Ryan and Reese are Splitsville

LOS ANGELES - Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, who started the year on an Oscar-winning high, are ending it on a low note: The couple have separated.



"We are saddened to announce that Reese and Ryan have decided to formally separate," publicist Nanci Ryder said in a statement issued Monday on behalf of the couple.



"They remain committed to their family and we ask that you please respect their privacy and the safety of their children at this time," the brief statement concluded. Ryder said she could not elaborate on the split.



Witherspoon, 30, and Phillippe, 32, have two children, 7-year-old Ava and 3-year-old Deacon. The couple, who co-starred in the 1999 movie "Cruel Intentions," married that year.



In March, Witherspoon won a best-actress Academy Award for her role as June Carter Cash in 2005's "Walk the Line." Phillippe co-starred in the best-picture winner, "Crash," and is starring in Clint Eastwood's latest film, the World War II drama "Flags of Our Fathers."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_en_mo/people_witherspoon_phillippe

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Now, I don't pretend to know anything about their personal lives,
 but this was  one couple I really thought would make it..

I guess it's very hard when one's (Reese) career takes off (she won the Oscar) 
and the  other is still doing ensemble work.

Reese won the Best Supporting Oscar as June Carter Cash in "I Walk The Line". 
Ryan was in "Crash" and was the star of the movie "54".
 
For the sake of their children, I hope this can be an amicable divorce without
 all the nasty  mudslinging one sees so often in Hollywood divorces.
Good luck to both Ryan and Reese. May the rest of your lives be happy.