Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have received apologies from US tabloids for false stories which claimed that the couple's marriage was over.
Hanks and Wilson, who have been married 28 years, said the National Enquirer and Star magazines in the US had published "lies we would not put up with any longer".
Describing their marriage as "the foundation of our family", the actors had threatened legal action against American Media Inc, which owns both tabloids, before the stories were retracted and each publication apologised.
In a joint statement released to film trade publication the Hollywood Reporter, Inferno star Hanks and Girls star Wilson said: "No true news organisation could report that our marriage is on the brink of breaking up, but American Media Inc, owner of Star and the National Enquirer, often run fabricated stories to sell their tabloids.
"In the past, we laughed off their cover stories of our soon-to-be acrimonious divorce because those stories were so far from true, they were laughable," the couple continued.
"But our marriage is the foundation of our family, is sacred to us, and we couldn't allow such nonsense as we are about to celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary next April.
"For Star and National Enquirer to profit by dishonouring what is so precious to us with such falsehoods were, we decided, lies we would not put up with any longer."
