Brad Pitt

2005 was a great year for irreconcilable differences, with a little fraud thrown in for good measure. With 11 days to go in the year, we don’t want to jump the gun and claim we’ve got the definitive list of 2005 celebrity relationship bust-ups. But it does seem appropriate to give some additional recognition to those stars who, by their refusal to work out their problems together, keep wagging tongues on the move.

Brad and Jenn, of course, caused the earthquake that destabilized everybody else’s relationships. “If they can do it, without seeing their per-movie fee go down, then we can too!� seemed to be the philosophy. Like dominos falling, Denise and Charlie, Renee and Kenny, Chris Klein and Katie Holmes, Eddie Murphy and Nicole, Paris and several Greeks, Tori Spelling and Charlie Shanian, and Nicole Richie and DJ AM all have traveled along the bitter highway to Splitsville.

By the time Jessica and Nick announced right before Thanksgiving, their marriage had become such a joke that gossips were reduced to saying that Jessica was pregnant (by some guy other than Nick). Reports that Jessica watched “Rosemary’s Baby� and then, believing it was Nick who impregnated her, had an abortion, are completely unfounded, as is speculation that Nick has a little “Brokeback� thing going on. (By Scott Rose)