Lady Gaga Splits From 'Vampire Diaries' Star Taylor Kinney

Long distance relationships are hard enough at the best of times but when you're Lady Gaga they must be pretty darn impossible, so we can't say we're too surprised to hear that the singer has split from her boyfriend, actor Taylor Kinney.

Gaga - who has just kicked off her heeeuuuuge 110-date Born This Way Ball world tour - has called time on the 10-month romance so she can focus on work. Or to put it another way - she's put her Little Monsters before love.

A source told Us Weekly: "She will be touring nonstop until next year and has found she can't have a relationship at the same time. There's just no room for anything else. Her work is all-consuming."

The singer - who met the Vampire Diaries star on the set of her You & I video - apparently never thought the romance had any legs.

"She loved that she got this guy who everyone thought was hot,” the source told Us. “But it was never going to last."

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Britney Spears has warned Gaga to be on her guard after The Wanted’s recent claims that they were forced to face the wall when she walked past them backstage on tour last year and called Christina Aguilera a 'total b**ch' after meeting her on the US version of The Voice.

Speaking to E! Online, Britney's spokesperson said: “What’s even more interesting than the false allegations they made is the fact that they have claimed to be picked on by two female pop stars in just a few days. Look out Lady Gaga – there are still three days left this week”.

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