Pamela and Liam, Katy and Justin, Ana and Tom or the Coldplay couple. Which summer fling are you?

Barbara Ellen

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Pamela and Liam, Katy and Justin, Ana and Tom or the Coldplay couple. Which summer fling are you?

As celebrities use the summer break to unveil new relationships, take our quiz to find out which couple you most resemble

Summer 2025 has evolved into shock-couple season. Actors Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson have been smooching during promotional duties for their film comedy, a reboot of The Naked Gun.

Former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and pop star Katy Perry snatched an intimate dinner in Montreal. Actors Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas, due to appear together in the film Deeper, have been attending concerts and hanging out in Vermont.

Then there’s Coldplay couple – names sensitively withheld, but you know who they are: a tech chief executive and his HR director caught together in a workplace affair on kiss cam at a concert in Boston, with all roads leading to divorce, firings and ruin.

As famous as these examples are, it’s all so relatable, but for different reasons. Take our multiple-choice quiz to discover which shock-couple summer fling you are…

The rumours have been swirling like gossip-item tickertape, but now it’s gone public. What outed you?

A: Flirting up a heady midlife storm on the red carpet for the premiere of The Naked Gun.

B: Photographed having dinner at Le Violon, one of Montreal’s finest restaurants. Eyewitness reports of cocktails, lobster, and – be still our beating hearts – “meeting the staff to acknowledge their services”.

C: In a multi-tier celebrity shambles that not even the most desperate and damaged PR brain could conjure, you’re randomly captured bopping together in the background of a camera-phone video that drum’n’bass artist Goldie films at an Oasis concert. See also: helicopter-ferrying mini-breaks to Vermont.

D: Just seeing a band, man, just seeing a band.

You’re together. It’s obvious. How do you deny it?

A: You don’t. Kisses have been planted; hands clutched. You’re all over each other like a bad case of teenage pimples.

B: With one of you the former leader of a nation, romance rumours are shut down efficiently, dare one say, coldly using “sources” (celebrity-code for “Me on the blower to a tame journalist”). Reports have started appearing in the media about feeling “ambushed” and “just wanting concert tickets”.

C: Neither deny nor confirm. That’s a rookie error a seasoned A-lister would never make. If pressed, make monotonic comments about how excited you are to work together on your forthcoming film. Be so staggeringly dull that no one wants to hear you speak ever again.

D: No point denying it. A huge concert in the 65,000-plus-capacity Gillette stadium in Boston. Initially too busy grooving to notice the Jumbotron kiss-cam lenses. Busted.

Your PDAs are so extreme your body language has been examined by a highly trained newspaper “sexpert”. What are the findings?

A: This is “get a room” manifesting on a global scale.

B: In the restaurant photos, there appears to be scant frisson. A male finger is wagged, signifying mansplaining. Looks about as romantic as the chess-game with death in The Seventh Seal.

C: This exudes the charged eroticised atmosphere of two lifestyle chief execs working together on a retail app. Or a work-Zoom made flesh. Love so staged and corporate it comes with its own barcode. All that.

D: Just hanging out with a work friend. Move along, people, nothing to see here.

How would you describe your personal style?

A: No sign of red Baywatch cossies. It’s “no-makeup makeup and avant-garde-Heidi styling for her; a chilled silver-fox groove for him.

B: Pop-siren astronaut bling for her; a lingering addiction to world-summit power dressing for him.

C: Stealth-wealth casualwear that enables easy helicopter access.

D: Previously attempting to channel the dress-down Friday vibe of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and former Yahoo chief executive Marissa Myer, but there’s no point now.

Your pillow talk must be to die for. What do you talk about privately?

A: “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you’re looking for a ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have is a particular set of skills…”

B: Perchance a version of what supermodel Carla Bruni said when seeing future husband, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy, on television before they met: “I want to have a man with nuclear power.”

C: “A delve into the history of Scientology, you say? Fascinating – tell me less”.

D: “I’ve got us tickets for a show.”

What is your potential for generating relationship memes?

A: The Naked Gun recreation of the Rose/Jack Titanic scene is doing healthy numbers in all age demographics across social-networking sites.

B: Footage of Trudeau lustily singing along to Fireworks – eyes closed, hands aloft – at one of Perry’s concerts at the Rogers Arena, Montreal is buckling the TikTok algorithms.

C: The galumphing Oasis-bopping is a vision of carefree celebrity-downtime that will never wither, however much a certain twosome wants it to.

D: N/A. Relationship implosion maybe.

How do you navigate tricky exes?

A: In this equation, the most high-profile ex, Tommy Lee from Mötley Crüe, is probably too raddled from past drug taking, and too busy shooting bullets into his guitar-shaped pool, to give any hassle.

B: For one of them, it could be payback for Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s elegantly understated wedding in Venice, where a certain film star’s ex was mortifyingly snapped gallivanting with women in gondolas.

C: One of you has plunged former squeeze Ben Affleck into a bittersweet reverie of what might have been. The other has an ex – Katie Holmes – liking an Instagram post discussing the Ana/Tom coupling. In a rogue move, De Armas – miaow – liked a post critiquing the remarks of another of Cruise’s exes, Nicole Kidman, about not using Botox.

D: No comment.

No liaison is immune to what is commonly known as The Ick: a medical condition whereupon the honeymoon period wears off and ice-cold repulsion sets in. What is your trigger?

A: This is a cooing, bluebirds-fluttering ick-free zone.

B: For her: Justin singing to Fireworks. For him, the “Katy in Space” Bezos-financed rocket flight catastrophe that saw Perry crassly attempt to promote her forthcoming tour in zero gravity.

C: No ick. We are both professionals.

D: No time for ick. We dream of ick. Ick would be an upgrade from this.

Haters gonna hate. Hurtful accusations of showmance have been made. How has your great love boosted your careers?

A: Cranked up the promotional campaign for The Naked Gun, rocket-boosting awareness for a moderately modest film into the farthest reaches of the PR stratosphere. Job done.

B: Annoyed film-star ex. Job done.

C: If our meaningful connection promotes and elevates both brands that is merely a happy coincidence (see clause 117 of terms and conditions of relationship contract).

D: We both lost our jobs and became disparaged worldwide for a huge personal mistake many others have made, including those sitting in lofty judgment, thanks for asking.

The world wishes your union longevity, but how will you split up?

A, B & C: We’ll split up in classic celebrity style – by adopting a rescue dog together then fighting over custody.

D: N/A.

You’re Katy and Justin. The honeymoon period before the ghosting.

You’re Pamela and Liam. 2025’s favourite lovebirds. It doesn’t matter if it’s faked for larks.

You’re Ana and Tom. Whatever else happens, you’ll always have seats 14-15 row C at Wembley.

You are Coldplay couple. This too shall pass.

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Pamela and Liam, Katy and Justin, Ana and Tom or the Coldplay couple. Which summer fling are you?

As celebrities use the summer break to unveil new relationships, take our quiz to find out which couple you most resemble

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