SPLIT

THE SAMANTHA-NAGA CHAITANYA

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Nobody was surprised when celeb couple Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya announced they were splitting

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“Chay and I have decided to part ways as husband and wife to pursue our own paths,” Samantha wrote in a statement

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The couple had been hit by divorce rumours prompted by Samantha's social media name change to ‘S'

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Samantha and Chaitanya met while filming 2009's 'Yeh Maaya Chesave' – they were dating other people at the time

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By the time they began their second film, 2014's 'Autonagar Surya,' the actors were single

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Samantha and Siddharth had broken up; Chaitanya had split from Shruti Haasan

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Samantha's birthday tweet for Chaitanya in 2015 prompted romance rumours

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They kind of made it official the next year and then married in October 2017

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Samantha and Chaitanya had a Hindu wedding and then a Christian ceremony in Goa

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All was well until it wasn't. If gossip is to be believed, Samantha's success in 'The Family Man 2' was a factor in the split

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Samantha Ruth Prabhu sealed the split with a second name change on social media – she's now just Samantha

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