At times, it seems like our fame-hungry celebrities will do anything to get into Guilty Pleasures – but occasionally life takes an unexpected twist.
Simon Cowell, Justin Bieber and Nigella Lawson were among those who learned that the hard way when their lives derailed in 2013.
Cowell led the baby bombshell stakes in July when it emerged that the 54-year-old was having a child with his friend’s then wife, Lauren Silverman.
Si and his 36-year-old lover are now looking forward to welcoming the arrival of a son in February.
The X Factor boss wasn’t the only one sneaking around the bedroom as Liam Gallagher’s marriage to All Saints singer Nicole Appleton came crashing down in July. The swaggering Oasis star was named in a £2million baby battle lawsuit when it finally emerged the 41-year-old was the father of journalist Liza Ghorbani’s daughter.
The unapologetic Beady Eye frontman left his family home and quickly shacked up with another lover, Debbie Gwyther.
Robert Pattinson, 27, called time on his romance with 23-year-old Kristen Stewart but the pair are rumoured to be making Christmas plans together.
When it wasn’t bed-hopping sinking the stars, it was drug scandals. Model Cara Delevingne had a guilty-looking face in May when the 21-year-old embarrassingly dropped a wrap of white powder on her doorstep in front of the cameras.
But the biggest bombshell of them all came when domestic goddess Nigella Lawson was dubbed ‘Higella’ by ex-hubby Charles Saatchi, as the 53-year-old celebrity chef admitted to a courtroom that she had taken cocaine.
Justin Bieber landed himself in the sin bin at the start of the year when he was pictured at a party in a hotel suite holding a dodgy-looking cigarette.
It kicked off the unravelling of his squeaky clean image as scuffles with the paparazzi, spitting on fans and a charming episode when he peed in a club cleaner’s mop bucket all followed throughout his world tour.
Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos was arrested in June and went into hiding before the 25-year-old was finally charged for allegedly helping with the supply of drugs to an undercover reporter.
But it was wholesome Reese Witherspoon who stunned the world in April when the 37-year-old’s mugshot was taken for disorderly conduct.
There was further embarrassment when it emerged she tried to sweet talk her way out her arrest with the ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ card.
Away from the prison walls, plenty of our famous couples were at home nursing broken hearts.
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr took everyone by surprise when they called time on their marriage in October after just three years.
And unlucky-in-love Kylie Minogue is back on the shelf at 45 after she and Andrés Velencoso called it quits after five years together in October.
Joining them on the on-off merry-go-round was X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger, who left Lewis Hamilton pinning like an abandoned puppy after ending their five-year romance (yet again) in the summer.
On a more serious note, the hardest moment for the showbiz world came with some sad goodbyes. Glee star Cory Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room at the age of 31 following a drugs and booze overdose in July. And Fast & Furious pin-up Paul Walker died aged 40 in a sports car inferno after the Porsche he was in crashed in Los Angeles at a charity event last month.
