Drew Barrymore divorces after six months

Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore and her husband Tom Green are to divorce after less than six months of marriage.

The comedian filed a Superior Court divorce petition in Los Angeles yesterday, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.

‘‘Drew is a wonderful woman. I love her very much. I wish our marriage could have worked out. I wish her much happiness,’’ Green said in a statement released by his publicist Ann Gurrola.

Green, 30, and Barrymore, 26, joked for months about whether they were married before tying the knot in July. At one point, they had promised to wed on television’s Saturday Night Live.

In April, Green went on The Tonight Show and told Jay Leno that he and Barrymore were expecting a child, but later admitted he was playing a prank that he thought the audience was in on.

The marriage was the first for Green, who starred in and directed the movie Freddy Got Fingered this year. It was the second for Barrymore, who most recently starred in Riding in Cars With Boys.