In our February 2026 Valentine, Mel, Kel, and Kaitlyn discuss the following: 

• Significant friendships: Ashley Tisdale and dealing with toxic friend groups 

• Results from our Stranger Things poll 

• Frank Sinatra ‘deleted scenes’

• Prioritizing your career/’dream job’ over love 

• People who unabashedly marry for money 

• New couple: Tom Brady and Alix Earle 

• Heated Rivalry costars dating: François Arnaud and Connor Storrie  

• “What do they even talk about?” 

• Kait’s spoiler-free impressions of the Hamnet movie 

• Gwyneth Paltrow’s return to film in Marty Supreme (without an intimacy coordinator) 

• And more!  

Hear the whole episode today by subscribing ⁠on Patreon⁠!

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly Anderson, Melissa Duffy, and Kaitlyn Anderson. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

We’re untying the Duane Reade bag handles and digging into the very messy marriage of Lily Allen and David Harbour. Our first dating‑app couple, they looked to be all love and light, at first. But in 2025, Lily’s brutally candid, masterpiece of an album, West End Girl, torched the Stranger Things star while revealing every nitty‑gritty detail of the open relationship that left the singer in emotional turmoil.

Do people ever actually follow the “rules” in these arrangements? Did Lily understand it was a non-monoguous dynamic from the start? Are middle‑aged men who’ve never settled down sleepwalking red flags? Should big-name pop stars have to audition for commercial theatre? And, who the fuck is Madeline?!? We’re ruminating on these questions and more in our emotional autopsy of these ex-lovers.

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This is a teaser for a bonus episode— the full episode is 2 hours 9 minutes long. You can listen to it in full ⁠on Patreon⁠. 

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

This episode originally aired in 2022 on Patreon, and we're making it public for the first time. Enjoy!

As New England Patriots fans, we know too well what it’s like to be broken up with by Tom Brady as he flaunts his new relationship so publicly. But imagine that heartbreak on top of being pregnant with his child!

Actress Bridget Moynahan may have played the new, young girlfriend (Natasha) whom Mr. Big moved on with (Sex & The City), but in real life, she was Brady’s most notable girlfriend before he moved on with Gisele Bündchen. We look back at their relationship, the shocking pregnancy, and how the co-parents’ relationship has evolved through the years.

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

♡ Welcome to our first Valentine hour! ♡ This is a little different from our typical couple episodes. Every month, we’ll discuss updates on people from our ‘hall of flames’, read letters from our listeners, read love and breakup stories in the news, host polls and trivia, and share other musings related to Significant Lovers! 

In this January Valentine, we discuss: 

• Significant engagements of the past year, including our very own Mel and Zach!  

• Rob Reiner, Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner, and When Harry Met Sally 

• Nancy & Jonathan of Stranger Things 

• Trauma-bonding 

• Kristen Stewart married!

• Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau?!  

• Significant breakups, including Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban, Sasha Farber & Jen Tran, and more 

• Lena Dunham & Jack Antonoff

• Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks 

• Hamnet movie coming soon 

• And more! 

This is a teaser for a bonus episode— the full episode is 1 hour 9 minutes long. You can listen to it in full ⁠on Patreon⁠. 

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for ‘fair use’ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!

In the spirit of the season, we’re celebrating the love story of two former child stars (yes, two) whose early careers included some very festive films. You obviously know Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone, but don’t sleep on Brenda Song’s early acting credits in Santa with Muscles and The Ultimate Christmas Present. Join us as we dive into how these two overcame past hardships and heartbreaks, found each other, and became one of the cutest couples around.

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for ‘fair use’ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

What happens when two people who are very similar, and have the same weaknesses, fall in love? And all that’s holding them together is the love they share? Disaster. 

Though short-lived, the relationship between singer Frank Sinatra and actress Ava Gardner remains one of the most explosive —and enduring—unions in Hollywood history. From their scandalous affair while Sinatra was still married, through their whirlwind 1951 wedding and countless public quarrels, Frank and Ava were drawn together by passion as powerful as the forces that tore them apart.

Even decades after their separation, friends said their bond never faded. And well into their golden years, Frank and Ava continued to regard the other as the great love of their life. So what went wrong? Find out in this whirlwind episode of Significant Lovers.

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This is a teaser for a bonus episode— the full episode is 1 hour 39 minutes long. You can listen to it in full ⁠on Patreon⁠. 

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

Everyone seems to know about Pocahontas and John Smith. It’s hard not too. Between the Disney film and the famous painting that hangs in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, their love story has become a founding American legend. But what if we were to tell you that it it’s all a myth, that Pocahontas was never with John Smith at all? And that Pocahontas did marry an Englishman, but that his name was John Rolfe. Not Smith.

In this episode of Significant Lovers, step four hundred years into the past to early America, and listen as we uncover the real story of Pocahontas and her second husband, John Rolfe. They were two star crossed lovers from warring nations, who spoke different languages, and believe different religions. How ever did they manage to fall in love? And was it happily ever after? Listen and find out. 

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

We wanted to cover a couple in the fantasy world…but that’s tricky to do when our podcast is only about real-life couples! Thankfully, there is a beautiful love story behind the creator of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit: the story of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt. 

Tolkien and Edith’s love story began as star-crossed lovers, and their separation inspired Tolkien to write the story of Beren and Lúthien (and later Aragorn and Arwen). After years apart, they reunited, and endured Tolkien’s enlistment in World War I, which he miraculously survived.  

Throughout their marriage, Tolkien scribbled away at his ‘fairy languages’ and Middle Earth tales in any free time he found. But who was Edith Tolkien? The world knows little about her, and she makes few appearances in biographies about him. But surely that doesn’t mean Tolkien cared more for elves and hanging with C.S. Lewis?

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This is a teaser for a bonus episode— the full episode is 1 hour 49 minutes long! You can listen to it in full ⁠on Patreon⁠. 

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for ‘fair use’ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Stranger Things has been on for so long, Obama was president when it first aired. But it’s finally (sadly) entering its final season this November. So let’s talk about the show’s real-life couple, who have been dating for over ten years behind the scenes: Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton! 

Known for playing teens Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers in the 1980s, co-stars Natalia and Charlie quietly, privately dated for the first several years of their relationship, becoming slightly more open recently. As Kel learned more about Natalia and Charlie, she was struck by how different they seem from each other. Charlie’s the gregarious, silly drummer who just fell into acting. Natalia’s the shy, anxious one who’s more comfortable playing a character than talking about herself. 

We’ve all heard that opposites attract, but how do they make it work? Kel takes us through Charlie and Natalia’s secretive relationship (as much as we can glean as outsiders), with many mentions of Joe Keery/Djo (aka Steve Harrington).
About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for ‘fair use’ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Vials of blood…that’s probably your main association with Billy Bob Thorton and Angelina Jolie, right? In the spirit of spooky season, Mel tells the tale of this 2000s Gothic couple.

He was a 45-year-old, late bloomer “hillbilly” from Arkansas on his fifth marriage. She was a beautiful, brooding 25-year-old Hollywood “nepo baby” on her second. All the stars aligned for these two dark and twisty social outcasts to find each other and French kiss on red carpets.  While their relationship might have evolved to be a mere footnote in the bigger Brangelina saga, this episode proves that the past IS prologue. Join us as we look back at their controversial affair featuring a scorned Laura Dern, tattoos, matching burial plots, and a flame that burned too bright for daylight.  

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This is a teaser for a bonus episode— the full episode is 2 hours 15 minutes long! You can listen to it in full ⁠on Patreon⁠. 

About Significant Lovers

Significant Lovers is a true-love podcast exploring couples throughout history and pop culture, hosted by cousins Kelly, Melissa, and Kaitlyn. 

Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @significantlovers, listen on YouTube, and contact us at [email protected].