Kate's marriage is over

Kate Hudson has announced that she is splitting from her Black Crowes rocker husband Chris Robinson after six years of marriage.

Oscar-nominated Hudson, 27, daughter of Goldie Hawn, has a two-year-old son with Robinson, 39, who is currently midway through a US tour.

The couple did not give a reason for their separation but are known to have signed an adultery pact last year, whereby they both agreed to break up if one cheated on the other.

Hudson said at the time: "We made a pact that if the day ever came, we'd be honest with each other and say 'For some reason I want to sleep with someone else'.

"I'd love to say I'm the kind of person who'd say, 'I'm going to go through the bad and ugly', and 'Oh God he cheated on me, but we're going to regain our trust'. I'd be gone. You move forward."

The pair married on New Year's Eve 2000 on a private Colorado ranch owned by Hawn and her long-time partner Kurt Russell at a small ceremony attended by family and close Hollywood friends. Hudson is Hawn's daughter from her second marriage to singer Bill Hudson.

Hudson recently spoke out to claim the "perfect marriage doesn't exist" and said: "People can be in love madly and deeply and go through so much and still end up with each other, and that's what you hope for. But no one should get married if they think it's going to be a fairy tale."

Short-listed for an Oscar in 2001 for her performance in Almost Famous, Hudson won a libel battle against the National Enquirer earlier this year over reports she was suffering from an eating disorder.

Her last movie was the comedy You, Me and Dupree, co-starring Owen Wilson and Matt Dillon, which she has been promoting on an international tour, and is currently working on two other movies, starring opposite Matthew McConaughey and Japanese actor Ken Watanabe.