Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have called it quits. The pair shared the news in a joint Instagram stories post. "After a long tennis match lasting over twenty years, we are finally putting our racquets down. In 2023 we jointly filed to end our marriage," they said in statements shared on their Instagram Stories on April 5th. "We have always prioritized our privacy, and have been quietly working through this change," they added. "We forever share in our devotion and love for our children. We sincerely appreciate your respecting our family’s wish for privacy."
Fisher, 48 and Baron Cohen, 52, first met back in 2001 at a party in Sydney, Australia. At the time, this was before they both gained fame from their hit movies, 2006's "Borat," and 2005's "Wedding Crashers." "She was hilarious. We were at a very pretentious party, and me and her bonded over taking the mick out of the other people in the party," Baron Cohen recalled of their first meeting in a 2020 interview with The New York Times. "I knew instantly. I don't know if she did." They got engaged in 2004 and welcomed their first child three years later in 2007. On March, 15, 2020, they officially tied the knot. The pair shares three children together. The pair has remained very private over the years and have never released the names of their children. In an interview with The Australia Women's Weekly, Fisher shared that she wasn’t sure if keeping their lives private was “the secret” to their marriage, but that their private family life was “valuable” to her. "I get nervous talking about it because I feel like, by not having my relationship in the public domain and not having spoken about how we met or really talked about our marriage publicly, it's remained something private and valuable to me," she shared. "... But having a shared ability to find humor in the sharpness of life is always going to bring connection. And, otherwise, I just think it's nice to keep some things for yourself."