Courtney Cox and David Arquette have announced they are separated. The couple have been married for 11 years and have one child, six-year-old Coco. News of the split first broke on October 11, 2010, but the couple have actually been separated for a while. In a statement, Cox and Arquette said they "agreed to a trial separation that dates back for some time."http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20433530,00.html Friends and colleagues of the couple are said to be shocked. People magazine quoted one unidentified source as saying "There was no indication anything was going on."http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20433552,00.html

Despite the trial separation, Cox and Arquette have continued to work together in recent weeks and months, filming the upcoming horror movie sequel Scream 4 together over the summer. The 46-year-old Cox and the 39-year-old Arquette actually met on the set of the first Scream movie in 1996. They married in 1999.http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MindMoodNews/courteney-cox-david-arquette-split-relationships-underway/story?id=11858462

Rumors that the couple's relationship might be on the rocks first began to surface in June of 2010. At the time, David Arquette told People Magazine that everything was fine with their marriage, saying "There's nothing [wrong]. We have a really great, beautiful relationship."http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MindMoodNews/courteney-cox-david-arquette-split-relationships-underway/story?id=11858462

Rumors that the couple's relationship might be on the rocks first began to surface in June of 2010. At the time, David Arquette told People Magazine that everything was fine with their marriage, saying "There's nothing [wrong]. We have a really great, beautiful relationship." In August of 2010, Courtney Cox told InStyle magazine that she and her husband had sought marital counseling in the past. Cox said "We've done couples therapy in the past. We're not lazy about our marriage," adding that "We have the same arguments we've had for years."http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MindMoodNews/courteney-cox-david-arquette-split-relationships-underway/story?id=11858462&page=2

On October 12, 2010, TMZ reported that Arquette discussed the split with Cox in a call-in interview on The Howard Stern Show. Arquette reportedly told Howard Stern that he and Cox "haven't had sex in 4 months" and "began drifting" after that. Arquette is said to have told Stern that Cox was the one who suggested the split back in June of 2010, after telling her husband she was "tired of being his mother."http://www.tmz.com/2010/10/12/david-arquette-courteney-cox-separation-howard-stern-interview/