Joe Manganiello has reportedly popped the question to his longtime girlfriend Caitlin O’Connor.
On Friday TMZ claimed that the Magic Mike actor introduced her to his pals as his ‘fiancée’ on Thursday evening.
They were at the San Diego Film Festival where he made a speech while accepting his Career Spotlight award.
Joe, 48, and Caitlin were first linked in September 2023 just months after news broke that his marriage to Modern Family star Sofia Vergara was ending.
Caitlin is currently a correspondent for E! News. As an actress, Caitlin played Dyan Cannon on HBO’s Winning Time and was a guest star on the series finale of Two and a Half Men.
Daily Mail has reached out to reps for Manganiello and O’Connor for comment.
Joe Manganiello has reportedly popped the question to his longtime girlfriend Caitlin O’Connor. On Friday TMZ claimed that the Magic Mike actor introduced her to his pals as his ‘fiancée’
Joe tied the knot with Sofia in 2015, when she was at the height of her Modern Family superstardom and he had become a sex symbol via True Blood and Magic Mike.
They went public with their split over the summer of 2023, and two months later he was being linked to Caitlin, who is 18 years younger than Sofia.
They were reportedly introduced at a hot tub during an ‘unofficial’ premiere afterparty for the hit HBO series Winning Time about the 1980s Lakers.
A source disclosed at the time that ‘the first time they met in the hot tub and they were talking the whole time!’ according to People.
By that December, they made their red carpet debut at the the 20th anniversary gala for the Children Of Armenia Fund held at Cipriani in Manhattan.
Joe, who is one eighth Armenian on his mother’s side, and was being given an award at the fete, beamed as he posed with Caitlin on his arm.
A source explained that the duo were ‘both so easygoing that they work really well together’ as another dished that she is not ‘high-maintenance,’ adding that she is ‘not a big drinker or a party girl,’ according to Us Weekly.
At the beginning of last year, Sofia claimed she and Joe split up because he wanted to have children whereas she ‘didn’t want to be an old mom,’ via El Pais.
Joe, however, staunchly disputed her version of events, saying that he and Sofia ‘did try to have a family for the first year and a half’ but that he ‘swore to her that I would never leave if it didn’t work out. And I didn’t.’
Sofia Vergara and Joe are pictured at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2016, the year after they married and seven years before they went public with their split
Vergara is a judge on America’s Got Talent; seen last month
He maintained that the subject of children ‘wasn’t inevitably why everything ended,’ saying the divorce took place ‘because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens,’ in an interview with Men’s Journal.
‘To be painted as if I had some sort of midlife crisis, and after nine years, turned to somebody and gave them an ultimatum of: “Do this potentially unhealthy thing to your body, or else I’m gone?” That’s never who I was,’ he insisted.
Sofia was previously married in the early 1990s to her high school sweetheart Joe Gonzalez, with whom she welcomed her 33-year-old son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara.
Between marriages, she dated actor Nick Loeb for two years before getting engaged to him in 2012, only for them to break up in 2014.
Earlier this O’Connor told the Daily Mail’s Heidi Parker how she stays in such great shape.
‘I eat meals from Precision Food Works based on my blood work designed specifically for my health,’ the TV star told the Daily Mail.
Precision Food Works’ nutrition program is a meal delivery service that caters to each ‘individual’s needs in an incredibly scientific manner using blood testing,’ according to the company’s website.
Precision Food Works’ software utilizes proprietary ‘algorithms to generate personalized recipes that contain the precise quantity of protein, carbohydrate, and fat required.’
Earlier this O’Connor told the Daily Mail’s Heidi Parker how she stays in such great shape. ‘I eat meals from Precision Food Works based on my blood work designed specifically for my health,’ the TV star told the Daily Mail
Precision Food Works’ nutrition program is a meal delivery service that caters to each ‘individual’s needs in an incredibly scientific manner using blood testing,’ according to the company’s website. Precision Food Works’ software utilizes proprietary ‘algorithms to generate personalized recipes
‘We offer state-of-the-art nutritional blood/urinalysis that’s customized to each individual’s unique needs. Though the testing is incredibly scientific, the results are interpreted in a manner that makes it very easy for the client to understand,’ it says on the company website.
Her boyfriend Joe – whom she calls her ‘love’ – is also on the diet, she said adding that he loves that the program is made specifically for each person. It is what your genetic history tells you to eat, she added.
O’Connor added she keeps hydrated every day: ‘And I drink 2.5 liters of water a day, that is a must.’
She also sweats up a storm to keep her sizzling shape. ‘I love to exercise and work out three to five times a week, or as often as I can while traveling,’ O’Connor told the Daily Mail.
And she has a range of favorite exercises that keep her on her toes. ‘I love Pilates at Alo Wellness Club once a week. I also love weight training as much as possible!’ added O’Connor. ‘I hate cardio but I have to do it! So I do 45 minutes walking up incline or stairs.’
Often she works out with Manganiello at Gold’s Gym in Venice, California. ‘He’s a great workout buddy,’ said O’Connor.
