Actor David Duchovny, who recently sought treatment for sex addiction, has separated from Tea Leoni, his wife of 11 years and mother of their two children, People magazine reported on Wednesday.
The former X-Files star and Leoni, an actress, separated some time ago.
Duchovny, who plays a womanizing novelist on the US television series Californication, has left a rehabilitation center for sex addiction after successfully completing a program, his attorney said last week.
Duchovny and Leoni, currently starring in the comedy Ghost Town, married in May 1997 and have a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. It was a second marriage for Leoni and a first for Duchovny.
In January, Duchovny won a Golden Globe Award as best actor in a comedy for his role as Hank Moody, an oversexed single dad and novelist struggling with writer’s block in Californication.
He is expected to start work soon on a new movie called The Joneses.
The jury in Britney Spears’ trial for driving without a valid license ended their first day of deliberations on Friday without reaching a verdict, court officials said.
Jurors will resume deliberations at 9am today following a two-day trial that pop diva Spears, 26, was not required to attend. The trial went ahead after the singer rejected a plea deal that would have seen her fined US$150 and given one year’s probation.
The case stems from an August 2007 incident when paparazzi trailing the singer caught her bumping a car in a parking lot and driving away.
Prosecutors say Spears was later discovered not to have a valid California license. She is charged with a misdemeanor — punishable by jail or a fine — but for a first offense Spears is unlikely to receive a custodial sentence.
Spears defense argued the star held a valid Louisiana license at the time of the incident and was not legally required to hold a California permit because she was not living permanently in the state at the time.
Spears — who hit rock bottom in January when she was twice rushed to hospital for psychiatric treatment after losing custody of her two young sons — appears to have got her career back on track.
Her new single Womanizer went to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart this week, her first No. 1 on the ranking since 1999’s Baby One More Time.
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie intends to keep up her nomadic, Earth-wandering lifestyle alongside partner Brad Pitt, with all six of her children in tow, and hinted in a TV interview on Thursday that they may adopt a seventh.
Jolie, who in July gave birth in France to twins, a girl named Vivienne Marcheline and a boy named Knox Leon, said during an appearance on NBC’s morning news show Today that she sees no reason to slow down despite her growing brood.
“One day [the children] are probably going to want to stay in one place for a very long time as they get certain friends,” she told Today co-host Matt Lauer in an interview to promote her new film, the period drama Changeling.
“But, you know, so far we’ve just moved them a lot, and they like moving. They like packing their bag before the next adventure, and they like making new friends wherever we go,” Jolie said.
“And I think part of it, we’d like to maintain that,” the 33-year-old actress said. “We’d like them to be those kind of adults where they can find home wherever they are in the world and they can find friends wherever they are in the world.”
In addition to the twins, Jolie and Pitt are parents to four other young children — adoptees Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and their first biological daughter, Shiloh. Responding to questions from Lauer, Jolie said she and Pitt were considering adopting still more.
“It depends,” she said. “I mean it’s important ... you can’t adopt, you can’t even start the process until any new children are 6 months old to understand how the new family has settled.”
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