“Sophie Turner just dropped a bombshell, and fans are scrambling to figure out which Hollywood power couple she split. Sleuths online are racing to compile lists of fragile Hollywood romances.”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
The drama erupted when the Game of Thrones star, 29, laid it all out during a Thursday appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, revealing how a 2014 San Diego Comic-Con afterparty ‘quickly went south’ over a simple gesture gone awry.
Sophie explained that she had innocently waved at a famous actor who was engaged to a famous actress — keeping both identities under wraps — only for the bride-to-be to later scold her at the soiree.
‘Turns out, they broke their engagement off that night because of my [wave],’ Sophie told Meyers, adding with a laugh, ‘I didn’t realize I held this power.’
Now, sleuths online are racing to compile their lists of fragile Hollywood romances that might have ended around the same time as Sophie’s fateful greeting.
Some fans threw out wild guesses, joking about Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom — though the timing didn’t quite match.
Longtime Kate Hudson fans know that was the year she ended things with Matt Bellamy — though he’s a musician, not an actor.
A few jokers even teased that Sophie was behind the recent Barack and Michelle Obama divorce rumors, which the couple has of course denied.
Still, most speculation focused on Hollywood’s notoriously on-again, off-again couples, like Emma Roberts and Evan Peters, as well as the stormy romance of Robin Wright and Ben Foster.
‘Some ppl said Evan Peters and Emma Roberts and I see that vividlyyyy,’ one fan wrote, as another posted, ‘Robin Wright and Ben Foster?’
Over their seven-year relationship, Roberts and Peters experienced plenty of ups and downs.
The duo first met on the set of Adult World in 2012, though sparks didn’t exactly fly right away.
It wasn’t until a few months after filming wrapped that they officially became a couple — but even then, their romance was far from smooth sailing.
Over the years, they rode a rollercoaster of highs and lows, including costarring roles, multiple breakups, an engagement, and an alleged domestic violence incident.
In 2013, following a dispute in Montreal, Roberts was reportedly arrested after authorities were called.
‘It was an unfortunate incident and misunderstanding,’ a rep explained at the time. ‘Ms. Roberts was released after questioning and the couple are working together to move past it.’
Roberts was released without charge.
Fast forward to 2014, the same year Turner famously attended that Comic-Con afterparty, Roberts and Peters got engaged — only to call off the engagement months later, ending their three-year relationship.
Yet even after their breakup, the pair were spotted out together two months later, on Aug. 23, 2015, and reunited briefly in 2016 before splitting again.
After finally calling it quits for good in March 2019, Roberts reflected on the turbulent relationship.
‘I’m realizing that life is highs and lows. I’m trying to ride them out and live somewhere in the middle,’ she told Cosmopolitan at the time.
‘When you’re low, you think it’s never going to end. When you’re high, you’re so scared of it ending.’
As for Wright and Foster, they met on the set of the 2011 film Rampart, and romance rumors sparked in early 2012 when they were spotted getting cozy in Australia.
By February 2014, the House of Cards actress opened up about her ‘devastating’ divorce from Sean Penn and credited her new relationship for helping her heal, calling Foster’s proposal a pleasant surprise.
That same year — coincidentally the year of Turner’s Comic-Con appearance — they called off the engagement, only to reconcile a few months later.
Then in 2020, they quietly ended another engagement, one they had kept under wraps.
While guesses flooded social media, some even speculated that Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s split had Sophie’s fingerprints on it.
But fans quickly shut that down, pointing out the couple had already called off their first engagement back in 2013.
The wild theories kept coming as Turner maintained the mystery about the power couple during her Late Night with Seth Meyers appearance.
As she and Meyers reminisced about first meeting over a decade ago at San Diego Comic-Con, Turner revealed the night ‘quickly went south’ at the event’s afterparty.
‘We were going to have a great night… and I can’t name names ’cause I’ll get in trouble… but I had brought my best friend from school days and she saw an actor she absolutely loved and asked if I could just say hi…’ Turner began.
She admitted she’d never met the unidentified actor before, so she gave him a weak little wave from across the crowd.
‘And that was it,’ she said… but it wasn’t.
‘And then later on I see this girl looking at me and she’s a famous actress and I was like, ‘” have to go tell her how much she means to me,”‘ Sophie recalled.
‘So I dance on over and she goes, “Can you stop f****** flirting with my fiancee?” And I was like, “Who’s your fiancee?” And she points to the guy that I waved at, and I still have no idea who this man is.’
Looks like Turner will have to drop a few more hints before fans get a definitive answer — unless one of those former power couples decides to raise their hand and set the record straight.