Photos from Stars Who've Served as Matchmaker for Their Celebrity Friends
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If we're thinking out loud, then we'd have to add to our list of celebrity matchmakers. After all, the singer connected with during a, um, casual night with friends in 2013.
"What happened was Ed said, 'Can I have some friends over this weekend? 'I said, ‘Of course,'" the Friends star said on a 2022 episode of The Howard Stern Show. "And he invited Johnny, —both of them from —, just some great musicians, and they all came over. And I had a fun group anyway. It was and , and [] was there."
In fact, it was now exes Isla and Sacha who really broke the ice.
"Isla went up to Sacha and said, 'Sacha, Courteney wants to go out with Johnny," Courteney continued. "So, Sacha walks up to Gary and Johnny—and I'm going to cuss now—and says, 'Hey, Courteney wants to f--k one of you from Snow Patrol, and it's not you Gary.'"
Today, she and Johnny are still going strong.
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The story of how met husband is the sweetest thing—and it involves his brother and .
"They didn’t set us up, but we were in the same room because of them," the Charlie’s Angels star explained on a 2021 episode of Anna Faris Friends. "And then we found each other."
Cameron and Benji found each other at a 2014 barbecue she was hosting and got engaged by the end of that year. The actress and the band member tied the knot in 2015 and are now parents to daughter and son .
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Celebrity matchmakers looking to level up may want to consult and .
After all, the singer and the quarterback set up and , who announced their engagement in March 2025.
"@Russell Wilson and I knew when we introed yall 3yrs ago ..love was truly in the air!" Ciara wrote on TikTok alongside a screenshot of her and Russell FaceTiming the alum and the wide receiver as they showed off her engagement ring. "Now yall gon be booed up for forever!! This was the best news! @DK Metcalf @Normani we love yall so much!"
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and can thank for the dawn of their relationship.
"He's a very good friend of mine," she said about the Twilight alum on a March 2025 episode of The Masked Singer. "He actually introduced me to my husband."
As the "How We Do (Party)" singer and the Jojo Rabbit director explained to Vogue Australia, the meet-cute occurred at a barbecue Taika was hosting in L.A. that sparked a yearslong friendship before it turned romantic in 2021 and they wed the following year.
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isn’t going to shake off the role he played in and 's romance.
“I like to take some of the credit,” the Chiefs quarterback said on a May 2024 episode of The Pat McAfee Show. “I was the one who invited Travis to the first Taylor concert when the friendship bracelet was—he was sitting in my suite. So, I feel like I was the matchmaker. I had some input in there as well. I was like, ‘Dude, just go for it.’”
Still, Patrick wasn’t the only one cheering them on.
"There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: Yo! Did you know he was coming?” Travis told WSJ. Magazine in November 2023 months after the enchanting concert. “I had somebody playing Cupid.”
While there’s a blank space as to who he was referring to, fans have got a list of names and ’ is in red underlined. Especially because the sports reporter and her podcast cohost encouraged Taylor to give Travis a chance on an August 2023 episode of their show—with Travis later writing on Instagram, “I owe you big time!!"
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didn't exactly have a suite, er, sweet impression of fiancé when she met him in 2014 at the house of her Dads costar .
However, they got another chance at love when they reunited in 2017 for Seth's movie Changeland that was filmed in Thailand."When we were there, Mack and I, we worked a total of 10 days, and we were there for six weeks and started hanging out. And I thought he was gonna be my BFF," Brenda recalled on a March 2025 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. "And I was like, 'Oh wait, I kind of have a crush on him.' And then I thought I was going to have my first fling, and that fling has turned into almost eight years and two kids."
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When met in 2014, she didn't know he'd become her dear future husband.
"I was 18 years old as a baby songwriter out here in L.A., and I was at a songwriter Hollywood party and he crashed it with two of his friends," the "All About That Bass" singer said on a November 2022 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. "And I was like, 'Spy Kids is here!' I went right to him. I usually fangirl so hard and I don't say anything. But I went right to him and was like, 'Are you Spy Kids?' And he was like, 'Yeah,' and was really nice.'"
However, their paths crossed again two years later thanks to .
"I was like, 'I want a nice guy. I'm sick of all these mean guys. I want a nice guy,'" Meghan recalled. "And she's like, 'My best friend's the nicest guy.'"
So, she and Daryl went on a double date with Chloë and then-boyfriend . And as Meghan, who wed the Spy Kids actor in 2018 and shares kids and with him, put it, "We've never been apart ever since."
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Don’t want to be out of the loop on how met ? Well, it turns out Jensen Ackles—who worked with Jeffrey on Supernatural and whose wife Danneel Ackles appeared on One Tree Hill with Hilarie—set them up on a blind date in 2009.
"I happened to be single, and Jensen said, 'I’ve got a girl you should meet,'" The Walking Dead star told HuffPost in 2015. "And so I went to a bar, and I met Hilarie at a bar with Jensen and Danneel."
Afterwards, he continued, they went back to his house for some tequila (though Hilarie had to leave for North Carolina the next day).
"She was really cool," Jeffrey added, going on to share how they stayed in touch. "I was on my way to do a movie called The Resident in New Mexico. She was on her way to Paris, and I talked her into, instead of going to Paris, come and see me in New Mexico."
In 2010, the couple welcomed son Augustus, and daughter George came eight years later. Hilarie and Jeffrey, who live with their family on a farm in upstate New York, then wed in 2019.
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