Sad news on this Christmas Eve’s eve: Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, Hollywood’s most whimsically wardrobed couple and frequent film collaborators, have split after 13 years together. The news comes via People, which confirmed the separation with Carter’s representative. The rep added that the two “separated amicably earlier this year and have continued to be friends and co-parent their children.” The two have previously raised eyebrows for their unique housing arrangement—living in adjoining houses in Belsize Park, London, with their son, Billy, and daughter, Nell.

Although the two never married, they represented Hollywood’s most eccentric duo, frequently appearing on red carpets in a delightfully unpredictable mishmash of clothing and accessories. Having met on the set of Burton’s 2001 sci-fi film, Planet of the Apes, where Carter played a female chimpanzee, the two cooperated on six more films including Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Alice in Wonderland. In previous interviews, Carter has joked that the only real reason the two never married was “laziness, really.”

You may be wondering who gets custody of Johnny Depp—their friend and frequent collaborator—in the split. And fortunately for us, Carter has already settled this issue in print form. When Playboy posed the question to the Oscar-nominated actress last year, Carter responded, “Oh, Tim can have him! They get the same poo jokes. Nothing will separate them.”