The 'Modern Family' actress and 'Magic Mike' hunk have announced they are ending their marriage, only a few days after she celebrated her birthday without him.
- Jul 18, 2023
AceShowbiz - Sofia Vergara and her husband Joe Manganiello are calling it quits after seven years of marriage. The "Modern Family" actress, 51, got married to 46-year-old Joe in a lavish, star-studded Palm Beach ceremony in November 2015 in front of 400 guests, but the couple have now said they have made the "difficult" decision to split.
"We have made the difficult decision to divorce. As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives," they said in a statement.
Sofia, who has a 31-year-old son named Manolo with first husband Joe Gonzalez, is currently celebrating her 51st birthday in Italy with friends, without Joe or her wedding ring, according to Page Six. A source told the outlet, "Sofia and Joe have been growing apart for a while now and are taking some distance from each other to contemplate their future."
The couple was last seen together last month in Hoboken, New Jersey, as Sofia visited actor Joe on the set of his new project "Nonnas". Sofia has since posted a string of sexy selfies online as she lives it up on her extended birthday bash.
One of her captions says, "When life gives u lemons u come to Italy to squeeze them."
Another source told Page Six, "At the start of Sofia's big birthday trip those close to her were explaining away Joe's absence with the excuse that he was busy filming back on the East Coast; that excuse barely held up due to the writers strike, but once the actor's strike took effect, he could have been on the first flight… and he quite clearly is not. So now no one out there with her is even attempting to pretend that it's not over. It's over. It's done."
Celebrity guests at the pair's wedding included Sofia's "Modern Family" co-stars Ariel Winter, Ed O'Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen, Sarah Hyland, and Ty Burrell, as well as Joe's "True Blood" co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. Reese Witherspoon and Channing Tatum were also in attendance.
The pair met through the actress' former co-star Jesse Tyler at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2014, when she was engaged to businessman Nick Loeb.
Manganiello asked for the actress' number a few weeks later when she split with Loeb. He told People magazine in 2020, "I knew pretty quickly that I could trust her, and she knew pretty quickly that she could trust me."
"And we're both the kind of people who are capable of putting the other person ahead of ourselves. I was capable of putting her wishes ahead of mine, whatever they were, and she was capable of doing the same. Once you have that, you don't let go of it."
