Trouble in music/model paradise, looks like.

Heidi Klum filed divorce papers from her husband, singer Seal (and the father of her four children), citing “irreconcilable differences” at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday.  Ugh! What? Didn’t they like, make sweet sweet love on a mountaintop, and renew their vow like 12 times in different Northern European states? Man, if these two can’t make it work…what about everyday dolts like us?

But before I get all teary-eyed…

Ms. Klum and Seal signed a post-nup, which means that all their stuff is split after their marriage, so there isn’t anything to divide (simple, right?), but the child situation is going to be a tricky one.  Klum wants custody of her children, and wants Seal to have visitation rights only.  Ouch!  Heidi Klum is also asking for her maiden name back (Klum, from Samuel, Seal’s last name) and that Seal pay his own lawyer’s fees! Boom!

Good thing Heidi has power attorney,  Laura Wasser, on her side.

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Seal is still out promoting his new album and he shared with Fifi & Jules on Australian radio station 2Day FM why he chose to be interviewed by Ellen DeGeneres and Piers Morgan right after announcing the split from his wife, Heidi Klum:

“I was booked to do the Ellen (DeGeneres) show and booked to do the Piers Morgan show three months in advance because I had a record to promote, it’s not like this thing happened and then I decided next week that I wanted to go on their shows.  These people are my friends I’ve know them for a long time and as well as respecting their integrity there are a lot of people who were genuinely saddened by the fact my wife and I had decided to go our separate ways. While they don’t really have the right to know details of our private life, I felt that those people at least had a right to some kind of explanation.  When you publicize your marriage as much as our marriage was publicised, when you renew wedding vows, when you do all those things you are giving them a picture of an ideal relationship, of a relationship that people aspire towards, so when it goes south you can’t all of a sudden take the philosophy of Celestine monk and decide to go for a vow of silence, it doesn’t really work like that. And while I respect my wife’s decision not to talk about it, I felt that people at least deserved some kind of explanation.”

Seal hopes that his children will come through this divorce with minimal disruption to their lives:

“It’s a difficult time, the best that one can do in these situations is handle it with dignity, and handle it with civility as much as you can. I’ve tried my very best to protect the general welfare of my family, my wife included, you know it is a difficult time and you hope you will behave like adults and protect those who are most important in this, who are your family, that bit of it doesn’t actually change.”

 

Inside Heidi Klum’s “private hell” landed the cover of US Weekly this week. While People already touched on most of this information, US Weekly is turning to their “insiders” for more insight. They too claim that Seal’s temper is what drove them apart – coupled with Heidi’s career exploding and taking her away from home a lot.

Pictures have surfaced of Heidi Klum wearing her wedding ring, so maybe she’s holding out hope as well?

Heidi Klum sat across from her husband, Seal, the day after Christmas, lunching with their foud children at the Buttermilk ski area, where the couple had rented a house for the holidays. “They didn’t speak to each other the entire time – for at least 45 minutes,” says a fellow guest. “You could tell there was a lot of tension between them.”

Perhaps there was nothing left to say. For all of their public displays of intense affect… the couple were privately grappling with marriage-breaking issues. Among them: Seal’s mood swings and his jealously about Klum’s skyrocketing career. “They had a rough road lately,” says a source close to the pair. They were so in love that they wanted to get married over and over again, but there were dark moments they didn’t want to expose to the public…”

While Klum, 38, and her 48-year-old husband were in Aspen for the holidays, all of their issues came to a head. “Aspen didn’t go well,” says another confidant. “They fought a lot it was a very hard trip.”

Friends say the fighting was part of daily life for the pair…

They fought a lot
Klum has admitted to having “ups and downs with Seal,” says another Klum source. “They were the kind of couple who could have a huge fight over an order at Nobu.” Adds another, “They just have a very tempestuous love. They’re either madly in love or having crazy fights…”

They’re so different
At the root of the blowups: the fact that they are two fundamentally different people. “She’s an upbeat, happy person,” says one friend. “He comes from a very troubled, sad background. It’s what makes him a very difficult person to be married to.” The London-bred singer was initially raised by a foster family, and a battle with discoid lupus left his facial scars. “He’s had a sad life,” says the confidant, adding that he grew up to become “volatile and moody.”

Seal is controlling and jealous
At times, his temper flared, according to sources. “He is not a nice person,” says one source, who claims that Seal “would often talk down to Heidi in public. He spoke to her at business functions like she was the help. It was so degrading.” When Seal felt she was holding court at a Victoria’s Secret show, says the source, he became incensed at the attention. “He was yelling at her for doing press and saying that she needed to calm down and why does she need to be in the spotlight all the time?” And as demands on her time increased, he seemed to want to make all the choices for her…

When he turned his focus onto his own career and began to tour heavily, Klum was left to watch the children – Leni, 7, Henri, 6, Johan, 5, and Lous, 2 – all alone in the months leading up to the blowouts in Aspen. [Ed note: 3 nannies isn't exactly "all alone."] “He’d been away for months and months on tour.”

Says a source close to Seal. “He tours, too, but most of the time he was home with his family while she worked.

“It’s hard to make a marriage work when one parent is with the kids most of the time. They always took turns and it led to separate lives…”

For now, as they decide whether to officially file for divorce, both Seal and Klum are taking the high road in public.

US Weekly via Celebitchy

While Heidi has remained quite through all of this, Seal has not. First he went on Ellen and talked about how much he loves Heidi. Tuesday night he appeared on Piers Morgan, where he told the host a reconciliation with Heidi “is possible”.

“It may happen, I can’t speak for her,” Seal, 48, said Tuesday. “Is it irreparable? You can never say never. The thing I love most about us is that we are a team … that won’t change, whether we get back together or not.”

However, he did say he didn’t know if he wanted to work things out right now. “If it were that easy — if there weren’t problems, we’d still be together. That is the reality.”

Seal and Klum, 38, announced Sunday they were separating after eight years of marriage. The couple, who famously renewed their vows every year, have three children together: Henry, 6, Johan, 5, and Lou, 2. (Klum’s oldest daughter, 7-year-old Leni, is from a previous relationship).”My love for her has not waned one iota,” he said. “I love her with all my heart. How can you not love somebody [who] you’ve spent eight years with?”

Despite their estrangement, Seal has continued to wear his wedding ring in interviews and other appearances, something he insists is not for show.”I’m still wearing my wedding ring because I’m still married to this incredible woman,” he said. “What this means to me and what it stands for [is] respect, it stands for loyalty, it stands for incredible memories, and it stands for these four little miracles — and Heidi, making five — that have come into my life.”

I really hope they can work it out – I just love them together. Take in some anger management classes or something!

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Singer-songwriter Seal makes his first television appearance since the announcement of the separation from wife, Heidi Klum on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Tuesday, January 24th. Ellen talks with Seal about the separation and why he is still wearing his wedding ring.

On his split from Heidi Klum:

ELLEN:
I think it’s a very very hard thing to be in a relationship and working on a relationship and have a family and have kids and have two huge careers and a lot going on, and to be in the public eye. I think a lot of people have seen many pictures of you and Heidi. I think it was surprise to a lot of people. That’s got to be a hard thing when people don’t really know and I think people were just shocked.

SEAL:
I think so too and you can include us in that. I think we were shocked. You go into these things with the greatest intentions when you say “I do” and you say “’til death do us part.” Those vows hold value. They are not just words. These things happen. We pretty much said how we feel and made it clear in the release statement. But, for intensive purposes of this show, you just grow apart after awhile. You try and you work through it and the thing that you quickly realize when you are married and you become a parent you do the best that you can. It makes you actually appreciate your parents a lot more. The thing that I’m most proud about this great woman who married (and I really do mean that from the bottom of my heart), is that together she has given me four incredible gifts…four beautiful children. She still, in my opinion, the most wonderful woman in the world. I think our priority was to remain civil and do this thing with dignity. We still very much love each other. It’s not a question of we were never to follow suit of some break-up or separations that you hear about, especially in our industry. It’s a shame. To say that neither of us were grieving would be an out and out lie (and I don’t mind telling you that). I think the operative here is that we are civil to each other and we both have a tremendous amount of respect and love and we try and do this with as much dignity as we possibly can. And of course, when you have four children,you hope and pray that the rest of the world will respect that we have four children and that their little hearts are at stake too.

Seal on wearing his wedding ring…

ELLEN:
That must be hard for them. I still notice you’re still wearing your ring. (Is that, it’s an interesting) It’s a beautiful ring…

SEAL:
Yes, I am still wearing my ring. I think it’s just pretty much a token of how I feel about this woman. We have eight years. Eight wonderful years together. Just because we have decided to separate doesn’t necessarily mean you take off your ring and you’re no longer connected to that person. We will be connected in many ways ‘til the rest of our lives…. though our children and also through this tremendous admiration, respect and love that we have for each other. Will we wear the ring for the rest of our lives? Who knows? But right now it feels really comfortable on my hand so I have intentions of taking it off anytime soon.

I want them to work it out and stay together! I hate the thought of them splitting. When some people split – it comes as no surprise. (Like if Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis actually split – I probably won’t think much of it.) But Heidi and Seal? It shouldn’t be happening I tell ya!

PS: I think it’s very commendable that Seal honored his commitment and still went on the Ellen Show. He was scheduled to appear before Heidi announced the split, and it would have been very easy for him to bail. But he didn’t!

We got word over the weekend that Heidi Klum and Seal were ending their 9 year marriage and many of you (like moi) found it so hard to believe that they were splitting! They’ve long been one of my favorite celebrity couples. They always look and seem so happy and in love. They have a beautiful family, and Seal adopted Heidi’s daughter from a previous relationship. PEOPLE confirmed the news with a statement from Heidi’s rep: “We have had the deepest respect for one another throughout our relationship and continue to love each other very much, but we have grown apart.”

So what happened? According to TMZ, Heidi has had all she can take of Seal’s “volcanic temper”. The decision to leave had absolutely nothing to do with infidelity, there was no cheating involved. Seal’s “inability to control his anger has become to much for Heidi to take, in no small part because it’s affecting their children.”

TMZ was the first to report the news of the split, and according to sources this decision was “a long time coming.”

Also playing a factor in the split is their differing careers. She has become a “mega-entrepreneur” and extremely wealthy, and their professional differences caused a split between them.

According to TMZ, the couple have been living together still, but that’s all about to change.

I hope that Seal just takes this as a wake up call and gets the anger management help he needs (if that’s really what’s going on) and they get back together!!

This sad news just in…Heidi Klum will is reportedly filing for divorce from Seal … according to TMZ.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Heidi will file divorce papers in L.A. County Superior Court as early as next week. We’re told Heidi will cite “irreconcilable differences” as the cause for the divorce.

The couple married May 10, 2005. They have 3 biological kids. Seal adopted Heidi’s eldest girl from a prior relationship.

The couple is famous for renewing their vows every year on their anniversary … in a lavish ceremony.

As for splitting up the goodies, there’s a lot on the line. According to Forbes, in the last year alone, Klum raked in $20 million. It’s unclear how much Seal made.

Heidi attended last Sunday’s Golden Globes without Seal. The last photo she tweeted with him was back on December 26.

I am so sad about this news! Probably more so than just about any other celeb split lately. I don’t know why – maybe it’s because they always seem like they’re so in love! They’re always so cute and happy together! It seemed like they really truly had so much love for each other. Makes me so sad!

I mean c’mon – watch the music video below! It is sad!

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How many of you watched ‘Project Runway: Allstars’ the other night? Were you as shocked as I was to see NO Heidi Klum – and NO Tim Gunn!? I’ll be honest, I was so upset about it – I actually stopped watching it – and haven’t been back to see the full episode yet. I don’t know if I have it in me to watch the show without my favorite hosts! In all fairness, I wasn’t a fan of ‘Top Chef Masters’ when it first premiered for the very same reason, but I’ve grown to love it. So I know I WILL give Allstars a fair shot, it might just come after I’ve watched everything else in my DVR first.

So why didn’t Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn sign on for Allstars? According to Tim, it was because they’re currently filming season 9 of Project Runway – and they couldn’t be in two places at once!

There was no making it work when it came to Tim Gunn participating in “Project Runway All-Stars.”

The high priest of style was at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena Monday, promoting his new ABC daytime talk show, “Revolution,” with Ty Pennington and a cast of make-yourself-better experts. (“Revolution” replaces long-running soap “One Life to Live” at 1 p.m. PT and 2 p.m. ET Jan. 16.)

He told a small group of reporters gathered after the panel that he simply could not mentor the “All Stars” because it overlapped with the taping of “Project Runway” season nine.

“Someone thought that ‘All Stars’ and season nine could be taped together and we all could run back and forth,” Gunn said. “To me the workroom and the designers is like a fashion emergency room. (Trying to do both) was just loony cajuney.”

Gunn said he gives “150 percent” on the show, and felt both shows would suffer if he attempted to spread himself between them. His first allegiance, of course, is to the mother ship.

“I’m a lucky guy and I readily recognize how much I have on my plate. I won’t trivialize (what it takes) to do this show,” Gunn said. “I can’t multitask. I don’t even have an iPhone or Blackberry on the set. I have to focus.” Continue Reading

I’ll forgive him… I guess. Now – about Heidi’s pants. Yikes!

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