Actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have announced that they have filed for divorce.
The former couple announced the end of their marriage via matching Instagram stories on Friday. The statement came along with a photo of Baron Cohen, 52, and Fisher, 48, dressed in white tennis gear.
“After a long game of tennis that lasted more than twenty years, we finally put down our rackets,” the statement reads. “In 2023 we filed a joint application to end our marriage. We have always prioritized our privacy and have been quietly working on this change. We will always share our devotion and love for our children. “We sincerely appreciate you respecting our family’s desire for privacy.”
The celebrity couple was married for 14 years.
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According to Variety, the couple met in 2002 at a party in Australia. Baron Cohen and Fisher became engaged in 2004 and later married in March 2010. They have three children together.
Both Baron Cohen and Fisher are well-known actors internationally. For Baron Cohen, much of his success is due to comedies like borat and brunowhile Fisher is best known for the films Wedding Crashers and Confessions of a compulsive shopper.
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News of the couple’s divorce comes amid claims by Australian actor Rebel Wilson that Baron Cohen has attempted to block the publication of her memoir. rebel uprising. In a social media post in March, Wilson called Baron Cohen a “big asshole” and said he sent her threats after learning he was mentioned in a chapter of his memoir.
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Wilson accused Baron Cohen of pressuring her to appear nude in the film The Grimsby Brotherswhich Baron Cohen wrote and starred in.
Baron Cohen denied he was blocking Wilson’s memoirs and called her accusations “demonstrably false.”
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