- Written by Vicky Wong & Noor Nanji
- BBC news
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have announced that they are divorcing after 20 years of dating.
In a social media post announcing their breakup, the actors said they jointly filed for dissolution of their marriage last year.
The couple, who have three children, met in 2001 and got engaged in 2004.
They shared the news along with a photo of themselves wearing white tennis shirts and wrote: “After a long tennis match of over 20 years, we are finally hanging up our rackets.”
“We have always prioritized privacy and have been quietly working on this change,” a post posted to Baron Cohen and Fisher's Instagram Stories on Friday said.
“We will forever share our dedication and love for our children. We sincerely thank you for respecting our family's desire for privacy.”
The two first met at a party in Sydney, Australia. Baron Cohen later told The New York Times about their first meeting, saying Fisher was “hilarious.”
“We were at a really big party and she and I bonded over stealing the microphone from the other people at the party. I knew right away that she did that.” I don’t know if it is.”
Baron Cohen rose to fame in the 1990s with his character Ali G, a notorious gangster wannabe turned comedy star.
He also starred as Borat, a journalist from Kazakhstan, and played the role of Bruno, a flamboyant Austrian fashionista.
Fellow actor Fisher starred as Shannon Reid in the long-running Australian drama Home and Away before moving to the big screen.
She had her breakthrough role in 2005's Wedding Crashers and also appeared in Confessions of a Shopaholic. She has also published a series of children's books.
Last month, Baron Cohen and Australian actress Rebel Wilson got into an argument ahead of the release of his memoir.
The book contains allegations against Baron Cohen, who allegedly threatened legal action.
Wilson said that while filming Baron Cohen's 2016 film Grimsby, she was asked to do things that were “disrespectful of women and my size” and that in some scenes she felt “humiliated and… She wrote that she felt like she was being sexually harassed.
She likened the comedian to “a fourth-grade bully who makes fun of a fat girl in the schoolyard and tries to make her life a living hell.”
Baron Cohen's lawyers said the evidence showed her claims had “no basis in reality” and were part of a “cynical commercial strategy to promote her book.” Ta.
They provided video footage of the scene in question, as well as email correspondence, script excerpts and testimony from producers and staff, which his lawyers argue supports his claims. ing.