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Billie Eilish is one of the most distinctive stars in music right now, with her unique voice, clever lyrics and uber-cool style.
But it turns out she has a bit of a doppelganger… who just happens to be dating her brother.
Fans of Billie have been pointing out the similarities between the Bad Guy singer and her brother Finneas’ girlfriend Claudia Suwelski, and now we cannot unsee it.
Finneas, 21, has been dating YouTuber Claudia, 23, since last October, and they both often post loved-up pictures to Instagram.
However, while many fans regularly squeal over how cute they are as a couple, others are more preoccupied with how alike Claudia and Billie, 17 look.
And while Claudia doesn’t really look like Billie when she’s all glammed up, or on her YouTube channel, there are enough incidences of her being her would-be sister-in-law’s doppelganger that people are rather shook.
To be fair, both girls have great style, so we don’t blame either of them for rocking their looks.
Finneas and Billie, surname O’Connell, are super close, with Finneas writing and producing for his littler sister.
The musician was co-writer or writer and producer on Billie’s earlier songs Ocean Eyes, Bellyache and Bored, as well as her 2017 EP Don’t Smile At Me, while he co-wrote and produced all of the songs on her number one album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Finneas is also a singer himself, releasing 16 singles over the past four years including Claudia, an ode to his girlfriend, while he starred as Alistair on the final series of Glee.
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Meanwhile Claudia is a beauty and fashion guru who has nearly 2 million subscribers on her YouTube channel.
And Billie? Well, she is totally taking over the music scene right now, hitting number one the world over with her debut album, getting praise from Elton John, playing Glastonbury and even collaborating with her idol Justin Bieber.
A rather talented posse, we’re sure you’ll agree.
Lady Gaga Finally Responded to Those Bradley Cooper Dating Rumors.
OK here’s the thing. The world fell in love with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper the second their trailer for A Star Is Born came out. Don’t @ us. You know it’s true. Their chemistry is palpable and naturally, fans love to imagine their favorite characters actually falling in love in real life. Lady Gaga responded to Bradley Cooper dating rumors, because there are a lot . They’ve been dealing with rumors from the beginning, despite the fact that they are both very newly single.
As we’re all aware by now, Gaga called off her engagement to Christian Carino just before the Oscars and that breakup once again ignited romance rumors. Also, Cooper just ended his long-term relationship with Irina Shayk. So, is Gaga in love with Cooper? Well, the short answer is yes. But not in the way we think. She loves him because they worked together on a project that they put their heart and souls into. They now share that bond forever. But it’s a love based in a solid friendship and admiration for one another. A familiarity that comes with spending hours and hours pouring over lines, songs, lyrics, music, etc. together. Also, she has nothing at all to do with the reason Cooper and Shayk called it quits.
The pair brought fans to their knees during their steamy rendition of the Grammy and Oscar-winning song, “Shallow.” It was a HOT performance—but it was just that, a performance.
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Gaga opened up about the heart-stopping (and romance-igniting) performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live . During their chat, Kimmel pointed out that the couple “raised eyebrows” with their performance, which led to many believing the intense connection alluded to an actual romance. But Gaga shut that notion down immediately. First, with an epic eye roll— we think she knew the question was coming.
“Yes, people saw love and guess what? That’s what we wanted you to see,” the actress-singer, told Kimmel.
So it was all for show?
“[“Shallow”] is a love song, A Star Is Born is a love story,” she explained. “It was so important to both of us that we were connected the entire time…When you’re singing love songs, that’s what you want people to feel.” OK—so the performance is a love song and they wanted to give another Oscar-worthy performance of it while at the Academy Awards? We’ll buy it.
“I’m an artist and I guess [Bradley and I] did a good job…fooled ya!” the singer said with a laugh.
It’s a bit surprising that the two performers would take it so far as to—what? Trick the audience? Of course, it was a performance, but most people just get up there and sing the song. It almost feels like they were trying to spark romance rumors. They literally ended their song with a moment so full of anticipation we were convinced they were about to make out. That is a hard thing to “act.” Maybe they should’ve won Best Actor and Best Actress. That Oscars performance had more chemistry than Ally and Jackson had in the entirety of A Star is Born . Just sayin’.
Cooper even wraps his arm around Gaga’s waist during their cheek-to-cheek affectionate performance. But, like Gaga said, it was all part of the performance. And there is a love and respect between the two of them, so it wasn’t hard.
Gaga thanked Cooper during her teary acceptance speech for Best Original Song. The singer said, ““Bradley, there is not a single person on the planet that could’ve sung this song with me but you,” she said. “Thank you for believing in us, thank you so much.”
Aw! They really are the dream BFF team. Giving us all the feels.
Still, Gaga has nothing to do with Cooper and Shayk going their separate ways. A source told US Weekly, “nothing romantic” ever happened between the A Star Is Born costars.
But they are sticking by each other as collaborators and friends. Their performance was heart-melting, but they were acting— that’s show business, baby!
Are Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Secretly Dating?
Since their onscreen debut in the Oscar-nominated film, A Star Is Born , the rumor mill has been ablaze about Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s relationship. Cooper directed the acclaimed drama and specifically chose Gaga for the role of Ally. The pair have chemistry both on and off the screen, and they’ve both openly gushed about one another in various interviews and red carpet appearances.
Because their characters Jackson and Ally literally took our breath away –we had to know what’s going on between Gaga and Cooper in real life.
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Are Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga secretly dating?
A Star is Born is a fantastic film–but it’s a fictional story where the acclaimed actor and the songstress portraying other people. Cooper has been in a relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk since 2015, and they have a daughter together. Meanwhile, the “Just Dance” singer is just recently single after ending her engagement with talent agent, Christian Carino.
Why do fans think Lady Gaga is pining over Bradley Cooper?
People were shocked to learn that Gaga ended her engagement with Carino –especially since she recently spoke about finding the perfect love. She said, “The best part about being in love with someone is having them there to catch you if you fall.” Eyebrows were raised even further after the singer/actress unveiled her newest tattoo. Gaga got a musical note of her name etched on her arm, but now fans think it’s actually a secret shoutout to Bradley Cooper.
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Bradley Cooper is a 45 year old American Actor. Born Bradley Charles Cooper on 5th January, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, he is famous for The Hangover Trilogy (2009-2013), The A-Team (2010), Alias (2001-2006).. His zodiac sign is Capricorn.
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Lady Gaga has addressed the dating rumours surrounding her and her A Star is Born co-star Bradley Cooper, after months of speculation about the pair’s relationship.
In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey for Elle ’s December issue, the singer opened up about her and Cooper’s 2019 Oscar performance of Shallow , revealing that they wanted viewers to believe “we were in love”.
“Quite frankly, I think the press is very silly,” the 33-year-old said. “I mean, we made a love story. For me, as a performer and as an actress, of course we wanted people to believe that we were in love.”
“We wanted people to feel that love at the Oscars. We wanted it to go right through the lens of that camera and to every television that it was being watched on,” she added. “And we worked hard on it, we worked for days. We mapped the whole thing out - it was orchestrated as a performance.
“In truth, when we talked about it, we went: ‘Well, I guess we did a good job!’”
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The Bad Romance singer also agreed when Winfrey revealed that Cooper had previously told her if him and Gaga had been in love, he wouldn’t have been able to make eye contact across the piano because of his “Catholic guilt”.
“We were talking about all the rumours about you guys last year. He said if they had been true, he never would have been able to look you in the eye sitting at that piano,” Winfrey told Gaga. “He said his Catholic guilt would have never let him be able to look you in the eye at that piano.”
“Absolutely,” Gaga responded.
Later in the interview, the singer discussed the emotions she experienced playing the character Ally and the pain that she felt on Oscar night when she took home the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Shallow .
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Recalling how a reporter had asked her what she saw when she looked at the Oscar trophy, Gaga told Winfrey that she said: “I see a lot of pain”.
“I was raped when I was 19 years old, repeatedly,” Gaga said. “I have been traumatised in a variety of ways by my career over the years from many different things, but I survived, and I’ve kept going.
“And when I looked at that Oscar, I saw pain. I don’t know that anyone understood it when I said it in the room, but I understood it.”
Despite suffering from PTSD and chronic pain as a result, Gaga wants her fans to know that she persevered, and they can too.
“I kept going, and that kid out there or even that adult out there who’s been through so much, I want them to know that they can keep going, and they can survive, and they can win their Oscar,” the songwriter said.
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Everything You Need to Know About Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper's Working Relationship.
"I love her so deeply."
After co-starring in A Star Is Born together, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga are understandably close. The palpable connection between the two is evident in everything they do together, from playing lovers in the movie to co-writing the film's emotional soundtrack to gushing about one another on the red carpet.
Here, a comprehensive look at Cooper and Gaga's working relationship, and the journey they undertook together to create A Star Is Born . Watch the movie.
Bradley Cooper watched Lady Gaga perform and was blown away.
Per Vanity Fair , Cooper realized he wanted to cast Gaga in his version of A Star Is Born when he saw her perform at a benefit in Los Angeles in April 2016 (per Vogue ) . As the actor told the audience at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2018, "She leveled the entire room when she came out. It was insane."
Notably, Gaga sang Édith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" at the benefit, and Cooper revealed, "I thought, right then, that song is in the movie." He told the same story of discovering Gaga to W magazine, saying, "I was at a cancer benefit with my mother. I really did not know Lady Gaga’s music. They had a surprise musical guest, and Stefani came out with her hair slicked back."
Cooper was so enamored with her performance, he told W , that he "called her agent the next day and said, 'Can I go to her house and meet her right away?' I drove to Malibu, and we sat on her porch, and the next thing I know, I'm eating spaghetti and meatballs." It turns out she cooked it for him.
Lady Gaga made dinner for Bradley Cooper at her house.
At a press conference at Venice Film Festival in August 2018, the talented duo opened up about the first time they sat down together to discuss the possibility of working together. Via Vanity Fair , the "Paparazzi" singer told reporters, "From the moment he came to my home and I opened the door and we locked eyes, I felt an instant connection with him."
The singer revealed that she heated up pasta, and then they sat at the piano and sang "Midnight Special" by Creedence Clearwater Revival together. Their chemistry was evident from that first duet, with Gaga explaining, "I looked at him and said, 'Bradley, your voice is incredible. You have a real voice.' He sings from his soul."
According to Vanity Fair , Cooper concurred that food played a huge part in their working relationship, explaining, "after 10 minutes we were eating homemade food that she cooked—I love to eat—and that was actually a huge bond that we both came from East Coast Italian-American families. So we had a real synchronicity on that level from our upbringing."
Basically, the magic audiences witnessed onscreen started in Lady Gaga's living room. As she told VF , "That was us singing together for the first time—we were laughing, harmonizing, singing."
Cooper fought to cast Gaga opposite him in the movie.
Cooper's journey to casting Lady Gaga was far from smooth. W reports reports, "Unfortunately, Warner Bros., which was financing the film, did not agree. Cooper had to shoot several screen tests with Gaga to convince them she could play Ally."
In October 2018, Cooper told The New York Times Magazine , "She was completely illuminated by the sun. So charismatic. I thought inside my head, Oh, gosh. If she is like this on film, if that’s the worst case scenario that she’s this present on film, the movie will work.'"
According to Vanity Fair , Cooper never had any doubt about casting Gaga as the lead, and told the press conference at Venice Film Festival in August 2018, "I can’t imagine having the courage to do it without her." The actor was also adamant that noone else was capable of playing Ally. He told W , "No actress can do musically what I needed Stefani to do in 42 days of shooting: I needed plutonium. And the plutonium in A Star Is Born is Stefani's voice." And anyone who's seen the movie will agree that Lady Gaga's vocals are consistently superb throughout.
Meanwhile, Gaga wasn't all that surprised when Cooper approached her about doing the movie as she'd "heard about the project through the grapevine," and had long dreamt of developing an acting career (per W ). She famously appeared in, and won awards for, American Horror Story , and revealed on The Graham Norton Show that when it came to doing the movie, "It took no convincing on my part."
Cooper and Lady Gaga were spotted together for the first time as filming began.
Following rumors that Gaga would be starring in Cooper's directorial debut, they were photographed in Los Angeles together riding a motorcycle. Dressed casually, it was immediately clear that the movie would be showing us a totally different side of Lady Gaga, especially in her character's simple style and pared-back makeup:
In a preview with Entertainment Weekly in August 2018, Cooper teased the experience of working together, saying, "I think the biggest thing I learned is that the sky's the limit if you find a companion artistically, and you have a project. There is no dreaming too big. What people can do together is so much more powerful than what they can do by themselves."
They arrived at the 75th Venice Film Festival together.
It was at the Venice Film Festival that Cooper and Gaga begin to really gush about one another, making it clear that their shooting experience was pretty special.
Gaga revealed (via Vanity Fair ), "I don’t know that I've ever had a closer artistic relationship than I have had with Bradley, a closer exchange. It meant a lot to me, and I think to both of us, that at the beginning of making this film we kind of shook hands literally and he said, 'You are an actress.' I said to him, 'You are a musician.'"
And there was, of course, Lady Gaga's story about Cooper that instantly went viral, purely because she repeated the sentiment so frequently while promoting A Star Is Born : "There could be 100 people in the room and 99 don’t believe in you. You just need one—and it was him." Cooper truly believes in Gaga, and that's ridiculously endearing.
Gaga and Cooper promoted their movie at Toronto International Film Festival.
The co-stars were extremely friendly during their time at TIFF. They attended Entertainment Weekly 's Must List party with co-star Sam Elliott:
All About Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's Friendship.
From the day they first met to their highly-anticipated Oscars performance on Sunday night.
When Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga made their appearance together in the multiple Oscar award-nominated film, A Star is Born , fans haven't been able to stop commenting on the amount of chemistry that the stars have with each other. Cooper and Gaga have a special bond with each other that started from the first time the actor heard Gaga sing, and ever since, the two have maintained an incredibly close friendship both on and offscreen.
Ahead of their performance of "Shallow"at the 91st Annual Academy Awards, here is a look back at Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's relationship since they met for the first time.
Cooper met Gaga for the first time at a benefit event.
Gaga and Cooper met back in Los Angeles in April 2016 for the first time when she performed at the opening of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Sean Parker's house. Two years later at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, Cooper told the festival's attendees that "she leveled the entire room when she came out. It was insane."
Gaga performed Édith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" at the benefit concert, and it was the performance that inspired him to cast Gaga for the role of Ally and write the song into the movie. Before Gaga's fateful performance that night, Cooper didn't have much knowledge of who Gaga was as an artist. "I was at a cancer benefit with my mother. I really did not know Lady Gaga’s music," he told W magazine. "They had a surprise musical guest, and Stefani came out with her hair slicked back."
Cooper was so blown away by Gaga's performance that the very next day, he requested to formally meet her to discuss the opportunity of working with each other. “I called her agent the next day and said, ‘Can I go to her house and meet her right away?’ I drove to Malibu, and we sat on her porch, and the next thing I know, I'm eating spaghetti and meatballs," Cooper told W .
Gaga prepared dinner for Cooper at her house.
Cooper went to Gaga's house for the spaghetti and meatball dinner and then learned that they had more in common than he initially thought. The food played a large part in their working relationship because they connected off of their shared backgrounds. "After 10 minutes we were eating homemade food that she cooked—I love to eat—and that was actually a huge bond that we both came from East Coast Italian-American families," he explained at the Venice Film Festival Conference in 2018. "So we had a real synchronicity on that level from our upbringing."
At the same festival, Gaga said that she and Cooper had an instant spark from that first meeting. "From the moment he came to my home and I opened the door and we locked eyes, I felt an instant connection with him." After the pasta dinner, she and Cooper went over to her piano where they sang a duet of Credence Clearwater Revival's "Midnight Special." After hearing how amazing they sounded singing together, Gaga couldn't deny the chemistry she had with Cooper. "I looked at him and said, 'Bradley, your voice is incredible. You have a real voice.' He sings from his soul," she said.
Cooper had to fight for Gaga to play Ally in A Star is Born .
W reported that while Cooper was convinced that Gaga would make a perfect Ally, Warner Bros., who was funding the film, needed to do multiple screen tests to prove that Gaga was good enough for the part.
"She was completely illuminated by the sun. So charismatic," Cooper told the The New York Times Magazine back in October 2018. " I thought inside my head, Oh, gosh. If she is like this on film, if that’s the worst case scenario that she’s this present on film, the movie will work.'" He also told W that "No actress can do musically what I needed Stefani to do in 42 days of shooting: I needed plutonium. And the plutonium in A Star Is Born is Stefani's voice."
Gaga, who always wanted to continue developing her acting, admitted to hearing about Cooper's project before she was formally asked. On an appearance on The Graham Norton Show , she revealed that accepting the offer took "no convincing" on her part.
Gaga and Cooper began to hang out with each other while filming.
After it was confirmed that Gaga would star in Cooper's new project, the pair was pictured out and about together riding on Cooper's motorcycle. Gaga looked much more relaxed than her stage persona, with minimal makeup and a simple outfit for their night-time bike ride. This ultimately was in preparation for her role as Ally, who also kept her look relatively low-key.
What’s the Deal With Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Relationship Tho?
Fans are convinced they’re secretly “in love.”
Truer words: There can be 100 people in a room, and Lady Gaga will literally only talk about Bradley Cooper. Which makes sense given that they're in the middle of promoting A Star Is Born , the movie that gave us this meme:
But because the Star Is Born fandom is a very thirsty place filled with people who want Gaga and Bradley's onscreen love to be a reality, plenty of fans are wondering if there's something.
going on between them. Behold, a random sampling of thirst-tweets:
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are in love that’s all g’night .
You sit through 2 hours and 14 minutes of A Star is Born, watch this beautiful love story play out and yet you sit there and tell me that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper AREN’T in love? Grow up bro.
If Bradley Cooper and Lady GaGa aren’t in love than I don’t know what Love is. TRUTH.
First of all, the answer to "Is there something more going on between them?" is PROBABLY NOT, EVERYONE CALM DOWN . But let's break down the speculation, shall we?
Obviously, They Have Insane Chemistry.
And I'm talking both onscreen:
In fact, that very moment above, which was captured during Gaga's Vegas residency, caused fans to fully spiral about the nature of their friendship:
Just watched Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performing in Las Vegas and:
1. She’s off her nut and.
2. She’s violently in love with Bradley Cooper.
Side note: Moms are very much here for this conspiracy theory too! Congrats, moms!
"lady gaga is secretly madly in love with bradley cooper" is my mom's Qanon.
my mom has sent me five texts about how gaga's performance of 'shallow' was "disappointing" and how she "destroyed" a "beaitful song" and one text about how she's still convinced gaga is still secretly in love with bradley cooper.
And, Um, Gaga and Christian Carino Just Broke Up.
Speculation about the split started brewing when Gaga showed up at the Grammy Awards without her engagement ring:
everybody are talking gaga broke up with christian cuz she's not wearing an engagement ring omg pic.twitter.com/udxXPtgHLk.
And then People confirmed the news, with a source saying, "It just didn’t work out. Relationships sometimes end. There’s no long dramatic story."
Yeah, tell that to fans:
@ladygaga broke off her engagement because she’s secretly in love with Bradley Cooper. obviously. We stan.
People Think Gaga Got a Secret Bradley Cooper Tattoo.
Insane, right? WRONG, the evidence is compelling! Okay, so remember when Gaga got these musical notes inked on her arm?
The notes probably read G-A-G-A, but there's a theory that they actually read B-C-B-C. making this tattoo a secret shout-out to her main onscreen man.
The notes spelling GAGA in the treble clef, spell BCBC in the bass clef. they really complete each other. pic.twitter.com/fsFQ4xsCH9.
But Guys, Reminder: BRADLEY COOPER IS WITH IRINA SHAYK.
They've been together since 2015. They have a child together. Irina even showed up to the Golden Globes with Bradley, where, yes, fine, this very awkward photo was taken:
Which, yes, fine, only made people more convinced of Gaga and Bradley's IRL love:
Biggest takeaway from the #GoldenGlobes is that Lady Gaga is full on in love with Bradley Cooper and I feel like they may have had sex at some point pic.twitter.com/r22Smcn2sy.
FYI, Gaga Once Said She'd NEVER Date Bradley.
This was in 2016 around the time A Star Is Born was filming. Turns out Howard Stern asked Gaga point-blank if things could take a turn for the romantic, and she said, "Absolutely not! I already love everyone and the idea is, if you really love somebody, you put the most important thing first and that is the film. The truth is, what's most important to me is that we tell a story that touches the hearts of millions of people that come to see it."
And that! is! that! But, like, are you still convinced Gaga and Bradley Cooper are in love IRL? This is a safe space, so dish:
Why did Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk break up, what were the cheating rumours and do they have kids?
14 Jun 2019, 14:53 Updated : 14 Jun 2019, 14:55.
Invalid Date,
BRADLEY Cooper has split from his partner of four years Irina Shayk just months after THAT 2019 Academy Awards alongside Lady Gaga.
Here is everything you need to know about the talented star and his split from the mother of his daughter.
Why did Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk split up?
The actor, 44, and supermodel, 33, are now amicably working out how to share custody of their two-year-old daughter Lea De Seine, an insider told PEOPLE.
The news came just two days after Sun Online exclusively revealed that Irina had moved out of the LA mansion she shared with ex-fiance Bradley.
A source told us: "Things are cooling off between Bradley and Irina in a big way.
"They haven’t been good for a few months and Irina decided it would be best if she moved into her own place.
"It’s not looking like there’s much long left for the two of them together."
Despite US reports of their relationship "hanging on by a thread," there is yet to be an official explanation for the split.
Though a source told People that their relationship was never the same after A Star Is Born.
They said: “Bradley was emotionally absent during the long time filming A Star Is Born .
“They tried to save the relationship but it had changed.”
But that hasn't stopped speculation being rife ever since Bradley's steamy Oscars performance with his A Star Is Born co-star, Lady Gaga, caused shockwaves back in February.
Though both have denied that they were in a secret relationship.
How long were Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk together and do they have any children?
Bradley had been in a relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk since April 2015.
By November of that year, the two love birds had moved in together in New York's West Village.
In March 2017, Irina gave birth to their adorable daughter Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, who just turned two.
What were the rumours about Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga?
The A Star Is Born co-stars sparked rumours of an affair because of their onscreen chemistry.
And following the split, Irina has even accused the actor of having an affair with the singer, according to US sources.
Rumours swirled that Irina was unhappy after the show but according to US reports, she flagged issues to Bradley when he filmed the movie with Gaga.
A source claimed to Radar Online: "Bradley’s relationship with baby mama Irina began to really fall apart when he started filming with Gaga and she accused him numerous times of cheating on her with his co-star.
"Ever since then, Irina has not been able to trust Bradley at all."
Irina was said to have been uncomfortable with their close bond after he "started spending time with Gaga at odd hours."
However an insider told The Sun Online that Bradley would find it too disrespectful to his ex to be anymore than friends with Gaga.
They said: “There’s no way Gaga and Bradley will get together.
“Not now – they’re really good friends and still speak all the time, but it’s not his style to jump into another relationship straight away.
"Especially after all the rumours about them during A Star Is Born. He wouldn’t do that.”
What happened between him and Lady Gaga at the Oscars?
The two sang the song Shallow from the Oscar-nominated movie during the Academy Awards ceremony.
Bradley sat beside Lady Gaga as she played the piano and they put on a steamy display of emotions with plenty of eye contact and close contact.
Some fans went on social media to point out that the A Star Is Born stars looked like they were about to kiss at some points.
What has Lady Gaga said about the split?
After being heckled on stage by fans asking where Bradley Cooper was, Lady Gaga hit back at her fans at a concert in Las Vegas.
Just days after Bradley and Irina's split, the singer was performing in Las Vegas when she lost her temper with the taunts, amid speculation that she played a part in her A Star Is Born co-star's break-up.
Before performing the film's track Shallow, she told the crowd: “And one more thing, be kind or f**k off.”
Despite stirring controversy after their steamy performance of the hit song at the Oscars in February, Gaga has always insisted she is just good friends with Bradley.
Referring to their sensual Oscars performance, she said: “Yes, people saw love.
"And guess what? That’s what we wanted you to see.”
Did Bradley win an Academy Award?
Bradley was put forward for several gongs after wowing critics with his blockbuster A Star Is Born.
He was up for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.
However, he didn't take any Academy Awards home at the end of the night.
Who else has Bradley dated?
Bradley Cooper dated many top actresses early in his career, including Renee Zellweger, Cameron Diaz, and Zoe Saldana, his Guardians Of The Galaxy co-star.
He was married to Jennifer Esposito in December 2006, but she filed for divorce five months later.
Bradley also caused a stir by going out with British model and actress Suki Waterhouse when she was 17 years his junior.
Who is Bradley Cooper and what is his background?
Bradley Charles Cooper, born January 5, 1975, is a 44-year-old American actor from Philadelphia.
After rising to global fame after his Oscar-nominated movie Silver Linings Playbook in 2012, Cooper has since become one of the highest-paid actors in the world.
During his youth, Bradley was really into cooking and the military, and he originally wanted to be a ninja in Japan.
But, by the time he reached the end of high school he had no idea what he wanted to be.
He eventually studied English at Georgetown University in Washington, and while he was there he began acting in a local theatre group.
He made his big acting debut in an episode of Sex And The City in 1999, before studying an acting Masters in New York.
Around that time he also co-hosted a Discovery Channel travel series called Globe Trekker.
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What movies has Bradley been in and what is his net worth?
From 2001 to 2009, Bradley starred in eleven movies (including smash hit Wedding Crashers), though none of them earned him much attention or praise.
However, in 2009 he bagged two career-making roles in the laddish comedy The Hangover alongside Zach Galifianakis, and in the rom-com, He's Just Not That Into You with a huge all-star cast.
After that, stardom seemed inevitable - and thanks to 2011 Thriller Limitless and a sequel to The Hangover, he soon hit the big time.
A starring role alongside Jennifer Lawrence in 2012's Silver Linings Playbook, for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars, sent his career sky-rocketing.
That - as well as critical praise for The Place Beyond The Pines- meant that before long, he was never off a movie set, and was soon raking in the dough.
Since 2009, he's starred in American Hustle, Guardians Of The Galaxy, American Sniper, Burnt, and Joy, among other huge feature films.
If that wasn't enough, he also joined the Marvel movie universe in the 2018 Avengers movie.
And, he even impressed theatre critics by playing the title role in a stage adaptation of The Elephant Man in London.
In 2019 he starred in the Oscar winning A Star is Born with co-star Lady Gaga.
As of 2019, Celebrity Net Worth reports that Cooper is estimated to be worth £100 million.
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