The Kardashians: Kris and Bruce Jenner announce their separation

 

After 22 years of marriage, Kris and Bruce Jenner has announced their separation:

 "We are living separately and we are much happier this way. But we will always have much love and respect for each other. Even though we are separated we will always remain best friends and, as always, our family will remain our number one priority.

"We ended a marriage, but that's not the end of our friendship."

 With the brood (FilmMagic) 


Some critics are claiming that the couple secretly split more than a year ago, but kept it quiet in order to protect the Kardashian brand.

Scenes for the famous family's reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians did not show any sign of marital problems except with footage of Bruce moving into his "man cave", but the former athlete portrayed this move as just wanting "some space".

According to Us Weekly, Kris insists that all of the scenes on the show were "genuine" - but TMZ report the couple may have kept quiet so as to save the separation for a story line on season 9 of the show.

TMZ reports: "We're told the upcoming season will show Bruce and Kris living separately but coming together at various points for family events ... and there will be a lot of them. What's more ... we're told the family is very conscious of the fact that they can make more in syndication."

Manager mum Kris, 57, and former Olympian Bruce, 63, got married in 1991 and celebrated their 22 year wedding anniversary back in April.   

Writing on Instagram about their anniversary Kris said:

"Happy anniversary Bruce!!!! Best 22 years I could ever have imagined...hope the next 22 is even more fabulous...I love you!"

But since then there's been lots of speculation about the couple's marriage and it was well known that Bruce had been living in a rented Malibu property, while Kris had stayed at their Calabasas home. Despite that, Khloe, who's currently facing marriage troubles of her own said people shouldn't read into it.

"They're not having problems but they still like to live apart, which is definitely different," Khloe explained in June.

Together the couple has two daughters - Kylie and Kendall - while Bruce has four kids from a previous marriage and Kris has four kids from her marriage with OJ Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian.

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