From 2009 to 2011, Vanessa dated actor Christian Cooke. Things got awkward when, a year after their breakup, Christian took a role in 2013's Romeo and Juliet alongside actor Douglas Booth — who just so happened to be Vanessa's new man. Yikes.
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A source told the Daily Mail at the time that Christian "wasn't thrilled" to be working with his ex's new boo but that the two men were ready to be grown-ups about it. "Acting is a small, incestuous world, but this is a bizarre coincidence," the source added. Indeed!
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The guys even had to play BFFs in the movie (Douglas as Romeo and Christian as Mercutio!), so that must have been a blast for them.
Vanessa was with Douglas from 2011 to 2013, after first meeting on the set of the BBC's 2011 Great Expectations adaptation.
In 2014, Vanessa tried "dating [herself]," telling Fabric magazine, “Someone said to me, ‘Just go out and date yourself.’ And I’m like, ‘That sounds so boring.’ But I started doing it — going to art galleries, and just walking around London, going to the cinema — and I’ve noticed I’m even enjoying my own jokes more. I make myself laugh all the time now, it’s becoming really bad actually.”
(Yes, girl!)
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Vanessa then dated Fantastic Beasts actor Callum Turner from 2015 to 2019. The two met while starring together in 2014's Queen and Country. After they split, a source told The Sun that as the pair's careers started taking off, they "gradually [grew] apart" but it was "all very amicable."
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During the time she was with Callum, rumors started buzzing in 2018 that Vanessa was dating her Mission: Impossible co-star Tom Cruise, after a photo of the two kissing — while in character, on set, surrounded by cameras, and literally filming their movie — somehow made the rounds as proof of a relationship. But Vanessa debunked all the noise.
She told Marie Claire U.K.: "Even though the [film] crew were there, it was all [in the tabloids] like, 'The next wife falls at his feet.'"
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She continued, "The most disconcerting thing was the people I didn’t think would believe it, did, and they were texting my boyfriend, asking, 'Are you OK?' I don’t think they believe anything they read now because you just can’t. None of it is real. To be getting married to him? Not even a snog, it was marriage."
In April 2022, Vanessa was seen in London having drinks with Girls and Catch-22 actor Christopher Abbott, her co-star from 2020's The World to Come. However, it's unclear if anything ever came about from the rumors.
