Toni Collette, an Australian actress, recently announced that she is divorcing Dave Galafassi after 20 years of marriage. Collette, 50, took to Instagram on December 7 to post a photo captioned “Peace and love,” along with a joint statement announcing their divorce.
“We announce our divorce with gratitude and grace; we are united in our choices and separate with constant respect and concern for each other; Our children are of the greatest importance to us and we will progress as a family, albeit in a different form.”
The couple also asked for privacy while they “peacefully go through this transition”. Toni Collette announced her divorce just hours after Galafassi, 44, was caught kissing an unknown woman on a Sydney beach. According to the Daily Mail, the woman has been identified as Shannon Egan, a chiropractor from Sydney’s northern beaches.
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Toni Collette & the Finish’s drummer is Dave Galafassi.
Dave Galafassi is the drummer for Toni Collette & the Finish, an indie rock band from Port Macquarie, New South Wales. He was passionate about drumming from an early age, and after acquiring this skill, he performed with a number of Australian bands. He started his music career in the early nineties. He plays drums in Gelbison, an indie rock band based in Sydney with three other members: Pete Farley, Edo and Nadav Kahn.
The band’s debut album, 1704, was released in 2003 by Virgin Records and EMI Music Group to positive reviews and peaked at number 20 on the ARIA Heatseekers Albums Chart. They also have a hit song series including Metal Detector, Homeland, and Good God. Dave Galafassi met Toni in Sydney while attending one of Gelbison’s concerts. Later, the two meet again at a party and start dating. In 2002, Toni Collette and Galafassi confirmed their engagement. They married in 2003 at Collette’s home in Broughton on the South Coast in Berry, Australia. The ceremony lasts for two days and follows Buddhist guidelines. Sage Florence Galafassi, Toni and Dave’s first child, was born in 2008. Arlo Roberts Galafassi was born to them in 2011.
Dave Galafassi left Gelbison before their second album was released, and he and his wife formed Toni Collette & The Finish in 2006. Pete Farley, a former member of his band, also joined. The band recorded a number of hit songs in 2006 and 2007, including Look Up, Beautiful Awkward Pictures, Trouble With Sister, Tender Hooks and others, and toured extensively throughout Australia. Additionally, Dave Galafassi played a club drummer in the 2013 Megan Griffiths comedy Lucky Them.
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