Former “Actual Housewives of Atlanta” star Cynthia Bailey is looking it quits with husband Mike Hill. The 55-year-old actuality star and Hill confirmed the cut up to ET in a press release on Wednesday.
“LOVE is an attractive factor. Whereas we each will at all times have love for each other, we have now determined to go our separate methods,” they shared in an unique joint assertion. “Nobody is guilty, and we’re grateful that we stay good buddies. We’ll at all times cherish the numerous reminiscences we’ve shared collectively as husband and spouse. Lots of you’ve got been on this journey with us from the very starting, and we admire our household, buddies and beloved followers to your optimistic assist as we transfer ahead and begin new chapters. Thanks to your prayers and properly needs!”
Bailey and Hill first grew to become romantically linked in late 2018 after Bailey’s divorce from her first husband, Peter Thomas, in 2016. Shortly after she confirmed her relationship with Hill, Bailey instructed Bravo, “If I can’t make it with Mike Hill, then I’m simply meant to be single for the remainder of my life.”
The 2 grew to become engaged in 2018 and had been married in October 2020. The marriage in Acworth, Georgia, a celebration with 250 company, was a part of Bailey’s sendoff season of “RHOA” after she introduced her departure the next yr.
On the time, she confronted backlash from followers for throwing such a big get together on the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a number of photographs for the occasion, company had been seen with out masks and never following security protocols.
“We did the whole lot on our finish to make sure everybody’s security, from masks, shields, temperature checks,” Bailey instructed Andy Cohen in January 2021. “I had a COVID-19 specialist come and spray the place. With that stated, what occurred was the one time folks had been allowed to take their masks off was to eat or drink on the marriage ceremony, in order that occurred. Then lots of people wished to take footage with their masks off. So I wasn’t even pondering, ‘After all, now all the photographs are gonna have the masks off.’”
Bailey formally introduced her departure from “RHOA” after 11 seasons with the franchise lower than a yr later. “Truthfully, I’ve had a superb run. It has been 11 years, and it was simply time, and I believe not solely was it time, it was the correct time,” she instructed ET’s Kevin Frazier in October 2021.
She did, nevertheless, depart the door behind her cracked open. When requested if she’d ever return to the sequence, she instructed ET, “Completely, one hundred pc, and that’s the beauty of the community, about Bravo. With the ‘Housewives’ present, folks come and go on a regular basis, you’ve got a peach sooner or later, it’s gone the following, they provide it again to you, you’re a good friend of the present, it simply retains going.”
Since her departure, she appeared within the first season of “Actual Housewives: Final Ladies Journey” and has since centered on her performing profession, starring in TV films for Peacock, Lifetime and ALLBLK.
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