Comedian Ben Stiller not laughing. After 18 years of marriage, the actor is divorcing his wife Christine Taylor. First, this information was reported by numerous media outlets, citing insiders, and now it was confirmed by 51-year-old Ben and his 45-year-old wife.

“With much love and great respect to each other, after eighteen years of marriage we decided to part ways. We, as before, will be devoted parents, good friends and mentors to our children,” says the joint statement of spouses.
The reasons for the separation, neither Ben nor Christine are not reported, we only know that they parted friends, and will continue to work together to raise two children – fifteen-year-old daughter Ella Olivia and eleven year old son Queenly Dempsey. Prior to this shocking statement, the pair was considered to be one of the strongest in Hollywood.
Recall that we first met Ben and Christine in 1998 on the set while working on the film “Heat vision and Jack” (“Heat Vision and Jack”). Two years later they celebrated the wedding in Hawaii, and exactly two years later was born their first child – daughter Ella.