“We respect the decisions the other has made”.
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They had been separated for a while and chose to go public with the decision on Monday, reported People.
Writer and TV personality Anthony Bourdain and wife Ottavia Busia have separated after 9 years, according to various United States media reports.
In 2012, Busia told the New York Times that after having her daughter and seeing the mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano at the Prudential Center in Newark, she developed a passion for Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA.
Bourdain and Busia were married in 2007 and their daughter, Ariane, was born the same year.
Bourdain, whose series have included Travel Channel’s “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations”, was married from 1985 to 2005 to his high-school sweetheart, Nancy Putkoski. “And we’ll always consider ourselves a family”.
“I have a completely dysfunctional…” he said, trailing off. “I love my family but it’s not an ordinary family”, he said. I’m going to bed when my nine-year-old decides to go to bed. Just last week, Busia congratulated Bourdain on his Creative Arts Emmy Award win.
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As far as dating goes, Bourdain said at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: “When I was single, I’d take people to eat sushi on the first date. if they didn’t eat the uni [sea urchin], there was really no chance at a relationship”.
