Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli pulled of Hollywood’s nicest divorce

When Jennie Garth married for the first time, she was only 22. Much later she said she really had no business to be married at such a young age. When she met Peter Facinelli only a year into her first marriage, she called her then-husband Daniel Clark and asked him for a divorce on a phone call. He agreed and they were divorced in 1996.

Peter had blown Jennie completely away.They were filming An Unfinished Affair together and bonded during their time on set, becoming best friends and soon a couple. A few years later, in 2001, they married in a Roman Catholic ceremony.

Their first daughter was born long before that, however, in 1997, and their second daughter followed in 2002. Their last girl joined the family in 2006.

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In those years Jennie was mostly a stay-at-home mother. She continued to work on made-for-TV movies here and there, but was nowhere near as busy as her husband Peter. When Peter Facinelli was cast to star on the Twilight movies, his career really took off and he became a very busy man indeed.

Naturally Jennie was happy for him, but his very busy schedule also took him away from her and their daughters, which made her feel resentful in the end. She candidly admitted that she found herself waiting for Peter much more than getting a chance to spend time with him. He had somehow turned into an absent husband and that is obviously not conducive to a successful relationship.

She also admitted that the couple spent a fair share of time in couple’s therapy, which is probably how they managed to stay together for as long as they did. But when he came home from working on a movie in 2012, Peter asked Jennie for a separation. Jennie was blindsided and devastated to find out that her husband was no longer in love with her and that he needed to find out where they stood with each other. But eventually she must have realized that their relationship as a married couple was broken beyond repair.

Facinelli filed for divorce in March 2012 and in June 2013 everything was finalized. He did say of the split that it was painful and not easy, especially since the ex-couple was in the public eye, which made everything so much more difficult. Peter also said that he loved Jennie and that she’ll always be in his life, but that they will simply have a different relationship from here on in.

Both dedicated to their daughters, they decided to share custody 50/50 and did not have a formal custody arrangement drawn up, convinced that they didn’t need one. Since the divorce was finalized there has been no negative report indicating otherwise about the ex-couple. Clearly they continue to work it out.

But not only that, the exes trust each other so much that they opened a joint account to take care of their daughters, both depositing money in equal amounts and each having full access to the account. They also both declined spousal support.

There was no dirty laundry, no mean words, just a parting of ways as a married couple, but not a parting of ways as people, who parent three children together.

Peter started dating co-star Jaimie Alexander in 2013 and they are still going strong. Jennie was admittedly not over the moon with that particular union, but also said that she was happy that her ex-husband was happy.

In the meantime Jennie has been linked to several men since her divorce, but nobody seems to have stuck around long-term. The only new long-term relationship she has entered is that to emotional support service dog Pearl. Suffering from anxiety after the end of her marriage, she was diagnosed as emotionally disabled and has been given Pearl as her constant companion.

It seems that even the most amicable divorce is not without victims. Let’s hope that Pearl can retire her duties sooner rather than later and Jennie, like Peter, will find happiness again.

Did Twilight star Peter Facinelli cheat on Beverly Hills 90210 alum Jennie Garth? 'An affair said to have caused marriage breakdown'

They announced their split this morning in a joint statement.

Now a new report suggests that Twilight star Peter Facinelli allegedly cheated on his wife of 11 years 90210 star Jennie Garth, leading to their marriage breakdown.

A source has told website Scallywag & Vagabond that Facinelli was having a 'torrid affair' with an unidentified Canadian woman.

It's over: Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli, here with their family in 2010, have announced they are to divorce, but remain committed to their three daughters 

The actor allegedly met the woman, who is said to be in her late 20's, whilst filming Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn in Vancouver.

'Peter had been seeing another woman for quite some time,' a source told the website.

'They (Jennie and Peter) tried to make it work for the sake of their children and Jennie played housewife for as long as she could but finally had enough.'

The website alleges that the Beverly Hills 90210 star knew about the affair.

'Jennie knew. As a lot of couples do, they simply grew apart,' the insider told the site. 

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According to the website, the pair allegedly separated last year in summer for a short period of time, in order to try and save their marriage.

Jennie reportedly lived with her children in the family home while Peter rented a home nearby. 

However the pair announced that they are to divorce after a decade of married life today.

The actor, 38, and original Beverly Hills, 90210 icon, 39, have split, they told Us Weekly in a statement.

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'While we have decided to end our marriage, we both share the same deep love and devotion to our children,' Facinelli and Garth told the magazine.

'We remain dedicated to raising our beautiful daughters together. We ask for privacy and respect during this time.'

They have between them Luca Bella, 14, Lola Ray, aged nine, and five-year-old Fiona Eve.

It was first marriage for Facinelli and the second for What I Like About You's Garth, who was married to Daniel Clark from 1994 to 1996.

They pair met on the set of An Unfinished Affair in 1996, before marrying in 2001 at Our Lady of Montecito Church in Carmel, California, with two of Garth’s 90210 co-stars Tori Spelling and Tiffani Thiessen as bridesmaids.

Facinelli played Carlisle Cullen in Twilight, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer.

According to an interview. he almost didn’t read for the role.

He recalled his agent saying: '"Do you want to do a vampire movie?” And I was like, “No.” I was totally thinking blood and guts and bats in caves, like some kind of horror movie. They literally talked me into reading the book and I actually enjoyed the book a lot.'

Facinelli reprised his role in the sequels of the film, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. 

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He also stars as Dr. Fitch Cooper in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie.

Meanwhile Garth has a new reality show, Jennie Garth: Little Bit Country, which chronicles the family’s move to a California farm, ready to debut on CMT. 

It will no doubt feature the marriage difficulties. 

Facinelli and daughter Luca Bella arrived together for last night’s Hunger Games premiere in L.A, he made no mention of the split.

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Did Jennie Garth's Jealousy Over Peter Facinelli's 'Twilight' Fame Tear Them Apart?

A source tells HollywoodLife.com the reason behind Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli’s decision to divorce after their 11 year marriage and what will happen to their three young daughters

Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth‘s marriage has been rocky for nearly a year, so their decision to finally divorce didn’t come as a shock to their family and friends. However, HollywoodLife.comcan tell you exclusively what drove them apart — and it wasn’t an outside affair or money. It was Peter’s career.

“Jennie is jealous of Peter’s career and all the opportunities he got, thanks to Twilight,” a source close to the couple tells us. “He is the breadwinner now, but she used to be a bigger deal.”

The insider says Jennie, 39, and Peter, 38, tried to rekindle their relationship over Halloween, but it didn’t work.

“Peter keeps getting offers and is getting more and more successful, which bothered Jennie,” the source says, explaining, “She started to have to stay home more often or join him on his adventures, but would get in the way.”

Plus, Jennie really wanted to work with Peter again (they met while working on the TV film An Unfinished Affair), but he wasn’t having it.

“He felt like she was riding on his coat tails,” our insider says. “And they were already having problems, so it didn’t seem like a good idea to him.”

In fact, Peter expressed those exact sentiments during our interview with him in the fall, when he was promoting Wonka Sugar.

“I wrote a TV movie that my wife starred in last Valentine’s day; we thought about doing it together but I like to keep it separate because as actors you have to suspend belief,” he said, when we asked him about working with Jennie again on screen.

“For people to buy these characters I was worried that is me and my wife starred in that together, the audience wouldn’t see the characters — they would see me and Jennie. I didn’t want to disturb the roles or characters I wrote, so I chose not to be. I think when people know you outside of that film and know you as a couple its harder for people to buy into the characters. For me, I leave the briefcase at the door.”

Even though Jennie and Peter no longer get along, they don’t want their failed relationship to get in the way of their parenting to their three daughters, Luca, Lola and Fiona.

“Peter wants to have joint custody,” our source says. “He’s a great father, but wants his daughters to have their mom in their life too.”

We’re sad to hear about Jennie and Peter’s decision to divorce, but so relieved they’re not going to get ensnared in an ugly custody battle, ala Camille and Kelsey Grammer.

What do you think about their relationship? Is it too hard for two people with the same profession to be together? Sound off below!

the work that Peter Facinelli did

rth announced that she and husband Peter Facinelli were separating nearly two years ago and while the news came as a surprise at the time, the “Beverly Hills, 90210” actress says it was several years in the making.

In her new memoir, “Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde,” the beloved TV star, 41, reveals new details about the March 2012 split and blames the “Twilight” actor’s work schedule — and some of her personal anxieties and uneasiness — for their uncoupling.

“My husband was away a lot then, working across the country on location on a film that he’d written, was producing, and was starring in,” wrote Garth, who was mostly a stay-at-home mother at that point, raising their three daughters at the family’s ranch outside of Los Angeles. “I was thrilled for him that he was taking his career to the next level, but I was also, I can see now, feeling a bit resentful and itchy in ways that I couldn’t quite identify. … All I know is that I felt like I was waiting: for him to come home, waiting for him to be free to join me in the day-to-day of our family life, waiting for the next job to be lined up that would take him far away from us again.”

While this turmoil went on for “some time” — she said they spent their “fair share of time on the couches of therapists” over their nearly two decades together — things came to a head when he returned home during a break from working on that particular film. While Garth doesn’t say it, the movie was “Loosies,” which co-starred Facinelli’s current girlfriend, Jaimie Alexander, whom he started to date after their marriage ended.

“The ground that had been cracking and shifting finally split open and pretty much swallowed me whole: Peter came home, and told me that he didn’t think he wanted to be married to me any longer, and he though it best that we separate so that we could get a better sense of where we stood with each other,” she wrote.

While their “life together had not been perfect,” having him ask for a separation was “not something I consciously expected,” she wrote. “In fact, I’d say that I didn’t even allow myself to entertain the idea that my husband may have reached the end of his rope, too. I understand, now, how frustrated he was at how unreachable I’d become.”

However, as someone who thought “as long as we were both there, thrashing through things, it was going to work out,” she felt blindsided by his decision. “I was devastated by the news that he was no longer in love with me.”

In the new book, the 41-year-old also talked about her first divorce — from musician Dan Clark. She set the wheels in motion after she arrived on the set of the 1996 TV movie “The Unfinished Affair,” which co-starred Facinelli. (As executive producer, she said she helped cast the future “Nurse Jackie” star in the role.)

Already having trouble in her marriage (at 22, “I had no business being married,” she wrote of the two-year union), “I stepped onto that movie set and met Peter … kaboom! It was like getting flattened by a meteor. I had never been so bowled over in the presence of a guy before. Never.”

So she said she picked up the phone and called home to end her marriage.

“I had been thinking we needed to separate for some time, but I kept pushing it off, always finding an excuse and telling myself I would deal with it soon. Well, apparently soon was now. I remember [my assistant] handing me this giant, awkward cell phone … and standing there, holding my hand, as I made that incredibly grown-up call.”

Dan, who “was a nice, nice guy with a big heart,” took the news well. He “couldn’t have been more gracious and understanding — and in full agreement,” she recalled. “With that one call, I had ended my marriage, and I spent the rest of that month bonding with my costar, my new best friend, my new love.”

These days, Garth is back in the dating game and has been in a few very public relationships since her divorce. In the book, she notes that after typing “the end” on the first draft of her manuscript, she “met a man. A wonderful man. A grown-up man.” She doesn’t name him but the description makes it sound like businessman Michael Shimbo, whom she split with in November.

She concluded by writing, “There’s a chance that by the time this book is actually bound and printed and in your hands, things may be different in my personal life, but I’m certain of one thing: My status won’t have changed, I will still be fully in my life, fully present, and fully engaged. On all fronts. And it will be good.”

72% of Newspaper Articles About The General Election Written by Men

The boys on the bus are kind of a boys' club, as a new study from the Women's Media Center and the 4th Estate Project found that 72 percent of newspapers articles covering the general election between April 16 and August 25 were written by men. In the primary season — January 1 through April 15 — 76 percent were. 

We are in an election year, wherein The Associated Press' Nicholas Riccardi writes that "both sides agree that this campaign has been marked by an unusual intensity of debate over women's issues, particularly reproductive rights." In a release (brought to us via Callie Schweitzer on Twitter), Women's Media Center uses these numbers to highlight the striking disparity:

Women’s Media Center President Julie Burton said, “In this so-called 'Year of the Woman,' this study just goes to show that when it comes to presidential elections it’s still a ‘boys on the bus’ world.”

But talk of a male-heavy media is nothing new. The Women's Media Center points out: "According to surveys by the American Society of News Editors’ Newsroom Employment Census, 62 percent of newsroom reporters are men." Meanwhile, back in April The Atlantic Wire's Jen Doll noted that only 22 of NYU's “100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years” were women. 

According to the Women's Media Center the study surveyed "national and state newspapers" including "those with the nation’s highest circulation rates, like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today." We have to wonder if the statistics might change if the study chose to evaluate online or television media. 

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