In February this year, “Josei Seven” caught Satou entering Emoto’s apartment with a duplicate key, and the two have co-starred in the drama “Kinshicho Paradise – Shibuya kara Ippon” (TV Tokyo), which was broadcast last July and for which Emoto was the producer for the first time. They also have one thing in common: they are both divorced. A person involved in the entertainment industry said, “Ms. Emoto is going to be an actress in 2020. Emoto married actress Mari Iriki (35) in 2020. Their “0-day marriage,” which started as a friendship, became a topic of conversation, but they announced their divorce in 2022. Ms. Satou, on the other hand, was married to a drummer like herself, but they have already divorced. The divorce of Emoto and Iriki was announced by their respective offices in response to interviews by various companies, so the detailed timing and reasons remain unknown. An employee of a TV station testified, “It seems that the widening gap between the couple as actors was one of the factors. While Mr. Emoto was gaining more and more recognition as a talented actor in the Corona disaster, Ms. Iriki was still pregnant, and as an actress, she had been at a standstill. Mr. Emoto’s successes made Ms. Iriki have mixed feelings about him as a wife and as an actor.” Perhaps the reason for their divorce was that she wanted to make a big leap forward as an actor herself.”
Iriki originally entered the entertainment industry after winning the judges’ special award at the “HORIPRO Talent Scout Caravan,” and was considered a potential “post-Ayase Haruka” talent. Since her divorce, she has been expanding her activities. She played the leading role in the drama series “Honey and Poison” (BS TV Tokyo), which aired from last January, and this year she became the new MC of “High School Lecture: Fundamentals of Earth Science” (NHK E-television). After her divorce, there seems to have been a change in her way of thinking. A person who knows Iriki reveals. She had been planning her life from a young age, saying things like, ‘By what age should I get married and have children ……,’ but her divorce from Ms. Emoto put a damper on her plans, and she seems to have blown it out of the water. Recently, I get the impression that she is working spontaneously, appearing on mahjong and horse racing shows, which are her hobbies, and putting effort into her gravure, which she has not done in a while. As she announced on social networking sites, she also experienced egg freezing after her divorce. She also cut off her long hair in the fall of 2023. It seems that the ex-couple have found their own happiness in their own ways.