Shawn Trujillo and Angie Katsanevas have broken up after 27 years of marriage. The split closes a long partnership that included a shared hair salon franchise and their daughter, Elektra.
June 1999 to 2025
They tied the knot in June 1999, so the marriage lasted 27 years before ending this year. Katsanevas has built part of her public identity around that relationship on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, which makes the breakup more than a private reset; it is also a change to a familiar on-screen family structure.
In June 2023, she wrote that Trujillo had been by her side since Elektra's first breath, and she said, "It's hard to imagine my father raising seven children alone as Shawn has been by my side since Elektra's first breath and every step of the way thereafter." Elektra is 15, so the breakup reaches into both a marriage and a household that has been visible for years.
HAIRstory and Salt Lake City
The couple also ran a hair salon franchise together, which turns the separation into a business split as well as a personal one. Katsanevas even celebrated Trujillo in a 2025 Instagram post, writing, "Seems like yesterday I booked an appointment for a blow dry with this dreamy guy I saw on the cover of a romance novel in the grocery store checkout" and adding, "The rest is HAIRstory."
That public praise sat alongside earlier conflict already aired in season four, when Katsanevas said people used to ask whether Trujillo was gay while he was doing hair. Trujillo answered on the show, "For me it's not a gay-straight thing, it's an infidelity thing for me," placing the marriage's strain in plain view long before the breakup became public.
Instagram posts and fallout
Trujillo also posted in 2023 that "Loving you is a privilege, knowing you is a blessing, being with you is a dream come true," a line that now reads as part of a relationship that was publicly celebrated even while it was being tested. That mix of praise and conflict is the real story here: the couple kept presenting a united front after rumors and reunion fallout, then still ended a 27-year marriage.
The practical takeaway is simple. Katsanevas, Trujillo, and Elektra now sit at the center of a split that touches family life, a shared business, and a long-running public narrative built on loyalty and doubt. The open question is what separated them and when that break finally took hold.
