As “Downton Abbey” comes to a close, two of its stars are opening up about their life together.

Laura Carmichael and Michael C. Fox — who play characters Lady Edith and Andrew Parker on the period drama — revealed they were married. The couple confirmed the news during “Downton Abbey Celebrates The Grand Finale,” an NBC special promoting the franchise’s final feature film that premiered Wednesday.

“I owe a lot to this show,” Fox, 36, said. “I think so much of my life has been shaped around this show.”

The couple, who reportedly welcomed a son in 2021, met on the set of the hit series in 2015 and sparked romance rumors a year later.

His 39-year-old spouse smiled as their co-star Leslie Nicole asked: “What if someone said you’re actually going to find your wife and have a child? Life-changing stuff.”

“It’s incredible,” Fox added as Carmichael looked on.

Both actors reprise their roles in the third and final big screen adaptation of PBS’s award-winning historical drama series, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” which hit theaters on Friday.

Since its premiere in 2011, the Julian Fellowes-created story — revolving around the lives of an aristocratic family and their domestic servants in the post-Edwardian era — has become a cultural touchstone and captivated TV viewers.

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Shaun White and Nina Dobrev call off their engagement, break up after 5 years

Shaun White and Nina Dobrev have called off their engagement and brought an end to their five-year relationship, a person close to the couple told the Associated Press.

The three-time Olympic champion snowboarder and the former star of “The Vampire Diaries” made a mutual decision to part, according to the person.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

People magazine first reported the breakup.

White, 39, and Dobrev, 36, went public about their relationship in 2020. One of their first Instagram posts, which came toward the start of the COVID lockdown, showed Dobrev giving a “quarantine haircut” to the Olympic halfpipe rider known in his younger days as “The Flying Tomato” for his long shocks of red hair.

They shared occasional posts about their travels over the next few years, and supported each other's careers. Dobrev followed White on his frenetic road to qualifying for his fifth and final Olympics in 2022 and White was front and center in 2023 for the Los Angeles premier of Dobrev's Netflix movie, “The Out-Laws.”

After finishing fourth at the Beijing Olympics, White credited Dobrev for pushing him to make a to-do list for retirement “so I’m not sitting around twiddling my thumbs.”

They announced their engagement in October 2024, posting a picture of White kneeling in front of Dobrev at a New York restaurant, the couple surrounded by white rose petals and candles. “She said YES,” White wrote in the post, adding an emoji of a diamond ring.

People reported the couple was seen together in public as recently as Aug. 31, but Dobrev was spotted walking a red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival last week without her engagement ring.

White has spent the last two years starting up The Snow League, a pro halfpipe circuit he hopes will lead to more opportunities for people in his sport. Dobrev has reportedly been cast to star in a rom-com “It Happened One Summer” based on a best-selling book by Tessa Bailey.

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Taylor Swift can be deposed, but has no role in Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni litigation, lawyer says

NEW YORK — Singer Taylor Swift can answer questions in October — if she is forced — from attorneys involved in the sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit actor Blake Lively brought against Justin Baldoni stemming from their roles in the movie “It Ends With Us,” but she doesn't have much to offer, her lawyer said Friday.

Attorney J. Douglas Baldridge noted in a letter to the New York federal judge presiding over the dispute that “we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action.”

“Further, my client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of Oct. 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes,” Baldridge said.

Lively sued Baldoni last December, alleging sexual harassment. Baldoni and production company Wayfarer Studios countersued Lively and her husband, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds, accusing them of defamation and extortion. A judge dismissed Baldoni’s claims in June.

Attorney Matthew Bruno, representing Lively and citing the period when depositions can be taken nearing an end, complained in a letter to the judge Friday about Baldoni attorneys, calling it “grossly irresponsible to delay scheduling the deposition of a witness of this kind until the last minute.”

Bruno said a late-October deposition of Swift and subsequent necessary delays could jeopardize a March trial date.

“We do not consent to any depositions — let alone depositions of third parties with only tangential relevance to the claims or defenses in this case — being taken weeks after the close of fact discovery,” he wrote.

In a letter on Thursday, Baldoni's lawyers said they were not seeking a monthlong extension of deadlines to interview prospective witnesses, but wanted only to depose Swift, who could only submit to a deposition from Oct. 20 to Oct. 25 “due to Ms. Swift's preexisting professional obligations.”

They said Swift had agreed to appear for a deposition but only after Oct. 20.

In her lawsuit, Lively accused Baldoni and the studio of embarking on a “multi-tiered plan” to damage her reputation following a meeting in which she and Reynolds addressed “repeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behavior” by Baldoni.

When Baldoni's countersuit was dismissed, attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement that Lively’s claims that she was sexually harassed on the film set, and then subjected to a secret smear campaign intended to taint her reputation, were “no truer today than they were yesterday.”

“It Ends With Us,” an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel that begins as a romance but takes a dark turn into domestic violence, was released in August 2024, exceeding box office expectations with a $50 million debut. But the movie’s release was shrouded by speculation over discord between Lively and Baldoni.

Lively appeared in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and the TV series “Gossip Girl” from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including “The Town” and “The Shallows.”

Baldoni starred in the TV comedy ”Jane the Virgin,” directed the 2019 film “Five Feet Apart” and wrote “Man Enough,” a book challenging traditional notions of masculinity.

From combined wire services