During an appearance on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2019, Rodriguez was shown a video of himself from 1998. In the video, a reporter asked the former baseball player about his dream date and, without hesitation, he named Lopez.

“That means that dreams actually do come true in America,” Rodriguez told Fallon, joking about how confident he was at that age. “It took me 20 years.”

Rodriguez got engaged to Lopez in March 2019 after dating for two years. They announced the end of their relationship and two-year engagement via a joint statement to the Today show in April 2021.

Victoria Beckham said that David Beckham was her first celebrity crush

“It’s about creative visualisation,” the clothing designer said while answering rapid-fire questions on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in November 2019. The Spice Girls singer also said that she honestly didn’t have any other famous crush before David.

“Love at first sight does exist,” she told British Vogue of meeting her future husband in 1997. “It will happen to you in the Manchester United players’ lounge – although you will get a little drunk, so exact details are hazy.”

The couple got married in 1999 and have four kids together: Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz, and Harper.

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Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) was a Belieber before marrying Justin Bieber

Hailey and Justin first met in 2009 at NBC’s Today show after being introduced by her dad, actor/producer Stephen Baldwin. Hailey and her father also posed with Justin at the premiere of the singer’s 2011 movie Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and fans have unearthed old tweets from Hailey that were about Justin.

The Intentions singer even joked about her crush on him in 2019, posting a photo of the model on his Instagram story and writing: “People always asked me if I’d marry a Belieber, well I did!!!”

“I was never a superfan, of him or of anyone,” Hailey told Vogue in a 2019 cover story. “It was never that crazed, screaming thing. I didn’t think about it in any kind of way except for the fact that he was cute. Everybody had a crush on him.”

The two stars dated non-exclusively for a few years, got married in 2018 at a courthouse, and had a formal ceremony the following year.

Josh Duhamel expressed interest in ex-wife Fergie before their relationship

“I had a bit of a crush on her before I even met her,” Duhamel said of his ex-wife Fergie during an appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden in 2015. He asked the producers of his show at the time, Las Vegas, to get her group the Black Eyed Peas as a guest.

His plan worked, but the Transformers star was so nervous – he even planned his outfit the night before – that all he could tell Fergie was: “You’re hot.” According to People, Duhamel shared the same story during an interview with Best Life and called the singer “the crush of a lifetime”.

Duhamel and Fergie did start dating and got married in 2009. They also welcomed a son named Axl in 2013. Their separation was revealed four years later.

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Halsey had a crush on American Horror Story star Evan Peters before dating

In now-deleted tweets, Halsey wrote things years ago like: “Seriously Evan Peters stop making me attracted to alleged sociopaths and accused murderers” (referring to his AHS roles) and “Petition for Evan Peters to date me”.

Halsey and Peters started dating in 2019 and the couple made their red carpet debut while dressed as Sonny and Cher for a 100th episode celebration for AHS in late October.

The Clementine singer shared two photos of the couple on Instagram in honour of Peters’ 33rd birthday in January 2020 and wrote: “Happy birthday darling. I can’t imagine a world without you in it.”

That post, along with another of the pair holidaying in Iceland in February, was deleted from Halsey’s profile, confirming that they split.

Lisa Bonet was Jason Momoa’s childhood crush

Momoa told Esquire that Bonet was “literally my childhood crush”. But he, “Didn’t tell her that. I didn’t let her know I was a stalker until after we had the kids.”

“Ever since I was like, eight years old and I saw [Lisa] on the TV, I was like, ‘mummy, I want that one,’” Momoa told James Corden in 2017, referring to Bonet’s role as Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show. “Like, ‘I’m going to stalk you for the rest of my life and I’m going to get you.’”

Momoa and Bonet started dating in 2005, welcomed two children together named Lola and Nakoa-Wolf, and got legally married in 2017.

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Ariana Grande had “the biggest crush” on ex-fiancé Pete Davidson

Grande and Davidson met when she hosted and performed on NBC’s Saturday Night Live in March 2016. They didn’t start dating until 2018, but Grande told Jimmy Fallon that she had a crush on the comedian when they met.

“I had the biggest crush on him the whole time. Like, forever. Like, my friends used to make fun of me for all that stuff,” she told Fallon in August 2018.

Grande said that when she was on SNL, she left the writing room and “jokingly said to my tour manager, ‘I’m marrying him, 100 per cent’”. The pair started their whirlwind romance in 2018, dating, getting engaged, and then breaking up over the course of a few months.

Davidson was also interested in Grande when they met on SNL, telling Variety that he “was obviously ogling and trying not to be creepy”.

Joe Manganiello called now-wife Sofia Vergara his celebrity crush soon before they started dating

Speaking to People in 2014, the True Blood star was asked about what physical qualities he’s attracted to.

“Girls that do squats,” he said “I love a butt. Sofia Vergara, that’s it. She’s got that Latin thing going. She’s got the butt, she’s got curves, she’s got a beautiful face, beautiful hair, just gorgeous. And she’s feisty!”

Manganiello and Vergara wed in Florida in 2015, a year after they started dating. “I actually got married to my celebrity crush, my wife Sofia,” Manganiello told Mario Lopez’s daughter during an interview for Extra in 2017.

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Nick Cannon spoke about his crush on now ex-wife Mariah Carey in interviews

“At one point, I was like, ‘Imma get Mariah Carey,’” Cannon said on TV One’s Uncensored. “It turned from my celebrity crush to like, ‘Nah, she’s about to be my girlfriend.’ People were like, ‘You’re bugging. There’s no way you can get Mariah Carey.’ I was like, ‘Watch, I’m telling you.’”

Cannon went on to say that being vocal about his crush on the singer paid off, because they eventually met at the Teen Choice Awards and Carey mentioned that she heard about his crush.

“From that day, I knew that she knew, so I doubled down,” Cannon added.

Cannon and Carey went on to get married in 2008 and welcome twins named Moroccan and Monroe. Cannon filed for divorce in 2014 and it was finalised two years later.

Liam Payne auditioned for The X Factor in front of crush and judge Cheryl Cole, who he later had a child with

Payne first met Cole when he auditioned for the UK show in 2008 at 14 years old. Although he was eliminated, he returned two years later and that’s when One Direction was formed. In 2017, Payne told The Sun that he “always, always had a crush on her”.

Payne and Cole started dating in 2016 and welcomed a son named Bear the following year. They announced their split in July 2018.

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Machine Gun Kelly had a poster of Megan Fox from her GQ photo shoot in his bedroom when he was a teenager

“So that’s some full-circle,” the singer told GQ in his 2021 cover story. Machine Gun Kelly and Fox met in 2020 while filming the movie Midnight in the Switchgrass in Puerto Rico. They went on to pack on PDA in his music video for Bloody Valentine.

Since confirming their relationship, the couple has been seen on date nights and photographed on red carpets.