It seemed awfully convenient that Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson were suddenly over the moon about each other, just as they started promoting their film The Naked Gun . As a mostly hopeful romantic, I really wanted to believe their romance was real, and I was not alone. But according to TMZ, you, me, and a lot of celebrity shippers have been duped.

On Friday, the tabloid claimed that Anderson and Neeson’s incessant flirting was never a real relationship, just a promotional tactic for the film. Anonymous sources with “direct knowledge” apparently told TMZ that Paramount and the actors’ respective PR teams came up with the idea while they were filming last spring. Despite all the red-carpet cheek kisses, hand-holding , and public sweet talk , the sources say Anderson and Nees

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