Former Melrose Place star Courtney Thorne-Smith has reportedly filed for divorce from her husband, Roger Fishman, after 18 years of marriage.
Thorne-Smith, 57, said in courtroom paperwork obtained by TMZ that she separated from Fishman, 66, in September 2021, however was solely now shifting ahead with a divorce. She reportedly cited “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation behind the couple’s cut up.
Fishman and Thorne-Smith have been married on New 12 months’s Day in 2007 and welcomed son Jacob Emerson Fishman in January 2008. In her divorce petition, Thorne-Smith reportedly sought joint authorized and bodily custody of her 17-year-old son and waived her proper to spousal assist.
Us Weekly has reached out to Thorne-Smith for remark.
This was Thorne-Smith’s second marriage — she beforehand wed geneticist Andrew Conrad in June 2000. Conrad and Thorne-Smith cut up solely six months later in January 2001.
Thorne-Smith dated her Melrose Place costar – and onscreen love curiosity – Andrew Shue on the peak of the Fox primetime cleaning soap’s success within the Nineties.
The actress spoke completely to Us Weekly in July 2024 about reliving her on and offscreen romance with Shue whereas rewatching Melrose Place for her “Nonetheless the Place” podcast, which she hosts with costars Laura Leighton and Daphne Zuniga.
Roger Fishman and Courtney Thorne-Smith in September 2007. Gregg DeGuire/WireImage
“It was so candy watching the pilot and, at first, [my character] Alison was so impolite to Billy [Shue] and I’m considering, “Are you able to not see him? What are you blind?’ I will need to have been to not be good to him,” Thorne-Smith admitted to Us. “He’s so charming, and I’m charmed by him. [When watching the episodes,] I get to recollect falling in love with him at the moment. As a result of he and I dated [and] it was too candy to look at and go, ‘Oh my God, I bear in mind me, Courtney, watching Andrew do this as my character is watching him.’”
Shue and Thorne-Smith reunited for an August 2024 episode of “Nonetheless the Place,” the place they mentioned how their real-life breakup impacted their work. Shue remembered that there was a “little little bit of time” the place it was “tough” on set, but Thorne-Smith insisted that the entire ordeal was “shockingly not bizarre.”
“Do you bear in mind me having to speak with you as a result of the characters have been nonetheless relationship and also you and I weren’t relationship?” she requested Shue. “We’d been damaged up for 2 months after which we needed to kiss. You bear in mind me saying, ‘Okay, now we’re professionals, no tongue?’”
2025 kicked off with a slew of celeb breakups. Two months after first sparking cut up rumors, Jessica Simpson introduced that she and Eric Johnson had referred to as it quits after 10 years of marriage. “Eric and I’ve been dwelling individually navigating a painful state of affairs in our marriage,” she advised Us Weekly in a January 13 […]
She went on, “We have been relationship earlier than we have been relationship on the present, then we have been relationship on the present after we broke up in actual life. However you and I segued into friendship rather well. I don’t bear in mind a number of stress.”
Shue agreed with Thorne-Smith’s recollection of their cut up, although he pressured how vital their romance was throughout a “very intense time.”
“The present bought a number of consideration. I do know you had already been pretty well-known, however we have been coping with a number of, we’ll name it Fox celeb craziness,” he joked. “I bear in mind simply feeling secure understanding we have been collectively guiding one another by way of it.”
Courtney Thorne-Smith and Andrew Shue in March 1993. Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Photos
Shue’s present relationship with Marilee Fiebig began beneath very uncommon circumstances, after their earlier companions, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, began relationship one another whereas they have been GMA3 coanchors.
Robach has maintained that her marriage to Shue was over by the point she began seeing Holmes and she or he subsequently filed for divorce in December 2022. Holmes filed for divorce from Fiebig that very same month. Robach and Holmes have been dropped from GMA3 in January 2023 and now host the “Amy & T.J.” podcast.