# Man/Woman creative teams who were NOT romantically involved. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883 "2005-02-19T13:37:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/21 "2005-02-19T22:51:53Z")
Another one, perhaps: Tuck & Patty? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/22 "2005-02-19T22:53:30Z")
Donny and Marie Osmond, hopefully. Ditto Michael and Janet Jackson. Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye were supposedly not “involved.” ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/23 "2005-02-20T00:35:50Z")
Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, creators of “The Real World” and “Road Rules” for MTV were never romantically connected. (I believe that Murray is gay.) Fashion designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka are both gay, but I don’t believe that their partnership extends beyond beautiful clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/24 "2005-02-20T04:09:11Z")
Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/25 "2005-02-20T06:09:03Z")
As they always said, it’s just Eurythmics, no “The”. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/26 "2005-02-20T10:59:35Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Another one, perhaps: Tuck & Patty? Tuck and Patti are a married couple. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/27 "2005-02-20T15:30:14Z")
Aren’t teh White Stripes siblings? Tho I wonder if brother / sister should be a separate category. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/28 "2005-02-20T16:34:20Z")
As far as I’m aware, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson of _Spaced_ and _Shaun of the Dead_ fame were never an item. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/29 "2005-02-20T16:38:46Z")
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/30 "2005-02-20T16:39:45Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Aren’t teh White Stripes siblings? No, they are ex-spouses who for some reason initially tried to pass themselves off as brother and sister. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/31 "2005-02-20T17:25:52Z")
Billie Holiday and Lester Young. They were very close musically and great friends, as I hear it, but Billie was most attracted to guys (and gals) who dealt and could source drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/32 "2005-02-20T17:36:18Z")
Rita and Runt. At least, I sure hope they were never romantically involved. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/33 "2005-02-20T17:59:46Z")
Loretta Lynn and Jack White. In comic books, since there are so few women working as writers and artists, they are often paired with men, and very rarely are they actually couples. Some of the few comic book couples I can think of include Louise and Walter Simonson, Karl and Barbara Kesel, Mike and Laura Allred, Jill Thompson and Brian Azzarello, and Richard and Wendy Pini. I’m sure I’m forgetting some others, but most of the time, a female writer working with a male artist (or vice versa) aren’t “together.” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/34 "2005-02-20T19:54:00Z")
I was sure I heard Dolly Parton & Porter Wagner were involved. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/35 "2005-02-20T20:40:38Z")
Nureyev and Fonteyn. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/36 "2005-02-20T23:14:05Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens. Or maybe it’s the other woman (whose name escapes me) he’s not married to. Well, he’s not married to both of them. From the Guardian (UK): > [@](#): > > The time spent with Jon Pertwee’s man of straw and Una Stubbs’s irrepressible Aunt Sally had benefits beyond putting Jackson on the way to becoming the highest paid director of all time. In 1987 he married Fran Walsh who, as well as mothering his two children, Billy and Katie, is the co-writer and co-producer of all his films and the unsung heroine of The Lord of the Rings. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/37 "2005-02-21T03:58:19Z")
Esther Friesner and Lawrence Watt-Evans collaborated on an SF novel. Same with Ray Feist and Janny Wurtz. Dorothy Fields collaborated with Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, Jerome Kern, and Cy Coleman, among others. I don’t think she had romantic relations with any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/38 "2005-02-21T06:19:09Z")
I’m fairly confident that [Emma Bull](http://www.geocities.com/qwertyranch/emma.html) and [Steven Brust](http://www.dreamcafe.com/main.cgi) have never been involved. They wrote the book _Freedom & Necessity_ and have played in a [folk band](http://www.geocities.com/qwertyranch/flash.html) together. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/39 "2005-02-21T06:50:15Z")
Al Franken and Tom Davis ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/40 "2005-02-21T06:52:41Z")
Oops, sorry, I read right over the “man/woman” thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883.md?page=1)