18 TV Friends Who Dated the Same Person

Ah, Scandal. It goes without saying that Mellie (Bellamy Young) and Olivia (Kerry Washington) don't start out as friends — after all, Olivia is sleeping with Mellie's husband, who also happens to be the president of the United States — but through some straight-up soap opera sorcery, the first lady decides that Fitz and Olivia's affair actually makes her life easier.

By the show's fifth season, Olivia and Fitz are no longer, and Mellie and Olivia have teamed up for her presidential campaign — a friendship they seal with a night of girl talk and moonshine.