So awkward or super supportive? Stars often attend the same award shows as their famous exes. It’s an occupational hazard. Whether it goes well or not depends on the partner you have.
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, for example, knew going into the 2020 Golden Globe Awards that he would be in the audience. At Morning Show This star was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama, while in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star up for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture.
The former flame set a precedent before January 2020 that there will be no bad blood on the red carpet. “Jen and Brad are friends and hang out occasionally,” the source said Us Weekly in December 2019. “There is no way that there is any potential for Jen and Brad to be tense or uncomfortable.”
At that time, Aniston and Pitt were more than cordial, with Friends alum cheered on his ex-husband when he won his category. According to an onlooker, she “stood up and applauded for Brad’s win” and “sat in front of several other people sitting near her.” The actress even laughed when Fight Club the actor joked, “I want to bring my mom but I can’t because a woman I’m standing next to says I’m dating.”
Other celebrities chose to avoid their previous partners at the awards ceremony. Despite being members of the same musical genre, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert rarely participate in the same event. Their behavior at the 2019 Country Music Association Awards may hint at why.
“Everyone stood up for Blake at the end of the show except for Miranda Lambert and her husband [Brendan McLoughlin],” said an eyewitness in November 2019. “At the commercial break, both sides left their seats.”
Meanwhile, the Voice the coach, the bringer Gwen Stefani as his date, there is more cordial. The viewer speaks us the duo “were nodding their heads” when Lambert performed earlier in the broadcast.
Lambert later noted that she was not prepared for the public reaction to her divorce. “I don’t think about who. Sometimes it’s not good, but I think you have to take it with a grain of salt,” he told CBS News in May 2022. “I’m a singer-songwriter, fortunately, I can tell you everything that’s true. I’m not going to fake my music.”
She added: “I’ve learned a lot about myself and I think you’re starting to understand who you are. I think that’s why you feel the peace that comes from me because I feel at peace by myself.”
Scroll through to look back at the good — and the bad — run-ins at the awards show: