Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner. Britney Spears and Sam Asghari. Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn. Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez. Several of your mates. Is everyone breaking up? As summer draws to a close and we roll back to our desks and into September, it certainly feels that way. Maybe that’s because the first Monday of September is one of the busiest days for relationship counsellors and divorce lawyers. Or perhaps, as one publication recently put it, it’s because this has been the “summer of celebrity breakups”, and we’re all following in the footsteps of our favourite A-listers.
Whatever it is, it’s a curse affecting even the sturdiest-seeming relationships. Take Jonas and Turner, who have two young daughters together and, at least publicly, have only ever seemed besotted with one another. The stuff of true #CoupleGoals since they met in 2016. But, after days of speculation, the couple confirmed their split, issuing a joint statement on Wednesday announcing their decision.
