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Que boato? O divórcio da atriz e do milionário?

Que boato? O divórcio da atriz e do milionário?
What rumor? The divorce of the actress and the millionaire?
From Lesson 132:Absolute superlatives (-íssimo)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Que boato? O divórcio da atriz e do milionário?

Why do we use Que here instead of Qual for "What"?
When asking "What [noun]?", we use Que directly before the noun, like in Que boato?. We usually use Qual when asking "Which one?" out of a specific group, or before the verb ser (to be), such as Qual é o boato? (What is the rumor?).
Why does the sentence say da atriz e do milionário instead of just da atriz e milionário like we do in English?
In Portuguese, when you link two nouns with e (and), you usually need to repeat the preposition and the article for both of them. So we say da (of the) for the actress, and we must also say do (of the) for the millionaire.
Atriz means actress, but what is the word for actor?
The masculine form is ator. It is an exception to the normal rules! Many professions just add an -a to become feminine (like o professor becoming a professora), but ator changes its ending completely to become a atriz.
How would you say "to get divorced" based on the word divórcio?
The verb is divorciar-se, which is a reflexive verb in Portuguese. So to say "They got divorced", you would say Eles divorciaram-se.

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