David Arquette is spotted here enjoying his “separation” from wife Courteney Cox, as he hits the Las Palmas Lounge for his nightly entertainment. And though by all looks and accounts he is enjoying the single life, it sounds like the he said/she said thing that has been happening with David, Courteney, and Howard Stern may come to an end. It sounds like they are putting a quasi-retraction on the end of their marriage. Or something. Do these folks need the publicity? Or are they just….really not sure. We aren’t either, but this is the latest news that their trip to divorce court may not actually happen after all. But it is confirmed that Courteney Cox and David Arquette are putting the brakes on their trip to splitsville. “I don’t know what will happen, but this is not like we’re getting divorced,” Courteney told TV Week. Married people staying together in Hollywood? That doesn’t sound right. And more importantly, do David’s girlfriends know this? Courteney isn’t listening to THAT. She told TV Week:

“This is a separation and I think that takes a lot of courage.”

Courteney and David announced last month that they had been separated for a few months, but they’ve continued to see each other. They were both with their six-year-old daughter Coco at her horse show on October 17, and were planning to take her trick-or-treating as of yesterday. That might be what David Arquette was talking about when he poured his heart out to Howard Stern (again) last week.

“We gotta kind of make this separation more separate. It’s just not so easy to communicate.”

Even though he said Courteney was “pissed” that he had spoken to Howard Stern about their split, Courteney wasn’t bitter. In her interview with TV Week she said:

“[David] is a kook. It’s not shocking and Howard Stern, he loves him, and I’m a fan of Howard Stern… David is an entertainer and I’m sure the people who listen to the radio are entertained by his stories.”

It’s like she’s in my head! Luckily for the Cox-Arquettes, they have Her Royal Highness of dumpsville, Miss Jennifer Aniston, to guide them. “It’s funny, a lot of really close friends are kind of going through this right now,” Courteney, whose friend Laura Dern is also divorcing her husband of five years Ben Harper, told TV Week. “Or like Jennifer [who] has gone through it. I don’t know what’s going on in the planets or what, but things are being shaken up and I don’t know what’s going to happen, but, yeah, Jennifer has been amazing for sure.” It would be encouraging for Courteney and David to be that rare celebrity couple that actually does get back together. It would make living through them vicariously just that much more satisfying. But Courteney wants David to grow up, and considering he’s hanging out at 90210 stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes’ birthday party, I’m thinking he’s not quite there yet. We expect this one to take a few more steps before they reach the Ross/Rachel we are soooooo over. If they do, we are secretly hoping they don’t. Somebody’s gotta stay married in that town!

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Here’s a couple that we kind of had high hopes for, as it seems like they just had everything going on in all the right places in all the right times. David Arquette is seen here last month without his wedding ring, and it sounds like this was not so much about “forgetting it at home” as it was about “forgetting I ever got married”. Sadly, even the reps have come out on this one, and it has been confirmed that after 11 years, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are living the single life. In a statement to E!Online, the couple stated:
“We have agreed to a trial separation that dates back for some time. The reason for this separation is to better understand ourselves and the qualities we need in a partner and for our marriage. We remain best friends and responsible parents to our daughter and we still love each other deeply. As we go through this process we are determined to use kindness and understanding to get through this together.”
The couple, who met on the set of Scream in 1996, recently reprised their roles from the original slasher flick for the upcoming fourth instalment in the horror franchise. They’ve had a child together, after undergoing the pain and heartbreak of infertility, and from the sounds of it, until now, all was good to go. There are reports of pictures of David and some younger model hitting it off on a beach somewhere, so the actual cause to this separation is anyone’s guess, David doesn’t exactly look like he is shedding tears over it. Mental note to all 40 something actresses in Hollywood. Taking a job with a show called “CougarTown” may not be all that great for the relationship. Just sayin.

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Courteney Cox, David Arquette and daughter Coco enjoyed an intimate family dinner with about twenty of their very closest paparazzi pals on Monday at West Hollywood’s secret hideaway eatery Il Sole. ~ TMZ