Rumor has it that Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes had a trial separation last year.

The couple – who announced yesterday that their six-year marriage is over – reportedly split up while working together on ‘Revolutionary Road’ with Leonardo DiCaprio last year, but reconciled after realizing they were unhappy apart. A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper:

“Working and living together was incredibly intense and basically overwhelmed their relationship. The pair have a very different work ethos – Sam wanted to switch off after a long day and Kate liked to analyze every nuance of her performance. It was just too much.”

After filming ended, Sam flew out to Florida to work on new movie ‘Away We Go’ but that was hard as well.

After being in each other’s pockets for so long, this, ironically, also proved really difficult. So last year they both made a commitment to spend the year together and do less work. But it actually ended up with them going a bit stir crazy.

“They are both really driven and were arguing more than ever before. Kate even did a really small amount of filming to try and ease the pressure and tension that had built up but they had a series of rows over projects this year and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

Despite only confirming their separation yesterday, rumors have surfaced that there were cracks in their marriage since January, which have been denied.

However, friends of the 34-year-old actress have revealed she and her 44-year-old spouse have been living apart for some time.

London-based firm Schillings claims that Kate Winslet and her husband Sam Mendes split earlier this year.

They released a statement saying that the divorce was “entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement.”

We thought they were so happy!

Kate Winslet wants all of her friends and family to have a chance to hold her Oscar without having to ask, so she put it in her bathroom!

Kate explained her reasoning behind it:

“because basically everybody wants to touch it, everybody wants to hold it and go ‘Oh, my gosh,’ and ‘How heavy is it?’ So I figured if I put it [in there], then people can avoid the whole, ‘Where’s your Oscar?’ thing.”

Kate should chat with fellow Oscar-winner Jodi Foster. Jodi put hers in the bathroom but had to remove it because it was rusting!

“I used to keep them in the bathroom because they looked good with the faucets. But when they started getting corroded on the bottom, I had to move them to a trophy case in my den,

There’s actually quite a list of other Oscar winners who do the same: Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Sarandon, Lionel Richie and Sean Connery all keep their Oscars in their bathrooms.

Where would you keep your Oscar? There’s a great article here about what other winners did with theirs – some are pretty shocking!