Remember Spacehog? Of course you don’t – they were rubbish and we only know their name because we just looked it up.

However, apart from their genuinely awful name, Spacehog looked to go down in history for one thing – the fact that frontman Royston Langdon was the jammiest generic northern indie singer in the world because he’d somehow convinced Liv Tyler to marry him.

But, men of the world, you no longer have to be rampantly jealous of Royston Langdon, because Liv Tyler’s just decided to divorce him. That is unless you enjoyed being rampantly jealous of Royston Langdon, of course, in which case you have plenty of other things to envy him for, like… um… look, we’re going to have to get back to you on this.

Make no mistake, this summer is officially the summer of American actresses who haven’t really made a lot of films lately and happen to be married to British singers suddenly returning to the limelight in big comic book blockbusters. That’s its full title. Only call it by its full title.

It’s true, though, first Coldplay wife Gwyneth Paltrow has returned from three years of sucking the nutrients out of the same piece of brown rice to star in the all-conquering Iron Man, and now Spacehog wife Liv Tyler has returned from five years of making not very good films to star in the less-conquering and potentially quite rubbish The Incredible Hulk.

The symmetry is perfect – or rather the symmetry would be perfect if only Liv Tyler hadn’t buggered it all up by divorcing her husband.

Perhaps one of the reasons why Liv Tyler is so desirable is because she’s plainly a miraculous quirk of genetics. Half her DNA comes from Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, yet somehow Liv Tyler has beaten the odds and avoided looking like a dehydrated million-year-old merman made from stitched-together bits of old scrotum. And for that reason alone, Liv Tyler was always going to be a hit with the boys.

Despite this, though, in 2003 Liv Tyler bizarrely ended up getting married to Royston Langdon, lead singer of comically anonymous and instantly forgotten Leeds Britpop bandwagon-hoppers Spacehog. Never mind, though, because Liv’s just corrected this oversight, as E! Online reports:

“Liv Tyler and Royston Langdon have confirmed their separation,” a rep for the actress said. “They remain good friends and devoted parents to their son Milo and are requesting that their family’s privacy be respected at this time.” Rumors of marital discord between the 36-year-old Langdon, the former frontman of Spacehog, and Tyler, the 30-year-old progeny of rocker Steven Tyler, have been swirling for weeks, after the actress was spotted around New York City sans wedding ring.

It’s always sad when celebrity couples split up, isn’t it? Luckily Royston Langdon never actually qualified as a celebrity – other than that one week in the mid-nineties when a Spacehog song got used on Match Of The Day – so we’re allowed to giggle and snort as much as we like. Looks like it’s back down t’pits for you, Royston.

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Liv Tyler’s Rock Marriage Rolls Away – E! Online