Frankie Muniz and Paige Price Muniz said on Wednesday, July 1, that their 10-year marriage is ending, and the actor later deleted the first version of his announcement after criticism spread online. What began as a family video showing Muniz, Paige and their five-year-old son Mauz dancing to Check Yes, Juliet quickly turned into a public argument over how a divorce should be shared.
The second post is what people are reading now because it was the one that replaced the deleted clip and set out the separation in plain terms. Muniz said he and Paige had already privately separated before the divorce announcement, and that their relationship now felt strongest as a deep friendship and as co-parents. He said their son remains the centre of their world, asked for privacy, and said they would keep building Muniz Racing together.
That message mattered because it framed the split as calm and cooperative, which made the backlash over the deleted video even harder to reconcile. Muniz had written, “Who says you can’t stay best friends with your baby mamma?” in the original post, but he removed it after criticism without saying exactly what part of the reaction prompted the deletion. The gap is part of the story: the public saw a light family moment, then saw it pulled down, but never got a clear explanation for why that specific video could not stay up.
Paige Muniz answered that criticism directly in the comments. She said she was sorry he felt the need to delete “an old fun video of our family because people are so cruel to you,” added that “we’re two adults who know how to be on the same team,” and said she could not believe people could scrutinise it. She also wrote that the internet is a scary place and wished people a kinder sea, a sharp rebuke that made clear the split was being handled publicly even as the couple said they were keeping the peace privately.
Frankie Muniz, best known for Malcolm in the Middle and recently back as Malcolm in the Disney+ reboot of Malcolm in the Middle, is now trying to draw a line between a personal breakup and a working partnership. The next step is less about the announcement itself than the arrangement it described: co-parenting their son and keeping Muniz Racing moving with the same teamwork they said had carried them this far. What remains unresolved is whether the deleted video was removed because of the divorce news itself, or because of the way strangers reacted to a post meant to look like a family memory.
