Lukas Gage and Chris Appleton finalised their divorce in 2024, ending a marriage that lasted approximately six months. The split followed a Las Vegas ceremony in April 2023, with Kim Kardashian officiating.
Las Vegas in April 2023
April 2023 is the anchor point for the timeline: that was when Appleton and Gage married in Las Vegas. The divorce process began in November 2023, when Appleton initiated proceedings and cited irreconcilable differences.
November 2023 put the separation on the record months before the legal end arrived in 2024. For readers tracking Appleton's public life, the sequence matters because it fixes how quickly the marriage moved from wedding to filing to finalisation.
Katie Katon and the longer history
2009 is the other number that gives this story its shape, because Appleton said he came out as gay that year after an eight-year relationship with Katie Katon. He later described Katon as the first person he confided in about his sexuality, and said she remained central to the family structure around their children, Billy Appleton and Kitty-blu Appleton, born in 2002 and 2004.
Jamie Laing's Great Company podcast put that history in plain terms. Appleton said, "Although sometimes me and Kate get upset as our kids didn't have a conventional family but it's loyal and it's solid. So I think, look, we still argue like cat and dog but there was a pact we made when we met. She saved me."
Family ties after 2024
2025 added another layer when Appleton and Katon reunited with their children for Fourth of July in, a reminder that the family relationship outlasted the marriage headlines. He also said, "For a lot of years, I couldn't see myself, even with the shame of me being gay and it was so painful for her. She saw me and still does. We spent Christmas together with the kids this year, it was New Year's Eve, I put my arm round her and I said 'I did it, Kate'."
2024 leaves one practical reading of the split: this was a short marriage, but not a clean break from Appleton's wider family life. He has said his bond with Katon is loyal and solid even while they still argue like cat and dog, which explains why the divorce sits inside a longer personal timeline rather than standing alone.
The unresolved part is not the divorce itself, but what Gage said when it was finalised in 2024. The legal end is set; the public response from him is the missing line.
