Confirmed rumor of the day

Shock! What the tabloid press has been reporting for quite a while is true: Hollywood glamour couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have marriage problems. Even worse: Today they announced that they have split. Yahoo News reports:

"We would like to announce that after seven years together we have decided to formally separate," the couple said in a joint statement released by Pitt's publicist. The couple didn't indicate if they planned to file for divorce. The separation, first reported on People magazine's Web site, comes 4 1/2 years after the couple's Malibu wedding and after months of speculation that their marriage was in trouble. Aniston has recently been photographed in public without her diamond-studded wedding ring, according to People, although the magazine said the couple had spent the New Year's weekend together on the Caribbean island of Anguilla with Aniston's former "Friends" co-star Courteney Cox and her husband, actor David Arquette.