Ellen's Ex, Anne Heche, Splits From Husband
by The Associated Press

Posted: January 27, 2007 - 11:00 am ET

(Los Angeles, California) Anne Heche and her husband are separating after five years of marriage, her spokeswoman has announced.

"They have requested that they be allowed their privacy at this time," publicist Lisa Kasteler said in a statement.

Heche, 37, and Coleman Laffoon, a motion picture cameraman, were married in September 2001. The couple have a 4-year-old son, Homer.

They met while working on a documentary about Ellen DeGeneres'' return to stand-up comedy.

Heche had a high-profile relationship with DeGeneres for more than three years. They announced their separation in August 2000.

Heche plays a relationship guru who relocates to Alaska in the ABC-TV drama "Men in Trees." Her film credits include "Wag the Dog," "John Q" and "Donnie Brasco."

Heche's mother, Nancy Heche is a prominent speaker for the so-called ex-Gay movement. (story)

Anne Heche splits from husband
26 Jan 2007
Anne Heche has left her husband.
According to American sources, Heche is no longer with her husband of five years, James Tupper.

The actress and James, who is a cameraman, got married in 2001. The Return to Paradise star was previously in a relationship with US TV host Ellen DeGeneres.

Lisa Kasteler, a representative for the actress, refuses to comment on her client's private life. A spokesperson for Tupper has confirmed that the couple split in November.

Heche, 37, is now starring in the television series Men in Trees, which is filmed in Vancouver.

Dartmouth’s Tupper becomes Heche’s love interest on and off the set report



Entertainment Tonight is reporting that Anne Heche has left her husband, Coley Laffoon, for her Men in Trees co-star James Tupper.

Dartmouth native Tupper, who studied in Dalhousie’s Theatre program before earning an acting degree from Montreal’s Concordia University and a master’s degree from Rutgers University in New York, has split his time between film and TV projects and stage work since moving to the U.S. about 10 years ago.

In an August 2006 interview with The Chronicle Herald, he said he was based in Los Angeles, but recently moved to Vancouver with his wife of five years, Kate Mayfield, a novelist from Iowa, and his dog Harold, a very friendly half-Great Dane, half-Retriever, to film the ABC series, currently airing on Thursday nights at 11 p.m.

On the show, Tupper, is a wildlife biologist who has an on-again, off-again relationship with Heche, who plays a relationship coach in the small, mostly male, Alaska town of Elmo.

A spokesperson for Tupper, 41, said the actor and his wife split in November, but would not speculate on the on-set romance, according to etonline.com. The same article says that Heche’s rep confirms that the 36-year-old actor and her 33-year-old husband Laffoon, an actor and cameraman, have separated. The two were married in 2001 and have a son, Homer, together.

In August, Tupper described Heche to The Chronicle Herald: "She’s the warmest, kindest, most humble person I’ve ever met. She’s fun, kind to everyone on the set. She’s lived through a lot, and knows how valuable it is to have a great script. We often get together to run lines in her trailer."

The Prince Andrew high school grad said last summer that the first conversation he had with Heche was about Halifax, where she filmed TV movies Fatal Desire (with Eric Roberts) and Gracie’s Choice with Dianne Ladd and Kristen Bell and Heche reported she loved the city.

James Tupper’s father, also named James Tupper, was a former principal at Notting Park School and Admiral Westphal Elementary in Dartmouth, and his grandfather, Borden Tupper was a United Church minister in Halifax.

(anemetz@herald.ca)