The diesel brothers star David “Heavy D” Sparks‘ and my wife Ashley Sparks they have finished it.
According to documents obtained by Us WeeklyAshley filed for divorce from the reality star in Utah on Tuesday, March 10. The reason for the split was not listed.
Us has reached out to David for comment.
David and Ashley reportedly met at a church in Utah in 2008 before tying the knot two years later in August 2010. The pair have three children together: daughter Charley Mae and sons Beau and Mack.
As they celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary in August 2021, Ashley opened up about her relationship with David.
“I used to say to Dave, ‘I love everything about you.’ I ended up saying it out of habit, laughed and took it back. ‘Actually no, I don’t want to. Buuut I love you so much!’ We both laughed,” he wrote on Instagram at the time. “It’s really refreshing to see that. No one is perfect. No marriage is perfect. And no two people love everything. one. thing. about. each other.
Ashley admitted that she and David both have bad habits but insisted that they strive to “focus on the positive.”
“Marriage definitely has its ups and downs. We’ve had our fair share of both. But I can see when you focus on the downs. You tend to get a lot of downs. You focus on the ups. You tend to get a lot of ups,” he continued. “And the more you focus on those ups, the easier it is to get through the downs that inevitably come your way.”
David is best known for acting Discovery Channel‘s The diesel brotherswhich followed a group of friends in Utah who repair and customize pickup trucks. David and his friends were discovered after the former late night presenter and car enthusiast Jay Leno see their YouTube channel. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2016. It played seven seasons, and its last season played in 2020.
Last year, David made headlines after he was arrested in October 2025 after allegedly failing to pay money he owed in connection with another crime. He talked about his arrest that month.
“As many of you know, I just got out of jail and it’s time to set the record straight,” David said in an October 2025 Instagram video. “Yes, I was arrested Tuesday morning getting ready to get on a plane to speak at an event on behalf of the State of Utah. Yes, I just got out of three days of solitary confinement in the maximum security unit of the Salt Lake County Jail.”
David clarified that his arrest was not about “refusal to pay money” he rightfully owed.
“This was about standing up for a broken system that has been hijacked by bad actors, mostly lawyers, who have learned to twist environmental laws into profit-making machines,” David said in the clip. “If I didn’t fight them, it would just leave the door open for them to continue doing what they have done to 20 other people and companies here in Utah in the last decade alone.”
