"This is the final straw." Selling The OC's Tyler Stanaland and Brittany Snow have separated.

When Pitch Perfect's and Hairspray's Brittany Snow first met her now-husband Tyler Stanaland, she felt an immediate spark. Two years later, they were married.

Tyler is certainly not as famous as his wife, although his profile is rising now thanks to his latest role in Netflix's Selling The OC. Coming from a successful realtor family, Tyler went onto the show and joined The Oppenheim Group to make a name for himself in the industry.

Now, just weeks after the show premiered, Tyler and Brittany have announced their separation.

"After time and consideration, Tyler and I have made the difficult decision to separate," the couple shared in a joint statement. 

"This decision was made with love and mutual respect for one another. We have realised we need to take some time and make sure we are each living our most fulfilling and authentic lives. 

"We started this journey as best friends and our relationship will continue to be a priority not only for us but for our dog Charlie. We sincerely appreciate your support and ask for privacy as we navigate this new chapter."

The couple first started dating after Tyler slid into Brittany's Instagram DMs in 2018.

"I knew of Britt for obvious reasons, but she was my unattainable crush forever," Tyler told The Knot in March 2020. "As a man, I used to watch Pitch Perfect with friends and [thought] 'Brittany Snow. One day.' But never thinking it would ever happen. I sent a direct message with the most embarrassing pickup line. A dad joke."

Brittany recalled in the same interview: "I saw his Instagram and knew of him. And was like, 'That is the best looking man ever'. I always knew of him and was like, 'I'll never meet him.' My girlfriends and I had an inside joke where my one best friend referred to him as my 'dream boyfriend who lives in Orange County,' but I was never gonna meet him. And then one day I realised he was following me on Instagram. I got really excited."

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By September that same year, Brittany confirmed in an interview with Us Magazine that she was "very much in love". 

"I'm very public about it for the first time in my life and that's very strange to me. I made a conscious decision - I'm very private, and I made a conscious decision to, I don't know, be less hard on myself. I keep things very to myself because I feel like the magic gets lost if you promote it too much, but I don't know! When you're in love..."

A year later, Tyler proposed, and they were organising a wedding. 

They were fortunate to marry when they did - March 2020 - because it was just before the pandemic reached its critical breakthrough, meaning they could celebrate big.

"In early March, before we knew how much we'd miss hugs and live in our sweatpants, I got to marry my favourite person. The whole world shut down a few days later, and we were stunned at the timing," Brittany wrote on Instagram.

"We knew we felt incredibly lucky to have found each other, but we had no idea how lucky it would be to get married right before a monumental time in our history."

Reflecting on the event, Brittany said that although everything "that could have gone wrong, went wrong that day" it still ended up being "absolutely and impossibly perfect".

"I knew on that day, more than ever before, there was no one else I'd rather hold my hand while in the middle of a (life) hurricane. I love you @tylerstanaland. You're my dream come true."

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After the wedding, the pair were unable to go on a honeymoon due to COVID-19 lockdowns, but said the fact they were confined together for six months was good enough for them. 

"I love being married. It's not any different, but being married in a pandemic is really like the test of everything. If we can get through that, we're good to go," she told Us in late 2021.

By August this year, Tyler and Brittany were at the forefront of headlines when Selling The OC premiered.

In the series, Tyler's Selling The OC costar Kayla Cardona tried to kiss him multiple times during filming.

"On the show, out of respect for her, I am just kind of trying to minimise it and brush past it so that there isn't drama," he said on the Reality Life with Kate Casey podcast. "We can all focus on what we should be doing. It was just something that, you know, you don't do to somebody who is married."

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Kayla apologised on the show, and patched things up with Tyler and the cast. But what was also a little ironic was the fact many of the cast members were quite 'chummy' with Tyler anyway - hugging, dancing together, doing nudie runs in front of one another. And even noseys - where one person puts another person's nose in their mouth.

As for Brittany's reaction to Kayla trying to kiss Tyler, Tyler told Us that her reaction "is something that I will just keep between us".

"It's something that in a marriage - you have to have trust, especially in this space and especially hers. It's something that we are fortunate to have."

Speaking to People, a source claimed that Tyler's time on the show "broke" the couple.

"They had issues before, but this is the final straw," the source claimed.

"Brittany never wanted Tyler on the show but he was adamant. He wanted to make a name for himself on his own terms."

Another source added: "They're fully over. All of the girls [on the show] are obsessed with him. He's been trying to be really respectful, but it's taken a toll on his marriage."

This post was originally published on September 9, 2022, and updated with new information on September 15, 2022.

Feature Image: Getty/Instagram @brittanysnow.

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