Actor Colin Firth announces he has split from his wife Livia but they ‘remain united in their love for their children’ almost two years after it emerged she had an affair with her childhood friend
- The 59-year-old Love Actually star confirmed the news in a statement today
- The couple married for 22 years, and have two teenage sons, Luca and Matteo
- A statement today said Colin Firth and Livia will still have a ‘close friendship’
Actor Colin Firth has announced that he has split from his wife Livia but they remain ‘united in their love for their children’ almost two years after it emerged she had an affair with her childhood friend.
The 59-year-old Love Actually star confirmed the news in a statement today, and insisted he would maintain a ‘close friendship’ with Livia.
The couple have been married for 22 years, and have two teenage sons, Luca and Matteo, who were both born in Rome, and they lived together between London and Italy.
A statement from their publicists today said: ‘Colin and Livia Firth have separated. They maintain a close friendship and remain united in their love for their children.
‘They kindly ask for privacy. There will be no further comment’.
Their split comes after the couple briefly separated after Mrs Firth was understood to have been having an affair with Italian journalist Marco Brancaccia.
Actor Colin Firth pictured with Livia Guiggioli at a fashion awards in September this year
The 59-year-old Love Actually star confirmed the news in a statement today, and insisted he would maintain a ‘close friendship’ with Livia
The Academy Award, Golden Globe and Bafta winner shares a son with former partner Meg Tilly, his co-star in the film Valmont.
After they split Firth married Giuggioli in 1997.
Colin and Livia were often seen together at red carpet events.
In 2017 it emerged that Firth had followed in the footsteps of his children and applied for dual UK and Italian citizenship, while Livia was applying for a British passport.
Firth is best known for playing a number of famously stiff-upper-lipped English figures on the big screen, including Bridget Jones’s Mark Darcy, Love Actually’s Jamie, and King George VI in The King’s Speech.
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