'So You Think You Can Dance' Host Cat Deeley Splits from Husband Patrick Kielty After 12 Years of Marriage
So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley and comedian Patrick Kielty announced their split after 12 years of marriage
They shared a joint statement with PEOPLE, explaining they "have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated"
The former couple also noted they "will continue to be united as loving parents" to their two children, sons Milo and James PatrickCat Deeley and Patrick Kielty are calling it quits after more than a decade of marriage.
The longtime So You Think You Can Dance host, 48, and the Northern Irish comedian, 54, announced their split on Tuesday, July 29, in a joint statement. "We have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated," the pair said, per BBC.
"There is no other party involved," they continued. "We will continue to be united as loving parents to our children and would therefore kindly ask for our family privacy to be respected."
The former couple concluded by noting that there will be "no further comment" on the matter.
PEOPLE has reached out to representatives of Deeley and Kielty for comment.
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Deeley and Kielty have a long history and first worked together a decade before they got married.
The two co-presented the British talent competition series Fame Academy, which aired for two seasons between 2002 and 2003.
Fast-forward to September 2012, the couple tied the knot in Rome.
In a 2015 interview on Loose Women, Kielty revealed how his and Deeley's friendship turned romantic thanks to a big gesture he made while Deeley was in Beverly Hills and he was in Northern Ireland at "a little Irish pub" around closing time.
When he texted her for her birthday, Kielty remembered, "She said, 'It's just a shame you're not in L.A. because I'm having a lunch tomorrow.' So I said I'll be there."
He then flew around the world and, when he walked into the Beverly Hills Hotel and said hi, Deeley "fell off the chair and we've been together ever since."
The former couple share two children together.
They welcomed their first son, Milo, in January 2016.
In June 2018, they welcomed their second son, James Patrick.
Between welcoming her two children with Kielty, Deeley opened up about motherhood.
"I've got so much respect for all moms out there that do it. You have to juggle like crazy and have a team around you," she told PEOPLE at the time. "And whether that's your family, Mom and Dad, nanny … whoever it is, you have this team. It takes a tribe — I can totally understand that now."
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While this is Kielty's first marriage, Deeley had previously been married.
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