And that’s why when the 7th Heaven star suggested pal Jackie Tohn drop out of the University of Delaware to focus on her acting career, the Nobody Wants This actress jumped at the chance. 

“I don’t know that she admits this, but she is who convinced me to drop out of college,” Tohn, 45, told Dax Shepard on the July 13 episode of his Armchair Expert podcast, noting that “it wasn’t a hard convince.”

“It was literally like, ‘I can’t live here, I have nowhere to live,’” Tohn continued of her conversation with Biel. “And she was like, ‘Live with my family.’ And I was like, ‘See ya, U Delaware!’”

And while the then-18-year-old GLOW actress had just met the then-17-year-old New Year’s Eve star a day prior at the TV Guide Awards, the Biels took her in like a second daughter.

“Kim Biel, Jess’ mom, taught me how to write a check. Literally, taught me how to pump gas,” Tohn shared. “I moved out of the house so young. I went to college for one semester. I barely had my driver’s license for a year.”

“I was so young and my parents, to their credit, once they knew I was moving in with this TV star’s family, my parents met her parents and everything was super sweet,” she added. “I wasn’t going to stay for long. It was just to get me on my feet and move me out here.”

Tohn went on to live with Biel for less than six months. But the duo made their time together count by “putting on wigs and dressing crazy and going to friends’ parties at UCLA.”

The Sisters actress added, “The pictures from that time are crazy.”

And The Texas Chainsaw Massacre star certainly remembers that time just as fondly. After all, Biel, 44, previously shared insight into the importance of having “chosen sisters.”

“I'm really lucky,” Biel told Instyle in an interview published in May 2025, “because I have amazing groups of women kind of scattered throughout the country that have really been my rocks as I've grown up.”

And of course, Biel’s husband Justin Timberlake is among her bunch of besties. 

“I would also consider my husband one of my chosen sisters,” Biel explained. “He’s also my best friend. All of them together have gotten me through my life. I don't know how I would have survived life without them.”

For more celebrity roommates who lived together once upon a time in Hollywood, read on… 

Though Winter had been living with longterm boyfriend Luke Benward in Nashville before their split, she also keeps a place in Los Angeles.

"It's funny because I spend more time out here now and I rent a house with Nolan," she revealed to People in May 2026. "People ask me about a Modern Family reboot, but Nolan and I are real roommates now.”

Added the actress, "It's like we're having our own little Modern Family reboot, but it's just the two of us living together. So I see him every day."

The Summer I Turned Pretty actor and the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star were roommates during Casalengno's early days in Southern California.

"The first roommate I had in L.A," he said of Cornett on TikTok, adding that now, "we're like best friends."

The actress and model became BFFS when they shared a dorm at USC in Los Angeles. Fight on ladies! 

Believe it or not, the duo shared an apartment when their careers were just starting off. "When we were fresh off the boat in L.A., someone from the agency dropped scripts for us," Dornan shared on Live With Kelly and Michael in 2015. "Must have been like 25 scripts in my pile and three in his."

In his memoir, the Beverly Hills, 90210 star said he briefly lived with the Oscar winner in the '90s. "We lived on Ramen noodles and generic beer—the kind that came in white cans labeled 'beer'—and Marlboro Light cigarettes," he wrote. "We were broke."

The Riverdale co-stars are BFFs in real life, too! While the CW show filmed in Vancouver, Reinhart and Mendes were roomies in Los Angeles. Reinhart has also shared a pad with co-star Madelaine Petsch.

The American Idol host and the Supernatural actor used to live together in Los Angeles. During Ackles' 2017 appearance on Live With Kelly and Ryan, the duo shared a photo taken the night they threw a party in their apartment because they were able to get free crushed ice down the street from a Chinese restaurant. Seacrest joked that both then and now Ackles was the one who got the girl.

The Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Broad City actresses shared a New York City apartment together in the early days of their careers.

During their Mickey Mouse Club years, the Notebook actor moved in with Timberlake and his family while his mom was still working and living in Canada.

Fun fact: Powell never would have landed his breakout role on Scream Queens if he didn't live with the Glee star at the time, according to series creator Ryan Murphy.

"[Co-creator] Ian Brennan said, 'I know this guy Glen Powell, who's roommates with Chord Overstreet, and I've been out with him and I've seen him do sort of improv stuff. I think he would be great,'" Murphy told E! News. "That led to me meeting Glen, and as soon as he read it you were like, 'Oh, my god. Where have you been all my life?'"

Before they got their big break in the comedy world, the Funny People director and its star shared a $900 per month apartment in SoCal's San Fernando Valley. Even when Sandler moved to NYC to work on Saturday Night Live, he continued to pay rent out of fear he might get fired.

Although they were only asked to live together for a brief period of time ahead of co-starring in 2010's Blue Valentine, the co-stars got along so well they shacked up for an entire month.

Parenthood co-stars by day, roomies by night. "I envision wanting to live in a house next to him for my whole life and grow old down the street from him," Whitman told Glamour of her friendship with Heizer. "I want our families to always be entwined."

The Bridesmaids actor crashed at the How I Met Your Mother star's house while shooting a film in Los Angeles.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi star and Fantastic Beasts actor shared the same room in London at the start of their careers, later going on to start a production company together.

Once filming began for season one, the Gossip Girl heartthrobs decided to share a New York City apartment.

After meeting on vacation in Italy, the two bonded over their shared acting dreams and quickly moved to Los Angeles together.

On a 2013 Watch What Happens Live episode, the Parenthood star revealed that she once lived in an empty house with the Friday Night Lights actress. "We had no furniture," Graham said, "and all we ate were Rice Krispies Treats."

The "Straight Up" singer gladly welcomed the former American Idol judge into her home for over a year. 

The Vanderpump Rules star revealed on Watch What Happens Live to once being roommates with the Magic Mike star. We wonder who was the No. 1 guy in that group...

The Hollywood actors lived together for three years in the '80s. 

Gird your loins: While studying at New York's SUNY Purchase, the two actors shared a space. 

More SUNY Purchase roommates! The actresses bunked together while studying in college.  

These two go way back! After growing up in the same hometown, the actors decided to live together and attend the same theatre workshop.

Before they worked on films together, the director and actor were roommates at the University of Texas.

The former vice president shared a space with the award-winnin actor when they both attended Harvard University.

Back in the 1960s, the Hollywood A-listers called each other roommates.

Before making it big, Hackman agreed to have the Meet the Fockers star sleep on the floor of his apartment.

While living in Chicago, the late-night host and Curb Your Enthusiasm star lived together and started a pet-care service to make a little extra money.

After attending the same high school, the comic stepped into a living arrangement with the shoe designer in New York City's Hell's Kitchen.