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 FILE - This March 19, 2011 file photo shows singer Bret Michaels and his girlfriend Kristi Gibson at Muhammad Ali Celebrity Fight Night XVII in Phoenix. Michaels and his longtime girlfriend Kristi Gibson have called off their engagement. Michael’s publicist, Joanna Mignano, said in a statement Monday, July 30, 2012, that the couple has separated. Michaels and Gibson have dated on- and off-again for about 18 years. They have two daughters, Raine Elizabeth and Jorja Bleu. The statement reads that the parents will “remain great friends and are committed to jointly raising” their daughters. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb, file)  

Bret Michaels calls it quits with fiancé Kristi Gibson

Bret Michaels has taken a page from “The Bachelor” playbook: Get engaged in a big way to cap a reality-TV season, get un-engaged quietly in the pages of a magazine down the line.

Michaels — Poison frontman, ”Celebrity Apprentice” winner, brain-hemorrhage survivor, pet-gear impresario — has broken it off with longtime girlfriend Kristi Gibson, whom he proposed to on “Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It” in late 2010, after what was then 16 years together.

“Although the couple have separated they remain great friends and are committed to jointly raising their two daughters,” a Michaels rep told People on Monday.

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