It’s splitsville for raspy rocker Rod Stewart and his sexy supermodel wife, Rachel Hunter.
The celeb couple, who have been married for eight years and have two young children, announced their separation yesterday.
“There are no immediate plans for the couple’s divorce,” said a joint statement confirming the breakup.
Stewart, 53, and Hunter, 29, pleaded for privacy for 6-year-old Renee and 4-year-old Liam “during this difficult time.”
Rumors the union was on the rocks have been circulating for months, and Hunter reportedly left the couple’s century-old 15-bedroom mansion in Britain after Christmas with the kids.
The leggy New Zealand beauty has groused to friends that her one-time wild man has gotten dull in middle age, spending his free time playing with train sets or watching television.
“Rachel became tired of the monotony of their lives,” a friend of Hunter’s told the London Mirror.
“If he decided to go out, they would always be surrounded by a gang of his mates from way back, telling old war stories and boozing. It gets boring.”
There were signs of trouble last month when Stewart and Hunter reportedly bickered publicly during their wedding anniversary.
The couple spent the previous night at the swank Dorchester Hotel in London, then had breakfast in bed and exchanged gifts – a painting and an Egyptian vase, the British paper The People reported.
But that evening, Hunter flew into a jealous rage after her hubby started flirting with her best friend right under her nose, the newspaper said.
“Remember what today is,” Hunter angrily warned the Rock ‘n’ Roll hall of famer, who had been touring non-stop for two weeks, the report said.
Stewart’s manager downplayed the contretemps.
“Spirits were high, but it was a wedding anniversary, what do you expect,” Annie Challis said. “Rod and Rachel are fine.”
Stewart and Hunter tied the knot in December 1990 after a whirlwind four-month courtship.
He was the hard-living rocker behind such 1970s hits as “Maggie May,” “Every Picture Tells a Story,” “Tonight’s the Night” and “D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?”
She was one of Ford’s top models after rocketing to fame by baring her curvy figure in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
“It came about very, very fast. As we all know, Rod was not the marrying type,” said Hunter, who was just the latest in a succession of tall, blond models romanced by Stewart.
His four-year marriage to Alana Hamilton Stewart – which yielded two children – ended with a messy divorce in 1983.
That coincided with a $15 million palimony suit by ex-girlfriend Britt Eklund, a Scandinavian beauty.
Kelly Emberg, who was Stewart’s live-in love for five years and bore him a daughter before Hunter came along, also slapped him with a palimony suit.
“It’s not that Rod falls for models,” his manager, Arnold Stiefel, once said. “He falls for beautiful girls who happen to be models.”