Disney stars Dove Cameron, Ryan McCarten end engagement

Dove Cameron (R) and Ryan McCartan at the Los Angeles premiere of "Barely Lethal" on May 27, 2015. File Photo by Helga Esteb/Shutterstock

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 (UPI) — Disney stars Dove Cameron and Ryan McCarten are calling it quits after a brief engagement.

The 20-year-old actress and 23-year-old actor split less than six months after getting engaged. McCarten announced the news in a tweet to his 134,000 followers Wednesday.

“Dove has decided this relationship isn’t what she wants. We still love each other very much. Please be sensitive, as this is painful,” he wrote before adding, “I love you all. Thanks for keeping me up.”

“Thank you for your support & full hearts in this very intense & human time. There’s a lot of love between Ryan & I. Life is beautiful and long,” Cameron later tweeted.

Cameron and McCarten, who play Liv and Diggie on the Disney Channel series “Liv and Maddie,” had announced their engagement in April. The actor told E! News last week that he and Cameron weren’t in a rush to get married.

“She’s so busy, I’m so busy. The last thing we want to do is turn it into another thing on the to-do list,” he said. “We’re infants. We’re children. We have a lot of time to plan it and to get it done, and it will happen when it’s supposed to.”

“Liv and Maddie” returned for a fourth season in September. Cameron will also reprise Mal in the Disney Channel movie “Descendants 2,” while McCartan will play Brad Majors in Fox’s remake of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

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