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Simon Bakerappears to be having some fun in the sun following his split from wife Rebecca Rigg.
TheMentalistactor, 51, was recently spotted frolicking in the waves of Australia’s Byron Bay with activewear designer Laura May Gibbs.
A shirtless Baker and Gibbs, wearing a black string bikini, smiled as they swam and chatted.
A rep for Baker hasn’t commented, and a rep for Gibbs did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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The pair’s summertime outing comes after PEOPLE exclusively confirmed in January that Baker and Rigg hadseparatedafter 29 years of marriage.
“We remain close friends and our three children will always be the most important focus of our lives,” the couple, who share children Stella, 27, Claude, 22, and Harry, 19, said a joint statement at the time.
Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg.Manny Carabel/WireImage
Baker and Rigg met in the early 1990s and went on to star in the Australian soap opera,E Street.
The actor previouslyopened up to PEOPLE about his marriage, explaining why he and Rigg never celebrated their wedding anniversary.
“We’ve never really been big on it. Anniversaries, they’re an odd thing, aren’t they?” Baker said in 2018. “I think we put too much pressure on it. It’s not like that with us. We’re a team. Most of the time, 99 percent of the time, we’re really great friends. So I don’t need to mark it with great things.”
source: people.com
