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If you're a big star in Hollywood, it's hard to keep your private life under wraps.
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However, Big Bang Theory co-stars Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki managed to pull off one
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of the biggest secret relationships in Tinsel Town.
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The stars, who play Penny and Leonard on the hit CBS sitcom, revealed in 2010 that they'd
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been dating for around two years, but had split on friendly terms.
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People were shocked — how could they keep it so secret for so long?
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While Leonard and Penny are still in love and even walked down the aisle on The Big
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Bang Theory, their real-life relationship fizzled out off-screen.
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"You wrote vows?"
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"Yeah."
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"I don't have any, you're kinda making me look bad."
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Let's look at the real reasons the secretive lovebirds ended their illicit romance.
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Forced into hiding
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After confessing to dating her co-star in an interview with CBS Watch! magazine back
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in 2010, Cuoco also revealed that she never went anywhere with Galecki during their two-year
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romance, for fear of being photographed together.
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"This is the first time I've ever talked about it, ever.
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It was a wonderful relationship but we never spoke a word about it and never went anywhere
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together.
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We were so protective of ourselves and the show and didn't want anything to ruin that.
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But that also made it sad, too.
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That's not the kind of relationship I want — I don't want to be hiding.
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We couldn't do anything.
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It wasn't as fun as we wanted it to be."
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Penny and Leonard forever
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Galecki opened up about the romance in 2013, and revealed how he and Cuoco were worried
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their off-screen romance would distract from the on-again/off-again relationship their
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characters Leonard and Penny had on The Big Bang Theory.
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He told CBS Watch! magazine
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"I just don't like to speak about it.
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And not because I'm trying to be enigmatic; I just worry that it will conflict with people's
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acceptance of Leonard and Penny…
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I get the curiosity, but I don't want to distract from the story."
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Despite their off-screen relationship ending, their beloved characters Penny and Leonard
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ended up getting married in the first episode of season nine, which aired in September 2015,
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and then wed again in season ten in 2016.
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"I now pronounce you husband and wife.
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And weird other husband who came with the apartment."
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Lying to their friends
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The cast of The Big Bang Theory are all good friends, as most of their behind the scenes
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photos prove.
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All they seem to do is goof around on set.
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"That's fantastic, and you have real beer in the refrigerator"
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"Oh, isn't that nice, we'll need that replaced."
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"It's mine now."
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But despite their tight-knit friendship with their co-stars Jim Parsons, Kunal Nayyar,
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and Simon Helberg, Cuoco and Galecki still chose to lie to their friends about their
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blossoming romance.
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"We didn't tell them, for like four or five months, which was horrible because we were
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like best friends then."
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Eventually, it affected their relationship.
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"Everyone was always asking, and we deny-deny-denied.
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And I'm like, 'Why am I denying this person that I love?'
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It took a little bit of a toll on me and I think it did for him, too…
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We knew how to keep it deep inside and never bring it on that set, ever."
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They even worked during the aftermath of their break-up without telling anybody on set that
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they'd ended their relationship.
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Said Cuoco about the breakup: "We broke up before the holidays and worked that whole
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time.
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We dodged a huge bullet.
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Dodged a war."
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Child star pressures
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Cuoco started acting as a young child.
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She was only ten when she appeared in the Denzel Washington sci-fi thriller Virtuosity
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in 1995, while Galecki caught the acting bug when he was just six years old, and got his
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big break at 14 when he was cast as Chevy Chase's son Rusty in 1989's National Lampoon's
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Christmas Vacation.
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"Russ!"
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"Right here, dad"
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"Huh, there you are."
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Having dealt with the pressures of Hollywood longer than most, the two were desperate to
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keep their romance away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi and celebrity gossip magazines.
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However, it was a decision that ultimately ended their two-year-long romance.
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As Cuoco put it:
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"When you're dealing with two professionals who have been working since they were both
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four — and who kept their lives extremely private — we didn't want anything other
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than that."
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A doomed romance
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Despite their admiration and respect for one another after their break-up, Cuoco revealed
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that the couple had actually agreed on how they would deal with ending their relationship
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when they first began dating.
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Cuoco told CBS Watch!:
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"We knew we weren't destined to be together.
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We accepted it and said, 'Look, if we ever break up, we will be professional.
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I'm so lucky it was a mutual ending and that we don't hate each other.
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We've seen that happen on other shows."
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Better friends than lovers?
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Since their break-up, the couple have continued to be close friends, even meeting each other's
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partners and goofing around in interviews.
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Were they just always destined to be better as friends than as boyfriend and girlfriend?
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"We're going to put on music and dance in our underwear."
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"Ugh, can't we just have sex?"
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Galecki told The View that their professional relationship still works so well because they
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still love and respect each other.
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"It's not easy, but with those two ingredients, pretty much anything is possible and we're
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dear, dear friends."
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Rumors swirled that the pair were dating again after Cuoco split from her husband Ryan Sweeting
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in 2015.
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But the on-screen sweethearts took to social media to shut down the false reports.
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Cuoco posted a shot of her and her former boyfriend on Instagram with the caption, "No
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scandals/home wreckers/pregnancies here, y'all.
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Just profound friendship."
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Looks like we'll just have to settle for the on-screen romance of Leonard and Penny!
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