"Irreconcilable differences" was once the hot legalspeak catchphrase among divorcing celebrities, but a new, somewhat more inflamatory buzzword is making the rounds: "fraud." First coming to prominence in Renee Zellweger's quickie marriage annulment from country singer Kenny "Gay?" Chesney, it rears its ugly head once again in the heartbreaking dissolution of yet another inconsequential celebrity union
that of Chad Michael Murray to Sophia Bush.

Unfortunately, See's Candies doesn't have a product that can adequately express a grab-assin' bad-boy's burning desire to engage his former partner in an ugly custody battle.

Us Weekly is reporting the demise of the marriage of stopgap doomed TV series savior/crispy-haired-rocker groupie Heather Locklear and Richie Sambora, the guy who yelped "Wanted!" behind Jon Bon Jovi on the timeless cowboy-rock anthem "Wanted Dead or Alive":

The Insider's Marc Malkin is reporting that two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and infamous acceptance speech overlookee/househusband Chad Lowe are splitting. The early party line, however, is that they're going to try and work things out:

It's been months since Renee Zellweger filed the legal papers to erase her marriage to Kenny "We Still Have No Idea Who He Is" Chesney, one of the briefest and most pointless Hollywood unions ever conceived, but something was still bothering us. Like the barely perceptible irritation of a long-ago-squashed pea under our mattress, the phantom itch of an amputee's missing limb, or the slightest whiff of an ex-lover's perfume on a frequently washed pillowcase, the aborted connection between America's favorite scrunchy-faced darling and the semianonymous guy in the black cowboy hat somehow persisted. Then, suddenly: nothing. No waking from nightsweats from reciting poignant dialogue from A Price Above Rubies, or from the uncomfortable tumescence of a REM reenactment of that erotic, groupie-sex-in-the-break-room scene in Empire Records. Finally, with a few strokes of a judge's pen on the annulment order, we have closure.

Whenever a reluctant truth-bomb like late Wednesday's (very sneaky) announcement that Nick and Jessica have abandoned their marital charade is dropped on the celebrity rag universe—thanks, Us Weekly—it takes some time for the magazines to pick up the pieces.

The Nick and Jessica Thanksgiving Special is tinged with sadness this year, as the couple has finally succumbed to the incredible stress of pretending to be married for the sake of their careers and admitted their separation to Us Weekly. The end of the Nick and Jessica Era sounds like this: