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The Most Surprising Celeb Breakups Of 2018

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Hollywood’s power couples took a beating in the first half of 2018, and almost none of these splits saw the paparazzi coming.

By the time summer rolled around, eight high-profile relationships had quietly or explosively come to an end — some after just months, others after more than a decade. From a nine-year Hollywood marriage to a five-kid political dynasty divorce, 2018’s breakup season hit almost every corner of celebrity culture.

• Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, married since July 2009 after meeting on Step Up in 2006, announced their separation in a joint statement in April 2018, saying they had “lovingly chosen to separate as a couple.”
• Julie Bowen filed for divorce from Scott Phillips in February 2018 after more than 13 years of marriage and three sons together.
• Vanessa Trump filed an uncontested divorce from Donald Trump Jr. in Manhattan Supreme Court in March 2018, ending a 12-year marriage that produced five children.

Long-Term Marriages Collapse Within Weeks of Each Other

Julie Bowen’s split from real estate investor Scott Phillips landed first, with the Modern Family star filing for divorce in February 2018 after more than 13 years of marriage. The couple share three sons, and the filing came with little of the public drama that typically follows a celebrity divorce announcement.

A month later, Vanessa Trump filed for an uncontested divorce from Donald Trump Jr. in March 2018. After 12 years of marriage and five children, the filing arrived amid the kind of intense media scrutiny that follows any move involving the Trump family — a dynamic the Trump family has dealt with repeatedly in the years since.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Stun Fans

No split in this stretch caught fans more off guard than Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan’s. The two met filming Step Up in 2006, married in July 2009, and had built a reputation as one of Hollywood’s steadiest couples before announcing their separation via joint statement in April 2018.

“We have lovingly chosen to separate as a couple.”

The statement went on to reaffirm their commitment to co-parenting daughter Everly, a detail that mattered given how publicly the couple had built their image as a family unit over nearly a decade together.

Wrestling’s Golden Couple Calls Off the Wedding

John Cena and Nikki Bella had a destiny date circled on the calendar: May 2018. Instead, the WWE stars called off their planned destination wedding in April 2018, after six years together, citing conflicting stances on marriage and starting a family. The split played out largely in public, mirroring the kind of relationship fallout other reality and entertainment splits have generated, similar in tone to other high-profile separations that fans didn’t see coming.

Music, News, and Comedy Circles Get Shaken Up

Usher and his wife-manager Grace Miguel announced their separation in March 2018 after two years of marriage and nearly a decade together, telling fans they remained “deeply connected and loving friends.” That same month, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper confirmed he and longtime partner Benjamin Maisani had separated some time earlier, though the two stayed close friends and business partners.

Earlier in the year, Jesse Williams and Minka Kelly ended their relationship in January 2018 after dating for several months following Williams’ contentious 2017 divorce from Aryn Drake-Lee. And in May 2018, Pete Davidson split from writer-actress Cazzie David after two years together — just weeks before the SNL star’s next relationship became the biggest tabloid story of the summer.

The Common Thread

What links Bowen’s 13-year marriage, Tatum and Dewan’s nine years, and Trump Jr.’s 12-year union with Vanessa Trump is that none of them showed public cracks before the filings hit. Divorce and separation stories like these tend to draw the same kind of scrutiny as other celebrity divorces that seemed to come out of nowhere to outside observers.

Pete Davidson’s timing turned out to be the most consequential of the bunch — his split from Cazzie David in May 2018 cleared the runway for a whirlwind engagement that would dominate entertainment coverage for the rest of the year.