This is no laughing matter. After just eight weeks of marriage, "Saturday Night Live" alum Chris Kattan and his wife, model Sunshine Tutt, have split.

"Separated for the moment. No plans for divorce at this time," his rep told Us Magazine.

Kattan, 37, and Tutt, 31 — who began dating in 2005 after meeting at a birthday party — tied the knot this past June 28th in Yosemite Valley, Calif. Kattan popped the question at Tutt's grandmother's home in Gainesville, Texas, on Christmas Eve, 2006. He gift wrapped the ring in a present, added Usmagazine.

"She is so kind, sweet and very beautiful. She's also very funny which always is a great thing. She's also very much like me," Kattan blogged on his Website in August 2005.

"She makes me very happy," he went on. "It feels real and honest and I have more of a continuous smile than I have ever had before."

Apparently the smile quickly turned upside down, as often happens to celebrities soon after the wedding.

Any therapist or religious leader will say that the first year is the toughest as people adjust to each other’s habits and routines. But that hasn’t stopped many celebrity couples from divorcing each other after less than a year.

Jennifer Lopez and dancer Chris Judd were married and divorced in less than 10 months, Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney in less than four months, Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage in less than three months.

However, there is hope for lasting unions. Jennifer Lopez subsequently married Marc Antony on June 5, 2004, and they have now been married four years... almost a lifetime for a Hollywood marriage.

Phil Collins isn’t having Another Day in Paradise this week, because he will be paying his third wife, Swiss-born Orianne Cevey, around $47 million in their divorce case, the largest payout ever by a British entertainer.

But at least the 57-year-old singer-songwriter has had a Groovy Kind of Love in the past few years with WCBS-TV anchorwoman Dana Tyler, a divorced woman, 49, who at least is closer to his age.

The two met when Tyler interviewed him in 2005 and they realized there was something In the Air Tonight.

Cevey acknowledged in a later interview that the couple had grown apart in 2005, and were leading Separate Lives. “We really got on well and then we realized our interests were not the same anymore,” said Cevey, 35, who met the singer when she was 22.

But she says, he will always Be in My Heart since she is looking on the “positive side.”

He has agreed that That’s Just the Way It Is, and, frankly, I Don’t Care Anymore.

Collins will keep a home in near Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, near their two young sons, Nicolas, 8, and Matthew, 4, as well as a bachelor pad in New York and a home in England.

But this is shaping up to be a far more amicable divorce than his previous two. Maybe he has learned from experience.

To end his relationship with his second wife, Jill Taverman, after he met Orianne, Collins gave her the heave-ho via fax. Apparently he couldn’t wait One More Night.

(The fax maneuver was worthy of the Artful Dodger.)

However, he still was generous in his divorce settlement, which at the time was more than $34 million for a 14 year relationship. They had a daughter, Lily, together.

Collins also had an earlier marriage to Andrea Bertorelli, which ended in 1980, and produced two children, Simon, 28, and Joelyi, 33.

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I would like to tell you that I was once married to Che Guevara, but that would be a lie. (Your first clue is that Che died in 1967, one week after my mother turned 11.)

Since the revolutionary with a modern-day cult following couldn't have me, he had to settle for Hilda Gadea, who has written "My Life With Che", a book chronicling her tumultuous marriage to — and subsequent divorce from — the rebel with a very real cause.

The book is being billed as the history that starts where “The Motorcycle Diaries” left off.

Gadea, who met Guevara in 1953 at the tail end of his motorcycle tour across Latin America, was not initially impressed. "He seemed superficial, egotistical and conceited." As they swooned over poetry and a mutual love of the Guatemalan government, though, she changed her tune and they got married in 1956, six months before their daughter Hildita was born.

It seems Gadea wasn’t the only one with doubts about the romance. A few days before their marriage, Che wrote in his diary, "For someone else it might be one of the great moments in their life, but for me the whole business is rather painful. I'm going to be a father, and in a few days I'm going to marry Hilda. For her, this decision was a dramatic one; for me it was hard. She's finally getting what she wants, though only for the time being as far as I'm concerned, even if she hopes it'll be for good."

Che was right, and when mother and baby Hildita joined him after an extended absence in January 1959, he greeted her with the news that he had met someone else and wanted a divorce. He married his second wife a few days after the ink was dry and was still married to her when he died eight years later.

You'll be happy to note that he still found the time to father another child out of wedlock a few years before his death.

Your mother was right. If he does it with you, he'll do it to you.

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Married men are 7 percent more likely than married women to commit adultery. And when a man has an affair, he doesn’t seem to consider the consequences of his actions. So says a study to be published in the fall, “So What Did You Do Last Night? The Economics of Infidelity.”

Infidelity for women peaks at 45, the study found. For men, it peaks at age 55.

Gee, what 55-year-old confessed adulterer has been in the news this week?

John Edwards, who claimed a week ago that he at least had been “99 percent honest” in his statements about the young filmmaker Reille Hunter.

“… [A] wealthy, famous politician such as John Edwards is a man with plenty of opportunity, and it seems that he gave the costs of getting caught little consideration. [That] fits well with our findings,” Bruce Elmslie, an economics professor in the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire and a co-author of the study, told Firstwivesworld.

The study, co-written with Edinaldo Tebaldi, assistant professor of economics at Bryant University in Rhode Island, was based on data from the United States General Social Survey.

It is unusual in that it looks at infidelity from a cost-benefit analysis, rather than a sociological or psychological point of view.

Other points made in their study:

1. Men who are more likely to commit adultery:
• Live in cities (where there is greater opportunity to escape discovery)
• Do not have a college degree
• Do not belong to any particular socioeconomic group

2. What men do not take into account when having an affair:
• The economic status of the new woman, or her ability to bear children
• Their wife’s educational level
• Religion

"As with spousal education, men don't weigh the costs — spousal quality or eternal damnation — when deciding whether or not to have an affair," Elmslie said.

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The gossip was right. A month ago, it was reported that Shaquille O’Neal and his supposedly estranged wife, Shaunie O’Neal, were back on the same team. They were spotted applying a full-court press on the beach in the Cayman Islands.

And now, nearly a year after filing for divorce, Shaunie O’Neal says they have changed their minds. Shaq’s divorce petition, filed in Miami in September, 2007, said their marriage was “irretrievably broken.”

Apparently, that was only a brief time out.

"Neither one of us could probably answer why we were getting one in the first place," Shaunie told AP.

and for the new web site Shaunie is launching, this marks the end to the sometimes hilarious charges, suspicions, and counter charges.While it’s good news for the institution of marriage, and for the four children they have together — Shareef, 7, Amirah, 5, Shaqir, 4, and Me'Arah, 1 —

Babies out of wedlock while they were married (him), an affair with a female trainer (her), stashing money (her), selling their Star Island mansion in Miami in November to A-Rod, and apparently telling him a thing or two about divorce (him), selling items on eBay (her), and a new contract with the Phoenix Suns (him).

There was a prenuptial agreement when they married in December, 2005. Shaq’s divorce petition gave her physical custody (considering his new home in Phoenix, and his traveling schedule, that’s only logical) and allowed him liberal visitation rights.

Now Shaunie says that they plan to blow the whistle on the divorce proceedings. "Things have been going so great, that someone actually had to remind us that 'Hey, you do remember those papers are still there.' Literally, it was days ago," Shaunie said.

"So, we've agreed that before we leave Florida in a few days we'll make sure that that's gone away."

Unless all this has just been one big free throw.

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Lately people are throwing poison darts at Elizabeth Edwards for supporting her husband’s bid for the Presidency even though she knew he was unfaithful. Excuse me?

If a doctor’s wife finds out her husband has been unfaithful, should she stop him from performing surgery, something he has done for 20 years. After all, you are supposed to trust your doctor.

Politics is a business too.

Elizabeth Edwards may not have believed in him as a perfect husband after learning about his affair with Rielle Hunter, but I’m willing to bet she believed in him as a candidate. They shared a world view, a sense of justice, and a commitment to public service.

That is the person she was backing for President, not the flawed human being who made a mistake. The people who throw around the words “staunch family values” must know that staunch family values means keeping a marriage together.

“’Til death,” right? Not “’til one of us makes a mistake.”

The Edwardses have spent years together, and many of those years running campaigns. It’s what they enjoyed doing, what they shared. Or maybe it was what he enjoyed, and she loved him.

After getting a cancer diagnosis in the last month of her husband’s 2004 campaign for vice president, a shock to both of them, maybe she felt that she owed him another campaign. John Edwards’s second run for president was supposed to be a legacy for her children.

Maybe she thought that this campaign would have a happier ending.

It didn’t.

He withdrew from the race in January. She found out her cancer had returned in March, and was incurable, if not untreatable. And this month, all of the rumors about his affair were confirmed.

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Talk about possibilities. Within a year, Carla Bruni went from being dumped by her son’s father to marrying the dashing Nicolas Sarkozy and becoming the First Lady of France.

Even she giggles at the amazing turn of events. In interviews with Barbara Walters and “Vanity Fair,” France's femme fatale shared her secrets for divorce diplomacy and how she juggles a blended family, a recording career, her job as First Lady and a colorful past.

Among the Italian heiress’s ex-lovers, and current pals, are Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, French singer Julien Clerc, and director Leos Carax – who produced the video of her CD “Quelqu'un m'a dit” (“Someone Told Me”). Her new CD, “Comme Si de Rien N'Etait” (“As if Nothing Happened”) will hit U.S. stores tomorrow and includes English songs.

How can the former model and chanteuse be such good friends with so many exes?

The chiseled beauty with a je ne sais qoui shrug points out that time really does heal all wounds and gain us some perspective.

"Sometimes the desire, the passion, makes you fight, but when that goes completely, you have only the good part of it," she told “Vanity Fair.”

And what about the pesky problem of having all the exes around?

“It's not that I had a lot of lovers,” she said. “It's that I never hide them. I think it would be a very bad sign to deny. Everything with denying is sick.”

Well one can't deny that she knows how to cast a spell on the public. Since Sarkozy and Bruni married earlier this year, his popularity ratings have soared while she's being called France's Jackie O.

And she has made history by being the first First Lady to arrive at a state function to meet the Queen of England and – quelle horreur – to have nude photos of her surface and be plastered throughout the Internet.

Remember, there is no denying nonchalance. Works every time.

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No divorced woman has it easy. But in Russia, it just became harder.

A working mom seeking to become the third woman ever to successfully bring a sexual harrassment case in Russia was dealt a jolting blow when the judge threw out her case citing — get ready for this — that sexual harassment is actually necessary for the survival of the human race.

Well, let's see how women around the world race to rebuke such a retro ruling. (Even Saudi Arabia caved in from global pressure after a judge ruled that a rape was a woman's fault.)

The woman had allegedly been locked out of her office after she refused to have sex with her 47-year-old boss.

"He always demanded that female workers signalled to him with their eyes that they desperately wanted to be laid on the boardroom table as soon as he gave the word," she told the court. "I didn't realize at first that he wasn't speaking metaphorically."

As reported in Foreign Policy, the judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.

"If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.

According to a recent Russian survey, 100 percent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, 32 percent said they had had intercourse with them at least once and another seven percent claimed to have been raped.

After this ruling, someone has got to say "Nyet"... as in, "No, not yet buddy."

 

The actress Maria Bello, 41, just announced an interest in marriage, thanks to her 28-year-old artist-waiter boyfriend, Bryn Mooser. Ladies, it's our turn.

An AARP poll of 3,500 single people found that one-third of women between 40 and 69 were dating younger men. And not just a few months younger — at least eight years younger. (More than half of the women in the 2003 poll were divorced or separated.)

Move over Samantha and boy toy model/actor Smith.

What do younger men have to offer? You have to ask?

Oh, what do older women have to offer? Just about everything: experience, sense of humor, good income, nice home, oh, an experience. As several young men said, “They know what they want in bed.”

And it’s not women who are prowling like cougars for younger men. It’s usually the man who makes the moves.

In last week's episode of "Weeds," the cult hit starring Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin, her teenage son hangs around a cheese shop and then seduces the attractive cheese-monger-ess, who says, predictably, that she's old enough to be his mother.

Mary-Louise Parker, who turned 44 last week, is an object of some obsession for many young men, including some in their teens. And she’s a practicing “older” woman. She had a child with her boyfriend of seven years, Billy Crudup, who was four years her junior, and most recently was engaged to Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who is two years younger.

Demi Moore, who turns 46 in November, and Aston Kutcher, who just turned 30? They've been married for three years now. No biggie.

There are websites with names like gocougar.com and dateacougar.com that match older women with younger men.

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Gov. Jim Gibbons of Nevada, who has asked his wife for a divorce, used his state phone to text a woman friend 860 times. In a press conference on June 11, he is apologizing to the state for the $130 in charges he ran up, but not to his wife. The text messages were perfectly innocent he said, concerning this woman's children and dogs. Our questions: Why doesn't the State of Nevada have a better message plan? Paying 15 cents a text message is crazy. Also: Would any wife believe this? For the AP story, go here.