‘The Mentalist’ star Simon Baker splits from Rebecca Rigg after 29 years of marriage

By ANI
WASHINGTON: Actor Simon Baker and his spouse and actor Rebecca Rigg have known as it quits after 29 years of marriage.

The long-time couple, who had quietly separated in April 2020, introduced their cut up in a joint assertion on Friday, reported E! News.

“We remain close friends and our three children will always be the most important focus of our lives,” Baker and Rigg mentioned in a joint assertion.

Baker and Rigg share three youngsters together with 27-year-old Stella, 22-year-old Claude, and 19-year-old Harry. The estranged couple performed love pursuits on the short-lived Nineteen Nineties Australian cleaning soap ‘E Street’. However, they really met on a blind date in 1991.

The two tied the knot in Nineteen Nineties in two separate ceremonies. One came about in Australia and the opposite, a smaller ceremony, was held in 1998 on the seaside in Carmel, California, with Stella, then 5 years previous, in attendance.

In the previous years, they’ve principally lived in Los Angeles and pursued their appearing careers in Hollywood, the place Baker filmed the favored CBS sequence ‘The Mentalist’, which aired between 2008 and 2015.

Rigg used to sometimes accompany Baker to premieres, award exhibits such because the Emmys and the Golden Globes, Vanity Fair’s 2012 Oscars after-party, and different celeb occasions. However, regardless of their public appearances, the previous couple remained largely personal and low-key.