[Shocker] Zellweger and Chesney Split

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Renée Zellweger & Kenny Chesney Split

Thursday Sep 15, 2005 4:00pm EST
Thursday Sep 15, 2005 11:30pm EST (updated)

CREDIT: CAROLYN SNELL

Four months after their beachside wedding, Renée Zellweger and country singer Kenny Chesney are having their marriage annulled, PEOPLE has learned.

Zellweger filed the papers Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing "fraud" as the reason for the split. The actress's petition also asks the court not to award spousal support to Chesney.

No further details about the couple's split were available, and there was no immediate comment from Zellweger's camp on why she cited "fraud" as the reason. According to top Hollywood divorce attorney Sorrell Trope: "If fraud is checked that means a promise was made before the marriage, but the person who made it had no intention of keeping it. The promise has to pertain to the heart of the marriage."

The couple were married May 9 in a sunset ceremony on St. John in the Virgin Islands before 35 close family and friends. It was the first marriage for both.

Zellweger, 36, and Chesney, 37, met at the Jan. 15 Concert of Hope tsunami relief benefit, where he sang and she took phone pledges.

The pair had a whirlwind romance. On April 29, just a few weeks before their wedding, the Cold Mountain Oscar winner surprised Chesney in Jacksonville, Fla. ? bringing him a margarita onstage for his song "When the Sun Goes Down" (a tradition at his shows) and kissing him on the cheek. It was the first public hint of a romance between the two.

One of Chesney's biggest hits is a song called "You Had Me From Hello," a takeoff on the famous line "You had me at hello" from Zellweger's breakout 1996 movie role opposite Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire.



Well, if these two kids can't make it in this crazy world, we're all doomed.

 

Thank you for the info! Its only all over the place. But none the less thanks!

 

Please link me to the current thread here.

 

Hopefully, this won't interfere with her being in a movie version of Cabaret. Actually, it might add bite to her as Sally Bowles.

 

No. I mean its all over the news, and magazines. I still said thanks though!

 

They lasted a whole four months?

 

I didn't even know she was married...

Anyway, don't know who he is either. But it makes me wonder about 'fraud' being the reason for annullment.

 

Right, but no thread here. It's good you watch the news, it will keep you informed of current happenings. Unfortunately, with the nerd population here, they often get their news from this page. Sad, but true.

 

Well, it's good to see that she's come back to her senses.

 

The only thing that lasts long in Hollywood is the release of bad movies.

 

There goes my belief in "happy ever after".

 

Oh, I don't know about that, DT....that big old sign on the hill seems to be holding up fairly well.

 

I was confused for a second there, I thought she was dating Chesney Hawks when I read the topic title.

 

feenicks posted on 9/16/05 8:06am

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Oh, I don't know about that, DT....that big old sign on the hill seems to be holding up fairly well. [face_happy] [hr][/blockquote]





[color=red]Of course, how did I forget that?![/color][face_doh!]

 

Whoot! Now she will be all mine! MINE! [face_stalker]

 

That's sad, they were really cute together.

 

Wow, I thought they'd at least make it a year before they spilt.

JediFarfy

 

Go make a country song outta that, Chesney!

 

Cabaret. Scariest movie I ever saw.

 

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"Haw-HAW!"


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"I been thinkin' about my doorbell, when ya gonna ring it...again?"

 

One of them must be really bad in bed.

 

ROFL!

What will we do? Our lives are over.

LOL

 

Well, I checked.

She's still god awfully ugly.

 

It's all her fault

I shoulda put money on this marriage, I coulda made millions






~Rogue~

 

I bet she is kind of slutty.