EXCLUSIVE Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher confirm they have finalised their £120million divorce - one year after announcing their split

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They announced their surprise separation 14 months ago in typically quirky manner, both dressed in tennis whites.
And now it really is over - game, set and match - as actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have announced they have finalised their £120million divorce.
In a message, posted simultaneously on both their Instagram sites on Friday evening (13.06), the pair said: 'Our divorce has now been finalised.
'We are proud of all we've achieved together and, continuing our great respect for each other, we remain friends and committed to co-parenting our wonderful children. We ask for the media to continue to respect our children's privacy.'
Baron Cohen, 53, and Fisher, 49, first met in 2001 and married in 2010. They were believed to have one of the strongest marriages in showbusiness - before quietly separating in 2023.
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They then publicly announced their break-up in April 2024, and it now appears they have amicably resolved any differences there might have been between the pair.
A source said: 'It's all sorted. Now Sacha and Isla both just want to get on with the rest of their lives – and focus on their family's well-being.'
The couple - who have three children together - first met at a party in Sydney, Australia, in 2001.
Speaking of their first encounter, Baron Cohen recalled quickly noticing that Fisher was 'hilarious'.
He remembered: 'We were at a very pretentious party, and me and her bonded over taking the mick out of the other people at the party. I knew instantly. I don't know if she did.'
The pair announced their separation last year with a picture of themselves wearing tennis whites.
They confirmed in an accompanying message: 'After a long tennis match lasting over 20 years, we are finally putting our racquets down.
'We have always prioritized our privacy and have been quietly working through this change.
'We forever share in our devotion and love for our children. We sincerely appreciate your respecting our family's wish for privacy.'
Baron Cohen also became embroiled in controversy last year when Australian actress Rebel Wilson accused him of inappropriate behaviour during filming of the 2016 film The Brothers Grimsby, where they played a slovenly married couple.
However, the publisher had not fact-checked them in advance – and her claims lacked substance.
Baron Cohen's legal team then supplied video footage of one scene in question, plus email exchanges, script excerpts and testimony from producers and crew members, which illustrated that the scenes were actually all part of the script.
As a result, the unfounded claims were removed wholesale from the autobiography in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
In a statement at the time, Baron Cohen said: 'While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby.'
Baron Cohen first rose to fame in the 1990s with his Ali G character, the infamous spoof wannabe gangster who became a comedy star.
He also starred as Borat, a journalist from Kazakhstan, and played the role of flamboyant Austrian fashionista Bruno.
Fellow actor Fisher appeared as Shannon Reed in long-running Australian soap Home and Away before moving to the big screen.
Her breakthrough role came in Wedding Crashers in 2005, and she also starred in Confessions of a Shopaholic. She has also had a series of children's books published.
Speaking earlier this year of their break-up, Fisher said: 'It's the most difficult thing that I've been through and I've learnt so much about myself in the process.
'I never imagined my family being separated but we are committed and loving parents.'
Any suggestion that the timing of the separation may have been linked to Wilson's unfounded claims was also wrong – in fact Baron Cohen and Fisher had separated long before Wilson's book was published.
A film source said: 'The idea Rebel's claims had anything to do with the timing of the separation or announcement of Sacha and Isla's break-up was always plain wrong.'