The Moment
Welcome to mid-January 2026, where the gyms are packed, the vision boards are fresh, and Hollywood couples are dropping like New Year’s resolutions.
In just a few days, we’ve seen three very different love stories hit the brakes: former child star Todd Bridges and his wife Bettijo, comedy power duo Bill Hader and Ali Wong, and one-time “Real Housewives of Atlanta” figure Brit Eady and husband Michael Cunningham.
The timing is classic: new year, new chapter, new lawyer. But beneath the headlines, these splits say a lot about how complicated love looks when you’re juggling fame, kids, work, and that little thing called reality.
The Take
If 2026 has a relationship theme so far, it’s this: grown-ups are choosing peace over performance.
Todd Bridges, who many of us still see as the kid from “Diff’rent Strokes,” announced that he and designer Bettijo are ending their three-year marriage with “mutual respect” and a request for privacy. It reads like two people who tried, had some good years, and refused to turn the finale into a circus.
Then you’ve got Bill Hader and Ali Wong, two comedians with young kids, hit shows, and calendars that probably need their own assistants. Their on-again, off-again romance has reportedly ended because their schedules are too intense, but sources say they’re still friendly and cheering each other on. That’s not a scandal; that’s two working parents admitting there are only so many hours in a day.
And on the reality TV side, Brit Eady’s divorce filing from Michael Cunningham is the most bluntly honest of the bunch. In legal paperwork, she calls the marriage “irretrievably broken” and, in a now-deleted New Year’s Eve post, basically said she was done pretending the relationship was fine. No filters, no fake couple selfies, just: this isn’t working, and I’m not dragging it into another year.
If the 2000s were about the fairy-tale celebrity couple, this moment feels more like the realistic relationship audit. Think of it as emotional spring cleaning that arrived early. The vibe isn’t “who cheated?” so much as “who can I actually build a life with, given my reality?”
Messy? Sometimes. Cold? Not really. It actually reads as painfully honest. When the cameras are off and the kids need breakfast and someone has a 5 a.m. call time, love either fits your life or it doesn’t.
Receipts
Confirmed:
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- Todd Bridges & Bettijo: Bridges publicly announced on January 14, 2026, that the pair decided to end their three-year marriage, calling for privacy and wishing her “love and happiness” going forward, in a statement shared with an entertainment news outlet.
- Bill Hader & Ali Wong: Multiple entertainment reports published January 7, 2026, say the comics have ended their on-off relationship and cite their demanding schedules as a key factor.
The reason behind Bill Hader and Ali Wong’s breakup revealed https://t.co/CsoTwE05Bt pic.twitter.com/2qcUlBycct
— Page Six (@PageSix) January 9, 2026
- Brit Eady & Michael Cunningham: Divorce papers filed January 7, 2026, in Georgia list the marriage as “irretrievably broken” and peg the separation date as December 1, 2025, according to court documents referenced in coverage. Eady reportedly requested no spousal support and noted their Atlanta home as the main marital asset.
- Eady’s split was also referenced in a now-deleted Instagram post on December 31, 2025, where she wrote that she was “remov[ing] this facade” of pretending the marriage would work.
Unverified / Reported, Not Directly Stated by the Stars:
- Sources close to Bill Hader and Ali Wong describing their breakup as “very amicable” and saying they remain friends and are focused on their kids and work come from anonymous insider quotes in entertainment reports, not from the pair themselves.
- Details that Todd Bridges and Bettijo’s split involved no public conflict beyond his statement are inferred from the lack of additional claims, not confirmed by either party.
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
Todd Bridges, now in his late 50s, grew up on our TV screens in “Diff’rent Strokes” and has been open over the years about his ups and downs. His 2023 wedding to Bettijo, a designer and blogger, felt like a second-chance love story. On the comedy front, Bill Hader, the “Saturday Night Live” alum and star of “Barry,” and Ali Wong, known for her stand-up specials and the film “Always Be My Maybe,” have quietly dated on and off in recent years, both co-parenting kids from previous relationships. Brit Eady, who had a stint on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” married Michael Cunningham about five years ago; the pair kept a lower public profile than many reality couples, making this divorce more of a legal paperwork story than a full-blown social media saga.
What’s Next
For Todd Bridges and Bettijo, the next chapter will likely stay fairly private if his statement is any sign. He’s asking for space, not a spotlight, which suggests we won’t get a play-by-play unless one of them chooses to share more later.
Bill Hader and Ali Wong, meanwhile, both have stacked work calendars in 2026: she has another stand-up run on the way, and he’s juggling new film and TV projects. If they stick to what unnamed friends are saying, we can expect them to show up together on red carpets only as colleagues, not a couple, while keeping any co-parenting news focused on their kids, not their dating lives.
Brit Eady and Michael Cunningham’s story will unfold more in court filings than on camera. With a home in Atlanta, requests to keep their own cars, and no spousal support on the table (per the filing descriptions), this sounds like a classic “untangle the assets and move on” divorce. Any real drama will likely come from how much of it she chooses to address publicly, if at all.
Bigger picture? Expect more of this vibe all year: fewer glossy “couple goals” narratives, more people in their 40s and 50s deciding that staying together “for the brand” is not worth their sanity. Hollywood just happens to act it out on a brighter, harsher stage.
Your turn: When you look at these early-2026 splits, do you see sad endings, or do you see people finally being honest about what they can handle in a relationship?
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