{"id":6419,"date":"2026-09-13T03:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/reacher-star-alan-ritchson-and-wife-announce-split-after-20-years\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T03:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T03:49:07","slug":"reacher-star-alan-ritchson-and-wife-announce-split-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/reacher-star-alan-ritchson-and-wife-announce-split-after-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Reacher Star Alan Ritchson and Wife Announce Split After 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/alan-ritchson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alan-ritchson_1\" data-tag=\"alan-ritchson\">Alan Ritchson<\/a>\u00a0and his wife, Catherine Ritchson, are ending their marriage after two decades together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe couple announced their separation Saturday in a joint message on social media, saying that their children \u201cwill always be at the center of our world.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAfter twenty years together, Cat and I have decided to end our marriage and continue alongside one another in a different way,\u201d reads the Instagram post. \u201cWe grew up together. We built a life and a family together. And we are raising three incredible boys who will always be the center of our world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe <em>Reacher<\/em> star and Catherine share three sons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cNothing can diminish what these years have meant to us \u2014 or the love and respect we will always share,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cThe best gift we can give one another \u2014\u00a0and our boys \u2014 right now is friendship, grace and a commitment to becoming the strongest co-parents we can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe pair also noted that they \u201cwant to give each other room to grow into the people we are becoming,\u201d and asked for privacy while they navigate co-parenting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRitchson\u2019s rep declined further comment when reached by <em>The Hollywood Reporter. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/alan-ritchson-interview-reacher-faith-stardom-mental-health-1235864260\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/alan-ritchson-interview-reacher-faith-stardom-mental-health-1235864260\/\">2024 interview with <em>THR<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> Ritchson opened up about how he first met Catherine while they were both in high school taking classes at a state college. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI thought she was a college student, so I was afraid to talk to her. I figured there was no point because she\u2019s going to be older than me, but I found out she was doing the exact same thing that I was. We finally spoke and then did a play together that summer,\u201d he said. \u201cWe ended up dating and I was madly in love, but she also lived far enough away that when the play was over, I figured we were never going to see each other again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe remained friends after their initial split and reconnected years later before tying the knot in 2006. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRead the full statement, below. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Ritchson\u00a0and his wife, Catherine Ritchson, are ending their marriage after two decades together. The couple announced their separation Saturday in a joint message on social media, saying that their children \u201cwill always be at the center of our world.\u201d \u201cAfter twenty years together, Cat and I have decided to end our marriage and continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5489,5491,5488,5490,3081,62,199,388],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fashion","tag-alan","tag-announce","tag-reacher","tag-ritchson","tag-split","tag-star","tag-wife","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6421,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions\/6421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}