Comedian Amy Schumer and her husband, Martha\u2019s Vineyard native Chris Fischer, have called it quits after seven years of marriage.<\/p>\n
Schumer announced the couple\u2019s split on \u2014 where else \u2014 Instagram<\/a>, writing (typos included): \u201cBlah blah blah Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after 7 years. We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son. We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time. blah blah blah not because I dropped some lbs and thought I could bag s basket and not because he\u2019s a hot Janlmes beard award winning chef who can still pull some hot tail. Amicable and all love and respect! Family forever.\u201d<\/p>\n Fischer, who grew up on his family\u2019s farm in Chilmark, won the James Beard Foundation Book Award for American Cooking in 2016 for \u201cThe Beetlebung Farm Cookbook<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Get Starting Point<\/p>\n A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n Schumer and Fischer, who have a 6-year-old son, got hitched in 2018 in a seaside ceremony in Malibu attended by a few of their celebrity friends<\/a>, including Larry David, Chelsea Handler, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jake Gyllenhaal, who became a close friend of Fischer\u2019s while working summer jobs on the Vineyard as a teen.<\/p>\n \u201c(Fischer) is a chef. What a good idea to marry a chef<\/a>!,\u201d Schumer said a few months later during an appearance on \u201cLive with Kelly and Ryan.\u201d \u201cI never have [had to cook] and I never will now.\u201d <\/p>\n The status of the couple\u2019s marriage has been the subject of occasional tabloid speculation<\/a>. In 2021, Fischer raised eyebrows when, on the occasion of his wife\u2019s 40th birthday, he gave<\/a> the \u201cLife & Beth<\/a>\u201d star a birthday cake that read: \u201cI\u2019m leaving you. This was the only way I could think to do it.\u201d <\/p>\n In the early 2000s, Fischer worked for Mario Batali <\/a>at the chef\u2019s York City restaurant Babbo. Later, in 2013, as the kitchen boss at the Beach Plum Inn on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Fischer cooked for President Obama and his wife Michelle. \u201cWe do exactly what we do for every other table,\u201d he told the Globe<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n Mark Shanahan can be reached at mark.shanahan@globe.com<\/a>. Follow him @MarkAShanahan<\/a>.<\/p>\n