Personal Life
Pelletier proposed to Salé on Christmas Day of 2004 in front of his parents and Salé's mother. The couple was married on December 30, 2005 at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in Alberta, Canada. In 2006, they served as commentators on the television program Olympic Ice which aired on USA Network during the Winter Olympics in Torino Italy. Pelletier and Salé welcomed their first child, a boy named Jesse Joe Pelletier, on September 30, 2007 at the Sturgeon Community Hospital and Health Centre in St. Albert, Alberta. Pelletier currently plays on the current champion of the division 3 men's league team the Kodiaks ll in the Edmonton Recreational Hockey League in Edmonton.
In June 2010, Salé and Pelletier announced plans to divorce following an 18-month separation. They plan to continue skating together and share custody of their son.
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