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How’s this for random AF: Craig Conover as soon as spent Easter Sunday with Sofia Vergara — as a result of his Southern Allure costar Whitney Sudler-Smith is expounded to her ex-fiancé Nick Loeb.
Conover, 34, revealed the stunning tidbit whereas speaking about Vergara’s break up from Joe Manganiello on a latest episode of his and Austen Kroll’s “Pillows and Beer” podcast. (Us Weekly confirmed that Manganiello, 46, filed for authorized separation from the Trendy Household alum, 51, on Wednesday, July 19, itemizing the date of their separation as July 2.)
“The Sofia Vergara factor, which I don’t perceive — I simply bear in mind when she used to this point Whitney’s cousin and all of us had Easter at Whitney’s home,” Conover advised Kroll, 36.
Although Conover didn’t point out “Whitney’s cousin” by title, he was referring to Loeb, 47, who popped the query to Vergara in 2012 after two years of relationship. (Per FITS Information, the Easter outing happened in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2013.)
Although Loeb and Vergara known as it quits in 2014, they have been locked in a messy authorized battle for years over the custody rights of their frozen pre-embryos, which have been created once they underwent in-vitro fertilization in 2013. Seven years after their break up, in 2021, Vergara — who’s the mom of grownup son Manolo —received the case, which blocked Loeb from utilizing the pre-embryos to create a toddler. On the time, Vergara had been married to Manganiello for six years.
When talking about Vergara and Manganiello’s break up on “Pillows and Beer,” Kroll stated he was “saddened” by the couple’s resolution to separate.
Nick Loeb and Sofia Vergara. Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
“They only appeared tremendous cute, like, tremendous good … and then you definitely fast-forward they usually’re getting [divorced]. And I’m like, is anyone secure? Is anyone secure on the market?” Kroll stated. “I simply thought they have been simply the cutest and, like, smitten kitten, and that’s how they have been gonna go. And now they’re getting divorced? It’s like, rattling.”
Vergara and Manganiello, for his or her half, addressed their break up in an announcement on July 17.
“We’ve got made the troublesome resolution to divorce. As two people who love and take care of each other very a lot, we politely ask for respect of our privateness at the moment as we navigate this new section of our lives,” the actors said.
On the time, a supply solely advised Us that the pair weren’t “joyful” and had been “residing aside” for months. Regardless of their “mutual” resolution to half methods, the exes are on completely different post-split paths.
“Sofia’s mates have rallied round her and wouldn’t be shocked if she was able to date once more now,” the insider advised Us, including that Manganiello is “not keen to leap into a brand new relationship anytime quickly.”