Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver`s Shocking Split
A.J. HAMMER, HOST: Big news breaking tonight on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT - the inside story of Arnold and Maria`s shocking split. What went wrong, and was their breakup really surprising? Whitney rehab shocker. The tough love from big stars today for Whitney Houston as she gets treatment again for drugs and alcohol.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Whitney you need more than outpatient.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.</s>HAMMER: Should Whitney be doing more to clean up her act? Sarah`s royal snub. Sarah Ferguson speaks out for the very first time today. Her personal revelations to Oprah about not getting invited to William and Catherine`s wedding.</s>OPRAH WINFREY, HOST, "THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW": How hurtful was it to not be invited?</s>HAMMER: Should we feel sorry for Fergie? Chaz Bono`s emotional brand-new sex change revelation. Tonight, we`re asking, is it understandable why Chaz` mom, Cher, had such a hard time accepting Chaz`s sex change? TV`s most provocative entertainment news show breaks news right now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Political power couple, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have split.</s>HAMMER: The morning news shows today announced the news that has shocked Hollywood and Washington and all points in between. Arnold and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, have separated. In a statement to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the couple says, quote, "At this time, we are living apart while we work on the future of our relationship."</s>NINA PARKER, TMZ: According to our sources, Maria moved out several months ago.</s>HAMMER: Throughout their 25-year marriage, they`ve literally been the perfect marriage of Hollywood and politics. And now, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has shocking inside details what may have gone wrong with this powerful super couple. The split comes just a few months after Arnold finished up his two terms as California`s governor and went roaring back to Hollywood. He began work on a new animated show, "The Governator."</s>ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, ACTOR AND FORMER CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR: I`m going to be a private citizen once again.</s>HAMMER: And he even toyed with the idea of doing another "Terminator" movie.</s>SCHWARZENEGGER: I`ll be back.</s>HAMMER: But SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you there are hints such big life changes have been hard on this famous couple. In a statement to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT announcing their split, Arnold and Maria say, quote, "This has been a time of great personal and professional transition for each of us."</s>MARIA SHRIVER, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER`S ESTRANGE WIFE: We want to hear from other people who are in transition.</s>HAMMER: In this YouTube video from March, Shriver, who doesn`t appear to be wearing her wedding ring, actually asked people for advice on how to deal with transition.</s>SHRIVER: It`s so stressful to not know what you`re doing next. Tell me some things you wish you would have known before you transitioned, like it would help me.</s>PARKER: We`re told she`s been extremely unhappy and contemplating divorce since 2009.</s>HAMMER: Nina Parker is a producer for TMZ, which today is reporting that it`s Maria who wants out of the marriage.</s>PARKER: We`re told from our sources that Maria had been unhappy for a while and that he was very hard to deal with. He had a very big ego. A lot of people are saying, "Why now?" But you know, everybody has their breaking point and, apparently, she`s reached hers.</s>HAMMER: In the middle of his 2003 campaign for California governor, more than a dozen women accused him of extremely offensive behavior including lewd comments and groping. Some of the allegations stretched all the way back to the `70s.</s>SHRIVER: I wouldn`t be standing here if this man weren`t an A-plus human being.</s>HAMMER: On the campaign trail, Maria, who would later leave her job at NBC News to support her husband`s political career, proudly defended Arnold from the explosive allegations.</s>SHRIVER: You can listen to all the negativity and you can listen to people who have never met Arnold or who met him for five seconds 30 years ago. Or you can listen to me.</s>HAMMER: And that`s what`s so shocking about this split, because no matter the difference between Arnold, the Republican foreign-born action movie star, and Maria, the liberal, polished member of one of America`s most prestigious families, they were always a team as Arnold once shared on "</s>LARRY KING LIVE." SCHWARZENEGGER: She has always been the best partner and, I always knew, the greatest wife in the world and as a mother - untouchable. I mean, she`s selfless. She only thinks about the children and only thinks about me.</s>HAMMER: And today, TMZ is reporting that this action movie hero is not letting Maria go without a fight.</s>PARKER: We`re told Arnold does not want the split. He does want to stay with Maria. And we`re told ever since she`s moved out of the home that they share here in Los Angeles, he`s been the perfect husband, or trying to be the perfect husband, being very attentive, calling her. And they`ve been seen out self times, including on Mother`s Day.</s>HAMMER: We have to point out neither Arnold nor Maria, who have four children together, are mentioning the D-word, divorce, just yet. We`ll have to see if they terminate their marriage or save it.</s>DR. DREW PINSKY, HOST, "DR. DREW": Right, A.J., absolutely. I think everyone is surprised. This is not the typical story of a husband that`s misbehaving and an unhappy wife. There`s something far more going on than any of us really know. It`s complicated, no doubt. I can tell you I have friends myself who know them and most people are surprised. And the most resounding reaction that really everyone around them is having is deep sadness.</s>HAMMER: Yes.</s>PINSKY: People love them as a couple. People love them as parents. They have great kids. It`s interesting that Maria stood up and called him an A- plus human being. I think she would probably still say the same thing, even though it seems like everyone is kind of pointing at him as the weak link and maybe the precipitating cause in the breakup.</s>HAMMER: And at a minimum, I don`t expect this to get contentious knowing a bit about each of them. And this morning, you know, people were saddened. They`re also surprised. The ladies on "The View" very shocked to hear about the split. Watch what they said.</s>SHERRI SHEPHERD, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": It`s a little sad because when you see somebody who you think they`ve gotten over the hump, you`ve got your little milestones -</s>ELISABETH HASSELBECK, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": When you`re married, sometimes - now, based on the statistics, you`re operating almost in fear of divorce. And you hear your friends say and you hear people say, "Well, you know, I haven`t been happy for this long or this started a long time ago. We`ve been trying to make things better for 10 years."</s>SHEPHERD: Yes.</s>HAMMER: So I do think that Maria and Arnold splitting up after 25 years does make people pause. You think about your own situation. But in their case, Arnold left politics. He`s courting Hollywood again. Maria may reportedly return to broadcasting. Dr. Drew, they are only separated. Nobody has filed for divorce yet. Do you think they stand a chance of working things out?</s>PINSKY: Oh, I do. I absolutely do. And I think Arnold may be the driving force behind that. And again, you pointed out something of significance here, is that Maria has sacrificed so much of herself and her own career, both as a mother and as a supportive spouse in a political campaign. And it`s perhaps the case that her stepping up and establishing a life for herself back into her own career may help heal this thing. It`s possible. We can only hope so. I think - again, the note here consistently is everyone around them, everyone who knows them wants it to work out.</s>HAMMER: Yes. We can be optimistic, but as you pointed out right from the start, we can`t possibly know everything that is going on. HLN`s Dr. Drew Pinsky, I thank you as always, my friend.</s>PINSKY: Pleasure.</s>HAMMER: All right. We`ve got to move on right now to even more big news breaking tonight - primetime Palin. Yes. We just learned Bristol Palin is returning to television in a brand-new reality show with her former "Dancing with the Stars" co-star Kyle Massey and Kyle`s brother, Chris. Sarah Palin`s famous daughter is packing up her house in Arizona. She`s heading west with her two-year-old son, Tripp. And that is where cameras from the Bio Channel will be following her and her baby son`s every move. I`ve got to say, right from the moment I heard this, I thought this is a terrible idea for Bristol. Why on earth would she do a reality show with her two-year-old son no less? Let me bring in Maggie Furlong, who is the west coast editor for AOL Television and MovieFone. Maggie, I`ve got say I just think this is going to be nothing but trouble for Bristol. Where`s the upside here? Why is she doing this?</s>MAGGIE FURLONG, WEST COAST EDITOR, AOL TELEVISION AND MOVIEFONE: It`s unbelievable. After she worked so hard to get a cleaner, nicer image on "Dancing with the Stars," now, she`s moving in with two dudes. It`s two dudes, a baby and a Bristol Palin. I keep look at that thinking, "How does that make it better and you`re taking your small child with you?" All of it screams desperation. And it`s on the Bio Channel. That`s not exactly like your top destination for a new show.</s>HAMMER: No. And maybe - to be fair, maybe they`re trying to change that. But of course, you don`t cut a reality show to make it look all - I don`t know - happy and like everything is right. I mean, I just can`t imagine this is going to be good or paint her in a good light at all. Now, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT was right there on the set of "Dancing with the Stars" last night. Bristol`s former "Dancing with the Stars" dance partner, Mark Ballas, and his new partner think this is a great idea. Watch this.</s>MARK BALLAS, BRISTOL PALIN`S FORMER "DANCING WITH THE STARS" PARTNER: I`m excited for them. They`re both - like, if you know Bristol - if you know her how I know her, she`s super-chill, cool, got a great personality when you get to know her, like, funny, smart, witty. And he`s just outrageous - setting stuff on fire. So -</s>CHELSEA KANE, "DANCING WITH THE STARS": It`s oil and water. Like the idea - we were saying, "I wonder what that house is going to be like." It`s going to be Bristol`s side, which is like -</s>BALLAS: A cup of tea, a little dim lighting and, like, chilling -</s>KANE: And then there`s Kyle that`s going to be like literally probably on fire.</s>BALLAS: On fire, like a giraffe, jumping out of the window.</s>KANE: Like jungle animals.</s>HAMMER: Oh, good. Well, look at that. They can`t wait to tune in, so let`s step back for a moment, Maggie. Do you think that this thing could possibly be a hit even though we don`t think it`s a great idea?</s>FURLONG: I really don`t. I think the Bio Channel thing is working against it. If it was going to be a hit, you`ve got a Disney star. You`ve got two people that have been on "Dancing with the Stars." ABC or ABC Family would have picked it up.</s>HAMMER: Yes.</s>FURLONG: The fact that it got al the way down to Bio - again, even if they`re trying to change it. And it just screams of desperation, them saying, "Oh, it`s like oil and water." It`s like, who are you</s>HAMMER: All right. Maggie Furlong, I appreciate your insight as always. Well, now, I would love to hear from you. It`s our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive poll - Bristol Palin doing a reality show. What do you think? Yes, you betcha, people will watch. Or, no, Bristol equals boring. Vote at CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. You can E-mail us, too. Our address, showbiztonight@cnn.com. Moving on now to Whitney`s rehab shocker. Tough love today for when is Whitney Houston as she gets treatment again for drugs and alcohol. Should Whitney be doing more to clean up her act? Sarah`s royal snub. Sarah Ferguson is speaking out for the first time today to Oprah about not getting invited to William and Catherine`s wedding.</s>WINFREY: How hurtful was it to not be invited?</s>SARAH FERGUSON, FORMER DUCHESS OF YORK: It was so difficult.</s>HAMMER: So here`s what I`m asking - should we feel sorry for Fergie? That is coming up. Tonight, Kirstie Alley breaks news to us, how she dropped five, count them, five dress sizes. How in the world did she do that? And now, the "SHOWBIZ News Ticker" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.</s>TEXT: Lindsay Lohan to plead "no contest" in jewelry theft case. Christina Applegate talks about leaving baby with someone else for the first time.</s>CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, ACTRESS: I was crying in the car. We do it all ourselves, so this is a new thing, to have a nanny or a night nurse.