As well as Madonna falling over at the Brit Awards, Caitlyn Jenner making her dramatic entrance on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine and Nicki Minaj confronting Miley Cyrus at the VMAs, we’ll always remember 2015 as the year that celebrity couples left, right and centre called it a day.
At one point over the summer, it felt like no celebrity couple was safe, with a host of stars announcing that their relationships were coming to an end, all within the space of a few weeks of one another.
Three of the couples who were casualties of the wave of break-ups that swept 2015
The most high-profile split of the year was Perrie Edwards and Zayn Malik, with the rumour mill going into overdrive about what had really gone on between the two young singers, though Nicole Scherzinger, Caroline Flack and Kerry Katona all announced they’d be flying solo once again in 2015.
Here are just a handful of the most dramatic, shocking and outright messy splits of the past 12 months...