The reality show based on Shaquille and Shaunie O’Neal’s troubled marriage is in limbo following Shaunie’s move to divorce the NBA star in court papers filed last week.
A&E still considering whether to purchase Love Shaq, a show filmed before last week’s turn of events.
Shaunie, born Va’shaundya, filed for legal separation from the Cleveland Cavaliers player in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Nov. 9, citing irreconcilable differences. In addition to asking for an unspecified amount in spousal and child support, Shaunie is seeking sole custody of the couple’s four children, ranging in age from 3 to 9.
Another split has hit Black Hollywood. Shaquille O’Neal’s wife of six years, Shaunie O’Neal, has filed for legal separation. The bombshell comes two years after the NBA start first started divorce proceedings.
Shaq and Shaunie split in September 2007 amid allegations that Shaunie was sleeping with her personal trainer and being secretive about her monetary assets. The couple reunited in August 2008 and vowed to work through their problems. But their efforts have not been successful, according to papers filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.
Shaunie and the couple’s four children have abandoned the family’s Florida home and relocated to California, where she will likely have an easier time securing spousal support, PEOPLE reports. She is also seeking child support as well as legal and physical custody of their children. Shaq and Shaunie would have celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary next month.
NBA champion Shaq, who joins the Cleveland Cavaliers next season, has inked a deal to star in Shaq Vs., an ABC reality series that will pit the 7-foor-1-in. star against top athletes in other sports.
According to USA TODAY, future episodes will see Shaq take on Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in football. Future hour-long episodes will pit him against Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, tennis pro Serena Williams, and beach volleyball Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh.
Filming begins this Wednesday. Shaq is set to premiere Aug. 18 and will air Tuesdays @ 9PM ET/PT on ABC
Shaquille O’Neal and his wife Shaunie have decided to call off their pending and give their five-year marriage another chance.
“Things are great and we’re moving on to the good stuff,” Shaunie says. “We’ve both learned a lot and know that our family comes first and that’s the main thing for both of us.”
Shaquille O’Neal’s wife Shaunie Nelson has filed papers to the court denying that her marriage is irretrievably broken down. She is asking the court to grant her a three-month continuance so that she can attempt to save her marriage and ignore her husband’s divorce application.
The Miami Heat star filed for divorce last month claiming that his wife had been “secretive about her assets… particularly with respect to certain properties owned or titled in either (her) name alone or in other entities”.
