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Peter Facinelli & Jennie Garth Split

Truth rating: 10

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Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth have split after 11 years of marriage.

“While we have decided to end our marriage, we both share the same deep love and devotion to our children,” Facinelli and Garth said in a statement to Gossip Cop. “We remain dedicated to raising our beautiful daughters together. We ask for privacy and respect during this time.”

No other details have been given.

The couple wed in January 2001 and have three daughters: Luca, Lola and Fiona.

It was Facinelli’s first marriage and the second for Garth, who was married to Daniel Clark in the mid-1990s.

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  • Guest

    incredibly heartbreaking to see they were such a lovely couple

  • Listi

    sad :(

  • guest

    so sad to see this happening.. i feel for their daughters.. they were such a lovely couple.. :-(

  • sosad

    Another one that I thought would make it….

  • JessMarie414

    Oh my goodness! Very unexpected. They really seem like good, down to earth people. I’m sure the divorce and custody arrangement will be civil.

  • Katia

    Truly sad. May they find the respect and privacy they deserve in this difficult time.

  • Kristen

    Scallywagandvagabond writer Brianne broke this story long before Gossip Cop or any other site. Wonder how she/they knew?

  • Respectisgranted

    What a pity. This was one of those couples I truly respected and hoped the best for. I’m hoping they can work this out and will be able to make up eventually.

  • Chris R

    What took them so long. Marriage nowadays just means something temporary….at least that’s what I learned from stupid reality shows like the Bachelor.

  • Anonymous

    Wow I really thought these two were in it for the long haul.

    Off Topic a bit:

    I always find it amusing that people ask for privacy and respect at this time when we all ow they aren’t going to get it because the paparazzi are sharks and there’s blood in the water.

    I wonder if someone said we’re getting divorced ask as many questions as you like we’re an open book. Do you think the paps would just leave them alone?

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone fight for their marriage anymore??? Wow! The second of maybe four Hollywood couples that I thought would withstand the test of time. Completely shell shocked! How heartbreaking.

  • http://twitter.com/briannechantal Brianne

    Scallywag & Vagabond, ladies and gentleman, is the original source of the Peter & Jennie news
    http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2012/03/breaking-peter-facinelli-jennie-garth-divorcing/

  • Regina1180

    I heard about this a few weeks ago and I refused to believe it. I really loved these two together. You can tell they both really love their girls and that’s all that matters at this point.

    Good luck to the both of them.

  • Anonymous

    Once you think about it, they probably wouldn’t get bothered as much because they’d be welcoming the paps & media.

  • Anonymous

    Reality show = divorce.

  • Anonymous

    This is shocking. They were such a under the radar couple who didn’t really flaunt their marriage in the public that they seemed like they’d make it. I’m really thinking about their daughters, this can’t be easy for them.

  • Regina1180

    What reality show?

  • Regina1180

    What reality show?

  • Anonymous

    They made a new series following their move from Los Angeles to a horse ranch, to be broadcast on CMT:

    http://twilightnewssite.com/news-twilight-new-moon-eclipse-breaking-dawn/peter-facinelli-and-jennie-garth-and-kids-to-star-in-new-cmt-reality-series/

  • Anonymous

    They made a new series following their move from Los Angeles to a horse ranch, to be broadcast on CMT:

    http://twilightnewssite.com/news-twilight-new-moon-eclipse-breaking-dawn/peter-facinelli-and-jennie-garth-and-kids-to-star-in-new-cmt-reality-series/

  • Anonymous

    I think they have/had a reality show that was supposed to start airing in April on CMT. I heard reports of it late last year, but don’t know if it ever filmed.

  • Really?

    Annnnd….What’s your point

  • Anonymous

    Which is why I wonder why they always say it.

    There was a movie a few years ago, Patriot Games where Harrison Ford character tells the President, who is about to be skewered for his friendship with a bad guy, don’t deny it. If the press asks if you were good friends say no lifelong friends. Give them no place to go.

    I wonder why celebrities don’t do the same? They almost always know when they are about to get hit with the paparazzi tidal wave, why not get ahead of them and give them no place to go. A non-story is not interesting.

  • Laarni

    My heart grieves for them and the children. For some, especially in Hollywood, marriage is so easily given up. When there is trouble, it seems it’s such an effort to work it out, instead of trying to solve the problem. Whatever did our parents do to stay married forever? However, I did wonder though, when Peter and Elizabeth were seated so closed to each other, not an inch apart, when being interviewed during the BD1 promos.

  • Mama2Jude1112

    This is so sad. They seemed like such an amazing and supportive couple. I hope they remain loving and civil for the sake of their children.

  • Guest1

    Thank you. Bragging about knowing a couple is breaking up seems a bit odd. Won’t make me go to your site, if that is the reason.

  • Mel

    Aw, what the hell. How sad. They seemed so good together. It’s even worse because of their three girls. Hopefully everything will be civil.

  • cheat-ah

    What else is new in Hollyweird? Peter is an oinker, too just like RPattz & Klutz. He has declared himself a free agent cuz he wants to taste the different flavours of the month.
    He had a blonde date who was not his wife on the last Twilight Saga premiere for BD1.
    If you review that Entertainment Tonight footage of when he finished his interview with Samantha, the blonde had hooked her arm on PFuchk and he promptly removed it as he knew they were still being filmed.
    His career taking off with the non-Twilight related tv show Nurse Jackie has probably opened doors for him to get the girls/groupies even if he was lower in the rung compared to Pattz & Klutz.
    Klutz is probably pimping for his friends just like he did with introducing another girl, maybe lots of other girls to seemingly sex obsessed Pattz. He was probably asked by the Summit suits to do damage control in behalf of Robsten by issuing a favourable comment not too long ago.
    So, there ya go. Let the latest Six Degrees of Separation happen & stupid open relationship
    smorgasborg go in swinging Hollyweird.

  • Anonymous

    This is sad. However, over the past three months there have been many blind items where this couple was the guess of the majority of commenters. I refused to believe it but I suppose they were right. Rumor has it that Peter found lust on the Twilight set but I don’t know who the “lucky” lady is. It’s really too bad for their kids because they always looked like such a happy family.

  • kim

    He was with his daughter, Luca, last night. Check your facts.

  • Anonymous

    You think they didn’t “flaunt” their family? WRONG!!! They did multiple photo ops, Jennie had a column on a blog mag, they were at that “pumpkin patch” thing every halloween, Jennie and the kids were pictured every Thanksgiving “feeding the hungry” and they even did a one episode reality show on CMT. If that’s not “flaunting” I don’t know what is.

  • D. Martin

    I had not heard that but whatever the case may be it seems he has taken the time to be with his kids. There have been many photos of outings with them. Still, I’m really sad for their family. I wish them all well.

  • higglty pigglty

    Stupid is as stupid does…as your litany of trashy comments so often prove…so it is no surprise that you watch “stupid reality shows”….

  • Robsessed1986

    Judge not, lest ye be judged……….

  • Robsessed1986

    This is very sad news to hear. My prayers go out to both Jennie and Peter, that they will always put thier girls first and think of them when deciding their divorce settlement and all that. I heard that they did try to make it work, but it just didn’t. Just because they are getting divorced doesn’t mean they don’t still love each other, and it doesn’t mean they can’t still be a family. God bless them all in this trying and emotional time.

  • Bizzy Cc

    What does Kellan Lutz or any of the Twi-Cast have to do w this? They (PF & JG) had 16yrs together & 3 children. Let’s respect that & their friends.

  • Anonymous

    Aw… :(

  • Anonymous

    Hollyweird, huh? You know what else is weird? That bunch of derp you just wrote.

  • Kirsten-t

    That’s so sad. They seemed so happy together. I hope this isn’t another case of the press interferring

  • Millia

    I kinda agree with you, I don’t understand why anyone in Hollywood gets married because to them at least, marriage does not mean forever. I know most people go into marriage with the intention of staying together forever but in this day and age forever isn’t something that happens often. I personally don’t know anyone who has managed to stay married, which is the exact reason I never will get married.

  • Linda

    Love your post!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sadoi-Nimmi/100001862974427 Sadoi Nimmi

    Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth Split official statement & Divorce Docs here

    http://su.pr/1HZz9D

  • Mayhemgirl

    I always loved that quote, but it was from the other movie, Clear and Present Danger (I am a huge dork who is correcting a movie comment on a gossip site, I am aware) LOL but I agree, the more they try to have privacy, the less they seem to get.

    Here is something off topic. How do some celebs stay so under the radar and others seem to have paps hunting them down constantly? Or is that the celebs choice? I guess I don’t understand how the whole thing works.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sadoi-Nimmi/100001862974427 Sadoi Nimmi

    There is too much temptation among hollywood couples. No matter how happy they are in the beginning eventually they split. The sad part of it is when there are children involved. Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth Split Reason Revealed Here

    http://su.pr/1HZz9D

  • Anonymous

    Oh my God you are totally right. ;} (feeling sheepish). The funniest thing about that is as I was writing the comment I originally wrote Clear and Present Danger and then corrected it with Patriot Games.

    I don’t know how some people are in the press constantly and others live normal lives until they are working on something. My best example of separation of work and life is Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki they were together for a year and half, co-stared on the same show and no one knew about it until they broke up.

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