix and all hell is bound to break loose. Celebrities meet, fall in love, and pop the question in a romantic proposal they'll later have their publicists leak to Us Weekly. Sometimes it all ends up happily ever after. Sometimes it ends in divorce. Sometimes it doesn't even make it down the aisle, culminating in tears and magazine covers with two headshots slashed by the jagged line of heartbreak. It's like The Bachelor, times a million.While Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus ' rekindled romance is a reminder that we should never give up hope on our favorite lovebirds, it's almost mind-boggling to consider some of the famous folks who went through a proposal, flashed a ring, contemplated growing old together, and maybe even went to Williams-Sonoma and registered for some Le Creuset. Like, Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland could have been grandparents by now. Nicole Kidman very nearly became her Big Little Lies costar Zoë Kravitz's stepmom. More alarmingly: Guys, we almost missed out on Zigi and TomKat.It's hard to imagine these stars picking out china patterns and debating the merits of chocolate ganache over cream cream cheese icing, but they almost certainly did — before it all went wrong, anyway. But hey: Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.

Cameron Diaz & Jared Leto
The title of "hottest couple of the early aughts" goes to Cameron Diaz and Jared Leto, who dated from 1999 to 2003. The pair got engaged in 2000, but never made it down the aisle. Diaz eventually married Good Charlotte rocker Benji "The Twin Who's NOT Married To Nicole Richie" Madden in a 2015 ceremony attended by Leto's own mother, Constance. Her ex remains single, simply waiting for us to cash in on our long-standing Jordan Catalano crush.

Evan Rachel Wood & Marilyn Manson
Try to keep up with this one. In between relationships with future ex-husband Jamie Bell (they started dating in 2005, broke up in 2006, got back together in 2011, got married in 2012, had a baby in 2013, and — deep breath — separated in 2014), Wood very nearly became the second Mrs. Marilyn Manson. The Westworld actress was just 18 when she began dating the rock star in January 2007, which resulted in her starring in his video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses." They briefly split up in November 2008, then reunited and announced their engagement in early 2010. The couple broke up for good that November.

Lenny Kravitz & Nicole Kidman

The Big Little Lies actress, now happily married to country singer Keith Urban, confirmed that she once almost wed Kravitz, which would have made her costar Zoe Kravitz's stepmother. She dated the rocker around 2003-2004, after her divorce from Tom Cruise.

Kiefer Sutherland & Julia Roberts

The only "designated survivor" in this relationship was Jason Patric, who famously ran off to Ireland with Roberts when she bailed three days before her 1991 wedding to Sutherland. Runaway Bride: not just a film.