Some celebrity couples are rooted for by their fans, eliciting coos when they’re seen out in public. Other celebrity couples annoy everybody from the moment they’re spotted arm-in-arm by the paparazzi. Which type of couple is more fun to read about? The annoying ones, of course. Here are the top 10 couples from that category.
10. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
The most annoying thing about married Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds is their smugness. For some unknown reason, they act like they’re better than everyone else all the time. Plus, rumor has it that Ryan Reynolds had an affair with Lively while married to America’s sweetheart, Scarlett Johansson. It’s hard to root for them after that.
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9. Katy Perry and Russell Brand
Though they’re now divorced, Katy Perry and Russell Brand knew how to be annoying in their day. Every time one of them spoke, their divorce became more and more imminent. Russell Brand admitted to being a sex addict before marrying Katy Perry and clearly viewed monogamy as an experiment, and Perry flirted like an irritating teenager. She describes the first time she met Brand: “I threw an empty water bottle at his head across Radio City Music Hall at the VMAs and it hit him straight in the head….” Their relationship was doomed from the beginning.
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8. Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez
Beliebers everywhere hated Gomez and Bieber when they were together, but they annoyed non-Beliebers too. Photos of the two kissing and grabbing at each other littered the tabloids. Even Taylor Swift got sick of it. In a famous clip from the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, Swift makes a face of disgust as Bieber and Gomez greet and kiss.
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7. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
Now divorced, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes made quite a name for themselves when Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch, professing his love for Holmes. “I’m in love! I’m in love. I can’t be cool. I can’t be laid-back. Something happened and I want to celebrate it,” Cruise declared on Oprah in 2005, embarrassing everybody but himself. The fact that they were scientologists only heightened the couple’s annoyance factor.
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6. Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison
This couple is more gross than annoying, but they’re still pretty annoying. Doug Hutchison is nowhere near an A-lister, but his marriage to 16-year-old Courtney Stodden threw him in the spotlight. The two are not shy about their intimacy at all at all and have openly discussed their sex life, with Stodden insisting that Hutchinson is “a tiger” in interviews.
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5. Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag
This couple drove everyone crazy with every attempt to get even more famous. After getting their start on “reality” show The Hills, they went on to call the paparazzi every chance they could. Among other famously irritating quotes, Pratt once said, “At one time, I definitely felt like we were the most famous people in the world. I love myself, what can I say?”
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4. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
The problem with these two is that they’re everywhere. Plus, Jennifer Aniston supporters have never been happy about this relationship, which appears to have begun when Pitt was still married to Aniston. Though the two are charitable and by all accounts good parents to their brood of children, they’re also extremely grating. Pitt has said such gag-inducing things like, “She’s still a bad girl, delightfully so. It’s not for public consumption,” when talking about Jolie.
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3. Taylor Swift and Every Boyfriend She’s Ever Had
Just one of Taylor Swift’s boyfriends isn’t annoying enough. Every person she’s ever dated (John Mayer, Joe Jonas, Harry Styles, et al.) has formed an annoying couple with her. Maybe it’s the way Swift resembles a teenage girl with her first crush, maybe it’s the way she treats each relationship like a 20-year marriage when it eventually dissolves, but Taylor Swift can create an annoying couple with anybody.
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2. Chris Brown and Rihanna
What was really annoying about this relationship? Well, Chris Brown was arrested for beating Rihanna up, and then they got back together. When Rihanna went back to Brown after he left her bloodied and bruised, the world was sad, but also extremely irritated.
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1. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Kim’s lack of talent collides with West’s huge ego to create the most annoying celebrity couple of all time. Despite claiming they want privacy, West and Kardashian have a knack for being very public about their love. After Kardashian posted a photo of herself in a bathing suit on Instagram, West tweeted: “HEADING HOME NOW.” That inappropriate public exchange is just one reason why Kardashian and West are the king and queen of annoying celebrity couples.