Regardless of current engagement rumors, Joe Manganiello hasn’t popped the query to Caitlin O’Connor — however wedding ceremony bells are prone to be of their future.
“They aren’t engaged … but,” a supply completely tells Us Weekly. “But it surely’s heading in that course quickly. It’s not likely a query.”
The insider provides that Manganiello, 48, and O’Connor, 34, are “very robust collectively and severe a couple of future.”
“They need to have a household,” the supply concludes. “She needs to be a mother, and he’s open to being a father.”
A second supply additionally instructed Us that the couple shouldn’t be but engaged.
Us reached out to reps for Manganiello and O’Connor.
Followers started to take a position that Manganiello and O’Connor took their romance to the following step when the mannequin was noticed sporting what seemed to be a diamond ring on her left hand throughout a dinner date at Le Naumachie in Taormina, Italy, on June 25, as seen in photographs printed by Page Six.
The pair met at a post-premiere celebration for O’Connor’s HBO present, Successful Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, in September 2023. Manganiello and O’Connor made their crimson carpet debut a number of months later on the Kids of Armenia Fund (COAF) gala in New York in December 2023.
A supply completely instructed Us on the time that Manganiello and O’Connor had been an ideal match as a result of they “are each so easygoing that they work rather well collectively.”
A couple of 12 months later, an insider completely shared in February that O’Connor additionally meshes nicely with Manganiello’s aged chihuahua.
Caitlin O’Connor and Joe Manganiello Daniele Venturelli/Getty Photos
“We positively have seen that Joe’s beloved rescue chihuahua, Bubbles, loves Caitlin,” the supply mentioned. “Bubbles loves kissing Caitlin on the face and permitting Caitlin to carry her, which is fairly uncommon since she is protecting of Joe. Looks as if she has Bubbles’ approval — which is all Joe actually wanted to see to seal the deal.”
Manganiello adopted the canine in 2019 and helped her get well from mammary most cancers.
Bubbles was even a part of O’Connor’s shock celebration that Manganiello threw for her in January whereas filming Deal or No Deal Island.
“This man flew in a customized Princess Jasmine tiramisu cake (?!) and opened up our favourite restaurant (whereas it was closed to the general public) to have fun – flying within the proprietor to prepare dinner and celebration with us,” she wrote through Instagram, sharing photographs from the birthday bash. “Simply superb. … You actually stunned me.”
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In line with the insider, Manganiello and O’Connor “love touring collectively.”
“Caitlin may be very supportive of Joe and traveled with him to the Banker’s Personal Island for each seasons of Deal or No Deal Island. They at all times appear genuinely completely satisfied, in love and holding palms,” the supply concluded. “Their shut buddies say that Joe actually loves her.”
Previous to his relationship with O’Connor, Manganiello was married to Sofia Vergara from 2015 to 2024. They introduced their separation in July 2023.
“We have now made the troublesome choice to divorce,” Manganiello and Vergara, 52, wrote in a joint assertion through Instagram on the time. “As two those that 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 part of our lives.”
The previous couple finalized their divorce in April 2024.