There’s this assumption that celebrities all know each other and we always think that they all hang out together because they’re celebs. But do you ever think about how they know each other? Do they just become friends when they work together or attend the same VIP event? Cause it turns out there are quite a few celebrities who have known each other way before they were famous. Let’s take a look at some, shall we? 

1. Princess Diana and Tilda Swinton

You wouldn’t think of these two hanging out together would you? But they both went to the same school and became friends there. Way before Diana became the People’s Princess that she was and way before Tilda became the famous actress that she is. 

2. Prince William and Eddie Redmayne

Speaking of royals, Prince William, Diana’s son and future king of England, and actor Eddie Redmayne also both attended Eton College and even played on the same rugby team. Eddie has shared in an interview that Will always took all the hits during matches because everyone wanted to tackle the future King.

3. Blake Lively and Penn Badgley

No, these two didn’t meet at school, but their families were friends and they knew each other long before they met on the set of Gossip Girl. Makes you wonder if their lives were any similar to the characters they played on the show. 

4. Timothée Chalamet and Ansel Elgort

These two charming New Yorkers both attended LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, and Performing Arts. They’re basically classmates, they shared many of the teachers at school and even enjoyed playing some b-ball outside of the school.

5. Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts

These two gorgeous actresses met in North Sydney Girls High School and became friends for life. We bet they couldn’t imagine back then how famous they would become. 

6. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

This friendship is well documented in the media. These two hunks have a habit of joking about each other and their pretend rivalry goes years back. They met when they were kids. Ben was 9 and Matt was 10 years old. And they just stayed friends this whole time. They wrote Good Will Hunting together and starred in it, and even got an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1997. That friendship is golden. 

7. Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz

Would you believe these two went to High School together? We don’t know what’s more unlikely, Snoop or Cameron attending the Long Beach Polytechnic school. What a waste of time that must’ve been for both of them. 

8. Lena Dunham and Zac Posen 

Zac used to babysit Lena Dunham when she was a child. But in an awesome turn of events, Lena even got to wear a gown made by now famous designer Zac Posen to the 2015 Golden Globes.

9. Scarlett Johansson and Jack Antonoff

Speaking of Lena Dunham, her ex-boyfriend Jack Antonoff went to The Professional Children’s School in New York City with Scarlett Johansson. They even went to prom together. 

10. Adele and Jessie J

They always say that talent is hard to come by and it’s one in a million that makes it big in the music industry. But Jessie J and Adele were in the same year at BRIT School and they’ve both made it pretty freaking big if you ask me.  

11. Zach Braff and Lauryn Hill 

Yup, J.D. from Scrubs and the Grammy-winning Lauryn Hill met in high school. They both went to Columbia High in Maplewood, New Jersey.

12. Lady Gaga and Nicky Hilton

Who would’ve thought that Mother Monster, the Queen of all misfits, Lady Gaga, and Nicky Hilton of the Hilton family both went to the same school? And that school is Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. How ironic. 

13. Gwyneth Paltrow and Maya Rudolph

These two actresses met in primary school in California and are still close friends to this day. Their fathers met in university and isn’t it funny that they sent off their kids to the same school?

14. Liv Tyler and Kate Hudson

Another celebrity duo that met in school. These two beauties attended Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences together. They probably didn’t know then that Kate would get an Oscar for Almost Famous and Liv would go on to play Arwen in LOTR.