"Good thing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement is there to soften the blow, because this summer's other feel-good celebrity love story, between Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson, may not have been worth celebrating, or believing at all. The latest scuttlebutt is that Neeson and Anderson were only pretending to be in a relationship to promote their movie The Naked Gun."
"Re-examining those articles now, it's true that the actors themselves never confirmed it, but even so, it would have been easy for someone who was only sort of paying attention to get the impression that they were officially and unambiguously a couple: They smooched on the Today show! There were headlines about how they're " madly in love!" When Andy Cohen gushed about their relationship to Anderson and Neeson on Watch What Happens Live,"
In July, Liam Neeson, 73, and Pamela Anderson, 58, appeared on publicity rounds for their movie The Naked Gun amid reports that they were dating. The actors never explicitly confirmed a romance, yet public interactions — a kiss on the Today show and playful responses on Watch What Happens Live — cultivated the impression of an official couple. Older fans in particular reacted with emotional investment because both stars have long public histories and personal hardships. Subsequent reporting and social-media skepticism have raised the possibility that the relationship was a promotional fabrication. Observers express disappointment and call for an end to such fauxmances or for more convincing execution.
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