Courtney Thorne-Smith Files for divorce of spouse of 18 years
Former Melrose Place star Courtney Thorne-Smith reportedly requested a divorce from her husband, Roger FishmanAfter 18 years of marriage.
Thorne-Smith, 57, stated in judicial documents obtained by TMZ That she separated from Fishman in September 2021, 66, but only now went ahead with a divorce. She reportedly mentioned “irreconcilable differences” as the reason behind the split of the couple.
Fishman and Thorne-Smith married on New Year’s Day in 2007 and welcomed son Jacob Emerson Fishman in January 2008. In her divorce request, Thorne-Smith reportedly sought joint legal and physical custody of her 17-year-old son and abandoned her right to partner support.
US Weekly has contacted Thorne-Smith for comment.
This was the second marriage of Thorne-Smith-Ze previously married Geneticus Andrew Conrad In June 2000, Conrad and Thorne-Smith split only six months later in January 2001.
Thorne-Smith from her Melrose Place Costar – and on the Love Interest screen – Andrew Shue At the height of the success of the Fox Primetime Soap in the nineties.
The actress spoke exclusively against US Weekly in July 2024 about reliving her up and offscreen romance with shue during it again to Melrose Place For her podcast “Still the Place”, which she organizes with Costars Laura Leighton And Daphne Zuniga.
Roger Fishman and Courtney Thorne-Smith in September 2007.
Gregg Deguire/Wireimage“It was so sweet to view the pilot and in the beginning, [my character] Alison was so rude to Billy [Shue] And I think, “Can’t see him? What are you blind?” I must have been to not be nice to him, “admitted Thorne-Smith Us. “He is so charming and I am charmed by him. [When watching the episodes,] I remember that I will fall in love with him at the time. Because he and I went out [and] It was too sweet to look and go: “Oh my God, I remember, Courtney, looking at Andrew does that while my character keeps an eye on him.” ‘
Shue and Thorne-Smith reunited for an episode of August 2024 from “Still the Place”, where they discussed how their real disintegration influenced their work. Shue remembered that there was a “little time” where it was “rough” on the set, but Thorne-Smith insisted that the entire testing was “shockingly not weird”.
“Do you remember talking to you because the characters were still dating and you and I were not dating?” she asked Shue. “We had separated for two months and then we had to kiss. You remember that I said,” Okay, now we are professionals, not a tongue? “
2025 began with a whole series of disintegration of celebrities. Two months after the first time to cotton split rumors, Jessica Simpson announced that she and Eric Johnson had stopped after 10 years of marriage. “Eric and I live separately by a painful situation in our marriage,” she told us every week in a January 13 […]
She continued: “We were dating before we were dating the show, then we were dating the show after we broke up in real life. But you and I really go into friendship. I don’t remember much excitement.”
Shue agreed with Thorne-Smith’s memory of their split, although he emphasized how important their romance was during a ‘very intense time’.
“The show received a lot of attention. I know you had already been fairly well -known, but we had a lot to do, we will call it Fox Celebrity Crasiness,” he joked. “I remember that I just felt safe, knowing that we guided each other together.”
Courtney Thorne-Smith and Andrew Shue in March 1993.
Vinnie Zuffante/Getty imagesShue’s current relationship with Marilee Fiebig started under very unusual circumstances, after their previous partners, Amy Robach And TJ Holmesstarted to date each other while they were GMA3 Moanaan drills.
Robach maintained that her marriage to Shue was over by the time she started to see Holmes and she then presented a divorce in December 2022. Holmes served that same month from Fiebig. Robach and Holmes were dropped GMA3 In January 2023 and now organize the ‘Amy & Tj’ podcast.
