Actor Will Smith takes to Facebook to deny divorce report

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Cast member Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith kiss at the premiere of ‘’Focus’’ at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California February 24, 2015. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)
Cast member Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith kiss at the premiere of ‘’Focus’’ at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California February 24, 2015. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Men in Black star Will Smith took the unusual step yesterday of publicly shooting down a report that he and his actress wife of 17 years had decided to divorce.

Cast member Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith kiss at the premiere of ‘’Focus’’ at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California February 24, 2015. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)
Cast member Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith kiss at the premiere of ‘’Focus’’ at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California February 24, 2015. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Smith’s marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith has been a subject of tabloid rumour for several years.

But yesterday, entertainment news website Radar Online reported that the couple had decided to split and would make a divorce announcement at the end of the summer.

Smith, 46, said in statement on his Facebook page that “under normal circumstances, I don’t usually respond to foolishness. (Because it’s contagious).

“But, so many people have extended me their ‘deepest condolences’ that I figured – ‘What the hell… I can be foolish, too!’ So, in the interest of redundant, repetitious, over & over-again-ness… Jada and I are…NOT GETTING A DIVORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Smith added that if he ever decided to divorce “I SWEAR I’ll tell you myself!”

Pinkett Smith, 43, who recently appeared in the movie Magic Mike XXL and in the TV crime show “Gotham,” married Smith in 1997. They are parents to teen actor Jaden Smith and 14-year-old singer Willow Smith.