Captain & Tennille Divorcing

Both are in their 70s now
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 22, 2014 7:33 PM CST

The Captain and Tennille are getting a divorce, and that means you are about to read and hear roughly 1,000 tortured references to their '70s hit "Love Will Keep Us Together." RumorFix first reported the pending split between Toni Tennille, 73, and "Captain" Daryl Dragon, 71, and People confirms. "I don't know why she filed," Dragon tells TMZ. "I gotta figure that out for myself."

But the website notes that the papers mention health insurance and floats the possibility that the divorce has something to do with his Parkinson's. Says a post on the duo's website: Everything "appeared to the public as them being the ideal model for a 'rock-solid' married pair. But almost all people naturally evolve over time, & sometimes hidden feelings start to be uncovered ..." (More celebrity divorce stories.)

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