Wong Lilin and Allan Wu announce plans to divorce

Celebrity couple Wong Lilin, 39, and Allan Wu, 40, have announced that they are going their separate ways.

In a statement released by Fly Entertainment, which manages the couple, it said that the pair have "reached a mutual decision to get divorced".

The couple is currently based in Shanghai. They also asked for support to work through their decision in private for the benefit of their children.

The two celebrities were married in 2004 and have two children, Sage and Jonas, aged eight and five respectively.

Ms Wong is known for her lead role as Inspector Elaine Tay in MediaCorp's English drama Triple Nine in the mid 1990s, while her Chinese-American husband has acted in several MediaCorp's Chinese dramas and hosted all four seasons of The Amazing Race Asia.

The couple and their children moved to Shanghai in 2011 as Mr Wu was hoping to make inroads in the Chinese market.

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