Every year finds a new crop of entertainment couples who work out their breakups in public and out loud and 2011 was no exception, proving once again that not all matches in Hollywood have a fairy tale ending
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British comedian and actor Russell Brand called it quits on his 14-month marriage to "Teenage Dream" singer Katy Perry on Friday, filing for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
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Brand, 36, star of the movie
Get Him to the Greek, and U.S. pop star Perry, 27, met in 2008 and married on October, 2010 in a lavish wedding in India.
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The irreverent, former drug addict and the perky Christian-raised singer of international hits like
California Gurls and
Firework seemed an unlikely match, but they quickly became one of the most high-profile couples in the entertainment industry.
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In recent weeks however, celebrity media reported that their marriage was in trouble. They spent the Christmas holidays apart, with Brand being photographed in England, and Perry spotted in Hawaii?both without their wedding rings.
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Singer Sinead O'Connor announced via her website in a blog post dated on December 26 that her marriage to therapist Barry Herridge has ended after 16 days of matrimony.
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The pair wed in a Las Vegas drive thru ceremony on December 8.
On the blog, she blamed unnamed people close to Herridge for conspiring to ruin the marriage and said she ended the relationship when they stopped living together on Christmas Eve because her husband was 'too nice to trap'.
Matters were not helped by the 45-year-old spending some of her wedding night looking for drugs, according to her confessional blog post.
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It was O'Connor's fourth marriage?she wed her third husband, musician and long-time collaborator Steve Cooney in July 2010, but the relationship ended in divorce earlier this year.
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Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez and Latin pop singer Marc Anthony decided to end their marriage after seven years, on July 15. Lopez and Anthony, who have three-year-old twins, said they had "come to amicable conclusions on all matters." Lopez and Anthony have a pair of fraternal twins named Emme and Max who were born in 2008. The couple performed together in a 2007 tour called Juntos en Concierto. They also worked on each other's albums and starred opposite each other in 2006 film El Cantante. The two were married months after Lopez's engagement to actor Ben Affleck ended, and days after Anthony's divorce from former Miss Puerto Rico Dayanara Torres was finalized.
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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher said on November 17 they were ending their marriage after six years, breaking up one of the most widely followed May-December romances Hollywood has seen. The marriage between Moore, 49, and Kutcher 33, had been in trouble since late September when a San Diego woman went public about an brief affair she had with Kutcher, a star on CBS television comedy Two and a Half Men, during a weekend of partying in the southern California city.
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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian filed for divorce on October 31, just 72 days after marrying basketball player Kris Humphries in a lavish wedding that was billed as a "fairytale." Kardashian, 31, star of the TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, cited irreconcilable differences.
Humphries later filed for an annulment.
Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds called it quits in December 2010 after two years of marriage, and finalized their divorce in July. Johansson, the 26-year-old star of movies such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona and He's Just Not That Into You, married Reynolds in September 2008. The 34-year-old Canadian native, whose credits include Van Wilder and Green Lantern, was previously engaged to singer Alanis Morissette.
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Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, 85, was dumped by 25-year-old fiancee Crystal Harris in June, just five days before the wedding, after she got jitters about living a tightly regimented life among dozens of attractive young women at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.� Hefner, 85, and Crystal Harris were due to tie the knot in front of more than 300 guests at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on June 12. It would have been Hefner's third marriage. On the other hand, Hefner said he has been consoled by his coterie of old pals and his former wife Kimberley Conrad, and announced he would be hosting a screening of Runaway Bride.
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Former California first lady Maria Shriver filed for divorce on July 1 from her estranged husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the ex-governor and film star who has admitted fathering a child out of wedlock more than a decade ago. Shriver, 55, a former television journalist and a daughter of the Kennedy political dynasty, filed papers seeking to dissolve her 25-year marriage to Schwarzenegger, 63, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. Shriver and Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born former bodybuilder turned Hollywood action star and politician, announced their separation in May, just four months after he left office as California governor. A week later, Schwarzenegger stunned the world by acknowledging publicly that he had fathered a child more than 10 years earlier with a member of his household staff. He said then that he had revealed the affair and his out-of-wedlock child to Shriver shortly after his two terms in office ended in January.
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