31-year-old Karen caused a stir when she began posting sexy selfies to social media, prompting criticism from many.
Defending herself, Karen prompted the question ‘why can’t politics be sexy?’ and hit back at allegations she was discrediting her husband and herself.
But now it seems things are sadly over between Karen and her 48-year-old husband, who she married in 2012.
Confirming the news on social media, Simon wrote: ‘Good morning & thank you for all the nice words following the separation between my wife & I. I’m very upset but focusing on work helps me.’
He added in a separate tweet that he was: ‘devastated, but life has to go on.’
A friend of the couple attempted to shed some light on the split, saying that no other parties were involved, but that they had simple ‘drifted apart’ recently.
Just a few weeks ago however, Camilla Long wrote a profile piece on the couple for The Sunday Times, where she said she had ‘never met a family so chaotic.
‘(During the interview she cries and then Simon cries, both swear and loudly slag other people off and very one behaves as if this is a perfectly normal Sunday morning.)’