National Best Friends Day: The Celeb BFFs Whose Group Chats We Most Want to Join
National Best Friends Day: Whether they go way back like Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez or had an instant connection like Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, these celeb besties are friendship goals.
You probably already knew because your bestie texted you this morning, but June 8 is National Best Friends Day, and that’s something to celebrate.
National Best Friends Day
From star pals who hit it off during a slumber party, to newer BFFs who forged an instant friendship on set, these dynamic duos give meaning to the term #friendshipgoals, and always find new ways to lift each other up.
Read on for some of the most enviable and awesome friendships in Hollywood. stay with this part of celebrities from the series of entertainment in Eternal Pen magazine.
Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez
Who better to kick off a list of celeb BFFs than Taylor and Selena?
National Best Friends Day: These two met more than 15 years ago, back when they were dating different Jonas brothers. And while those relationships are now relegated to song lyrics, Taylor and Selena are going strong, still taking time to catch up over dinner and hanging out at award shows together.
Snoop Dogg & Martha Stewart
National Best Friends Day: The rapper and the home and hospitality television personality may seem like an unlikely pair, but Snoop Dogg and Stewart have been friends for years ever since Snoop joined Stewart on The Martha Stewart Show in 2008 to make some mean mashed potatos.
In 2016, Snoop called Stewart his “homegirl” in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, citing a “special bond that goes way back.”
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon
Bean Town made besties of these two actors, who first met when Affleck was 8, and Damon was 10, living down the road from each other in Cambridge, Mass. Not long after discovering that the pair shared an affinity for baseball and acting, the two of them began auditioning for roles together, soon going on to play extras in Field of Dreams and later costarring in School Ties, before eventually winning Oscars for Good Will Hunting by each other’s side.
Lea Michele & Jonathan Groff
National Best Friends Day: From Broadway buds to Glee costars, Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff are besties who are in it for the long haul. The pair played doomed lovers in the the Broadway musical Spring Awakening beginning in 2006 have stayed close ever since. Groff was even Lea’s “maid of honor” in her 2019 wedding to her husband, Zandy Reich.
Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Grey
National Best Friends Day: This musical duo is rich in both talent and friendship!
The pair (who share the same producer, Dan Nigro) collaborated together in a promo for Taylor Swift’s recording of her sophomore album, Fearless in 2021.
Gray and Rodrigo’s bond has only grown over the years, with the two supporting each other’s music releases, attending each other’s concerts, celebrating birthdays together and even going as each other’s date to the Met Gala.
Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey
National Best Friends Day: Angela and Pam may have butted heads as characters on The Office, but their IRL actors certainly didn’t let their work impact their friendship.
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey are still friends, more than 10 years after The Office ended. They have stayed true to their sitcom roots with their joint Office Ladies podcast and book, Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There.
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler
2019 NBCUniversal Upfront in New York City on Monday, May 13, 2019 — Pictured: (l-r) Tina Fey; Amy Poehler, “Making It” on NBC
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s friendship is no joke! The two first met in Chicago in 1993 when they were on a team at Improv Olympic (now iO), Fey said on Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist.
The two starred on Saturday Night Live in the early 2000s, have a four-time tally of co-hosting the Golden Globe Awards together and even have a live comedy tour called “Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour”.
Oprah Winfrey & Gayle King
National Best Friends Day: Like many great friendships, Oprah Winfrey’s and Gayle King’s began with a sleepover.
The two had been working as a news anchor and a production assistant/writer, respectively, for WJZ-TV in Baltimore when a heavy snowstorm rolled in. Not wanting King to get caught in the weather, Winfrey offered King a place to stay the night.
“We ended up talking all night long,” Winfrey told PEOPLE in 2022. “We’ve literally been friends ever since.” Nearly 48 years later, the pair are still going strong!
Busy Philipps & Michelle Williams
Dawson’s Creek may have given us some great television, but it gave us an even greater friendship.
Busy Philipps and Michelle Williams met while working on the set of Dawson’s Creek in the late 1990s, and have remained besties and frequent red-carpet dates ever since. Phillips is even the godmother to Williams’ oldest child, Matilda.
“I’m so in love with her,” Williams told PEOPLE of Phillips. “She’s proof that the love of your life does not have to be a man! That’s the love of my life right there.”
Pedro Pascal & Oscar Isaac
National Best Friends Day: This duo met while appearing in an off-Broadway play almost 19 years ago in 2005.
Pascal and Isaac later worked on the 2019 action film Triple Frontier, and they have both dabbled in the Star Wars universe (Pascal stars in The Mandalorian, and Isaac played Poe Dameron in the seventh film in the Star Wars’ Skywalker Saga).
In a 2022 interview with Esquire, Pascal said that Isaac became like “family” over the years, jokingly calling him “the younger brother I never wanted.”
Lili Reinhart, Madelaine Petsch & Camila Mendes
National Best Friends Day: Though their hit CW series Riverdale may have wrapped in 2023, the former costars are still friends, showing up to support each other as they navigate their lives post-Riverdale.
“We’re all kind of experiencing the same anxieties at the same time and it’s really nice to have people who relate to you and that way,” Mendes said of relying on Reinhart and Petsch on an episode of PEOPLE in 10.
Most recently, Mendes and Reinhart joined Petsch on the red carpet to support her for her latest project, the upcoming horror film The Strangers: Chapter 1.
Mariska Hargitay & Christopher Meloni
Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni’s friendship is as old as Law & Order: SVU. The two met at the audition for the now 25-year-old hit TV series and immediately hit it off, joking and laughing at the screen test.
Meloni told PEOPLE in 2021 that the secret to the pair’s connection is simple: “We have each other’s back.”
Sydney Sweeney & Maude Apatow
National Best Friends Day: Euphoria not only united viewers around their couches on Sundays for two seasons, but it also united the show’s two stars, Maude Apatow and Sydney Sweeney, as besties.
The pair, who played sisters on the hit teen drama, became inseparable during their time on the show.
During a 2022 interview with PEOPLE, Sweeney said Apatow is “one of the kindest actresses” she had ever worked with. Apatow echoed her sentiments, saying that Sweeney is “the most on top of it, hardworking, incredible person to work with.”
