{"id":282701,"date":"2019-10-30T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1088081"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:25:00","slug":"niecy-nash-and-jay-tucker-split-after-8-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/niecy-nash-and-jay-tucker-split-after-8-years-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Niecy Nash and Jay Tucker Split After 8 Years of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.653206650831\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019930\/rs_634x1024-191030145145-634x1024-Niecy_Nash_Jay_Tucker-gj-10-30-19.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Niecy Nash, Jay Tucker\" alt=\"Niecy Nash, Jay Tucker\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Chelsea Lauren\/Variety\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.263027295285\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/niecy_nash\">Niecy Nash<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s marriage appears to be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, the actress announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4QX1A5JTvT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram <\/a>that she was separating from her husband <strong>Jay Tucker<\/strong> after eight years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe in the beauty of truth. Always have,&#8221; the joint statement began. &#8220;Our truth is that in this season of our lives, we are better friends than partners in marriage. Our union was such a gorgeous ride. And as we go our separate ways now, we feel fortunate for the love we share\u2014present tense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The couple continued, &#8220;Thank you all out there for your support of us as a couple over the last eight years. We are grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of Niecy&#8217;s last Instagram posts with her husband was when she shared throwback photos of their wedding day in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuWc9VMBWR4\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February<\/a>. &#8220;Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day Babe,&#8221; she wrote with a heart emoji.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Back in May 2011, the couple exchanged vows in a romantic ceremony near Malibu, Calif. <strong>Sherri Sheperd<\/strong>, <strong>Wendy Raquel Robinson<\/strong>, <strong>Holly Robinson Peete<\/strong> and <strong>Sheryl Lee Ralph<\/strong> were by her side before the pair headed to Anguilla for a honeymoon.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.974121996303\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.591497227357\">\n<p>In fact, the wedding was televised in two-hour special on TLC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Jay and I shared our first dance we were dancing on the dock and there were beautiful swans in the pond and our friends and family were all around,&#8221; Niecy shared with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/celebrity\/niecy-nash-wedding-interview-photos-black-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essence<\/a><\/em> when recalling her special day. &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brandy\">Brandy<\/a><\/strong> started singing \u2018At Last,&#8217; and girl, I thought my eyelashes were gonna fall off! Oh my goodness, it was the most magical part of the day for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And this past summer, the <em>Claws<\/em> star shared some advice for a long, lasting marriage. Spoiler alert! It&#8217;s NSFW!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.268895348837\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.776162790698\">\n<p>&#8220;A BJ a day keeps the divorce attorney away,&#8221; she shared with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/articles\/niecy-nash-marriage-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Essence<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;I said what I said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Niecy added, &#8220;When they see us out in the public, we are exactly the way we are in a curated life on Instagram. People think that we like each other, and that&#8217;s because we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say these exes will remain friendly in the weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1088081\/niecy-nash-and-jay-tucker-split-after-8-years-of-marriage?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Lauren\/Variety\/Shutterstock Niecy Nash&#8216;s marriage appears to be coming to an end. On Wednesday afternoon, the actress announced on Instagram that she was separating from her husband Jay Tucker after eight years of marriage. &#8220;We believe in the beauty of truth. Always have,&#8221; the joint statement began. &#8220;Our truth is that in this season of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 03:21:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}