John Mellencamp and Wife of 18 Years Split Up

John Mellencamp and his model wife are taking some of the sheen off all the recent celebrity engagements by delivering some sad news. The 'Pink Houses' rocker, 59, and Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, 41, announced through a spokesman on Thursday that they are "calling it a day as a couple" after 18 years of marriage and 20 years together.

"John and Elaine Mellencamp are proud of their 20 years together and are very happy with their accomplishments both as parents and as a family," the statement reads.

The couple will continue to raise their two children, sons Hud and Speck, in his home state of Indiana.

No reason was given for the split and it's unclear if they have filed for divorce. This is Mellencamp's third marriage.

Mellencamp's latest album, 'No Better Than This,' was released earlier this year.

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Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds Confirm Split

Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson, one of Hollywood's most beautiful and zealously private couples, have decided after "long and careful consideration" to end their two-year marriage, they announced on Tuesday.

After TMZ released a report saying they had separated, the couple quickly issued a joint statement confirming the news and asking for privacy.

"After long and careful consideration on both our parts, we've decided to end our marriage. We entered our relationship with love and it's with love and kindness we leave it. While privacy isn't expected, it's certainly appreciated."
The news has stunned friends.

"No one had any idea this was coming," a friend of Johansson's tells PopEater. "They kept their private life so secret that I doubt we will ever really know what went wrong."

Johansson, 26, began dating Reynolds, 34, in 2007. They tied the knot a year later in an intimate ceremony at a Canadian retreat. They have split time between an apartment in Manhattan and in August, it was reported they purchased a $2.8 million home in Los Angeles.

The incredibly good-looking pair (he was just named PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive) have closely guarded their privacy since they began dating and rarely speak of each other in interviews. Photographs of them together are few and far between.

That said, the 'Iron Man 2' beauty opened up slightly about married life in an InStyle interview earlier this year.

"You're married and suddenly you have your own family," she said. "There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain, in a way. You've got your home in that other person."

Hollywood has seen a spate of celebrity breakups as of late. In the past two months alone, Eva Longoria, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael C. Hall, Christina Aguilera and Courteney Cox have all split from their significant others.

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