Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have long been known for their unconventional parenting, but their relationship has also drawn quite a bit of attention. In 2020, singer August Alsina claimed in an interview on 'The Breakfast Club' that he had a four-year love affair with Jada, and that Will Smith himself gave him his blessing. According to Alsina, the married couple had changed their relationship from a romantic one to one of "life partnership," and as a result Alsina was allowed to go all in with Jada, emotionally and physically. Though Jada's representatives have denied Alsina's claims, there are hints of an open relationship from the Smiths' past.

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August Alsina claimed that he didn't want to stir up any drama, but that his life had been negatively affected by the misinterpretation of what had occurred. He also said he loved the Smiths deeply, and added that he could die right now because of how satisfied he is with his experience of truly giving himself to Jada.

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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith - Suspicions of their open relationship first gained momentum back in 2013, when Jada told the Huffington Post that Will is his own man, and that she's told him he can do whatever he wants as long as he can look at himself in the mirror and be okay.

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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith - Wanting to further explain herself amidst rumors that they were seeking out other partners, Jada posted a statement on Facebook that clarified that both Will and herself can do whatever they want, because they trust each other, and that while they don't call it an open relationship, they do call it "a GROWN one."

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Ethan Hawke and Ryan Shawhughes - Hawke doesn't regret his marriage to Uma Thurman or their two children, but following rumors of cheating on her, he's come forward about his thoughts on monogamy. "People have such a childish view of monogamy and fidelity," he told Mr. Porter in 2013. To Hawke, cheating is not something that makes a person bad, but rather proof that "our species is not monogamous." He also said being shocked by infidelity is like being shocked at your hair turning grey.

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Ethan Hawke and Ryan Shawhughes - He added that he's committed to his current wife, but that they can't know what the future holds. "Sexual fidelity can't be the whole thing you hang your relationship on. If you really love somebody, you want them to grow, but you don't get to define how that happens." For Hawke, that meant growing into a relationship with the nanny, Shawhughes.

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Mo'Nique and Sidney Hicks - The Oscar-winner has always been candid about her open marriage, the couple even has a podcast about it, and in an interview with Barbara Walters she explained that she and Hicks are both allowed to sleep with other people because fidelity doesn't define their connection.

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Mo'Nique and Sidney Hicks - While opening the marriage was her idea, Mo'Nique told Oprah, "I've been best friends with my husband since we were 14 years old. When we say 'open,' we're very honest. There are no secrets. Oftentimes you have people that are married, but they're strangers, and we refuse to be those people."

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Tom Ford and Richard Buckley - Tom Ford met his husband, magazine editor Richard Buckley, over 30 years ago, and they have remained deeply in love, marrying in 2014. Despite that, Ford admitted in an interview with New York Magazine that he doesn't believe monogamy is natural.

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Tom Ford and Richard Buckley - "I think that monogamy is artificial," he said in the interview. "I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us." As the good, considerate husband he is, he then admitted he didn't want to get into it any further for fear of getting in trouble.

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Dolly Parton and Carl Dean - Parton and Dean have been married since 1966, which is a rare feat in today's society. Perhaps one of the reasons they've lasted so long is that they never made monogamy a priority. The two share a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy when it comes to their marriage.

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Dolly Parton and Carl Dean - "If we cheat, we don't know it, so if we do cheat, it's very good for both us," Parton told the Daily Mail. She explained that neither of them would want to know if the other was cheating, though if either of them wanted to know, they would tell each other. She also told Vanity Fair that monogamy is the "most overrated virtue," before slyly referring to it as "monotony."

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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee - The Hollywood legends were married for an impressive 57 years, until Davis passed away in 2005. They lived and worked together throughout all that time, and yet the machine of their relationship remained so fine-tuned. The key? The emotional and romantic freedom they gave one another.

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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee - In their joint autobiography, 'With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together,' they explained that it was no infidelity that destroyed marriages, "but rather the lies and deception that invariably accompanied it." Davis explained that they decided to allow each other to sleep with other people as long as they were honest, private, and didn't expose the family to scandal or disease.

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Maria Bello and Clare Munn - In 2006, Bello told Esquire she finds monogamy "nonsensical," adding that she understands the idea of a lifelong friend, but "when you have to stay sexually monogamous to this one person, I think it's usually a big fat lie."

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Maria Bello and Clare Munn - In 2013, Bello wrote a story in the New York Times about her modern family (her son, her ex-boyfriend, and her new girlfriend). Though she and Munn have since split, Bello wrote, "My feelings about attachment and partnership have always been that they are fluid and evolving," explaining that no matter who, how, or what it entails, "love is love."

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Shirley MacLaine and Steve Parker - The pair were married for nearly three decades, and in 2016 she told People of the open nature of their marriage: "No one understood it, we did. He lived in Japan basically, I lived in America working ... We'd meet up, always great friends, traveled sometimes together." She added that their arrangement, including being very open and honest, was the secret to their long-lasting marriage.

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Shirley MacLaine and Steve Parker - The couple were married for 28 years until their split in 1982, but MacLaine still refers to Parker as the "love of [her] life."

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Alan Cumming and Grant Shaffer - This couple is so solid that they tied the knot twice, and their key to happiness is that they are clear about what they can realistically expect from each other. Though they're not currently in an open marriage, they agree that seeking physical love outside their relationship wouldn't be a deal-breaker.

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Alan Cumming and Grant Shaffer - In 2014, Cumming told Out magazine, "What I do believe is that monogamy is not a natural state... So, in my own life, I realized it's not possible, and I don't pretend I can do it." He explained that if you're kind, honest, and "faithful in a true way, then it is not the worst thing that could happen—that you have a little something on the side."

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Tilda Swinton and John Byrne - Though the actress and playwright had separated, they were still living together with their two children when Swinton introduced her much younger partner, Sandro Kopp, into the equation, making that one very complicated household indeed.

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Tilda Swinton and John Byrne - Swinton told the Daily Mail that living with two men is actually a lot more boring than people think—good, but boring. "It's not something I try to promote as a radical lifestyle choice," she said, explaining that it's healthy for her because she can maintain her life with her family while still spending time with "the man [she's] become very fond of." She's grateful for the men's understanding.

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Hugh Grant - In 2016, Grant said to Howard Stern, "If you ask me the question, 'Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful relationships?' No, no. Whoever said they were?" He added that he admired the way French and Italian people took their marriages seriously, but while "it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon."

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Hugh Grant - Despite his unromantic notions of marriage, Grant was recently wed to Anna Elisabet Eberstein in 2018.

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T-Pain and Amber Najm - The rapper and his wife have been married since 2003, and while they don't have an open relationship, they do invite other people into their bed. "Me and my wife just sleep with other girls together. It's not like we can just go off and have relationships with other people," he said in an interview.

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T-Pain and Amber Najm - Things can get messy, however, and in 2007 T-Pain impregnated a woman outside of their arrangement, and she sued him for child support two years later.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt - In a 2009 interview with German magazine Das Neue Blatt, when Brangelina were not yet married, Jolie said, "I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship. It's worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards." She added that neither of them had ever claimed that living together meant they were chained to each other. "We make sure that we never restrict each other."

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt - Two years after their 2014 wedding, however, news dropped that they were divorcing among rumors that Pitt was cheating on her with his 'Allied' costar Marion Cotillard.

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Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento - After Bourdain's suicide, many cruelly pointed fingers at his girlfriend, Asia Argento, who had been photographed holding hands with a French journalist named Hugo Clément shortly before the celebrity chef's untimely passing. But Argento revealed the two had an open relationship.

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Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento - Argento told Daily Mail TV in a tearful interview in June 2018 that sleeping with other people wasn't a problem for them. "He was a man who traveled 265 days a year. When we saw each other we took really great pleasure in each other's company. But we are not children. We are grown ups."

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Scarlett Johansson - While she's been married twice, it seems only to have cemented her uncertainty about monogamy. She explained in an interview that the very fact that romantic exclusivity takes so much work proves that it's not natural. "It's something I have a lot of respect for and have participated in, but I think it definitely goes against some instinct to look beyond."

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Margaret Cho - The comedian has been very candid about her non-monogamous view, and though she's now separated from her husband, she once told The Real that they had only got together because they shared the same beliefs about fidelity. "I just don't want to have sex with the same person my whole life—that's just gross," she said.

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Monogamish? Stars on open relationships

Taika Waititi, Rita Ora, and Tessa Thompson spotted packing on PDA together

24/05/21 | StarsInsider

CELEBRITY Relationships

Hollywood seems to be a hotspot for drama and infidelity, with many relationships ending in highly public spats and expensive divorces. On the bright side, however, some stars have managed to rethink traditional relationships while under the spotlight, and redefine commitment altogether.

Oscar-winning writer-director Taika Waititi has had his hands full, quite literally, as he was recently spotted cuddling up and kissing both girlfriend Rita Ora and 'Thor: Ragnarok' actress Tessa Thompson in Sydney on May 23. The Daily Mail reported that the photographs, which show all three stars sharing smooches and getting cozy, were taken following an all-night party at Waititi’s home.

Waititi and Ora made their relationship public at the April premiere of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under,' weeks after it was reported that Waititi was separated from his wife Chelsea Winstanley. Thompson is currently in Australia to film the Waititi-directed 'Thor: Love and Thunder.' Though nothing has been confirmed about the nature of the three-way affair, many suspect Waititi and Ora are in an open relationship.

Click through the gallery to find out more, as well as which other celebs either prefer open relationships to monogamy, or have dabbled in being “monogamish.”