Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are best pals and best wing men and women. They hang out together, they duet together, they write songs and tour together, and they give one another advice on dating, relationships, tuning guitars and everything in-between. Aside from helping one another compose hits that end up being grossly overplayed on Top 40 radio, Sheeran and Swift each have also helped each other find love (or at least lust) more than once, and Sheeran recently revealed he'd like to set Swift up with another famous pal of his: Divorced dad and The Hobbit star Orlando Bloom.
Yes, the same Orlando Bloom who was involved in a rumored bizarre love quadrilateral with his own ex-wife Miranda Kerr, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.
Sheeran told Now magazine of the onscreen elf and country-crooner-turned-pop princess, "[Bloom is] lovely, and they live in the same building. [I'm hoping that] the magic might present itself eventually."
To celebrate the platonic BFFship and match making skills of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift, here are 14 stars who've played Cupid for their pals.
Gwyneth Paltrow also tried helping Taylor Swift out.
The GOOP founder tried setting up Taylor Swift with Jake Gyllenhaal. If you're wondering how that turned out, you may want to tune in to "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
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Taylor Swift had a hand in Ed Sheeran and Ellie Goulding's fling.
Ed Sheeran admits that he and Ellie Goulding had a brief fling, which is rumored to have ended when she slept with One Direction cutie Niall Horan behind Sheeran's back ... when they were all staying on the same hotel floor for an event. Sheeran later wrote his hit "Don't" about the incident.
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Taylor Swift set Ed Sheeran up with a non-famous pal.
Taylor Swift reportedly set Ed Sheeran up with her pretty pal Claire Donald in late 2013, but his latest squeeze is Athina Andrelos. Still, Sheeran says that Swift is "probably the world's best wingman."
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Ed Sheeran hooked up Courteney Cox!
It seems like a bit of an unlikely friendship, but Ed Sheeran introduced Courteney Cox to Johnny McDaid last year at a party.
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Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid are engaged!
Johnny McDaid put an engagement ring on the Friends star in 2014.
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Nicole Richie set up Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz.
And they're engaged now. She previously set up her tattooed brother-in-law with her onetime BFF Paris Hilton. We're glad both of their tastes have improved.
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Anne Hathaway introduced an adorable celeb couple.
Anne Hathaway may be responsible for a Hollywood couple so cute and so in love that it makes us all a little jealous ... and gives us all a little hope for romance after all.
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It's John Krasinski and Emily Blunt!
Anne Hathaway introduced Emily Blunt to John Krasinski, who was pretty much convinced it was love at first sight. Marriage and a daughter later, looks like he was right! Which is why he ma have wanted to pay it forward ...
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John Krasinski paid it forward with his costars on 'The Office.'
John Krasinski tried getting Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak back together under the guise of asking both of them to help him plan his own wedding and honeymoon with Emily Blunt. Did it work?
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The plan worked: Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak reunited ...
... Briefly. The on-again-off-again couple are currently off right now, but Krasinski's scheme definitely worked, if only for a time. (And who knows? It may happen again with these two.)
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Oliver Stone set up Carey Mulligan and Shia LaBeouf.
Oliver Stone told People, "You could see their chemistry right away, and it was pretty powerful. They were completely professional on the set, but there was no mistaking what was happening."
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Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan dated for over a year.
Shia LaBeouf blamed his split from Carey Mulligan on "incompatible lifestyles." That translates to "Carey Mulligan realized Shia LaBeouf is bats*it crazy."
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Kristin Cavallari played Cupid for Jenny McCarthy.
Kristin Cavallari set up fellow idiotic anti-vaccine advocate Jenny McCarthy with Brian Urlacher, but they didn't last. Maybe because Brian Urlacher remembered Jenny McCarthy's body count.
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Justin Bieber tried to hook a pal up with Kendall Jenner.
Justin Bieber tried setting Kendall Jenner up on a date with his pal Julian. She was down for it if and only if Bieber would come along with girlfriend Selena Gomez for a double date ... but it never happened. Maybe because of photos like this.
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Busy Philipps found a man for her BFF, Michelle Williams.
Busy Philipps introduced her former Dawson's Creek costar Michelle Williams to Jason Segel. The pair dated for over a year until their conflicting schedules and long distance relationship (they were based on different coasts) led them to call it quits.
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Bobby Coleman set Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth up.
Miley Cyrus used her co-star Bobby Coleman in The Last Song as an actual paid matchmaker. She told press in 2010, "[Bobby] is probably one of the most hysterical kids I've met in my life. This kid will do anything for five bucks. I paid him 10 bucks to go ask Liam if he liked me. I sent him back and forth. It was really funny."
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth lasted a while.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth were off and on for two years before getting engaged in May 2012. They officially called it quits 16 months later, though inside sources (including, uh, Snoop Dogg) actually revealed the split long before they confirmed it.
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Farmar Jordan set up Kim Kardashian and one of her husbands.
NBA star Farmar Jordan hooked one of his fellow players up with Kim Kardashian. How did that turn out?
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Justin Long set up his co-star Ginnifer Goodwin.
Justin Long set up his He's Just Not That Into You costar Ginnifer Goodwin with his pal Joey Kern — and he jumped through hoops to do it, even flying Kern to Mexico to introduce him to Goodwin (she was shooting a film there). The couple dated for two years and even got engaged, but threw in the towel before walking down the aisle. Goodwin has since found her happy ending with Once Upon A Time costar Josh Dallas.
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Donatella Versace set up an acrimonious couple of exes.
Donatella Versace introduced Halle Berry and ex (and baby daddy) Gabriel Aubry at a photo shoot in 2005. "Of course, I was at the shoot when they met," Versace told People. "I know him very well. I pushed a little bit." Now, they're constantly in court battling over everything from Berry's desire to relocate to France to Berry's new beau Olivier Martinez battering Aubry to Aubry's allegedly dyeing daughter Nahla's hair.
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Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries ended up married ...
... For a whopping 72 days. Their divorce proceedings lasted longer than their marriage. Whether or not that's a success is debatable.
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